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[Ivan Beaver]

The ceiling is a long way up-but we can also mount around the pulpit-it does not have to be a single position.

[Tom Cooper]

Can you put a decorative wall (ala room divider) made of sound-absorbing panels just behind the pulpit?  Cover it in purple cloth with gold decorations.  You could sell it as also helping the parishioners to see the preacher better because s/he will be visually contrasted with the background, and will give the pulpit a greater air of authority.  

[Ivan Beaver]

Tom Cooper wrote on Sat, 03 October 2009 15:20

Can you put a decorative wall (ala room divider) made of sound-absorbing panels just behind the pulpit?  Cover it in purple cloth with gold decorations.  You could sell it as also helping the parishioners to see the preacher better because s/he will be visually contrasted with the background, and will give the pulpit a greater air of authority.

NOT A CHANCE

[Terry Duoos]

Hi Ivan
During our Scandi Midsummer Fest we have a coronation.
usually 4-6 young girls of scandi heritage..
Anyway They each had a speach of what their national heritage means to them... the best gets the crown.

During rehersal, their poor mic technique ( they'r scared) was addressed like this
" If you cant hear your voice bouncing off the walls..then the only one hearing you is the devil and surely NOT the judges!"

just a thought

td

[Jordan Wolf]

Terry Duoos wrote on Tue, 20 October 2009 07:47

... During rehersal, their poor mic technique ( they'r scared) was addressed like this " If you cant hear your voice bouncing off the walls..then the only one hearing you is the devil and surely NOT the judges!"

That's one way to address the problem  

When I have to mic up anything where feedback is going to be a large concern (choirs, large ensembles, talking head gigs, etc.) and I have the appropriate working relationship with the person/group, I let them or the director know straight up that if they don't give me anything to use, they won't get microphones.  

Other times, verbal encouragement is needed rather than a figurative elbow jab.

And, of course, there are always those times when you just have to grin and bear it, but this method of tough love has led to beneficial improvements in my experiences.

Back to Ivan's predicament - did you figure out a solution yet?  Inquiring minds want to know...

[Brad Weber]

A little late but I agree with Mac, directional mics and an automixer.  You could use one like Mac noted in front of a channel per mic or possibly even use standalone unit feeding just one channel of the house mixer, preset the two or three mics required in the automixer and mix the automixer output as a single 'pulpit' channel.

[Steve Kennedy-Williams]

Probably not the solution for your setup, but...

Sonar.

Don't know if there's a commercially available solution, but when the Grateful Dead went to pressure pads for the guitarist's vocal mics, they needed a solution for the keyboard player.

They rigged a polaroid sonar rangefinder that opened the gate when a face got within x distance of the mic.

Steve

[Ivan Beaver]

Jordan Wolf wrote on Tue, 20 October 2009 18:16

Back to Ivan's predicament - did you figure out a solution yet?  Inquiring minds want to know...

Nothing yet. The project is on hold due to lack of funds.

I was in the room last week replacing the old analog processing that was failing- with a DSP (that they can use with the new loudspeaker system-when they get the money for that upgrade).

Basically they are going to "live with it" for awhile.

[Jens Bacher]

http://www.optogate.com/

[Ivan Beaver]

The problem with that approach is that the person would be standing in the same place-just facing one of 3 different directions.  

So the sensors would always "see" the body and be turned on.

The same problem exists with pressure mats for turning the mics on.