UNLOCK AUTOMATION with Side-Chain GATES on your CROWD MICS

[@alkram7]

We have crowd mics * NTG3 * hanging from the ceiling (about 40 feet) Found that after “time aligning” every mic in the mix, from the origin, 0, that is the area that the crowd mics are pointing to, we were able to mix the ambience, room acoustics/harmonies and/or crowd singing into to broadcast mix to just immerse the viewer as if they’re right there in the room. Setting pans and even experimenting with some stereo imaging effects, to widen “ambience,” gives you the “stereo space” in the middle 80% of the mix to still have everything else in “the image.” Mind blowing self discovery. The sound of the harmonics and “interharmonics” just smooth everything out. Make. Sure. It’s. Time. Aligned.

[@AllamHouse]

Yeah, that is certainly the next step for anyone jumping into crowd mics. My video hopefully covers step 1 to get them to just work when you want them to be on and off when you don't want them to be on. But 100% there is time aligning that is needed and I would love to geek out in the harmonics discussion. Thanks for sharing to the community.

[@magicmaui77]

I use a „ducking bus“ and configure it as key source on the crowd mics. That way a can blend in multiple sources to that bus, which will then trigger the gate.

[@AllamHouse]

Thanks for sharing your insights. I'm jealous that you have an extra bus to dedicate for this purpose since it is the ideal way to go. I had to find a workaround for our setup, but I finally cracked the code.

[@geoffschuller4875]

What mics do you use for crowd? And where do you place them?

[@AllamHouse]

Each venue is going to be different, but typically you want to have your mics facing your congregation and not your PA speakers. Most mics are designed with a cardioid pattern meaning they will cancel out what is behind them and this allows you to capture the singing and not (well, less) of the PA. Most people also end up putting 4-6 mics around their venue to capture a variety of their audience and blend them together almost like a choir. In my specific venue the mics were in front of the stage in an orchestra pit and they were about waist height for my front row people while facing kind of out to the left and right. It's hard to explain since we are in an old movie theatre. My plan is to have a pair in this location and then a second pair in the higher alcoves that I mention in this video here. Check out the first video in this journey as I show some pictures of my first steps. I have this link set to start about 2 minutes in where I'm showing pictures of my room. kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z3LZXqljgraaf9Esi=wmCOEoef88GLYnMY&t=141

[@dotjaytelevision6280]

How are you able to playback recorded session showing each channel separately. I thought this mixer could record only main LR

[@Will-xk4nm]

x32 can record 40 channels separately.

[@andykarter6866]

Expansion card required to record multi track or use a laptop

[@AllamHouse]

The factory setup for the X32 has a card in the back called the X-USB card which allows you to connect a USB A-B cable (printer style cable) from the console to your computer. This video here talks about the setup for doing multitrack recording. kzbin.info/www/bejne/pYHVkpqQlN1qg7M

[@dotjaytelevision6280]

@ thank You

[@dotjaytelevision6280]

@@AllamHouse thank You

[@DbiPro]

Can you upload a livestream so we can hear it

[@AllamHouse]

This is the link to the full service that I was playing samples from. kzbin.infoOoQhEvC10cE?si=Q6sGgQgEYyzXI0J-