Tech Setup Help

[NJDBalla]

For all the "techies" that have video-taped church services,

I was pondering how to get the music on my church's broadcast. You can hear the music, barely, through the pastor's tie-mic. The tie-mic is hooked directly to the cameras to shut out un-needed noise(babies, phone ringing). But now he wants the music to be on the broadcast as well.

I wanted to know, what kind of mic to use and how to set it up. (Individual mics for dif instruments, one mic for all intruments)
Unless there is a way to hook the intruments up to the camera or something...

NJD

[themidiroom]

What kind of camera do you use?  Does it have the option of feeding a line input?  If you have a mixer for your sound system, you could possibly feed the "mix" into your camera.  Option 2 if your camera doesn't have a audio line in, if you edit the video you could record the audio from your mixer and create a soundtrack. While editing the video, you could import the sound and sync that up with your video.

[NJDBalla]

Not sure what camera the camera-man uses but it does have 2 line input slots. So you're saying to put a mic near the musician's pit and plug it into the mixer?

[themidiroom]

So I take it you don't run any of the music through the sound system?  If not having a mic or two by the musicians would be a lot better than nothing.

[NJDBalla]

No the music just comes out of the individual amps the instruments are plugged into. The voices come from the sound system. What would it take for all the music to come through the sound system?

[themidiroom]

No the music just comes out of the individual amps the instruments are plugged into. The voices come from the sound system. What would it take for all the music to come through the sound system?

Well to simplify, you need to mic instruments i.e. drums, piano, organ, etc. or use line outs for keys, guitar, bass or whatever you have and those have to go to a mixer.  Secondly, you need a sound system that can handle stuff like drums, bass etc.  You need large enough speakers to handle the lows and enough power to drive the speakers.

[NJDBalla]

That sounds simple enough.