For the show I'm working on right now, I only have ten channels to worry about. The show is a musical so a lot of the actors have body mikes, and each row on the board is all about one of them. So I have to know when each person is entering and exiting, when they talk, when they sing (and with whom!), and where they are on the stage when they do said singing (because if they go upstage, they'll need more volume, but not too much more because there's a monitor speaker for the band near there and it could cause feedback). I follow along in the script and watch the stage and try not to miss anything!
It's kind of daunting sometimes but once I relax and get to know the show, it's actually kind of fun.
Of course, all of these people need to have an actual body microphone attached to them, and that's a bit of a process, but we do that in the green room before the show. Luckily the cast members in this show are pretty cool and do most of the fastening themselves, and I just have to tape the little mike securely behind their ear.
So that's what this weekend is all about for me -- body mikes and monitors and sound balancing.
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