| OK, so what's a Mariachi band doing in Vancouver!
Here's the first thing you don't do is go up to them and say:
"Hun, I don't know if you've seen one before, but this is a microphone, don't touch it."
That actually happened to a very famous all women big band I've worked with.
So don't do that.
What I would do first, is ask them how they are comfortable setting up. I would hope they would want to set up with the vocalists and guitar and bass in the middle the trumpet on one side and the strings on the other side. So you could suggest that if you are not happy with what they said.
I would mic everything fairly close. Unless it's a really dead room, there will be plenty of room sound with the violin mics alone.
I'd rather mic everything and not use some of the mic than not put them up and wish I had.
Good luck. |