Sound and Audience Participation
Programmes in which a studio audience actively participates (asking questions, contributing to discussions) present several sound coverage difficulties. A chairman, and any panel of speakers, can be covered by conventional methods such as microphones on table stands. It is the contributing audience that causes problems.
Broadly there are two versions of this kind of programme—that in which the members of the audience who are going to speak are selected in advance, together with the order in which they will speak, and the ‘free-for-all’ type of programme where the audience is largely spontaneous in its contributions.
Selected speakers
When the audience speakers are known in advance, one possible method is to ...
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