Planning audio coverage

When you plan audio coverage you have to think about how many people are going to be micced for the main perfomance,

the host shall have a mic and the guests shall, the audience will also be micced but these will not clip mics they will be shotgun or one directional mics hung from the ceiling to localise the audience sound.

the talent are micced with omni directional mics as they will be talking in all directions, to the host and eachother,

the mics used on the talent are omni directional clip mics, these are designed to pick up sound from all directions so if the talent moves thier head to talk we will not lose sound.

when you plan the sound coverage in a studio you have to also think about mics picking up sound from where they arnt meant to, this is why shotgun mics are used with the audience and omni directional mics are used with the talent, the mics used for the talent have a smaller sound radius therefore they only pic up sound from the talent rather than all around, that is why the audience use shotgun mics as if prevents echos from the talent and minimises the chance of the audience sound bleeding into the talent.