All these options are thought to be too intrusive. Hmmmph.

Here's a question in two parts. I'm getting ready to do a corporate
job for a pharmaceuticals company the latter part of this week.
There's one meeting during which some medical patients will be asked
to stand and deliver testimonials to a very intimate crowd. There is
to be no podium, they will not be mic-ed in the room, and the producer
doesn't want to put them behind a mic stand, or boom them, or pin
them. All these options are thought to be too intrusive. Hmmmph.
The original suggestion was to have a hand-held wireless that they
would hand off to each other like the baton in a relay race.

This is not normally a pain-in-the-ass producer, but now, at the last
minute of course, she has gotten the idea that maybe we could use a
"'spy mic' of some kind...Like a parabolic...Then we wouldn't have to
worry about them being intimidated by the mic, not handing it off, or
holding it in the wrong position!"

The parabs that I've worked with sounded like, like...well, like crap,
and I don't want to have anything to do with that idea. Would the
AT895 adaptive array be able to reach out about 30 feet across a
meeting room and deliver anything resembling acceptable speech? I've
read Glenn Trew's review, and it made me wonder if it might be
possible.

If the consensus is affirmative, does anyone know if they might be one
available to rent in the San Diego area? What might such a thing cost
to rent?

Oh, and my flight to San Diego leaves at 11:00 am on
Wednesday...Sheeeesh.

Thanks.
Andy Hambleton

Andy, stay away from the 895 array, I used it on a doco for a couple of
days....terrible, and heavy.
Talk the producer into something else if at all possible.