Most ceremony faults are about microphones: feedback, a narrator nobody hears, a battery that dies mid-ceremony. Almost all of them can be prevented beforehand.
Wireless or wired?
- Wireless: for a moving host, speakers who come and go, and audience questions. Needs fresh batteries and frequency checks.
- Wired: for the lectern, choir and musicians in fixed positions. More reliable, no batteries.
Preventing feedback
- Speakers in front of the speaker line, not behind it
- Every microphone tested at ceremony level
- Unused microphones muted
- An engineer at the mixer who reacts immediately
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