[Manu Staib]

Aloha,
Well it should be a rather common situation - but i've yet never done it
that way and just want to make sure that i consider most of the problems
beforehand:

How du you add choir to passages of a given playback (think gospel,
childrens' music or sports-hymn; about thirty singers, massively
inexpierienced)?
Recording the choir itself shouldn't be much of an issue: Find a nice
location, place microphones, place people, hit button. But what about the
Foldback?

Regardless of the logistical problematics i tend to loathe the idea of
giving out headphones to each and every singer to minimize the spill, so my
initial thought was to place wedges in front of the singers and giving a set
of open headphones to the conductor.
so:

how many wedges?
-less but louder resulting in increased level of spill
-more but softer resulting in increased mush of spill

position of the wedges?
-frontal (comfortable to the singers, loud boomy spill)
-lateral (louder, more neutral spill, but maybe odd for the singers)
-dorsal (massive insulation, but uncomfortable and phase-problematic)
-allofem (mushageddon?)

signal on the wedges?
-balanced mix versus just the bare necessities (unprocessed tubs, harmonics
and leadvocal)

PA on a stick instead of wedges?
inexpierienced folk tends to be scared by conventional monitoring,
sometimes...

any audiomagic?
i thought of placing the capsules between two monitors with alternated
polarity, but since i want to go stereo, i don't expect this trick to
function at all.

should i use a coincidental setup instead of ORTF (which i'd prefer for
choir usually)?

do i worry too much?

deepest thanks for your consideration,
manu