Planning audio Coverage

When you see some shows, you see that the microphones are very effective for example, "QI" has 5 clip-on microphones which are used on the hosts and the contestants. It also has a few directional mics above the audience to add more atmosphere. For our show we are going to have 5 clip-on microphones for the host and the contestants and 1 directional mic to go above the audience, the reason why we are only going to have one mic for the audience is because we havn't got a big audience. When we attach the clip-on mics we then have to move onto a sound check. The sound check is going to consist of each contestant talking for a certain period of time , while they are talking the sound desk operators are going to check the levels of them talking using the VU metre. If their voice is measured higher than 12 decibells, they are talking to loud and if their voice is measured lower than -9 decibells they are talking to quite. The best level for the show is round about 0 decibells.