How to approach this mix (speaker presentation)

[crankyrayhanky]

Today I recorded a motivational speaker for work with a great rental camera that took in an external xlr from the board.
LineL: direct feed from speaker's lavalier mic
LineR: mic from camera for audience sound (occasional responses, laugh, applause, etc) , placed in back of room (100 people size room)

Speaker track will likely be dead center

Audience/cam mic?:

pan 50% to one side
pan 100% to one side
pan dead center
pan LR and do some kind of opposite eq

Thanks!

[soulsurfer]

speaking vox are fine pan'd center mono. Just make sure his voice is 'up front' and the audience pulled back a bit.

Just don't get all crazy and put a delay on his voice and audience fill and make it sound like he's at a large outdoor stadium.

[crankyrayhanky]

Keep the room mic center too?

[soulsurfer]

I always have. I usually don't bother with 'stereo' questions. To me it's more, how big do I want this to sound? (close table talk vs auditorium. etc.
and the "feels" of the audience vs the front voice. EQ and fx can play into this too.

if there's reverb/delay make it equal. Use some compression on the front vox but not the audience.

start there and "swing wide" to see if you feel something else might work better. But better to start as clean and center as you can then go from there.

Just my experience as limited as it is.