Can I use my Behringer B1 for indoor situations?

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etrust

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Hi Guys,

I am using a Canon 7D for filming. For Audio I am using a Fostex Recorder with 2 XLR Inputs. I am using a Rode NTG-2 for Outdoor. I would like to ask you which microphone you would suggest for indoor situations. I want to record the voice from the actors when they are speaking.

Yes I could do that with my boom mic ntg-2, but I heard, that the Rode should be used for outdoor and not indoor.

I have this old mic: http://www.behringer.com/EN/Products/B-1.aspx

You think this mic should do the job? Would you use that for indoor and outdoor? This Microphone is very sensitive.

For every help thanks in advanced.
 
Basically, no. Placement of the mic (and especially dynamic placement by a competent boom op) is far more important than mic choice... and that mic, as a big heavy side-address device, is not going to work well on a boom. Its cardioid pickup pattern is not ideal, either, but that's a secondary consideration here, as is the likelihood that it is too wind- and handling-noise sensitive... it may have its uses in film work, but typical dialog recording is not one of them.
 
Before you switch out the NTG-2 for another mic, try it and see what results you get. The distinction is not so much indoor versus outdoor, it's are you in an acoustically reflective versus non-reflective environment. You can have "dead" spaces indoors and you can have reflective environments outdoors, it all depends.

The B-1 would be very heavy on a boom pole. Side address mics are hard to aim properly, assuming you manage to mount it on your pole at all. The mic is designed for relatively close working and it's going to be hard to get something like that at the proper distance - 8 inches or so from the subject's mouth - for optimum pickup without intruding into the scene. Mounting on a stand out of frame just won't cut it.
 
I have a pair of B1's that I use in my studio on occasion, would never even think of using them for film dialog.
 
I used a NTG2 once indoors (I don't own one) and it actually worked well. It was not a big bouncy room but still. It sounded a lot better than I thought it would. So I would do a test it might be fine.

And no you don't want the B1 on the end of a boom pole.
 
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