I'm in trouble, i was filming a hio hop concert yesterday and what i did was place a shot gun mic infront of the speakers but the sound came out very distorted, i can't present this to my client, my question is the something i can in post to fix this? please help i need to present this next week.
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SMuir
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Headphones. Always monitor on high-quality monitoring headphones (eg. Sony MDR-7506).
If you recorded the on-camera mic to a second track, you may be able to use it as your primary sound. Otherwise, contact the sound-reinforcement mixer from the performance and pray that they made a session recording. I certainly don't envy your position on this one. If you can't use the on-camera and there are no double-system backups, then you'll just have to record a second performance and use your existing footage as B-roll.
Add a Shure SM-57 to your kit. They're dynamic mics, so they can happily take massive SPLs, and they're extremely useful as general purpose mics (podium speeches, guitar/bass cabinets, speaker stacks, gun shots, etc.). Condensor and Back-electret condensor mics will distort if you throw too much sound at them. Moreover, shotgun mics are ill-suited to micing speaker stacks or amplifier cabinets.
If you recorded the on-camera mic to a second track, you may be able to use it as your primary sound. Otherwise, contact the sound-reinforcement mixer from the performance and pray that they made a session recording. I certainly don't envy your position on this one. If you can't use the on-camera and there are no double-system backups, then you'll just have to record a second performance and use your existing footage as B-roll.
Add a Shure SM-57 to your kit. They're dynamic mics, so they can happily take massive SPLs, and they're extremely useful as general purpose mics (podium speeches, guitar/bass cabinets, speaker stacks, gun shots, etc.). Condensor and Back-electret condensor mics will distort if you throw too much sound at them. Moreover, shotgun mics are ill-suited to micing speaker stacks or amplifier cabinets.
distorted sound
thanks guys for quick response. i'm praying that the sound engineers made some recording however i have another gig coming up this weekend and i don't want to do the same cock up, fortunately some of the artists in the first gig would be perfoming again at the weekend. thanks for the advice it will come in handy. If there is more advice to give, i'll appreciate every bit of info to avoid cocking up again.
thanks guys for quick response. i'm praying that the sound engineers made some recording however i have another gig coming up this weekend and i don't want to do the same cock up, fortunately some of the artists in the first gig would be perfoming again at the weekend. thanks for the advice it will come in handy. If there is more advice to give, i'll appreciate every bit of info to avoid cocking up again.
SMuir
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A good production mixer (eg. SD 442, SD 302) will have output limiters that will help keep incidental peaks under control, in addition to giving you more tracks to work with. Just be sure to monitor the camera's output rather than just the mixer's.
There are a number of other "live music for video" discussions on this particular forum; do a quick search and you're bound to find boatloads of useful suggestions.
There are a number of other "live music for video" discussions on this particular forum; do a quick search and you're bound to find boatloads of useful suggestions.
