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Noel Evans

Noel Evans

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I and some other locals, decided to take a crack at the 48 hour that just passed our way for a bit of fun. The people not available to us on the day were sound(bummer).

I decided to ditch using a mixer (boom op isnt the person for that), and go straight into the 500, and record everything into my Sanken CS3. Recorded everything two channels set at different levels and monitored the highest.

When it came to Sunday I had one word too hot on both tracks. Its legible. Anyway so after I cut I was beating myself up a bit that I didnt catch it. But then last night felt a bit better when watching an episode of NCIS. An interview scene (in that little room they use for anyone familiar), and suddenly I heard a whole line of shouted dialogue breaking. It did make me feel better that, hey they have budget and time and people and of course in a 48 hour I had none of those, and still they didnt get it perfect.

Just thinking , one hot word that can be masked a bit so its unnoticeable, am I being to hard on myself? I have a habit of doing it and need some objective opinion.
 
Yes and no.

I am still beating myself up over an interview I shot on Saturday. The hairlight throws an occasional shadow from the woman's hair on to her face. I hate it, and I am so pissed at myself for not noticing it.

Beating yourself up can make sure you remember to do better next time. But don't hold on to it for to long or you start to doubt yourself. Learn and move on. Everybody screws up. It's what you do after that matters.
 
No worries. And thanks for beng so enthusiastic about wanting to help out with those Rode zeppelins.

:beer:
 
Not sure that it helps but THE reason (there are a number but the BIG one) that I use a MixPre as a front end is the incredible limiter. It just sounds really good even when it gets hit by surprises. So I have gotten hit and doing an airshow I had a Nagra V hit so hard it shut down. You do what you can and you learn from your mistakes. AND (this is a biggie) you can't learn if you don't own up to the mistakes. So live Learn and good luck.
What more can you do?

Cheers
SK
 
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