dldfick4569s
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Noiz2
Sound Ninja
Not to be negative but your first post ever after being a member for almost six years) should probably not be an ad with a link to another site.
Both being violations of the user agreement and well it makes one wonder.
I'm sure there are some questions people have had that your experience would help answer.
Noiz2
Sound Ninja
RE: your link.
Good job. It's tricky trying to explain sound concepts to non sound people. It's easy to get bogged down in accuracy that kind of muddles up the essence of what most people need to know. You did a good job of putting it in terms that I think will actually be understandable by non sound people.
I particularly like the DOF analogy, though you might want to mention that it's the DOF on a very wide angle lens...
Since you admit to being picky about terms I would offer one correction.
You say "Bottom line is – if you can hear something, the mic will record it. "
But of course the mic doesn't record anything. It would be more accurate to say that if you can hear it the mic can hear it.
Both statements though are somewhat misleading because you "hear" with your brain, and the brain does a lot of filtering. So for non sound people the mic is actually going to hear a lot more than they do. It takes years of practice to get your brain to step to the side a bit so you can actually "hear" what a mic hears.
Most non sound people don't hear planes overhead or refrigerator hums, or even traffic. Well till post and after telling you that they got really clean tracks are shocked at all the "noise" that "wasn't there" when they were shooting!
Good job. It's tricky trying to explain sound concepts to non sound people. It's easy to get bogged down in accuracy that kind of muddles up the essence of what most people need to know. You did a good job of putting it in terms that I think will actually be understandable by non sound people.
I particularly like the DOF analogy, though you might want to mention that it's the DOF on a very wide angle lens...
Since you admit to being picky about terms I would offer one correction.
You say "Bottom line is – if you can hear something, the mic will record it. "
But of course the mic doesn't record anything. It would be more accurate to say that if you can hear it the mic can hear it.
Both statements though are somewhat misleading because you "hear" with your brain, and the brain does a lot of filtering. So for non sound people the mic is actually going to hear a lot more than they do. It takes years of practice to get your brain to step to the side a bit so you can actually "hear" what a mic hears.
Most non sound people don't hear planes overhead or refrigerator hums, or even traffic. Well till post and after telling you that they got really clean tracks are shocked at all the "noise" that "wasn't there" when they were shooting!
dldfick4569s
New member
Sorry for starting out so lame. Lesson learned, rule #7 read, article copied for everyone to read here on the board. Hope that will somehow undo some of the lameness I already gained here.
Noiz2 - thanks for your suggestions. Very good point on human hearing vs. microphones "hearing". Although statement isn't 100% right, we need to have some easy to understand ground under our feet for starters, right?
Also I'm glad I was able to translate directionality into visual world so visual world can understand it.
Noiz2 - thanks for your suggestions. Very good point on human hearing vs. microphones "hearing". Although statement isn't 100% right, we need to have some easy to understand ground under our feet for starters, right?
Also I'm glad I was able to translate directionality into visual world so visual world can understand it.
Noiz2
Sound Ninja
Yep and that's what gets tricky. Microphones don't "hear" but I will bet a stack of cash that there is a thread on this site asking how you get your recordings out of the microphone. I know there was one asking about equipment that didn't include a recorder and the poster was surprised he needed one, he wasn't going into a camera.