Shooting car to car.

Serif

Serif

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I have a shoot coming up, where I will be shooting mostly from car to car. I will have a wireless lavalier in the target car near the firewall to pick up some engine noise without wind, but do you have any other ideas about what to do about keeping wind noise down? Will a fuzzy wind muff do more than take the edge off? I will probably be shooting at speeds around 70 mph at the fastest. Of course, ideally I want to get most of the sound from the car I am shooting and not the one i am in or the wind. Has anyone here done this before? Thanks!
 
Is there dialog? If so, windows up, lav the actors, lav the car and go for it. Not sure why you're laving the engine at the same time. Are you essentially looking to build ambient engine noise? If so, treat it as a separate problem. Run the car without actors, without dialog and just capture engine noise. The other issue is camera perspective. Is the camera outside the car looking in (your framing, that is) or is the framing inside the car. If it's outside the car, then you want to capture the engine noise from outside the car, wind and all. This will make it sound more natural. But, as far as I am aware, there is no windsock/blimp combo rated to cut 70MPH wind, except for that wierd shaped one (can't remember the brand) that I think was "rated" that high, but I have my doubts. If your framing is inside the car, then you should just add a lav somewhere in the middle of the car (as best you can hide it) and take the ambient engine noise from there. As an aside, if there is dialog, then you should also record the dialog wild, with the car standing still just to have a clean run of it.

Phil
 
Yeah, sorry, I should have been more clear. I am trying to capture the engine, exhaust, and tire noise. Not dialog. The wireless by the firewall is sort of a fail safe, but I am interrested in a solution that will let me get the doppler effect, and anything else that would effect the car's sounds from the outside, aside from wind.
 
use separate recording . place dynamic mics near e the engine or exhaust .
if you dont have separate recording , make the shotes and after place the mic to capture the sfx , as k the driver make driving in the same way it was in the shotes , wierless solution is not really works for this matter .
 
I have the same issue an I just need advice for what type of mic I should use for recording car audio. When I say car audio I'm talking about the engine and the engine itself. I don't know what type of mic to get due to the fact that the engine can produce intense sound with high amplitude which can distort and damage most microphones. I was suggested to use the Shure betta98 utilizing phantom power since I have an XLR adapter on my camcorder. Then again someone mentioned that a LDC mic would work better. Any advice on this issue is greatly appreciated.
 
Serif said:
Yeah, sorry, I should have been more clear. I am trying to capture the engine, exhaust, and tire noise. Not dialog. The wireless by the firewall is sort of a fail safe, but I am interrested in a solution that will let me get the doppler effect, and anything else that would effect the car's sounds from the outside, aside from wind.
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You won't experience a doppler effect unless the mic and the sound source are moving in relation to each other. (i.e. stationary mic, fast moving car)
 
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