Shawn Philip Nelson
Veteran
Hello my name is Shawn, and I am a filmmaker who would like to think audio takes care of itself... ("hi shawn...")
I am primarily a writer, director and DP. I'm that guy who spends $5k on a camera then hopes to finish off audio with $500. I did my first feature off of an ME67 with DA-P1 and handed it to my buddy who said he knew audio. Dear god that film sounded aweful...
So, I wanted to thank you all...especially Jeremy, Matt and Wabbit for your libraries of audio posts. You guys often post "why don't the newbs read the stickies and do searches??"
So I did that, endlessly reading the back posts, scoured Ty's site, bought his book and read it, bought Jay Rose's book and am reading that...and in the last several weeks purchased a Sound Devices 302, an AKG se300b+ck93, Oktava and the Rycote pistol grip and BBG and BBG windjammer plus a pile of expensive Mogami cables. I'm not a rich dude. I had to lobotomize my budget by cutting out all matte boxes, filters, LCD monitors, etc.
Your guys posts have tought me so much.
I now know to never use my ME67 unless outdoors and to drop in one of my hypers as close as I can when indoors. I now know that regardless of mic I have to be within 2ft from the speaker and not the 4-6 feet I was in the habit of doing (I wondered why I heard so much noise). I now know that I need to hang, drape and put up sound blankets when in highly reflective areas. ( My last short where the main character talks a lot on a kitchen sure could have benefitted from that.) I now know to never use the preamps on my camera when going into that. I now know to send reference tones to recorders to properly set levels. (Gee, when I was editing my last short and I had to set gain levels of 5-9db just to clearly here my dialogue i sure wished I had had good levels on record.)
So from a grateful filmmaker, all you audio posters who contribute worthwhile information rock my world. There is someone reading the posts going back to 2004 and gaining valuable information.
-Shawn Nelson
www.nelsonentertainment.com
I am primarily a writer, director and DP. I'm that guy who spends $5k on a camera then hopes to finish off audio with $500. I did my first feature off of an ME67 with DA-P1 and handed it to my buddy who said he knew audio. Dear god that film sounded aweful...
So, I wanted to thank you all...especially Jeremy, Matt and Wabbit for your libraries of audio posts. You guys often post "why don't the newbs read the stickies and do searches??"
So I did that, endlessly reading the back posts, scoured Ty's site, bought his book and read it, bought Jay Rose's book and am reading that...and in the last several weeks purchased a Sound Devices 302, an AKG se300b+ck93, Oktava and the Rycote pistol grip and BBG and BBG windjammer plus a pile of expensive Mogami cables. I'm not a rich dude. I had to lobotomize my budget by cutting out all matte boxes, filters, LCD monitors, etc.
Your guys posts have tought me so much.
I now know to never use my ME67 unless outdoors and to drop in one of my hypers as close as I can when indoors. I now know that regardless of mic I have to be within 2ft from the speaker and not the 4-6 feet I was in the habit of doing (I wondered why I heard so much noise). I now know that I need to hang, drape and put up sound blankets when in highly reflective areas. ( My last short where the main character talks a lot on a kitchen sure could have benefitted from that.) I now know to never use the preamps on my camera when going into that. I now know to send reference tones to recorders to properly set levels. (Gee, when I was editing my last short and I had to set gain levels of 5-9db just to clearly here my dialogue i sure wished I had had good levels on record.)
So from a grateful filmmaker, all you audio posters who contribute worthwhile information rock my world. There is someone reading the posts going back to 2004 and gaining valuable information.
-Shawn Nelson
www.nelsonentertainment.com