Which of these is best for my shoot next weekend?
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Chamber005
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Ho-kay, so I did the shoot Saturday and it all sounded pretty good. I wish I would have grabbed some moleskin to wrap around the tips as that would have cut the couple times I heard a fabric scratch, but overall it sounded pretty good.
I think I'll probably get hurt in post, though, just because I'm still learning as I go. There's like a million friggin knobs on the board and I just have to leave them all at zero as I'm concerned about mussing around with the voice at all. I SO wanted to bring the mid EQs down because I thought it sounded "cleaner", but I just didn't want to risk it. I feel like if you don't REALLY know what you're doing it's best to just allow the mics and the tape to do their thing, ya know? I keep all of my audio mixes/final edits as separate files for each episode, though, so down the road as I learn more, I can come back and re-mix them.
I'm pretty darned sure that all the audio is going to sound much better than my CAD drum mics did, and the sound on the first two episodes is serviceable (by normal viewer standards). I think at this point I will have stepped clearly above the level of on-board camcorder mic'ing, but "professional" is probably a couple years off -- if ever, as I'd like to someday actually work with a sound person instead of having to do sound, make-up, directing, writing, lighting, post CC, editing, everything on my own. Ack!
Anyway, I'll let you guys know here when I've posted the third episode and we'll see what's what!! The lighting guys here helped me out a lot too for the next ep, so (hopefully) there will be an audible and visible difference from the first two.
Thanks for all your help!
I think I'll probably get hurt in post, though, just because I'm still learning as I go. There's like a million friggin knobs on the board and I just have to leave them all at zero as I'm concerned about mussing around with the voice at all. I SO wanted to bring the mid EQs down because I thought it sounded "cleaner", but I just didn't want to risk it. I feel like if you don't REALLY know what you're doing it's best to just allow the mics and the tape to do their thing, ya know? I keep all of my audio mixes/final edits as separate files for each episode, though, so down the road as I learn more, I can come back and re-mix them.
I'm pretty darned sure that all the audio is going to sound much better than my CAD drum mics did, and the sound on the first two episodes is serviceable (by normal viewer standards). I think at this point I will have stepped clearly above the level of on-board camcorder mic'ing, but "professional" is probably a couple years off -- if ever, as I'd like to someday actually work with a sound person instead of having to do sound, make-up, directing, writing, lighting, post CC, editing, everything on my own. Ack!
Anyway, I'll let you guys know here when I've posted the third episode and we'll see what's what!! The lighting guys here helped me out a lot too for the next ep, so (hopefully) there will be an audible and visible difference from the first two.
Thanks for all your help!
unclebob6958
Well-known member
Good move. You should almost never use EQ (music is a completely different trip...). Even with good headphones you are not getting an adequate representation of the audio, and you cannot undo it once it has been committed to tape (I guess we need a new term...); it's kind of like trying to take the rum out of a rum & coke when you find out that the person for whom you made it doesn't drink.
Chamber005
Carbonite Member
Exactly. I learned that really quick when I had some things hit over 6dbs in my first shoot.
It's too funny because although writing is my favorite aspect of the filmmaking process, I really, really enjoy sound, more than framing images, make-up, lighting, any of it. The best part of the shoot for me is when I get to put on the headphones and close my eyes and just listen to the silence and the performance. Probably comes from my mom brining me to all her concerts when I was a kid.