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Posted by Richard Crowley on 09/26/03 11:39
countrygent58 wrote ...
> Shotgun mics i am thinking about are Sennheiser MKE 300-D,
> Audio-Technica AT835b, Audio-Technica ATR55 (is this any
> good for the price?), RODE VideoMic Directional Condenser mic.
Even the professionals with unlimited budgets do not use shotgun
mics indoors, especially in "tight spaces". Shotgun microphones
depend on getting direct sound waves from all directions in order
to sort out the directionality. Sound bouncing off walls (even if it
sounds to your ears like "little reverberation") completely destroys
the directional operation of long shotgun mics.
They prefer to use hyper-cardioid microphones indoors to avoid
this probem. You might try asking your question in the newsgroup
where these kinds of things are discussed everyday....
news:rec.arts.movies.production.sound
An inexpensive hyper-cardioid they mention is the Oktava 012
with the hyper-cardioid capsule. There have been several discussions
of this very question on that newsgroup in the last 6-12 months. Use
groups.google.com to look back in the archives. Lots of good advice
ready for reading.
> Lapel mics, i need some advice on, looking for cheap ones, naturally.
The ones used by the professionals are quite expensive. Partly because
they are VERY small (and easy to hide on the actors).
> Also the idea of outputting to a mixer to mix the sound between lapel
> and shotgun mics is this a good idea? Too much noise?
Not enough details. Depends on how quiet is is where you are shooting,
how noisy your mics are, how noisy your camera is, etc. etc. etc.
Certainly mixing multiple microphones in an external mixer and sending
the mixed sound track to the camera is a well-accepted method of
recording sound from multiple sources.
OTOH, I would avoid any pre-mixing I could get away with. Mixing
the sound in post-production (editing) is always better than doing it in
real-time on location. If I had only one or two microphones, I would
dedicate one sound track to each microphone and mix them in post.
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