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Posted by Richard Crowley on 09/27/48 11:39
"Toby" wrote ...
> "Richard Crowley" wrote ...
>> 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.
>
> With due respect, I do this kind of thing every day shooting news and
> feature stuff. We always use Sennheiser 416s, and we certainly never
> have any trouble getting decent (if not perfect) sound in the
> described situations using a boom pole.
Doesn't seem to be the consensus over on r.a.m.p.s
They appear to concur with my advice.
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