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Posted by nappy on 03/02/06 02:44
"Ritz" <ritz@mordor.net> wrote in message
news:tHsNf.2478$Um2.131@fe12.lga...
> nappy wrote:
>> "Richard Crowley" <richard.7.crowley@intel.com> wrote in message
>> news:du5c8r$7oc$1@news01.intel.com...
>>
>>> Due to my personal tastes in music, however, 2 or 3 layers of duct
>>> tape over the microphone would make any rock music sound better
>>> to ME. :-)
>>
>>
>> I prefer the duct tape on the musicians.
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>
> For a typical rock concert where you're worried about overdriving your
> camera mic and you can't attenuate it, what you really want to do is have
> an external compressor inline (a battery powered effect pedal will do in a
> pinch) inline and an external mic so you can do a couple of sound checks
> and compensate for the levels a bit. Then you can always expand and
> manipulate the audio later as long as you've got clean signal on the
> master recording. Once you've got overdriven/clipped audio, you're stuck
> with it.
>
> Cheers,
Rather than a compressor a proper pad in front of the mic will yield a
truer image. The compressor, especially an effect pedal, would be noisy
Once you have recorded a compressed version of the show.. expanding it won't
return the audio to the same state as it would be if you had use
attenuation.
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