Posted by Richard Crowley on 11/02/06 01:13

"carlmart" wrote ...
> Richard Crowley wrote:
>
>> If you want to discuss double-system sound recording, (for ANY
>> format, and for ANY reason) then the film/TV production sound
>> newsgroup: news:rec.arts.movies.production.sound is a significantly
>> better place to do it than in *this* newsgroup. 97% of the discussion
>> there is about double-system sound vs. maybe 1% here?
>
> Don't think so. Many filmmakers don't go in the production sound
> newsgroup but do come here.

In several years on BOTH newsgroups, I can't remember the last
time this happened (if ever?) How long have you been here?

OTOH I *have* seen filmmakers go to the general film producion
newsgroup: news:rec.arts.movies.producion with sound questions
and they are redirected over to r.a.m.p.s

> And it's them I am interested in getting to. I don't care if it's only
> 1% here.

Good luck with that.

> If you are going to do news style shooting, you can get away with
> single-system sound.

The overwhelming majority of people in this newsgroup are NOT
shooting news or even news-style, and yet are typically using single-
system sound recording (myself included). For whatever reason it
seems to be the nature of most people who come here. Even when
I am doing live-switched multi-camera productions, I send the audio
directly to the VCR(s).

Only when I am doing productions with complex audio (particularly
large-scale music performances) do I do double-system sound, and
then the sound is usualy multi-channel (8-16 track) and intended for
offline mixdown/sweetening and then layed-back to the video before
final editing. (And concurrently edited for CD release, etc.)

> Double system sound is a more complicated way to make sound IF you are
> using a sound-man and a separate recorder. But if you are just using a
> separate recorder for your audio, you will get to something in between
> which may improve your control on your audio.

Sorry, I'm not seeing your distinction. In either case you are using a
separate sound recorder. In what way is having a dedicated crew
person "more complicated"? IME, it is rather the opposite.

> These are direction and production decisions we are talking about.
> And as such they do belong here.

Production decisions indeed. Dunno about "direction decisions"?
Can you elaborate?

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