Posted by Richard Crowley on 12/01/07 13:57

"TheFlaggman" wrote...
> Here might be something useful to everyone when it comes to audio.
> There are lots of tricks to accomplish many things well out there, but
> this will give you good understanding of basics for sure.
>
> It is in form of an open letter to all the prima donnas that expect
> miracles from engineers yet don't listen to them when they offer sound
> advice. Kind of like when creative people are better at selling their
> value to an employer and the techs and engineers get canned during
> cutbacks. Then the creative whine about equipment that fails and they
> can no longer fix because they treated the engineers like crap and
> didn't bother to listen to their advice about getting decent tech
> manuals and warranties when they had to decide what hardware to buy.
>
> If you can get past that there is a lot of gems of wisdom in this
> article that would be quite helpful.
>
> http://www.perchman.com/dossiers/production/en/soundmixing_en_1.php

Yes, an excellent thing to review before you go out on a location
scouting junket. And to share with your producer and director
while trying to defend good location sound procedures. And if
your producer does NOT take sound out on location scouting,
might be worth suggesting that they look for a less conscientious
sound person. :-)

Probably also of value to the OP since he is his own producer
(for better or for worse! :-) In a way he has better control over
his environment than somebody shooting out on a different
location every 4 hours. OTOH, lots of things he can't fix (or
even change) economically.

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