4
Assuming it's a "standard" sort of scene... Two Shot (won't really get wide in a car), OTS, OTS and a couple of CU's, then the most important thing you can do is to make sure you get LOTS of room tone (ie background sound) for each setup. Inevitably the noise is going to be different from one side to the other, and an editor(you or another) will need that ...
4
Sometimes I ask that the Director to wait a few seconds after frame is called by the cam operator. If there's not enough time there. I ask for 15 seconds to 30 seconds of quiet before cut is called on the 'final' take of a scene.
The truth is room tone is mostly used from the takes themselves.. not from the separate room tone recording. The only time you ...
3
Generally when recording you're looking for the best signal to noise ratio possible. If you record something too low then need to turn it up later in post, you're also going to be turning up all the unwanted noise.
Personally I try to record as hot as possible without clipping or activating limiters. This may mean initially backing off the gain a little in ...
2
Borrowed from a comment I made to another answer asking a similar question:
There's known line-level issues with the H4n, so unfortunately it's not quite that simple (thanks to Samson's/Zoom's fault here). It's a Hi-Z (unbalanced, high-impedance) which still feeds thru the preamp instead of being a direct, true professional line level. Leads to distortion ...
2
I need room tone by microphone angle for dialog editing. I usually make fill with pauses between breaths, but if I can even get 10 seconds per angle, then I'm pretty happy.
A general room tone is really helpful when I'm backfilling MOS shots, then I don't have to try to make a fill from other takes, or the take prior.
A trick that I've been using on sets ...
2
To answer your first quesiton, very dense and thick foam (properly attached too to prevent vibration transference - as in, not just "set and forget" flopped ont top of the car) should do the trick. That's effectively what the Rycote rain covers are in a general sense - thick and dense over-sized foam to help absorb the rain drop sounds from transferring to ...
2
A mixer will have multiple channels for your multiple inputs.
Each channel will have a trim pot (gain knob) for adjusting the input level.
(Sidenote: some channels may not have a trim, those are line-level inputs, not mic-level inputs, and they are meant for things that already at "line-level")
You set your gain as you need to for each channel, nothing ...
1
The use of a field mixer is not restricted to mixing several sources into one track. It is often used to send individual sources to individual tracks.
When you need to mix several sources into one track in a live dialogue recording situation, you have to dynamically deal with each of the sources as the shot goes by. Having sevral microphones continuously ...
1
You were hired as a sound recordist- not a miracle worker. This is a location problem and the scene shouldn't have been shot there unless they were willing to do ADR. The best you can do in these situations is radio mic everyone, cover up offending noises as best as possible (carpets and sound blankets) and get the best guide track possible.
Unfortunately ...
1
Did you or the director tell the actors that the audio wouldn't be usable? If so, I wouldn't do that. Actors generally have enough to worry about and telling them things that don't really concern them will just pull them out of the experience. I'm not a production mixer, I only do post production but I do have lots of experience directing actors of all ...
1
heres is the solution! thats what i wanted.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sound-report-writer/id492004803?mt=8
1
I don't know if this is what you really looking for, but Sound Devices made app for I-phone
"CL WIFI" in witch you can make sound report, and manage your metadata. But like I said it's for Sound Devices
1
Well the easiest and most expensive answer is buy a bag designed for the mixpre. Petrol has one: http://cvp.com/index.php?t=product/petrol_ps607
Cheers,
Arnoud
1
Blankets will help with room reflections/absorption, but they're not the best at preventing noise leakage. It sounds like you need some sort of isolation material.
The best isolation product I know of is mass loaded vinyl. Perhaps you could seal the window with it, building some sort of mass loaded vinyl curtain. The problem is that stuff is extremely ...
1
I was just at a shoot where after the last take the director himself asked everyone to stay in place for 30 seconds for room tone - brilliant
1
Flipstar gave a good explanation—I'll add that I've worked with a couple of directors who actually like to have a long silence on set right before the first take of a scene. It's a moment for everyone to relax and think about what they are about to do for the shot. Plus, no one is trying to "pack up silently" while you linger and curse them for every floor ...
1
There are a number of techniques and mics that can be used. Spaced omnis, reflectors, hydrophones, contact mics, soundfield mics to name a few are used to capture individual calls and ambiences.
The Natural History Unit used to have a sound department until 2001 for capturing location sound but alas these days most of it seems to be stock sound, Foley or ...
1
Maybe a phasing issue between radio mics ?
1
If the bass is lacking, then it sounds like there's a phase issue, i.e. a false connection or bleeding of channels. Quite unexpected though and not something I'd consider a feature of "a bad quality mixer".
1
Curious, this type of mixer is sturdy and doesn't start acting up suddenly (in my experience at least).
What do you mean with 'tails' is that the multipin output on your mixer, with the screw on plug? If so, have you tested the XLR outputs? How do they sound? Also can you listen to both outputs without the SD702 in between?
1
I've never recorded in this typical situation but i could be done. Espesecially if the image (shot and frame) show the actual location and the listener is supposed to feel this space.
On loudness/heaviness of background noises. It depends on the time of day (evenings will have less traffic), but also the car model and if windows or doors are being opened ...
1
It's very important to establish a routine with the 1st AD (if there is one) as well, as he or she is most often the one who handles the scheduling of the day and calls the roll. On the first production day, make sure you let the AD know what you need (room tone as well as wild sound) so that recording room tone is an expected and integral part of the day. ...
1
Well usually what is expected from the director and the other members of the crew is roughly 5-10 sec of silence before the Director says ACTION and 5-10 sec silence after the Director says cut. That's what I request my director to do. Some of them follow, some of them just disregard it and think that everything can be FIXED in post. If you are freelancing ...
1
Look up this topic on jwsoundgroup.net, there are several quite long discussions about it by top professionals in the business.
1
In situations like this, I run the dialogue out into Analog and boost it up with an analogue preamp and then back into Pro Tools - but that's usually the mix.
YMMV on digital plug-ins for that gain staging, but I have had the most success on "unusable" low recordings by boosting it in the analogue domain as opposed to in the digital realm. In my experience, ...
1
I have done a lot of field recording of sound effects. I always use two narrow pattern shotgun mics on a "T" bar with a short fishpole.
A coincident capsule setup is NSG for cine purposes since, in the movie theater, you are trying to fill up 7.1 (or more channels and need as much, "Hole in the Middle" separation (for the center channel carrying dialogue) ...
Only top voted, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible
