Let's start out with what to listen for in a recording location. Naturally, we're always going to be looking for a space that isn't going to introduce too many environmental and human generated artifacts into the recording, but the physical layout and acoustic properties of a location can contribute as much character to your recordings as microphone selection...sometimes even … [Read more...]
Interview: Randy Coppinger
Randy Coppinger has been dealing with voice and microphones for over sixteen years and is currently Dialog Production Supervisor at Disney Publishing Worldwide. He is active on twitter and his blog with studio anecdotes and thoughts concerning asset management, microphones, acoustics, recording and anything else related to audio and voice. In this interview we tackle topics … [Read more...]
Experiments with Digital Microphones
While AES42 compliant digital microphones are relatively new to the audio world, they're not "brand-spanking" new. There have been several on the market for a few years now, and new ones are slowly being added as well. For all the time they've been available though, I had never heard one in action…not in a controlled environment anyway (the AES show floor is hardly the place … [Read more...]
Using Shotgun Microphones Indoors
Javier Zumer has a cool post up on his blog about Using Shotgun Microphones Indoors. I have been researching an idea that I have been hearing for a while: It’s not a good idea to use a shotgun microphone indoor. I want to check this question out and, eventually, make some tests. Here we go! Shotgun microphones The main goal to these devices is to enhance the axis captation … [Read more...]
Crash Course In Location Sound, Special 2 Hour Webinar with Ric Viers
Crash Course In Location Sound is a two hour live webinar that will give you an overview of location sound for film and television taught by Ric Viers, author of The Sound Effects Bible. This is your opportunity to learn the tricks of the trade as well as insider secrets to lav placement, booming techniques, plant mics and more. There will be a Q&A session, so bring your … [Read more...]
Tim Nielsen Special: MS Recording
[Written by Tim Nielsen] I've been recording with MS since I started in this industry, about 12 years ago now. There are of course many other recording techniques available, and I own microphones suited to most of them. I tried to elaborate a tiny bit on some of the other stereo techniques in my previous article, and that's when I realized that MS really needed it's own … [Read more...]
Tim Nielsen Special: On Microphone Addiction
[Written by Tim Nielsen] My name is Tim Nielsen, and I'm a micaholic. It has been four months since my last microphone purchase, an adorable little Neumann XY set in a Mono Rycote. I bought them from a friend, because when I saw them I just had to have them. Trust me. They're really cute. You'd want them too. I probably won't be writing a lot of technical articles here on … [Read more...]