Steve House |
May 20th, 2007 01:39 PM |
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Originally Posted by Gilbert Khoury
(Post 682650)
Thanks Steve for your response I appreciate it a lot!!!
I have a couple of stupid questions to ask but I am new to the sound recording thing:
1) You mentioned to Set the recorder to record in mono. Does it mean in editing will I be stuck in the mono sound. My whole goal for purchasing the TASCAM HD P2 recorder is to have an HD quality sound that matches my camera.
2) I did not understand when you mentioned "XLH1's on-camera mic to record a scratch track to aid in editing and to record a few miments of stereo ambience at the start or end of each take". Why do I need this and how can I use it?
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If you have a boom mic, at least if you have one of the most commonly used boom mics, it's probably a mono mic - I assumed so in my comment. Dialog is usually recorded and mixed in mono anyway and most of the time sent equally to the left and right channels (and centre channels if you're doing 5.1 surround) when you create the final soundtracks in post. Music, ambience, and Foley are most often recorded in stereo, dialog in mono. Remember that what you record on location, whether it's on the tape in the camera or on a separate recorder, is only the raw material for the final soundtrack which is created in post production and the final apparent position of a sound in your scene can be adjusted using the pan control in your editor/mixer.
Think of a scratch track as being a lower quality copy of the actual track you plan on using, recorded on the tape alongside the picture. It can be helpful in lining up the higher quality recording against picture during post production. Because the camera's mic is stereo, you can also use the in-camera recording to capture 30 seconds to a minute or so of the "sound of silence" with everything/everyone in place on the set but no one moving or saying anything before you move on from the location, to use later to lay in under edits in the dialog that would otherwise be dead silence and thus very unnatural sounding.
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