Re: Portable Audio Recorder for Interviews?

Hey, thanks for the response!

Yes, we want a hand-held mic for the interviewed to hold and just tip back and forth between her and the guest. It's for interviews usually on location at events. For example, the last one we did, we were interviewing a designer outside of the building she was about to have her first fashion show. All of the interviews are like this.

We sometimes will want a lavalier pinned to the guest instead, but that's not really priority, though any suggestions on great lapel mics would be nice.

The audio recorder is our main focus. It can be handheld or the kind that does have a stand it can be fitted to, it doesn't matter.

We're not hooking these up to the camera and we use whatever cameras we have available on the day besides. All of that is separate equipment we've already got going.

The portable audio recorder is just something we need to record audio independent of whatever else we're recording to as well so we have that as a backup or sometimes a primary or sometimes the only thing we're using like when we're doing interviews with no footage.

Basically, this is something we just need to add to our arsenal to give us more options than we currently have, including options that don't require a camera to be used as an audio recording device on site when we don't actually need a camera.