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Hi all, I am going to be directing a Community TV show filmed in a resturant. I will be uses two lapel mics and two shotgun mics. Could anyone point me in the right direction as far as what audio mixer or what setup i should be looking at???? Cheers, Steve •
If you truly want an intelligent and helpful answer to this, you need to supply a lot more information. CAMERAS How many What kind PRODUCTION Live-to-audience Live-to-tape Straight-thru Retakes possible LOCATION Noisy, open-for-business Quiet, after-hours TALENT Actors Volunteers Whoever you find eating AUDIO OPERATOR Experienced Amateur No Operator BUDGET Can buy gear Must use available gear Have no gear Because your question is so basic, I suggest finding an experienced audio operator to set this up.
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Yeh sorry, Brief (reality/talk show. 1 local band comes into the resturant for a chat they are the main focus. Cut-aways of the resturant, chaos and steps of service, of local band performing (different venue) and snips of Perth. CAMERAS 1 PD170 1 DSR 250 approx 3 fix position cameras (not sure what model yet) PRODUCTION Filmed at the resturant 1-2 nights while resturant is open. Cut-aways of filmed around Perth during the weekend. Film 1 live gig of the feature band of the week. The show is filmed then edited and the given to the network. LOCATION Inside the resturant while resturant is open-for-business. TALENT The band members 1 or 2 members of staff (chef and one waiter) General public dinning in the resturant AUDIO OPERATOR Studied at uni but would still be fairly amateur. BUDGET Own a sennheiser lapel and shot gun mic. Don't have great deal of money to setup audio. Approx $2,000 AUD Thanks for your help.
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Under these kind of uncontrolled location conditions, your audio can make or break the show. If the camera-work is a bit frenetic, fine. That's STYLE. If the audio is unintelligible, CLICK, the show is un-watchable. You're going to need one (if not THREE) GREAT, experienced audio people. The band-members will shout, mumble, talk-over each other, and say at least a few things that should NOT go on the air (for whatever reason). If you have adequate set-up time for each interview segment, a LAV mic on each person who speaks in that scene would work pretty well (you would not need a boom-operator (or two). If you need to use booms, the operator(s) would need to be fast, accurate, and keep the mics out of the shot... not exactly easy if you've not had the proper experience. But hand-held boom-mics can get you tracks that otherwise would go missing. You asked what mixer? Buy any brand-name mixer with enough mic inputs. AND connect it with the best "accessory" in the audio business: a cool-under-pressure, get-the-track-on-tape, audio PROFESSIONAL. Your entire SHOW is ABOUT bands. Its ABOUT the SOUND.
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[Matte] "You're going to need one (if not THREE) GREAT, experienced audio people. The band-members will shout, mumble, talk-over each other, and say at least a few things that should NOT go on the air (for whatever reason). ***Count on it! If you have adequate set-up time for each interview segment, a LAV mic on each person who speaks in that scene would work pretty well (you would not need a boom-operator (or two). ***But count on ducking the mics not being used and hoping to get them back up when THAT person speaks or split track them with some dialog going to one track and soem going to another track. More work in post, but cleaner audio. If you need to use booms, the operator(s) would need to be fast, accurate, and keep the mics out of the shot... not exactly easy if you've not had the proper experience. ***Yah, You asked what mixer?" The Sound Devices 442 is a 4 channel mixer. Each input has its own limiter and you can feed two (well three in a pinch) cameras simultaneously. It also sounds great and has a direct out for each input in case you wanted to iso tracks to a DAW or something like a Fostex FR-2. Regards, Ty Ford Ty Ford's "Audio Bootcamp Field Guide" was written for video people who want better audio. Find out more at http://www.tyford.com
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