...well I'm glad I asked about spaced omnis...thanks for the wonderful
discussion! I've been thinking about the perspectives offered, and doing a=
little research, and I think I'll build a jecklin disc and start
experimenting. Darn right I don't want to carry two mic stands, and a disc=
seems portable enough.
Nice to hear from Flawn on:
"There is no perfect miking system, particularly in the rough-and-tumble
world of hit-and-run field recordings.=A0 We're also often switching back a=
nd
forth between sound gathering and close-miked interviews at a second's
notice, so we have to have miking available to accommodate both needs.=A0 "
I am doing a lot of this "hit-and-run" type stuff myself, and have bee
struggling hard to come up with an efficient, portable mic solution. So far=
I have produced audio projects that are delivered in stereo, and tend to
involve intense ambiences from nature - but I am just beginning to try to
have these pieces air on radio (my very own, low-budget radio expedition!),=
so I am facing the mono-compatibility problem for the first time. I just go=
t
the new Sennheiser 418s M/S stereo shotgun as a stab at an
all-in-one-hit-and-run solution for gathering ambient sound and interviews=
(unplug "side"), but this is really no help when it comes to mono radio,
because from what I understand, I will lose so much (the "side") if
collapsed to mono....
Then there's a another problem- assuming you COULD broadcast in stereo, how=
to record a moving (speaking) subject in a sonically rich natural setting? =
I
hit a brick wall with this while recording in Botswana two years ago. I had=
little experience, and was trying to record with a stereo mic on a boom-
this worked beautifully when it was in a parabolic reflector pointed at a
single lion feasting on a zebra, but not okay when I recorded in stereo
dish-less, walking alongside a guide as he pointed out various natural
wonders. The stereo field was flailing all over the place...
I still have not figured out how to conquer this problem as a single person=
.
A planted mic combined with a boomed mic is all I can think of, but it's no=
t
a truly mobile approach...what to do short of wearing a pair of binaurals?=
Is it possibly just a question of boom technique? Am I expecing the
impossible?
Thanks for reading-
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