I really feel that many of the movie production people have missed
the boat on surround sound and with their camera based thinking
always want the recorded sound in front of the source. The results
can be heard by renting out most any film done with surround right
now. The rears get pushed back to being a mere sound reinforcement
and seldom do you hear it used for an immersion. All it accomplishes
is having the wife come into the room when the effects come in and
yell turn down the volume. This is where we can guide them and why I
didn't bother with the center channel for now.
The concept that you have to mic surround from the "outside in" is an
error and not just yours. It is a widely believed error.
Even though I work with and like wide spaced mics, that does not mean
that I am trying to mic from the outside in. In fact, what I am
doing is to simply enlarge the size of the inside and I still think
in terms of micing a space from the "inside out".
On another note. From vehicle to recording in four channel I am under
5 mins setup and have three hours battery life. It would still be
under 5 mins in eight channel but I currently don't have the mic
preamps for the other four. This is good by todays standards but
remember most anyone can do this with two minidisc recorders. My door
is open to anyone that wants to sync and hear playback for things
that they captured by any method.
Rich Peet
--- In Mike Feldman
<> wrote:
> Jeremiah Moore wrote:
....
> There's a new thread that just popped up in the nesgroup
> rec.arts.movies.production.sound subject "Wacky new microphone."
> There the drift of the discussion is a bit different than the one
here.
>
> I'd think that if we're gonna have surround sound, then the
> mics have got to surround the source!
>
....
> -- Mike
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