Re: Suggestion for a good book for novice recordist

[madl74]

> The idea of intentionally overloading comes from motion picture experienc=
e, where gunshots and door slams sounded more real when recorded on the Nag=
ra with the meter needle banging the stop.

Dan,

In 1972 I found myself in the Yukon deep in snow filming a BBC drama "The
Mad Trapper". The regular recorder used those days was a Nagra 3 which
couldn't be winterised, so I used a miniature Nagra SN under my cold weathe=
r
clothes.

We had the inevitable shootout finale but the SN limiter caught each bang
very efficiently, followed by silence, and then the reverb rushing back
after about half a second. It sounded more like a champagne cork, followed=

by the champagne, so we gave up and dubbed in the standard "kshew kshew"
from the studio gunshot generator.

PS. I bought the SN plus its custom made mixer from the BBC Film Unit when =
I
retired in 1992 and I still have it.

David Brinicombe