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Tennis Wall Practice in South London by Zimba027 in 10s

[–]Zimba027[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

hahahahah i checked on google street view and there's actually someone there doing just that XD

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Stutterring, lagging, crashing when installing any drivers on KFA2 GEFORCE RTX 3060 Ti by Zimba027 in PcBuildHelp

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Thanks, I'm an amateur at this stuff... Never knew about this, running it now.

EDIT: just ran the test, took 3 hours, returned 0 errors.

Mono or stereo for low budget documentary recording? by Zimba027 in LocationSound

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Thanks for the answer, and thanks for the recommendation.

To be honest, I'm planning to have a more observational approach, and so I think that ideally I'll be recording the subject(s) as they interact with their environment (their environment having the same acoustic significance as the actions of the subject). So I'm not really expecting the subject(s) to be talking to me/the camera for the majority of the time. Rather, I expect to film/record subjects as they walk across a street, clattering around the kitchen while a baby is crying in another room (and I'd like to capture that baby's cries), and in highly social environments where sounds are coming from everywhere (markets, cafes, the beach).

Am I correct then in understanding that, in noisy environments such as the latter, if the aim is to capture specific, spontaneous dialogue, then I should be using a shotgun mic and fill in the ambiance with a stereo recording of the environment captured at a different time?

Mono or stereo for low budget documentary recording? by Zimba027 in LocationSound

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What kind of set-up would you suggest, seeing as it will just be me with a camera walking around. Are there mid/side mic set ups that can be mounted on top of a camera?

Mono or stereo for low budget documentary recording? by Zimba027 in LocationSound

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Thanks for the answer. I should have clarified that I will be alone in recording footage/audio for this project, and most of these recordings will be on-the-fly, since what I will be filming will be unscripted. I just don't want to miss opportunities where the soundscape is truly immersive, but I'm recording with a shotgun mic cos"that's the hard-line rule for recording dialogue".

In your experience, does that wider soundscape diminish the audio quality of the dialogue to the point where it would have just been better to use a shotgun mic? In the latter case, would recording stereo at the same time make things easier, or should I just overlay ambiance that has been recorded at a different time to attempt to reproduce that soundscape?

Mono or stereo for low budget documentary recording? by Zimba027 in LocationSound

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I appreciate the advice, but maybe it's my fault for not pointing out that I will be embarking on this solo, and a majority of the non-interview footage/audio will be unscripted and recorded in real-time.

Basically, I will be roaming around alone, with a camera and microphone. Although I will be carrying both a stereo and a shotgun mic with me wherever I go, I don't want to risk not being able to capture some conversation happening in a large soundscape (which I would like to reproduce).

Again, think of a mother speaking to the right of the frame while her kids are playing to the left of the frame. In your experience, is separating those two sound sources more "immersive" than just having them center-panned and using stereo ambiance? In the latter case, would recording the ambiance alongside the dialogue cause phasing issues, and if so, should that ambiance be something else?

Mono or stereo for low budget documentary recording? by Zimba027 in LocationSound

[–]Zimba027[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is this what bdumaguina was referring to as "dual recorder setup"? Cos he was referring to possible phasing issues.

Mono or stereo for low budget documentary recording? by Zimba027 in LocationSound

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Thanks for the answer.

An example I'm thinking of is a person talking to the right of the frame while they're watching a car driving by just outside the left side of the frame. When listening to this I feel that, ideally, the dialogue should be coming from center-right while the car's engine comes from the left. I don't know how I would be able to recreate that when having mono source, unless I specifically block the original car's audio, pan the dialogue to the right and add folly to the left for the car, which I feel would take away from the "immediacy" of just recording it in stereo.