PatrickFaith
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I'm shooting a film in ORTF, and doing all the sound in ADR/POST ... and am just about to start recording(this is for a low budget indie film). I was hoping someone could give my sound setup a look over, and i have a few options i'm debating. Sound is primarily for singing/guitar/cello but I do have a lot of robot/servo sounds I need to record along with outside gardening sounds. First off the mic's:
I'm debating two Neumann 184M or a Schoeps MSTC 64 U . I keep debating this option, nice thing about the 184 is i can reuse them for X/Y configuration for SFX, but even then I'm thinking of even doing the SFX in ORTF (it's just that the Neumann gives me the option of going X/Y while the Schoeps is fixed ORTF). the Schoeps is almost twice the price, so I'm wondering if the Schoeps is worth it? Also i'm not use to using the 5 pin XLR connectors (doesn't look too horrible though).
I'm using a Neumann 67 for voice/middle (i'd like the 87a but that is pushing my budget, especially if i go with the schoeps).
My current hardware setup is a SD 744t where the Neumann 67 directly connected to that into input 1 and SD pre-d in AES to input 2. For the SD pre-d i will have two XLR for the stereo connect. This is my first time with AES, so any hints on that are welcome (or if this recorder setup just doesn't make sense).
Thanks in advance for the advice
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Edit, I bought the 184's, just seemed a lot more flexible ... and will give me that "french" 1960 organic sound using the ORTF bar. I did get the SB-30 to set the angles and distances for the mic placement. For those not familiar with french audio specs, ORTF is from a french radio company in the 1960's which defined how pairs of mic's should be placed for stereo radio, to give a human organic sound feel. It really gives a "classic" sound, which is found in some movies, unfortunately tracking sound specifications in older movies is hard since they are often not documented in things like imdb [ i find it irritating that technical sound specifications are missing from movie spec's - sound is half of the experience so why not document what sound engineers are doing properly]).
I'm debating two Neumann 184M or a Schoeps MSTC 64 U . I keep debating this option, nice thing about the 184 is i can reuse them for X/Y configuration for SFX, but even then I'm thinking of even doing the SFX in ORTF (it's just that the Neumann gives me the option of going X/Y while the Schoeps is fixed ORTF). the Schoeps is almost twice the price, so I'm wondering if the Schoeps is worth it? Also i'm not use to using the 5 pin XLR connectors (doesn't look too horrible though).
I'm using a Neumann 67 for voice/middle (i'd like the 87a but that is pushing my budget, especially if i go with the schoeps).
My current hardware setup is a SD 744t where the Neumann 67 directly connected to that into input 1 and SD pre-d in AES to input 2. For the SD pre-d i will have two XLR for the stereo connect. This is my first time with AES, so any hints on that are welcome (or if this recorder setup just doesn't make sense).
Thanks in advance for the advice
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Edit, I bought the 184's, just seemed a lot more flexible ... and will give me that "french" 1960 organic sound using the ORTF bar. I did get the SB-30 to set the angles and distances for the mic placement. For those not familiar with french audio specs, ORTF is from a french radio company in the 1960's which defined how pairs of mic's should be placed for stereo radio, to give a human organic sound feel. It really gives a "classic" sound, which is found in some movies, unfortunately tracking sound specifications in older movies is hard since they are often not documented in things like imdb [ i find it irritating that technical sound specifications are missing from movie spec's - sound is half of the experience so why not document what sound engineers are doing properly]).
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