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What technique you use to record...?

X-Daniel_Estrada
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Apr 24, 2003, 12:14 AM

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Ohh Nooo...!! It's me again....!!!
One more question: what tecnique do you use to record voices and ambient sound on weddings..?
I mean, I have an XL1 camera, don't have the microphones adaptor..can use only the built in mike of the camera only...?
I plan to buy the mic adaptor and inlambrics....
also, why to use minidisc..? and in what moments..?
thnks...

X-Doug_Graham
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Apr 24, 2003, 7:58 AM

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: One more question: what tecnique do you use to record voices and ambient sound on weddings..?
The basic principle of getting good audio is to remember that microphones like to be right up close to the sound they're supposed to be recording. The place where your camera is, is almost never the best place for a microphone.
Wedding videographers use wireless microphones to get a mike up close to the bride and groom (usually ON the groom) during the wedding ceremony. A growing number use a minidisc recorder for the same purpose.
You don't necessarily need the XLR mic adapters for the XL1 to do this; many wireless microphone receivers have a mini-plug that will fit your existing mic in jack. And of course, a minidisc is not connected to the camera at all; its audio is captured separately and synced to the video in the edit.
Regards,
Doug Graham

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Apr 24, 2003, 9:15 AM

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I use a combination of Mini disc and Shotgun Mic.

: Ohh Nooo...!! It's me again....!!!
: One more question: what tecnique do you use to record voices and ambient sound on weddings..?
: I mean, I have an XL1 camera, don't have the microphones adaptor..can use only the built in mike of the camera only...?
: I plan to buy the mic adaptor and inlambrics....
: also, why to use minidisc..? and in what moments..?
: thnks...

X-Rick_Koetter
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Apr 24, 2003, 12:48 PM

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Fortunately, we have 3 wireless UHF microphones and 2 mini-discs; however, we rarely use all of them. The first thing we do is find out if we can get a feed from the house sound system. If we can, we use the appropriate cable to attach it to our mini-disc. This will give you a very good soundtrack of the entire wedding... Usually, the pastor(s) microphones are picked up as well as the people doing the readings and often the musicians... We always put one of the wireless microphones on the groom as well, because we never know how close he will be from the pastor. That mic will pick up the vows tremendously. If the pastor is willing (they usually are) we also put a wireless mic on him. Along with the on-camera mic of our 2nd camera (as a last resort backup), this usually gives us an excellent mix of sound.
If we are unable to get a feed from the house sound system, we use the mini-disc along with a lav mic on the pulpit (or wherever the readings will be read). This will pick up the readings, music and other ambient sound.
We haven't been doing this long, so take my experience lightly. If anyone has suggestions for us to improve our setup, I would be glad to hear them!

heavytiger
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Dec 22, 2005, 9:38 PM

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Hi Doug

It has been a long time since I last e-mailed you. Your advice helped me a lot a few years ago when I was just getting started in wedding videography.
I have two audio questions.

I use a studio one mixer set in the stereo position. I connect my wireless (Sennheiser evolution) to one channel and a gun mic (Azden sgmx) to the other channel. If I listen to the recorded audio one track at a time the wireless sounds great. However, sometimes the sound from the gun mic goes up and down in volume. Is this because the Sennheiser is imputting a stronger signal than the Azden and the vx2100 audio gain control is reducing the signal strength causing the volume level to drop. If so then all I need to do is turn down the volume from the wireless using the studio one mixer volume control. Am I thinking logically?

What do you think about placing a digital voice recorder on the podium to record the audio of an entire wedding? This would capture scripture readings and well as give back up audio of the wedding music.
Would there be any problem with the audio getting out of sync with the video for long weddings?

Are there any digital voice recorders you can recommend? I assume one would want one with an external mic input. Are there voice recorders that record in mp3. I edit with Studio 9 plus with accepts wave and mp3.

Thanks Doug

Dave