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Old 09-14-2011, 07:36 PM   #2004
flmason
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Originally Posted by Fran Guidry View Post
This has been covered over and over in this thread. In order to make a decent recording you need to have a decent sound hit the mic. That means

1. make a decent sound
2. in a room that doesn't screw up that sound
3. put a decent mic where the decent sound appears

The first clip was done in a large reverberant space and recorded with a blinkin' camera mic. That is, with a mic mounted on the _camera_, some six or eight feet from the source which is pointing at right angles to the mic. If that is not instantly and painfully obvious to you from a moment's observation, no amount of gear will help you meet your goals.

The best way for you to develop an understanding of these fundamental issues is for you to make a few hundred recordings and observe the impact of the room and mic placement.

The worst way is for you to demand that someone give you a gear recipe.

Since you continue to insist that a gear recipe must be the answer, you'll never get the answer.

Fran
Perhaps you don't understand either.

Alledgedly a *recording* tool called "Gearbox" takes care of that for us. So assuming for a minute that the tool really does it's job, and further that "equipment doesn't matter" as some suggest, then that leaves "recording technique".

Now follow this... if the tool covers the room and mic... the gap between "tool sounds like home tone" and "tool sounds like studio recording" should be a delta acceptable to this thread, or at least I'd think.

On the otherhand, if the tool really is crap... then guess the masters of this discipline should take the manufacturers to task on it, not the users that are baffled by the seeming gap.
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