thermionic
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Hi,
I'm posting this enquiry on behalf of a friend without 'web access.
Although I've arranged music for video before, my audio-for-video knowledge is seriously lacking...
Friend needs to record a live interview on a stage in an auditorium between a single interviewer and one interviewee. He will be sending a 2 channel feed to the Betacam recorder from the 4chnl mixer. The plan is to rent 2 radio-tie-clip Lavalier-type mics, with a boom for the audience. There will be a Q+A session with the audience after main interview.
Plan is to hang the boom at the front centre of stage to capture audience (he's not sure if there will be anyone available to man the boom personally), with a tie-clip on each person on stage. This mixer is being rented: http://www.sqn.co.uk/4Sespec.html
Interviewer / interviewee will be panned to L and R channel respectively with the ambient boom assigned centre in the mix, being fed to the Betacam recorder.
Said friend has a home-studio, but is far from a pro location engineer, I posted this query for the purpose of seeing if anyone had any tips, after all he will only get one chance to nail the take! The interviewee is a very old author, and is unlikely to do many interviews in future due to health.
Do you think he's renting the right kit, would you recommend a different strategy? For safety's sake, do you think he should split the feed to the betacam with a timecode-DAT for backup?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions, all input welcome.
Justin
I'm posting this enquiry on behalf of a friend without 'web access.
Although I've arranged music for video before, my audio-for-video knowledge is seriously lacking...
Friend needs to record a live interview on a stage in an auditorium between a single interviewer and one interviewee. He will be sending a 2 channel feed to the Betacam recorder from the 4chnl mixer. The plan is to rent 2 radio-tie-clip Lavalier-type mics, with a boom for the audience. There will be a Q+A session with the audience after main interview.
Plan is to hang the boom at the front centre of stage to capture audience (he's not sure if there will be anyone available to man the boom personally), with a tie-clip on each person on stage. This mixer is being rented: http://www.sqn.co.uk/4Sespec.html
Interviewer / interviewee will be panned to L and R channel respectively with the ambient boom assigned centre in the mix, being fed to the Betacam recorder.
Said friend has a home-studio, but is far from a pro location engineer, I posted this query for the purpose of seeing if anyone had any tips, after all he will only get one chance to nail the take! The interviewee is a very old author, and is unlikely to do many interviews in future due to health.
Do you think he's renting the right kit, would you recommend a different strategy? For safety's sake, do you think he should split the feed to the betacam with a timecode-DAT for backup?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions, all input welcome.
Justin