Audio Arts – Week 7 – “Location Recording”
The bottom file is an unusual '+1 heavy waveform from the AKG'.Recording: Schultz Level 10 auditorium
Musician: Robert Keane
Instrument: Euphonium
Techniques attempted:
1) Spaced Pair – Approximately 2 meters from left and right at 45 degrees to performer , cardioid patterns (AKG-Right):
A spaced pair with different types of microphones creates an obvious level imbalance and the U87 had to be backed off to compensate
2) Mega Spaced Pair – same angle but about 7 meters back, cardioid patterns:
Same situation with levels. I preferred the sound of close miking in this space as the Linoleum floor reflections provided a very ‘harsh’ room sound for distance miking.
3&4) Akg front and close, U87 3m back (cardioid patterns), plus Akg front and close, U87 3m back (Omni patterns):
The first of these two is U87 only as the AKG recorded weakly and only added to room noise when boosted – a drawback for universal gain of dual mic inputs. On omni the signal was clearer. Reflections from the room are awful.
5) Mid Side, in middle of room:
No issues with levels – horrible reflections again.
6) Experimental – Mics behind obstacles (whiteboard, curtains)
An attempt to fight the room with bad mic placement. It failed to bring out anything but excess button and room noise.
Click here to link to online folder containing MP3 examples for this week.
Reference:
Grice, David. “Location Recording.” Lecture presented at Elder Hall, University of Adelaide, 29th of April 2008.
posted by David J Dowling @ 6:34 PM
1 Comments:
You spelt "meters" wrong, and "AKG" is normally all in capitals, as it is an acronym. Pretty poor effort.
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