It's been a while since I've been on here and I've come up with a small issue. I have a child's dance recital coming up that I'm gonna be shooting. Its both a personal project and it's something the owner wants to see since she is looking for new people. Last year I used a shotgun mounted to the camera run into a tascam dr-100 mkii for the event and also had a mix down From the sound guys in the auditorium. I combined the 2 sources for what I thought was passable, I want more than passable this go around. I have a few more goodies in my bag this year and was wondering if I use the mix down and mount my much smaller lighter hyper to the camera for the crowd sounds. I know that on camera mounting sucks. I don't have a way around that. I can't have a guy booming the crowd or stage. I also was pushing my limits with the shotgun mic being 12 inches long and a long lens and tripod, since I was asked to be transparent as possible. It's a large Highschool auditorium that has decent acoustics. With the crowd and dancers and music at fairly high levels I wonder if the hyper would be better or stick with the shotgun.
Shotgun or hyper at loud event indoors
- Thread starter thenetfilmmaker
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You don't need to mix the mic and the house feed. Use the music from the house feed only. When the dances conclude crossfade from the music to the mic (for the applause). That will solve phasing and other timing issues. You could even get the original music files, sync them to the video, and use those instead of the house feed.
Now, if you really want to get involved, you can mount the shotgun on a stand facing away from the stage to capture the audience, and mount the hyper on another stand aimed at the floor of the stage to capture the feet of the dancers. Then you can blend a very tiny bit of the hyper into the music track (board feed or synced original files) to add a bit more "atmosphere" to the mix, then use the shotgun track only for the applause (you could even add some extra applause from a sound effects library if you wanted to).
Now you will have 5 audio tracks - the music (2 tracks, as it is probably stereo), stage sounds (1 track), audience reaction (1 track), and camera track (sync only). You never use the camera sound in the final mix, and use the audience mic for applause only.
Now, if you really want to get involved, you can mount the shotgun on a stand facing away from the stage to capture the audience, and mount the hyper on another stand aimed at the floor of the stage to capture the feet of the dancers. Then you can blend a very tiny bit of the hyper into the music track (board feed or synced original files) to add a bit more "atmosphere" to the mix, then use the shotgun track only for the applause (you could even add some extra applause from a sound effects library if you wanted to).
Now you will have 5 audio tracks - the music (2 tracks, as it is probably stereo), stage sounds (1 track), audience reaction (1 track), and camera track (sync only). You never use the camera sound in the final mix, and use the audience mic for applause only.
Thanks as usual. I'll just use the actual music tracks vs the feed. I'll use the hyper for reference and crowd sound effects, and see if I can slip the shotgun near the stage to get the taps .