Charles Tomaras wrote:
>Sounds to me like you are on the verge of spending $800 on a bunch of
>nearly pro-sumer audio equipment that you most likely won't use very
>often, will disappoint with quality, and is a recipe for audio
>disaster.
Thanks for the vote of confidence.
>Your equipment's resale value will also be disappointing once you
>realize it didn't perform as well as you had hoped.
Nope, I don't plan on reselling. The next major project is an indie
movie in late August. I need some music for when the actors are
driving along in their car, and they turn on the radio. So I thought
I'd foley in some music.
>While on the surface what you are doing may seem simple enough, you
>will find that it's really more complex than you imagine to achieve
>quality results.
I want to keep the June budget down to $3,000 before I go to the
August budget, something like five to ten times that. (Sort of makes
me sound like a cheapskate, huh?)
>My suggestion both for getting a quality recording and for learning
>more about quality live recording
Well, quality live recording is in a recording room, but I don't mind a
little bit of background noise by shooting it out in a park, or some
distant location in the National Forest.
>would be to either hire someone with experience and equipment or rent
>professional equipment along with a thorough tutorial on how to get
>the best results out of it. The reason that professional recording
>engineers charge what they do for their labor and equipment is because
>they have already made the mistakes you are about to make!
Well, I have to make the mistakes sometime, and I thought, "Well, what
the heck, why not this summer?" That's why $800 on microphones,
something like $500 on a digital recorder or two (the H4 looked very
tempting), and then another $500 on hiring a band to play in some
remote location, and then a little bit more money as a slush fund,
depending on what happens.
>On the other hand, if this is just a non-important hobby type of
>event....give it a shot, but don't expect to achieve top notch
>results with a setup and experience level you have described above.
Okay.
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