"Beta Zero" <beta_zero@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> 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-im****tant 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.
Best of luck to you. You posted on a professional sound newsgroup asking
for
professional opinions but apparently you are just looking for someone to
reinforce and sup****t you in your completely inexperienced totally green
ideas about recording sound with the cheapest equipment money can buy.
Print
this out and save it because if you do continue in this field and figure
things out you will look back in a number of years on this message and
have
a good laugh at your naivety.
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