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 |  | Recording setup |  |  03-09-2009 | #1 | | Audio Fan hapes is offline Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 50 |  Recording setup
So, in the interest of being nosy, I'm curious as to your recording setup. How many microphones do you have? What kind? Mixing board? I know the FX are for the most part you guys slapping or hitting tables, or whatever, but in the event you have other FX, what do you do?
Thanks!
hapes |  |  | | 03-09-2009 | #2 | | Audiofile Gregg is offline Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 1,885 |
... Okay. Bearing in mind as you read this that I have a terrible cold and am not as... word-good... like... as I usually am.
We have 4 wide-diaphragm studio condenser microphones tht run into a mixing board (I'm sorry, I don't really recall the make... it's a little 6 or 8 track board, pretty standard really).
Very few of our effects are made on the day. A few were quite a long time ago (like the punches, which I just pull from stock recordings we made years ago) Crowds and walla-walla tracks are a combination of new tracks as needed and stuff we put together ages ago.
Other effects, music etc that we need I purchase from Sounddogs.com
Last edited by Gregg; 03-09-2009 at 10:04 AM.. | | | | | I love audio! | | | 03-09-2009 | #3 | | Audio Newbie Dean Who is offline Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Peterborough Posts: 18 |  I love audio!
That was a very good question. I'm surprised it wasn't asked ages ago. There is a minimum expense to producing audio dramas. I've been involved with a couple at our local university radio station. It's the writing of scripts, rehearsing actors and putting effects together that takes up time and energy. Congratulations, Decoderring Theatre, for bringing the magic back to our airwaves. Too bad commercial radio has forgotten how to do this...  | | | | | 03-09-2009 | #4 | | Audio Fan hapes is offline Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 50 |
Thanks for the detail, Gregg! I wasn't too concerned about the actual brand names, but more '4 wide-diaphragm studio condenser mics and an 8 track mixing board'. Is the mixing board output into a computer for digital recording, then? | | | | | 03-10-2009 | #5 | | Audiofile Gregg is offline Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 1,885 |
The old board didn't have a USB output... the new one does, but I've never really had a go at making it work. It's possible that Audacity can't cope with in, it's also possible that I should read the entire instruction manual. But we run from the board to the 'Line In' input, and I've always been happy with the result. | | | | | 03-10-2009 | #6 | | Audio Fan hapes is offline Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 50 |
Working at Pendant, I'm pretty sure Audacity can handle USB inputs. I'm pretty sure that one of my co-directors (R. Francis Smith, directs Wonder Woman) uses a Snowball USB mic into Audacity. | | | | | 03-10-2009 | #7 | | Audiofile Gregg is offline Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 1,885 |
Well, there you have it. Should read the whole manual I suppose... it would allow me to record to the laptop as opposed to hauling the desktop downstairs... but lordy, who has the time  | | | | | 03-11-2009 | #8 | | Giddy Schoolgirl larksilver is offline Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Arkansas Posts: 126 |
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