Hey everyone, this is the first thread I open, so forgive me if it's in the wrong section ?:p?
I've never heard anything about sound thus far, since I'm just a freshman in College, and we have "Sound" on second year. Yet practice throughout this year has taught me that sound is totally important to a film. I'm guessing everyone here already knows that, but as a broke, naive filmmaker, with little knowledge about this art, I'd never paid any attention to sound until today. Now I want to control what I hear, as much as I control what I see, and that's why I'm thinking of buying a mic. I've been looking around on Ebay and found an Audio Technica ATR-55 condenser shotgun microphone for 50 dollars (A good price for me considering everything costs three times its value when converted to Pesos -my country's currency). Now, I've read some of the reviews the website has, and it seems to be just what I'm looking for: A simple mic to improve sound, and not just settle for what the camera records. But everyone seems to be pointing out that it is not stereo... And truth is, I've no idea what that means. That's the reason why I've opened this thread: Because I don't know the difference between mono and stereo. I mean, I think that mono records on one channel while stereo records on multiple channels, but if that's correct, I still don't know what it means ?:I?
So, if anyone could help me out with this I'd really appreciate it ?:)?
When recording sound for your movies you do not record in stereo.
Stereo is is sound coming from two different speakers creating a three-dimensional effect
to the sound. The sound you will be recording on set with a mono microphone will be the
actors speaking. This is best using one channel of "mono". So that mic is just fine for
recording your actors.
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To help you visualize what this means just imagine that you are at a concert and there is one singer on the right side of the stage and a violin player on the left side of the stage. If the sound was recorded in stereo, the audience would be able to identify the direction of the sound during playback. The sound of the singer?s voice would come from the right speaker and the violin would come from the left speaker. If the concert was recorded on a mono system, the sounds would be merged together and the sound coming out of both speakers would be identical.
Generally dialogue is recorded in mono so this should work just fine for what you want to use it for.
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Thanks for the answers guys! ?;)?
