As some of you know I've been producing a Podcast lately. Basically a series of interviews. Two presenters and a guest.
I've been doing this with a spaced pair of AKG C1000s mics and it's worked well. Enabling the contributors to remain about 2m apart.
However, we have a debate show coming up. Will be 5 speakers. Now I only have 4 condensers and 4 dynamics.
I don't fancy trying to capture 5 spaced out people in a crap room with a spaced pair.
I was gonna arrange the participants in a shallow V shape, almost a straight line. I don't trust random contributors to pay attention to mic technique so I was gonna stick a condenser in front of each of them about a ft away. Then give the chairperson a dynamic.
What you think?
Miking a group of people
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I wonder if a mic and a small panel to be put together to make a boundary mic
Obviously you can buy them but with what you have, could the same effect be achieved?
Obviously you can buy them but with what you have, could the same effect be achieved?
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Do you really want to listen to a podcast where the participants debate about rocks?
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An hour and a half? Is there surf music in there somewhere?JD01 wrote: ↑Mon Jul 13, 2020 5:47 pm Water activity!
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90s Californian punk. Intro and outro.Greg_L wrote: ↑Mon Jul 13, 2020 6:24 pmAn hour and a half? Is there surf music in there somewhere?JD01 wrote: ↑Mon Jul 13, 2020 5:47 pm Water activity!
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I hear Jordan Peterson is recovering well - he might like to be one of your panellists - he's good for long podcast sittings.
But to your suggestion, given what you have, that's probably what I'd be doing. Give the dynamic to the person who's going to pay the most attention to what he's doing.
But to your suggestion, given what you have, that's probably what I'd be doing. Give the dynamic to the person who's going to pay the most attention to what he's doing.
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Put a live wire on the condensers so that when they try to touch it they get zapped. i LOATHE the way everyone & his mouse knows exactly where they mic should be for their own needs.
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Yes, apparently he almost succumbed to a benzo dependency gained whilst caring for his extremely sick wife.
I didn't actually know who he was until relatively recently, when I heard him being shouted out as the devil incarnate ultra right wing fascistic arsehole - so always wanting to see for myself, I hunted down some of his stuff and had a listen to see what all the fuss was about. It absolutely wasn't what I was expecting. Now he doesn't like the left all that much, but that aside I don't see what everyone is getting into a twist about. It's pretty mild. Not all that much there to be outraged about. Telling people to stand straight, take responsibility for their own lives, pursue what is meaningful rather than what is expedient and that sort of self-helpy stuff isn't the Hitlerian rantings I was led to expect.
Of course every now and then he comes up in my suggested YouTube feed as a result ..
Our Google Overlords will have the wrong impression about me, I'm sure.
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If you've got a pair of the same mics, this might be a good application for an ORTF setup. Set it out a ways in front of the panel of speakers and just get a stereo capture. Room reverb would be a problem though...
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What annoys me about him is that when someone disagrees with him he bogs every discussion down into needless semantic technicality... Not so much cos it's relevant, just to disguise the fact he's talking shit.Armistice wrote: ↑Mon Jul 13, 2020 9:28 pmYes, apparently he almost succumbed to a benzo dependency gained whilst caring for his extremely sick wife.
I didn't actually know who he was until relatively recently, when I heard him being shouted out as the devil incarnate ultra right wing fascistic arsehole - so always wanting to see for myself, I hunted down some of his stuff and had a listen to see what all the fuss was about. It absolutely wasn't what I was expecting. Now he doesn't like the left all that much, but that aside I don't see what everyone is getting into a twist about. It's pretty mild. Not all that much there to be outraged about. Telling people to stand straight, take responsibility for their own lives, pursue what is meaningful rather than what is expedient and that sort of self-helpy stuff isn't the Hitlerian rantings I was led to expect.
Of course every now and then he comes up in my suggested YouTube feed as a result ..
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Jordan Peterson uses "offend" in many and varied ways...mainly to support himself.
He complains about moral posturing while posturing with his own advertisement for new morals, (the Jordan Peterson moral code).
He complains about moral posturing while posturing with his own advertisement for new morals, (the Jordan Peterson moral code).
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