Audio Blog

This week the blog readings were on audio and different audio techniques.  The first two articles on H4/zoom mics and the natural sound articles were very familiar to me, but it was a nice refresher.  I really got in depth with the first article on zoom mics, and I did learn a few new things about the microphones that help get good audio for videos or packages.  The H4 mic is by far my favorite.  It’s not very difficult to use and it’s very efficient and to me it gets the best audio out of everything I have used.

            When I learned about NAT sound back in my freshman year, I thought it was a waste of audio and took away from the story.  Now that I have been working with it for a couple of years, I was very wrong.  I love using NAT sound whenever I can, and the article about NAT sound really helped remind me the proper ways to use it and what to think about when gathering your NAT sound.  It was a simple article and a good stepping stone about how to use NAT pops and sounds.

            The last article was very interesting to me.  When learning a couple of tips from professionals, it was cool to learn a couple of easy tricks to make your audio better.  My favorite one was the one with the water cooler cup, where you cut out the bottom and stick your mic in there and tape it.  You get more ambient sound that way and that is really cool to me that you can use other items not in your camera kit that can help your story be even better!

Posted March 3, 2014 00:51

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