soulescape
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Hey gang,
I was wondering what microphone would be great for capturing fire arms?
I'll be using it to record weapons firing, and the reloading sounds. I'd also be using it for other purposes as well.. Mostly foley recording.
If you can't give a specific name, can you give me some specs that I should look for? Like frequency ranges, etc.... My budget is around $100 - $200 but I'm willing to spend some more.
What is a good portable device to capture these sounds? Currently I use a Sharp IM-DR410H(s) mini disk recorder. Is this enough?
As you can see, this mic will be used for sound design purposes. Not music.
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Mon Mar 28, 2005 5:44 am |
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AUdIoCoUrSeS
Joined: 31 Oct 2002
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You'd be fine with almost any mic, just make sure it has a large polar pattern and not a very focussed one. If you used an omni mic you'd get a lot of the reflections from the environment to enhance the effect.
You mini disk should be fine, have you tried it yet? |
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Tue Mar 29, 2005 7:56 am |
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soulescape
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The only mic that I have at the moment is a very very small mic that came as a deal with my mini disk. It's an omni-directional condenser mic. It looks like one of those mics that they use on TV talk shows. The kind that clips on the clothes. It's powered by one of those little round silver lithium batterys. The kind that you see in watches. It records voice pretty great and most foley decently. Here's an un-edited sample of some guns firing that I recorded with it. As you can see, it's pretty weak. The mic was right near these when firing and recording volume on the minidisk was max (30).
www.chaosdawn.com/guns_sample.mp3
I like the minidisk so far, but I think I'm going to need a better mic.
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Tue Mar 29, 2005 10:47 am |
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AUdIoCoUrSeS
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I guess you need to experiment, it's not that bad what you have already, you could spend a lot and have a mic with a range of 20hz to 20Khz, which would certainly give you more bass end and more sizzle too, which is lacking a little now.
Is this something you have to record and can't obtain from a sample disk?
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Tue Mar 29, 2005 11:10 am |
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soulescape
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I suppose I'll have to experiment a bit.
I was wondering what the pros use to capture fire arm effects. You hear about sound designers for video games recording real weapons and sound designers on movies like Black Hawk Down recording the weapons, etc...
I know there's editing and mixing involved in that process, which I am pretty good at... but I'd like to get a better recording in the beginning.
As far as getting something from a sample CD, I'd rather use my own recorded material. I'm also slowly building my own foley collection. |
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Tue Mar 29, 2005 11:51 am |
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