Post by benedict on Apr 9, 2017 10:51:46 GMT -8
I've seen some threads that touch on this, but I get the feeling I may be missing some details that are well-known to experienced voice actors.
I live next to a highway. It's small, but the traffic is incessant and the asphalt is less than thirty feet from my back door. At one point I wanted to see if there was any hour of the day or night that didn't have traffic, so I set up my gear to record out the window. 24 hours later I dropped all the tracks into Audacity and looked at the peaks. At no point was there more than a five minute gap between cars. Most of the time it was closer to a minute. I can't out-wait the noise, so I tried to accommodate it.
I went through duffywebber's thread on setting up a recording environment voiceacting.boards.net/thread/94/recording-environment-tin-why (Thank you, Duffy!) and was able to tame most of the reverb in the room I'm using, but even with my microphone's null point aimed at the highway, the vehicular noise bounces around enough to still get through.
Then I was reading LadyStardust's thread on the expectation of availability voiceacting.boards.net/thread/265/expectation-availabilty and ran across this line: "Taking a remote recording setup every time you travel is pretty much a given..."
Aha!
So here's the question: What do people pack for their remote recording setup, and what assumptions do you make about available resources at your destination?
At this point my best plan is to throw everything in my car, drive to an abandoned road out in the middle of nowhere some time in the night, and set up in the back seat. I really am that desperate, so any ideas, no matter how wild, are more than welcome.
Thanks,
Tom
I live next to a highway. It's small, but the traffic is incessant and the asphalt is less than thirty feet from my back door. At one point I wanted to see if there was any hour of the day or night that didn't have traffic, so I set up my gear to record out the window. 24 hours later I dropped all the tracks into Audacity and looked at the peaks. At no point was there more than a five minute gap between cars. Most of the time it was closer to a minute. I can't out-wait the noise, so I tried to accommodate it.
I went through duffywebber's thread on setting up a recording environment voiceacting.boards.net/thread/94/recording-environment-tin-why (Thank you, Duffy!) and was able to tame most of the reverb in the room I'm using, but even with my microphone's null point aimed at the highway, the vehicular noise bounces around enough to still get through.
Then I was reading LadyStardust's thread on the expectation of availability voiceacting.boards.net/thread/265/expectation-availabilty and ran across this line: "Taking a remote recording setup every time you travel is pretty much a given..."
Aha!
So here's the question: What do people pack for their remote recording setup, and what assumptions do you make about available resources at your destination?
At this point my best plan is to throw everything in my car, drive to an abandoned road out in the middle of nowhere some time in the night, and set up in the back seat. I really am that desperate, so any ideas, no matter how wild, are more than welcome.
Thanks,
Tom