Thursday, 29 November 2012

Recording in awkward places

While eating my breakfast yesterday, I was watching some of the 'Rode University' videos on Youtube by Rick Viers, who wrote the Sound Effects Bible and the Location Sound Bible. On the 'Indoor Location Sound Recording' video, Rick Viers shows us how the Rode NT6 can be the ideal microphone for recording in awkward places, such as inside a car, where a shotgun isn't practical and wouldn't necessarily produce the best sound.

According to Rode (and Rick Viers in the video, who's trying to sell us this microphone for Rode):
"The RĂ˜DE NT6 compact microphone is specifically designed for difficult mounting applications where the highest quality audio is required."

This microphone is well-suited to recording car interiors mostly because it's small and light (the specifications on Rode's website say the capsule head is only 45mm in length and 42g in weight) and therefore fairly easy to mount in small places. However, another reason this microphone is better-suited to car interiors than a shotgun microphone is its cardioid pickup pattern (the picture below comes from the specifications on Rode's website), which is much less directional than a shotgun microphone, meaning placement, while still important, isn't as tricky to get right as with a shotgun - with which you would have to turn and move the microphone to point directly at whoever is speaking in order to get good and consistent sound.


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