Re: [LAU] Looking for voice recording suggestions

<hollundertee(a)gmx.net> writes: The NT-1A does not add noise of its own. Which is good. It's cardioid, large diaphragm. This is a microphone that picks up just anything. So you need to find a placement where it captures direct sound from all of your speakers reasonably well while not being affected too much by reverbation. It's a pressure gradient receiver so you want to place it perpendicular to the traveling direction of long-lived reverbation, so you don't want it pointing in the long direction of the room. You also don't want it to be too close to the wall or it will attenuate low frequencies. Recording separately of course makes a large difference. In that case, you can just point the mic at the speaker and choose your distance such that the amount of reverb is reasonable. If your result is supposed to be stereo, you want to capture close and add stereophonic reverb rather than the room reverb: then your balancing criterion is not a nice amount of reverb (you want as little as possible so you want to get as close as possible) but rather tolerable speech (such as well-balanced plosives). You'll want a screen and then try picking a distance where the speech sounds well and dry. You can always add reverb in post (stereophonic reverb from a particular direction) but you cannot remove it. No compression etc when recording. Any decision you make then cannot be reversed without damage. You can likely adjust levels once for every speaker before cutting (and if speakers are to come from different directions, give each one his own directional placement/reverb) so the main thing is to keep each speaker consistent. -- David Kastrup