Gain & Room Tone | Episode 4: Indie Film Sound Guide | The Film Look
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Maybe a small tip, but use a XLR Y-Splitter to record a safety track like 6 dB below of your master track. It doesn’t cost anymore time or effort but can and probably will safe you on moments your master track is clipping.
PS: Especially handy in run and gun situations
Marc LaFunk woahhhhh so simple but genius
And what about the quality?
What about this scenario: You record a take with the actor yelling loud and after that he speaks in a lower tone. You set the gain for the loud yell, but now you have to raise the lower tone to get up between -6 and-12 db. The noise/hissing will therefore also be raised and you don't want that noise/hissing in the rest of the dialoque. How do you solve this problem without denoiser?
That's a great question. We've dealt with this scenario before. Our way was to swing the boom and create distance for the yell then bring the boom closer again for the quiet dialogue.
Another way you can do this is to set the levels for the quiet dialogue, hot-mix the loud yell on the fly by lowering the gain, then add extra room tone back in to compensate for the lack of natural room tone now baked into the track.
Thank you for the fast and great answer. Definitely an usable advice :-)
Great to hear!
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Do you always put a full layer of room tone on top of the entire dialoque scene or just, if there is yelling? Or is it most of the time enough just connecting the dialoque recordings in smooth transitions without the top layer of room tone?
There will be natural room tone baked into your dialogue. I use room tone just to fill in the gaps and fix blips and mistakes. Our mixing episode covers how we use room tone in the edit.
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No problem, thanks for watching! Happy to help :D
Solid Advice!!!
Guys how are you doing? You're great btw, I didn't understand the concept of setting the levels for the dialogue
Ok nevermind I got it😛
We're doing great! How are you?
@@TheFilmLook doing great thanks.
Good tip. I do dual channel recording on my F8 for everything. I have never needed more than 8 channels.
Really handy, especially for a fast turn around
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Get yourself a field recorder with safety limiters on the input. Your Tascam probably has one. Read the manual.
We upgraded to the DR-70d a few years back now and have been using limiters when recording. Cheers!
Great tip having people record room tone before the scene. Not enough sound mixers and ops do this.
It gives people time to calm down before the big day of shooting too!
And what kind of mic do you use for room tone recording? Not that shutgun, right? Cardioid or omnidirectional condenser microphone?
We use the same microphone as the dialogue, so the shotgun mic, yes.
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