Francois Clos

hey Ben, I haven't seen those for sure, sounds good stuff !! I'll try to have a clue on what happened to those films (if I find enough time for that...)

hi ben do you remember the band you filmed ?

for the frequencies question it's a really intersting one. It's all about mixing it and Julien did an excellent job. Hopefully the vocals turned out to be good so it requires few eqing (not too destructive for timbral profile); but a lot of time I'm sad because the balance is not perfect (not enough bass, aspecially, aprt for city rumble or wind in those take away shows). But I really think you can go very far on EQs and get good sound out of it. Or sometimes you just lav everyone and mainly use the stereo couple. ( ) But for the first song, I'm not convinced by the percussive part at the end. It lacks maybe a bass instrument (just a tom floor for example). On this session we have our crappy mics used : sennheiser G2 transmitters 4 octavas (2 on marimba, 2 for ambiance) 1 or 2 sanken cos 11 (one on cello) a crappy mic on the harp. and my 788T cause I love the fact you can take it everywhere (light, efficient), and have 8 good channels.

Hi everyone, and thank you for your interest, It's so nice to see discussions like these ! What Henri said is very precise, complete and true. I'll just add specifications on the Baden Baden recording session. Someone is going to be an astronaut About the mic position : you guess it right with its shadows, it's a Schoeps ortf, hold on a very short boom, behind the camera. This provide the background, with winds in the trees, and bicycle on this one. The there's a lot of lavs, hidden when possible. those where DPA's 4060, as far as I remember. This equipment was rented because we were fortunate enough to have good gears. But mainly it's poor stuff on take away shows. The singer is miked, behind his shirt. it also takes shakers There's an electric guitar with a small amp (honeytone), the amp is miked. (but you can't see it, it's not filmed. also the clearly see the jack at 4'42). The acoustic guitar is either miked inside with a countryman (very discrete, easy to hide) or directly on its performer so has to get both guitar and baking vocals (it really works, and I think on this one he was doing both : on 1:07 you see the guitar player making the "oh, oh"). For the glock it's a balance between ambiance sound (you're right it's quite loud as a percussive instrument) and the lav on the glock player. Trumpet is only ambiance. (or maybe he has a lav too ? I need to go back to the files...) a few more info on this one : - the band has a REALLY good acoustic balance between them (even with drums ; the singer was the only source that needs more level on mix). - the weither was excellent, and we were in the middle of a quite quiet park (the van was at sloww speed) - DPA's were good (sometimes you try a position and it's not working), so I was able to go else where grab the sound of the leaves during recording, to make it more real, beautiful. - when everything is good, you can concentrate only on your "stereo image", i.e. you just listen to your stereo couple : you try to make smooth movements, and keep the overall balance OK (not going tooo close to the drums, etc, or trying to always face the band). Then when mixed you have the possibility to choose what you wanna do (more real, more stereo, more close to sources and kind of "studio-like", etc....) I think there's some answers here, you replied 4 times during my post that took long because I went back to the video to remember the details. Nothing in the trees, too long to install, and too far from the band... (we only had 50 minutes to do the all recording of this one).