best way to record sound...

[mr.steve]

Me again.

So far with my films, I've been using a ****** microphone, or recording the sound in post.

For my next project, I was thinking of connecting a higher quality microphone and recording through a minidisk player. Is this the best cost effective way of doing things...or do you know better ways ?

[miker]

that's exactly how sound was recorded on AdAstra

sony minidisc + sennheiser (unbalanced) mic

worked well for me. but you really need someone who can also boom-op and get the mic pointing in the right direction

[Ralph Snart]

I can only speak from personal experience.

Is that modulation of equipment is everything.
For instance if you have a tape player going into your line in and then into a recording program such as voyetra and through a set of power speakers.
You have 1, the tape player. 2, line in recording level. 3,the recording software ETC sound levels that you have to be concerned with.
If your little 5 dollar cassette player is blasting for all its worth and overloading the line input you are going to end up with a static mess.
It is nice to have the best equipment but replacing a 5 dollar cassette player with a 200 dollar model does little good if you have not learned that one of the factors involved is turning the volume to an acceptable level.
Is this helping?

[ickle_jim]

all you need is a a sound recording program that that has an input level bar that goes red when too much juice is pumped in, then volume can be changed appropriatly. Thats not rocket science.

[Mods]

DAT recorder and DAT tapes! mmmmm!

m0ds

[emjen]

the sound gets recorded on another tape right? you have film and sound seperate? Won't you need to sync and all that? Isnt that a tuff job to do?

I need to know how to record sound too... I was thinking of buying an extern mice with a 'point' feature on it, but if there's a better (perhaps cheaper) way to do it...

[steven_craig]

the way you record sound all depends on what you are filming, the most professional way (if you have the cash) is to have multiple tracks being mixed on a desk, then fed into the camera and onto the tape that the video is on... or if your shooting film it would be fed to a dat/minidisc device for recording... if however funds are tight - then a simple one or two source system can work, ie boom mic connected directly to camera...

blah blah blah - hope this kinda helps