From the course: Video Production: Location Audio Recording
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Recording in locations with echo
From the course: Video Production: Location Audio Recording
Recording in locations with echo
Now let's talk about another common location audio problem, which is echo. My first advice for shooting in rooms with echo, is don't. However, occasionally you'll be stuck with a location where that's the only place you have to shoot. Or perhaps aesthetically, in every other aspect, that room is perfect. Because you're shooting a narrative project, and it looks just right. Well, there is at least one way we can deal with echo, which I'll tell you in a second. But first I want to talk about the causes of echo. So what causes echo or the reverberation that we have going on with my voice right now? Well that's caused by shooting in any room with all hard surfaces. So any time your shooting in a room that's empty, or has little or no furniture like the room that I'm in right now. Well, you're going to definitely have a problem with echo. And a problem with echo isn't so much that, you know, it's problematic, it's just that it sounds kind of amateur. Not something you're going to come…
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