From the course: Video Production: Location Audio Recording
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Equipment package for a musical performance
From the course: Video Production: Location Audio Recording
Equipment package for a musical performance
Now, I just want to quickly talk about some of the equipment that we would bring along to record a live musical performance. So, a few things. We don't need a lot, but we do need a few specialty things. One of them that you might find very handy is the dynamic microphone. Now dynamic microphones, unlike the shotgun microphone I have here, do not require power. So these microphones actually pick up audio by using the little diaphragm, so they're really good for loud sounds like instruments, and speakers and other things like that. So a dynamic microphone is really good to have. They're also very inexpensive and tough, about 99 bucks for one of those. Over here, I've got my shotgun microphone. Shotgun microphone, I would generally use to pick up the whole sound of the room, from the camera perspective. So this I would mount on my camera. Headphones, headphones, headphones always. You definitely need good over-the-ear headphones when you're recording music. It's going to be a lot of loud…
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