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Mic'ing the instruments

Mic'ing the instruments

From the course: Pro Video Tips

Mic'ing the instruments

- Individually mic'ing instruments will usually be your next best quality option of plugging into a pre-existing audio setup. However, quality and simplicity are two very different things that are competing here. Mic'ing instruments individually is by far your least practical and most expensive and time-consuming option because it gets 10 times more complicated and requires that you have enough mics to cover the size of the performance as well as your own quality mixer with enough mic inputs to cover the entire band. So a one-woman performance on acoustic guitar, not a big deal. A six piece rock band, on the other hand, is a big pain in the butt. Ideally, you would use a separate mic or sometimes two mics to record each instrument and vocalist, run it back to your own mixer which would need to have an equal number of inputs to match the number of mics, and then go out of your mixer's left and right outputs into your camera's XLR ports. Just as one recording dialogue, you'd have to set…

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