#MONO OR STEREO FOR VOICE RECORDING TV#

It's a stereo mic that uses the coincident crossed pair principle.

It sounds good, but it doesn't sound like it would in real life. My voice, the ambience, the background noise. Notice that everything is exactly dead-centre in the stereo image. Listen on headphones to get a crystal-clear audio experience. And you should hear some of the ambience and background noise too.Д«ut listen carefully. So my voice should sound great, and my Northern accent clearly and cleanly recorded. It's the Sennheiser MKH 416 short shotgun mic, and I have it positioned at the level of my forehead, pointing down at my mouth at a distance of about 20 cm. I'd say that it's good at its job, which is mainly for recording dialogue. The microphone that I'm using is sometimes known as a bit of a 'magic mic'. But in this instance the acoustic is definitely real, including some traffic noise in the background. Whether this is recorded for real or simulated in post-production, hopefully you won't be able to tell.

#MONO OR STEREO FOR VOICE RECORDING TV#

I chose this space to record in because often in film and TV drama it is useful to be able to hear an acoustic environment that matches the space that you see in the images. Well, it's nice and warm but the acoustics could use some work. Here I am in the lovely, warm acoustic environment of my living room. But for text-lovers everywhere, there's a transcript below. But for certain applications, mono is definitely the way to go.ДЄs much as I love the written word, I can't explain this properly in text only, so please take a listen (and look) at the video that accompanies this article. For most purposes, stereo is clearly better than mono, even to non-technical people.

Mono or stereo for voice recording