Microphones

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Clear audio capture is equally important as high-definition video capture. Grant Dodwell said: ‘Every actor is miked, every singer is miked, because the opera is generally recorded without mics, and they just have shotgun mics. We found that we had a lot more mixing capabilities with the mics. … And we mic the audience. So, the live audience is part of the show as well’. Grant Knutson of Minion Productions noted that he keeps one shotgun mic attached to his main cameras at all times and adds ‘multiple Zoom audio recorders (2 H1n & a H4n)’. Matthew Jameson said that The Space uses ‘two shotgun microphones to capture everything that we need with a stereo sound’ but added that he was interested in getting lapel or lavaliere (‘lav’) mics for performers. This would increase individual sound fidelity and reduce ambient noise.