Re: How would you use this channel?
- From: Peter Larsen <SPAMSHIELD_plarsen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 07:11:36 +0200
soundhaspriority wrote:
My field recording setup consists of a 4 channel hard disk recorder,
which has two mic ins and two line ins. In order to have 4 mic ins,
I use what is known as a "field mixer", a 3 in, two bus, stereo
out mixer. This provides a fifth channel that can be panned between
the two mixer channels. Other than the panned fifth channel, the
channels are discrete. In the "production sound" world, people
still mix, mainly dialog, on the fly down to two channels. However,
the music world has mostly graduated to discrete tracks for all feeds.
That is in a very different production style.
What could I use this fifth channel for,
If you need three soloists mics, then mix them to a sensible
stereo-image, one full left, one center and one full right and record
them on the other track pair. You will probably want to narrow that
stereo image in the final mix, but leave that choice until later, do not
discard the extra spatial information you get, som day it may come in
handy.
or should it be left unused?
Nah, it will come in handy some day. Do not think "tracks", think that
you have a recorder for two concurrent stereo images that you can
overlay later.
Suggestions?
You have paid for the mixer channel, use it if you need to deploy that
extra mic, but do think in terms of stereo images ... unless of course
you rebel and decide to record old fashioned discrete quad!
Kind regards
Peter Larsen
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