We Have Film School At Home

After some tests using clip-on microphones attached to field recorders, I switched things up by utilizing a shotgun microphone also attached to a field recorder. The sound was much improved, though I think I will be moving up from a Rode VideoMicro II to a Sennheiser MKE 400, just to get a more substantial vocal sound. The shotgun mics in general were better quality, and reduced some of the distortion in the mid-range, but also help deal with external noise. That said, based on the mic description, shotgun mics are basically just supercardioid mics. Makes a lot of sense.

One nice thing about the rejection of outside sounds is that it makes it easier to mix into video, since those outside sounnds

The microphones are attached to mini-tripods which I can place just outside of the camera range and point at the speaker. I’ll plan to get a set of two so I can record multiple people at the same time (or a person and some atmosphere audio).