MIC ... Advise needed

[Relborn]

Hello ...

for my upcoming puppet video project I would need some good mics for me and the other puppeteers.

Do you already have some good experiences with some? How do you minimize puppeteering sounds?

Thanks

 

[HauntedPuppet]

If you are good enough to do it on the "fly" then a headset mic (from shure or senheiser, they are the best) can be done either directly to an audio desk for mixing later on or directly to the film if your camera has DIN inputs.

The best way I have found to do it is to record everything visually and add sound later.

Example: Filming is done with puppets saying their lines. After this all audio is done as "voice over and fill in" after the fact. This eliminates all puppet and set sounds and lets you only add the sounds and voices that you actually want.

This is easy because you are still recording what the puppets are saying, so even for improv stuff you can voice over what the puppet has said because you are going to overdub what has been said anyway.

For many voice actors this is the way it is done. In a studio after the fact.

(your computer can make a pretty good sound studio with the right software and equipment. Using Adobe Audition and a descent mic you can make the audio very professional.)

Peace

 

[CoOKiE]

Radio shack has some good clip on mics for around $25... i need to build a headset for them, but for now i where a hat.

The issue with this, i have the mics set into a soundboard which was around $100. And from there, the audio goes into a DVD recorder, as well as the video input. They record on the DVD recorder at the same exact time.

You'll definitly want to try either of HauntedPuppet's or my ideas because Mics really take away from sounds on the set. They make the characters heard very well, and you're not hearing your voice bounce off the walls, unless you set your studio up with foam on your walls to prevent that. But as a puppeteer, who has foam to waste? lol