The Sound Blog - Audio Insights

I have been freelancing as a feature film production sound mixer and television mixer for quite some time now. Every shoot is a collaboration of many many people, belonging to different departments, each doing a specialised job and working towards a common goal...to make a good film or a good television show. A lot of planning goes into getting a day's work go off smoothly, but in spite of the best of efforts towards this goal, things do go awry at times….a new camera turns up without cards, a portion of a set collapses due to overnight rain, the colour on the walls of the set don’t turn out the way the director expected them to...and most filmmakers get going with the shoot in spite of accidents, mistakes, errors, setbacks and upsets. People improvise, innovate, change, adapt….but the shoot must go on. Every department faces problems. Be it the art dept, casting, production, camera, ….. everybody faces problems at some time or another. Some problems are purely due to...

Hi Friends, This is my second blog! Got a few comments for my first one! Many thanks to all those who commented. Before I continue, I just thought I should clarify that in my blog, I am posting my personal views and comments. I could be completely wrong about some technical aspect I may write about... please do correct me if you think so. My blog is aimed more towards students who have just passed out from an Institute and are trying to make a career in the Film or Television Industry in the field of Sound Recording and Sound Engineering. I just want to share my experiences of the past 33 years with my readers. Based on the feedback that I received for my first blog, I have decided to write a little bit more about wireless lapel mics. It is not uncommon to have 10 to 15 Sennheiser G3 wireless lapel mics on a television multicam show. So how do I go about setting them up for the actual shoot? No two television shows are the same. Each show is different, but whether it a tel...