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  • low ceilings

    Posted by Craig Alan on October 21, 2007 at 1:27 pm

    Best mic type/model to use with boom poles, indoors, with low ceilings? My experience with shotguns is somewhat hollow sounding (echohy?) results. Perhaps the AT897 is just not good enough? But I suspect it

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  • Brian Reynolds

    October 22, 2007 at 11:18 pm

    Try using a slightly less directional mic ……still condenser but cardiod pattern.. and then try to get a bit closer to the subject…..
    Also get them to face diagonally across the room (toward the corner rather than a flat wall)..to break up some of the reflections
    this often works…. good luck

  • Craig Alan

    October 23, 2007 at 2:15 am

    Thanks. This is being shot in a classroom. Last semester we were shooting against a flat wall. This semester I am shooting toward a corner with a large Muslin background wrapped around. I

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