Greg Curda
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Are you recording to multi-track? What’s your recorder?
I don’t think the VU will help as it does not show peaks, only avarage level. Sounds like you could use a pair of 8-channel dynamics processors.
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Hi Chris,
I would appreciate it if you would post your results…This is an area that interests me greatly…
Thanks, Greg
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Nelson, don’t be discouraged. It took me half a day to get the fan sounds for “The Two Jakes” and that’s with the entire prop dept at my disposal. It ended up as about 6 layers…for a fan! For Foley I always use a KMR81i, but that’s just me.
I think you want to find an old fan that’s metal. Metal blades for sure and good mechanical sounds. Experiment with the speeds. Use the TLM to get a good general sound and move the shotgun around to isolate specific sweetener sounds. Try placing the shotgun directly above the fan cage, so the blades move on and off axis. It’s the sense of oscillation that will give you the effect you want.
The greatest piece of technology you own is your ears. The mic will never hear things in the same way. The key to SFX is to create something that the ear likes. Then the brain believes it. Sometimes you get lucky and it’s 1 take, most times it’s just a lot of work.
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Hi Nelson,
I think you don’t like the fan you have. Did you try a different one? Did you try mid to distant micing? A little EQ to get the sound you want? A little room reverb to soften it? Maybe even a low tech solution like internal laptop mic to QT, or Olympus voice recorder, etc?
If the answer is yes, then you got the wrong fan. There are about 1000 sites with SFX on them…unfortunately, you will have to browse till you find what you want…Maybe someone can give links to their fave sites…I know some offer searchable databases. Good luck…
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Hi John,
In my experience, if you’re dealing with dialogue, and its unpredictable, then all the meters in the world wont help you predict when one voice will peak. Your mixer LEDs should vary in brightness with signal strength, so you do, in effect, have a multi-segment meter. A little peak here and there is not a bad thing, either, just don’t make a habit of it.
A 10-12 channel meter bridge could cost you up to $1000. Do you have limiters on your mixer? What are you recording to?
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Hi all,
I will take any views on this issue, so if someone has anything, I’d love to hear it…
The longer I work, the less I know…
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Interesting… an LtRt DME…usually they are they are straight stereo stems for TV… can’t see a value to an LtRt DME, but what do I know…maybe they just took the 5.1 busses and exported them as an LtRt. Yes, keep me posted.
The longer I work, the less I know.
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It doesn’t make sense, theoretically… But apparently there can be some anomalies depending on whether the LtRt was hardware or software encoded. This enters into the world of maybes. One of my mixers told me he made a DVD this way and could not get it to decode, which in this case would be good for you!!
I suppose you could also layback to a CD, if your stereo receiver allows you to choose ProLogic for music playback. A track is a track, right?
Was this material theatrically released? Is the LtRt coming from a Digibeta master? Trying to ascertain if the LtRt was hardware or software encoded.
I guess it’s worth a try. Costs a little time and a CD/DVD…
Let me know how it turns out…
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Hi Bill,
I’m going to suggest a test. If you can spare a couple of DVDs, try to lay the picture and LtRt into DVD Studio Pro or some similar program, then playback the DVD on a home system using ProLogic monitoring. It might not decode, and instead give you plain stereo. If this is the case, you could intercut without fear.
I posed your situation to some of my staff and they have heard of something like this, but untested. Maybe you will get lucky!