Sound Track: The Direct Connection
Tapping into an existing audio mixer often results in a clearer audio track.
Say your skills at video production have earned you a good reputation locally, allowing you to land a job videotaping an important event. The event includes music, speaking and some short skits. It's quite a production, taking place on a large stage with a good-sized indoor audience area. A professional company will handle the sound reinforcement and lighting duties. Are you up to the task of providing the same level of production quality for the video? You weren't going to rely on your camcorder's built-in mike to capture the event, were you?
Do you remember, as a child, being impressed by the unique sound of your family car's horn inside a tunnel? The reverberation characteristics of tunnels are amusing, and provide one of life's really cheap thrills. However, by now you probably realize that you wouldn't want to try to listen to, or try to record, music or speech inside a tunnel. The reverberation characteristics that are so amusing with the car horn would now be downright annoying because they interfere with your need to hear and understand…
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