Sound Advice: A Listening Ear
Finding and buying the perfect pair of headphones.Raise your right hand and repeat after me: "I promise to always keep headphones in my camera bag and to use them on every shoot." You'd think everyone would know this by now, but there are diehards and new shooters who simply haven't learned this lesson yet. Here's the short version: a good pair of headphones can save your bacon on a high-pressure shoot and are invaluable in many other areas of production. They truly are an investment in the final quality of your video sound. Unless sound just isn't important to you.
Seriously, videographers all over the globe shoot footage every day without the aid of headphones. At the very least, they're risking low-quality audio with unnecessary noise or hum. In the worst case, they might discover they have no audio at all. That means a re-shoot, lost time, wasted money and an unhappy client. The good news is you can save yourself all this grief by simply investing in a good pair of headphon…
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