External Mics

Spade · Post by **Spade** » Sun Jun 27, 2004 1:01 pm

Im looking at buying a microphone for my Sony camcorder. What would be better to use, a mono microphone or a stereo microphone?

Raptor · Post by **Raptor** » Sun Jun 27, 2004 3:03 pm

Personally I prefer Mono. Using a stereo to 2- monop Y cable allows you to actually use two mics, one left track one right track. Just picked up the Sennheiser MKE-300 Shotgun for $149 from B&H - http://www.bhphoto.com works pretty well

Spade · Post by **Spade** » Sun Jun 27, 2004 6:07 pm

Ok. I thought that mono would be favoured over stereo.

Vamp · Post by **Vamp** » Tue Jun 29, 2004 4:10 pm

Why is mono favoured over stereo?

Spade · Post by **Spade** » Tue Jun 29, 2004 5:04 pm

The reason why i thought mono was favoured is because i read a similar topic in the forums before and most people seemed 2 find that mono is the better.

Lee · Post by **Lee** » Tue Jun 29, 2004 10:21 pm

Speech should be in mono anyway. Leave atmosphere and music for stereo.

Vamp · Post by **Vamp** » Thu Jul 01, 2004 11:36 am

Yeah... But why?

justsomeguy · Post by **justsomeguy** » Thu Jul 01, 2004 6:57 pm

you can always add in the stereo in post and it will probably sound better, for mics check out the azden sgm-x; i got one awhile ago also from bhphoto.com

Raptor · Post by **Raptor** » Thu Jul 01, 2004 7:29 pm

Using mono mics, and the stereo to mon y cable, allows you to use two audio sources, one to the left channel and one to the right channel. So you can use two mics. We've used two wireles lavs, or a shotgun on cam and an omni stick on a pole, or the shotgun and a lav... lots of flexibility. With a stereo mic, you are limited to one audio source...

Vamp · Post by **Vamp** » Fri Jul 02, 2004 7:38 pm

And if you aren't happy with the 2 intertwined sounds, is it possible to totally remove the sound from one of the two tracks in Audition or something similar?

How would you use two audio sources? During an interview say, one mic in front of the interviewer and one in front of the interviewee, or during a movie shoot, one mic by the actors and on somewhere capturing ambient noise?