BryantVW
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I'm 6 months in to my professional news photography career and I can already think of two cases where I would have liked to make packs. Unfortunately, most of these fires happen at night and are VO SOTs for the morning producers.
In the case that some day I DO get to pack a fire story, I intend to FILL it with nats. Beeping, water hoses clinking, chainsaws cutting... you name it.
But.... how can I cleanly capture this audio when all my nat mic picks up is the god awful roar of the 5-8 fire truck generators all around me? I don't know what it is, if it's the power genny, or the water pumps, or just the engines idling... but all that WHIRRRRRRRRR cancels out ANY chances I had of getting good nat pops.
So, question #1 - HOW do i get past this? Better mics? Trying to finnagle my way away from the fire trucks? What is the BEST way to capture nat sound at a fire?
And question #2 - What is the best way to capture scanner chatter?
Some time when I'm out at a SWAT standoff or something I would like to inject scanner nats. We don't have scanners in our newscars, or even handheld scanners. The only scanner we have is one at our assignment desk. And I have a scanner app on my personal phone.
Just trying to get ideas from those who are in bigger markets. Thanks guys!
In the case that some day I DO get to pack a fire story, I intend to FILL it with nats. Beeping, water hoses clinking, chainsaws cutting... you name it.
But.... how can I cleanly capture this audio when all my nat mic picks up is the god awful roar of the 5-8 fire truck generators all around me? I don't know what it is, if it's the power genny, or the water pumps, or just the engines idling... but all that WHIRRRRRRRRR cancels out ANY chances I had of getting good nat pops.
So, question #1 - HOW do i get past this? Better mics? Trying to finnagle my way away from the fire trucks? What is the BEST way to capture nat sound at a fire?
And question #2 - What is the best way to capture scanner chatter?
Some time when I'm out at a SWAT standoff or something I would like to inject scanner nats. We don't have scanners in our newscars, or even handheld scanners. The only scanner we have is one at our assignment desk. And I have a scanner app on my personal phone.
Just trying to get ideas from those who are in bigger markets. Thanks guys!