Topic: TSKB: Interview Recording

[tfs8271]

I have a friend that wants to look at recording interviews and would like to go digital and use multiple mics.

I would imagine that you could record mono and use a preamp with multiple channels?

Mics>Multichannel Preamp>digi out>laptop or (digi bit bucket>pc)

Any direction to look? Links? Help?

Thanks

[cleantone]

something like that. obviously there are many ways to go about it. I would probably put mics in front of each person speaking. I would probably mix on a mixer right to one or two tracks. A little panning can be nice on an interview. Not hard l+r but a little seperation between voices. You could multitrack and mix/pan/etc in post but it shouldn't really be needed. Just get a decent level check or have an engineer on the mixer as it is happening to make sure nobody is to loud/quiet.