Hello Everyone,
I am new to this forum and will first introduce myself, and situation. I currently am in Highschool getting ready to work on a short film for both my school's film festival as well as hopefully a few other festivals. This is my first short film that I am making at this scale (nothing crazy, but a decent quality film) I have done some basic shorts for my family and friends, as well as helping one of my friends who is a professional (take that with a grain of salt, He works for both several schools and a church as well does weddings) event videographer with shooting.
For my project though I am working with one of my friends who wrote a short story that we are turning into a film. We are currently in Pre-Production working out budgeting, location scouting, casting, etc. I have been pulling all of the strings and favors that I can to get equipment and gear for this shoot. I am borrowing everything that I can and asking for favor from everyone, yet I can't find anyone with any audio gear that I can use for filming. I do have access to 1 Shure SM-58 that I can use but nothing else. So I am trying to raise money and purchase my own sound gear. I can't rent anything as the length that I would need it for would make it so that I would be paying way over my budget for equipment.
I would prefer to get a shotgun mic because I will be shooting outdoors for part of the shoot and need something versatile. This is what I am looking at right now. Either:
An
Alesis MultiMix 4 USB Four-Channel USB Mixer
and a
Vidpro XM-55
Or an
Alesis MultiMix 4 USB Four-Channel USB Mixer
with a
Vidpro XM-88
My budget is around $150 but I could probably squeeze to $200. I would prefer not to have to record audio straight into camera, and I don't know exactly what model camera I am going to have access to yet so I don't know if there is a mic in port.
I have a few questions about the gear that I have thought about right now:
1. Will I be able to tell a significant difference between the xm-55 and the xm-88.
2. I want to be able to use this for sound effects and foley as well will this be possible with these microphones?
I do have a laptop that I will be able to use for the mixer, as well as access to power at all of my locations for this project. Also for clarification this project has several voice overs that I need to do as well as on-set production sound that I need to capture. I also have friends who I can teach to run the sound gear on my project. I do have experience with sound as I help run sound a church and school for many of our events and activities.
Does anyone have any better recommendations that would fit my budget and needs? I am open to suggestions.
Thanks everyone in advance!
I am new to this forum and will first introduce myself, and situation. I currently am in Highschool getting ready to work on a short film for both my school's film festival as well as hopefully a few other festivals. This is my first short film that I am making at this scale (nothing crazy, but a decent quality film) I have done some basic shorts for my family and friends, as well as helping one of my friends who is a professional (take that with a grain of salt, He works for both several schools and a church as well does weddings) event videographer with shooting.
For my project though I am working with one of my friends who wrote a short story that we are turning into a film. We are currently in Pre-Production working out budgeting, location scouting, casting, etc. I have been pulling all of the strings and favors that I can to get equipment and gear for this shoot. I am borrowing everything that I can and asking for favor from everyone, yet I can't find anyone with any audio gear that I can use for filming. I do have access to 1 Shure SM-58 that I can use but nothing else. So I am trying to raise money and purchase my own sound gear. I can't rent anything as the length that I would need it for would make it so that I would be paying way over my budget for equipment.
I would prefer to get a shotgun mic because I will be shooting outdoors for part of the shoot and need something versatile. This is what I am looking at right now. Either:
An
Alesis MultiMix 4 USB Four-Channel USB Mixer
and a
Vidpro XM-55
Or an
Alesis MultiMix 4 USB Four-Channel USB Mixer
with a
Vidpro XM-88
My budget is around $150 but I could probably squeeze to $200. I would prefer not to have to record audio straight into camera, and I don't know exactly what model camera I am going to have access to yet so I don't know if there is a mic in port.
I have a few questions about the gear that I have thought about right now:
1. Will I be able to tell a significant difference between the xm-55 and the xm-88.
2. I want to be able to use this for sound effects and foley as well will this be possible with these microphones?
I do have a laptop that I will be able to use for the mixer, as well as access to power at all of my locations for this project. Also for clarification this project has several voice overs that I need to do as well as on-set production sound that I need to capture. I also have friends who I can teach to run the sound gear on my project. I do have experience with sound as I help run sound a church and school for many of our events and activities.
Does anyone have any better recommendations that would fit my budget and needs? I am open to suggestions.
Thanks everyone in advance!