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The dangers of not monitoring audio

The dangers of not monitoring audio

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The dangers of not monitoring audio

Robbie Carman: So Rich, how many times have you heard something like this? Well I was on set and everything looked good with audio meters, but when I came back to the studio and I was listening to my audio it was muffled or you know there was some other noise in it or something like that. Why does that happen? Richard Harrington: It happens from carelessness really, and I have actually had some crew that are on my blacklist, because sent out a two person-- Robbie Carman: You will never work again. Richard Harrington: Never work with me again actually, yes because they went out and they had the camera up, and they had the mics plugged and you know on a Pro video camera there are little switches on the back that make it easy to change between the camera's shotgun mic and the lav mic, so they had all the mics running in and the VU meters were bouncing, but they were getting the wrong mic feed. And you know while DSLRs don't have as many inputs, I've have seen plenty of instances where…

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