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Philip Banks

The LA school of VO recording has it that one should angle the Sennheiser MKH416 down at the VO so his lips are 2mm from the talkie end THEN turn the compressor to preset WTF. If all LEDs do not illuminate when the VO looks as if he's about to say something add 40db of gain to everything. Interestingly enough the idea of how to use a 416 for "movie trailers" came from the manager of a Drive-in movie theater (yes I know it's a cinema). Apparently people in the front rows were real b*ggers for not closing their cars door when the filum, sorry "movie" was about to start.

Problem was solved at Drive-ins. Audio punch using above detailed settings was such during the first movie trailer that the energy from the speakers would slam shut any car door within a 15 mile radius. This uniquely American phenomenon is also the explanation for a number of teenage boys who had flat buttocks and pregnant girlfriends.

............IN A WORLD.

SLAM

THUD

OOooow!

"Johnny I WASN'T ready!"

Gregory Best · Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 6:15 pm Post subject:

ROLFLMA -- that is funny! So the 416 is at least partially responsible for the babyboom from the era of the drive-in?
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Mandy Nelson · Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 6:56 pm Post subject:

I've talked with my parents about audio gear before but um, I'm so not discussing this idea with my mother <<hands over ears screaming I DON'T WANT TO KNOW I DON'T WANT TO KNOW I DON'T WANT TO KNOW>> I'm pretty sure that is the reason I have two older brothers...
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Frank F · Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 7:18 pm Post subject:

Rob Ellis · M&M Joined: 01 Aug 2006 Posts: 2385 Location: Detroit

Does this explain my strange craving for popcorn everytime I gaze lovingly at a 416? Ninja

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Rob made me LOL. Luckily I wasn't drinking anything at the time.

Rob Ellis · M&M Joined: 01 Aug 2006 Posts: 2385 Location: Detroit

Speaking of drinking, Philip must've been when he came up with this one Smile

todd ellis · Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 7:17 am Post subject:

my older brother's name is four sixteen
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Bruce · Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 7:53 am Post subject:

Philip's into the mouthwash again!

Of course they do say, once you've tried black, you never go back.

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asnively · Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 8:14 am Post subject:

This is exactly what they teach us in those high-priced L.A. VO seminars. And you guys got it free.
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Deirdre · Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 8:14 am Post subject:

Bruce.
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Rob Ellis · M&M Joined: 01 Aug 2006 Posts: 2385 Location: Detroit

I was going to refer to the "symbolic" nature of the 416, purely as a Freudian allusion, but.....

Philip Banks · Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 8:38 am Post subject:

Better still as a pile of auld sh*te

Above represents a character voice opportunity, southern Irish, may be Co Clare.

Gregory Best · Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 11:04 am Post subject:

PB, why don't you give us your honest opinion of the 416 you used in the wee huttie vs your U87? I've seen no more pix of the 416 in thew huttie only the 87.
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Philip Banks · Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 11:31 am Post subject:

Sold to Soundgun after three days. Like lettuce, too thin and crispy and very politician like, dishonest. What makes it work as a location sound mic at the end of a boom makes it wrong to my ears for studio based VO work. That's my honest opinion. I used an MKH50 in a studio setting and it is a much better mic for VO work, indeed it's also "digital friendly" for some reason unknown to me. The MKH50 is a smaller mic in terms of length and more expensive. Buyers will get all that they perceive is good about the 416 with some added addy things.