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> - Get a good mic, mic stand, shock mount. Audio is 80% of video. People will watch potato-quality video; no one will listen to garbage audio.

zikduruqe 3y ago
> Audio is 80% of video. It's 100%. Even god himself needs thunder during a storm that has lightning. (Or that's what I was told when I did some TV shows and how important the audio engineer on set was.)
marginalia_nu 3y ago
I can never tell the difference between supposedly good audio and the equivalent of two cans connected with a string. Dunno, maybe I'm lacking the audiophile chromosome or something.
- geerlingguy 3y ago
  A lot of it is just "is the can the string is attached to 3" from the speaker or 3'?" A mediocre mic placed 3-6" from the mouth is going to almost always sound better than any price of mic placed 5' away, except in sound treated studios with excellent technique and strong post-processing.
  - circuit10 3y ago
    “ means inches and ‘ means feet in case anyone else needs to know because I had to look this up
    - faangsticle 3y ago
      Thanks, I thought it was an odd quote.
    - loganc2342 3y ago
      Is this just a US thing? I thought this was common knowledge.
      - CJefferson 3y ago
        It’s (mostly) just a US thing to measure in feet and inches, so most people don’t learn the shorthand for feet and inches.
      - throw0101b 3y ago
        > Is this just a US thing? I thought this was common knowledge. Have you seen the movie This Is Spinal Tap? Good scene on this "common knowledge": * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg5Ovdu6bOE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg5Ovdu6bOE
- znpy 3y ago
  eh, it depends. i'm not an audiophile either, but some videos really had audio that was terrible enough to make me quit that. examples: some buzzing in the background, high-pitched noise in one of the channels, or audio in mono (you only hear the person talking from the right ear, for example).
- jamilton 3y ago
  This video has pretty good environmental examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUb9kIwHfoE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUb9kIwHfoE This one has a good example of bad vocal audio (at 1:00): https://youtu.be/-PLMiA18tBc?t=60 https://youtu.be/-PLMiA18tBc?t=60
- Am4TIfIsER0ppos 3y ago
  Audio is only as good as its weakest link. recording, compress to youtube, compress by youtube, playback. I guess it is possible to not be repulsed by audio compression artefacts and judging from the average video posted by mobile <slur>s it is shocking common.
rg111 3y ago
I second this as a consumer of a lot of MOOCs. Bad video as long as you can read everything on the screen is okay. But poor audio is an absolute bummer. Cannot tolerate this at all. This doesn't make rational sense to me. I think it is probably because people have access to decent audio for much longer time than they have had good video.
- klondike_klive 3y ago
  You can close your eyes but not your ears, is how I've always heard it explained.

zikduruqe 3y ago

> Audio is 80% of video. It's 100%. Even god himself needs thunder during a storm that has lightning. (Or that's what I was told when I did some TV shows and how important the audio engineer on set was.)

marginalia_nu 3y ago

I can never tell the difference between supposedly good audio and the equivalent of two cans connected with a string. Dunno, maybe I'm lacking the audiophile chromosome or something.

geerlingguy 3y ago
A lot of it is just "is the can the string is attached to 3" from the speaker or 3'?" A mediocre mic placed 3-6" from the mouth is going to almost always sound better than any price of mic placed 5' away, except in sound treated studios with excellent technique and strong post-processing.
- circuit10 3y ago
  “ means inches and ‘ means feet in case anyone else needs to know because I had to look this up
  - faangsticle 3y ago
    Thanks, I thought it was an odd quote.
  - loganc2342 3y ago
    Is this just a US thing? I thought this was common knowledge.
    - CJefferson 3y ago
      It’s (mostly) just a US thing to measure in feet and inches, so most people don’t learn the shorthand for feet and inches.
    - throw0101b 3y ago
      > Is this just a US thing? I thought this was common knowledge. Have you seen the movie This Is Spinal Tap? Good scene on this "common knowledge": * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg5Ovdu6bOE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg5Ovdu6bOE
znpy 3y ago
eh, it depends. i'm not an audiophile either, but some videos really had audio that was terrible enough to make me quit that. examples: some buzzing in the background, high-pitched noise in one of the channels, or audio in mono (you only hear the person talking from the right ear, for example).
jamilton 3y ago
This video has pretty good environmental examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUb9kIwHfoE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUb9kIwHfoE This one has a good example of bad vocal audio (at 1:00): https://youtu.be/-PLMiA18tBc?t=60 https://youtu.be/-PLMiA18tBc?t=60
Am4TIfIsER0ppos 3y ago
Audio is only as good as its weakest link. recording, compress to youtube, compress by youtube, playback. I guess it is possible to not be repulsed by audio compression artefacts and judging from the average video posted by mobile <slur>s it is shocking common.

rg111 3y ago

I second this as a consumer of a lot of MOOCs. Bad video as long as you can read everything on the screen is okay. But poor audio is an absolute bummer. Cannot tolerate this at all. This doesn't make rational sense to me. I think it is probably because people have access to decent audio for much longer time than they have had good video.

klondike_klive 3y ago
You can close your eyes but not your ears, is how I've always heard it explained.