ABSTRACT
A microphone has one job in life. It has to accurately collect all the sounds we want to record, and pass them on to the recorder as electrical signals. All the frequencies and levels that we hear have to be faithfully reproduced. If life was that simple we could go out and buy a microphone and get on with our job in the sound team! In your microphone cupboard you will have a range of microphones, hand-held ones, clip-on ones, maybe stereo ones, maybe some helpful soul suggests you use the capacitor shot for this scene. What does all this mean? Why do so many manufacturers produce so many microphones? Shall we give up and ask to be put on camera or vision mixing today?
