The Hafler Trio is a conceptual and sound art collaboration between Andrew … Read Full Bio ↴The Hafler Trio is a conceptual and sound art collaboration between Andrew M. McKenzie, the only permanent member, and guest musicians. The project has seen the release of numerous albums and CDs in experimental musical styles ranging from electronica, cut-up, ambient, environmental soundscape, musique concrete, electro-acoustic, and audio-montage as cinema for the years from 1982 to present, each of which utilise graphic design and text for contextual juxtaposition with the recordings, as well as having a diverse but concrete philosophical and sometimes quasi-religious framework to place them in.

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Corey Hague

5y↑4

Good video Christian - solid info for anyone interested in and sound/video. Just a note to anyone interested in headphones, the HD25’s are so popular because every component is replaceable.

Michael Amidei

5y↑22

The first sound recordist EVER to have been interviewed. One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. :) (Thanks, Christian. Very useful!)

Christian Henson Music

To be fair they're usually the furthest away from the mnicrophone at the end of a boom pole!

Manchester Music

5y↑1

Christian you're especially skilled at getting great answers from people who aren't used to being behind a microphone. You make it look way easier than it actually is. Would love to get a followup video on repairing/mixing and perhaps mastering the video.

Christian Henson Music

Manchester Music very kind comment thanks. It especially helps when I really don’t know the answers. Couldn’t believe it’s taken me 30 odd years to learn what phasing is caused by especially as it’s so effing obvious!

BJ on the Daily

Really enjoying your videos Christian. You've definitely inspired me to dig into creating my own sampler patches. I was introduced to the vlog by Cat (who's in this video).
I've just started using Spitfire instruments in my production. They sound fantastic. My latest video was written on the Soft Piano. :)

Huw Evans

5y↑1

This vid is briliant. I love these behind the scenes programs by people who know what they are talking about being alowed to answer intelagent questions. Unlike so much content, both on and off the web where its all about the host's opinion who is interviewing someone who might know a bit about the subject. Loved all the tech stuff but was suprised to find I was also interested in Cats role. would love to hear more from her or someone who does that role.

carl stephen Koto

If the wind noise isn't too bad/loud, I use Spectral Attenuate and Replace in chunks on the low freq bits. It isn't perfect but since I'm working on concert recordings, there are no re-do's. Of course, prevention is priceless. Kind of fun to see other folks trying to keep upright following you up and down the hill!

Eric Coen Versteeg Music

Thanks for yet another insightful video. I would be interested to see how you approach the scripting and directing parts of the vlogs you make. How do you pick your subjects and how do you decide where to shoot?

my vids

5y↑2

Thanks, Christian, for highlighting the work of the mostly invisible and unrecognised art of the sound recordist. There's plenty i could add to that conversation, but suffice to say don't rely, as some do now, on RX and other noise reduction software. It is far easier and less time wasting to just get it right at source, on location, which you can do with a little knowledge and experience. Unless you prefer hours fiddling around on the computer and never quite getting it right.
I would also say the 416 is an old school war horse, and most of the major brands do improved, and lighter versions, now. Don't know what happened with your radio mic, but I am sure it is fixable. The biggest problem, of course, with one man banding is that you can't monitor while you film yourself, but have to set it and hope it works.
The best thing about your video is that incredible misty landscape, surely prime material for music composition, even improvisation?

Kevin McCloskey

5y↑1

Your acting Chris is top shelf. Pretending not to know most of this definitely made for a better video. I'm talking about the audio here, you really pumped Jamie for info lol I thought this was great, real behind the scenes. Super.

WangleLine

You folks talking a bit taught me surprisingly many things about recording audio. Thank you!

Mark Marker

It's an interesting choice of camera, why not new BM Pocket4K ? Zoom f8n is slowly changing dominance of SD in the field, by the way.
Thanks for making this channel, it's a shame i discovered it only a several days ago, took some time to watch it through from ep. 1, but it was very rewarding marathon

Def Man

Zoom is changing the market by lowering the price point for people to enter the industry... so kids coming out of school starting out in the industry.

Nobody working on a feature film or a commercial would be using a Zoom recorder... and most professionals in LA at least, use better gear. The build quality and features of Sound Devices products are far superior to Zoom, starting with the quality of the preamps.

éliane en automne

Hey! This is very kind of you to show us in your "room vlog", few people from the Spitfire crew :) , as behind a curtain...
(I don't want use “making of...” -- a wink).
It's almost twice in ten days! Thank you Christian.

Have a nice day.

Kevin Ochoa

If you are having problems with white noise try using Accusonus ERA-Noise Remover, it's powered by AI technology so it does a better job at keeping a human voice intact while removing everything that isn't.

Raphael Piperno

Thank you for sharing with us! I really would like to know the name of the sound recordist to check his jobs. Thanks :)

Tommy Varekai

Great content as always! Thanks

Chris Brown

For me your vlogs are more mp3 than wav, but I don’t think it matters. Though we strive for sonic excellence the reality is people are used to the compressed format. What’s important is the passion and inventiveness behind the vlogs. The danger with ‘professional’ takes is that they mostly conform to an idea of what is acceptable/ ‘good’ practise and - by that nature - tend to dilute and constrain inspiration & creativity. I think your instinctive playfulness (and improvisations off script) give your dialogues & visuals more view worthiness & less staidness. I would suggest you adhere to your instincts and ‘hang’ convention!

Bdash52

excellent content! Thank you

fatcatsound

Judging from the panting, your sound man is in much better shape than you. Nice video. I record and mix music for a living but location sound used to be my cash cow. By the way, I wouldn't classify your self-produced videos as anything close to dodge-y. I think do that very well. I particularly like the multiple locations whilst you complete your idea. Seems involved but it's effective.

Mike Devlin

4y↑1

First time I have ever heard of a Rode being chosen over a DPA.... 😆

annular frisson

5y↑3

The result is just as good homegrown as compared to the production crew. We’ve surpassed hi-fi as the surrogate for quality. Time to decide what quality means in the 2020’s.

Christian Henson Music

5y↑1

Its a very good point Max, I thought there was no such thing as "too high production values" until I saw an episode of True Geordie recently where the production felt out of touch with the content and IMHO made the actual content (an interview with Ricky Gervais) feel more amateurish as a consequence: https://youtu.be/Xp202GZzD9Q

S Fyffe

@Christian Henson Music There’s a definite step up in sound/image quality and production value in the Evolutions video but that’s to be expected when you have a crew helping and using more expensive equipment. The set up you have perfectly suits the fly on the wall/documentary nature of your vlog, recording, as you do, on trains, airplane toilets, Spitfire cupboards etc.
I see what you mean about the Ricky Gervais video. The beginning B&W, echo-y montage at the beginning seems odd and pretty pointless. Feels like it goes on forever too.

Anders Wall

RX 6 and later has a great feature called De-wind. Works miracles with boomy wind.

Christian Henson Music

I'll check it out!

Anders Wall

The trick is (as always) when something sounds good use half of it.
If -12dB of reduction sounds good, use only -6dB.
Same with eq, compression, reverb etc...

Keith Vernon-Hutchinson

5y↑2

@Christian Henson Music Apparently very good for rear end explosions too

David Crundwell

Learned a bunch of cool stuff here...

Jim Sanger

Whenever I hear the name zoom I always think of those terrible guitar fx too, horrible things

skylightmusic showreel

At the end there, with all of the crumbs on the floor, I thought that you'd asked "is that a rat?" :-)

Duncan Thompson

5y↑2

I once had my dead cat eaten by a jaguar. I was recording sound effects for a movie shot in the Amazon and needed a crying female jaguar sound. I got too close. She tore it off the microphone and eviscerated it in seconds. Luckily we carried spares.