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Art4Noise Use PMD671 to Record O’toole Sound FX
Over the years sound design and post production company Art4Noise have found the Marantz PMD670 an indispensable component in their inventory.
The solid state recorder features non-stop record with seven hours of battery life, a menu-driven remote operation, and an EDL marking system for creating new files on-the-fly during the recording for easy file selection during playback.
But recently the company took the upgraded PMD671 on location, and sound recordist and effects editor Nick Baldock put its 24-bit, 96 kHz capability and superior mic preamps to the test on Peter O’Toole’s new movie Venus, by generating additional ambient sound recording not picked up by the location recordist.
And it was the superior preamps that jumped out. “They are a real improvement on their predecessor,” noted Nick, “and as a result we have been using the PMD671 progressively more and more.”
Art4Noise have also been using the PMD671 in-house to record Foley-type sounds and spot FX — kettle boils, pot noodle slurps, plastic scrapes and so on.
The company then took the machine to Camden (where the feature was shot), to record further ambient sounds on the PMD671. This included the sound of the Camden Lock itself and general traffic ambience. “We also had to record some freight trains mic'd from various different perspectives — mainly to capture the low rumbly quality of the train,” explained Nick. “This was to create an interior room atmosphere as Peter O’Toole’s character lives practically underneath a main line!”
But where the PMD671 really came into its own was when the crew had to rush down to the Almeida Theatre in Islington to record a couple of ADR lines for one of the leads in Venus — just using the PMD671! “Armed with simply a radio mic and boom, all we had to do was switch to the 48v phantom power on the 671 … and job done!”
20th July 2006
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