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  Posted by lastdown (U9337575) on Monday, 30th August 2010

  I have raised this matter in other places but why can't Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú recording engineers learn about acoustics? In sunday's episode of the Archers omnibus there was a scene where Nick and Mia were obviously recorded at very different locations. It was weird. Nick was obviously in a larger space than Mia, while Mia sounded with no acoustic space. It sounded as though she should have been inside Nick's head and not real.It stuck out like a sore thumb. This isn't the first time i've noticed this on the Archers especially. It's always with young children. I realise the difficulty of getting children to say what you want at the right time and the use we now make of digital recording methods where inserts can be made, but come on! it can't be beyound the reaches of engineers to creat artificial ambiance or whatever it's called technically. Please Archers production team, listen to these scenes with the children and see what it sounds like. thanks.

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  Posted by Spartacus (U38364) on Monday, 30th August 2010

  Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:45 GMT, in reply to lastdown in message 1
  
  Perhaps record the children in an acoustically "neutral" location, then play them out through a speaker in the same studio as the actors, giving them something to act against at the same time.

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  Posted by Lady Macbeϯh - not without mustard (U550479) on Tuesday, 31st August 2010

  Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:31 GMT, in reply to lastdown in message 1
  
  It's always with young children. 
  It's because all the young children are recorded separately - I'm not sure where. Exactly the same as film inserts in TV dramas when a lot of stuff was done in studio - also stuck out like a sore thumb (then someone invented Harry and all was well).

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  Posted by al-in-a-field (U3325483) on Tuesday, 31st August 2010

  Harry?

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  Posted by Lady Macbeϯh - not without mustard (U550479) on Tuesday, 31st August 2010

  Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:28 GMT, in reply to al-in-a-field in message 4
  
  Harry and his little sister Harriet process video to look like film so you can't see the join. I don't know about now, but 'Heartbeat' was all done that way.

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  Posted by Spartacus (U38364) on Tuesday, 31st August 2010

  Tue, 31 Aug 2010 22:07 GMT, in reply to Lady Macbeth - not without Mustard in message 5
  
  "We've got a Quantel and we're gonna use it!"
  
  (I was going to link to the 1980s "Yes" video for which that was a tagline at the time, but I can't find it /anywhere/... Bum. )

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