What I mean by that is, obviously the guitars and other instruments are not plugged in, but the drums don’t have that option. So why can we not hear that the drums are actually live? Hopefully that makes sense what I am asking.
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Audio engineer for TV shows here: we would just mute all of the mics. When you hear the audience, they have the mics so close to them that they don’t pick up any sound from the stage.
Great question! Lip syncing on American entertainment shows is less common than it used to be though.
Why do shows insist on bands lip syncing/faking it in the first place?
Because the audio and the video you experience at the same time on TV aren’t necessarily captured at the same time.
When a drummer is shot wide, they’re probably miming actually playing. You see the movement of their shoulders maybe, but they’re way in the background.
For close up shots, the audio is thrown away (because you’re right, it would be garbage) and replaced at the editing stage whatever perfect, pristine studio recording they want to pretend that band sounds like.
Because the audio and the video you experience at the same time on TV aren’t necessarily captured at the same time.
When a drummer is shot wide, they’re probably miming actually playing. You see the movement of their shoulders maybe, but they’re way in the background.
For close up shots, the audio is thrown away (because you’re right, it would be garbage) and replaced at the editing stage whatever perfect, pristine studio recording they want to pretend that band sounds like.
Audio engineer for TV shows here: we would just mute all of the mics. When you hear the audience, they have the mics so close to them that they don’t pick up any sound from the stage.
Great question! Lip syncing on American entertainment shows is less common than it used to be though.
Audio engineer for TV shows here: we would just mute all of the mics. When you hear the audience, they have the mics so close to them that they don’t pick up any sound from the stage.
Great question! Lip syncing on American entertainment shows is less common than it used to be though.
Why do shows insist on bands lip syncing/faking it in the first place?
Why do shows insist on bands lip syncing/faking it in the first place?
In a professional mainstream TV show, usually you have drum heads that made to not create sounds, so called “mesh heads”. Cymbals are usually two cymbals on top of each others (you can’t use rubber as you’d see it on TV). Kickdrum very often has a special trigger that doesn’t produce proper sound. The drummer needs to know what he is playing, but his set will give an extremely muffled sound. The audience will not hear anything he does as long as he is playing in time and knows his breaks.
In a professional mainstream TV show, usually you have drum heads that made to not create sounds, so called “mesh heads”. Cymbals are usually two cymbals on top of each others (you can’t use rubber as you’d see it on TV). Kickdrum very often has a special trigger that doesn’t produce proper sound. The drummer needs to know what he is playing, but his set will give an extremely muffled sound. The audience will not hear anything he does as long as he is playing in time and knows his breaks.
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