Audio Gear Coming In

We've ordered some new gear for The Shelter speaking segments. A new Audio-Technica lav mic will be joining the ranks as well as some new Sennheiser over-ear headphones for monitoring. The lav had great reviews from Emm at cheesycam.com. We use the Sennheiser HD 201 headphones at the Tarble Arts Center for the Ipod mobile tours. They sound pretty full, have a long cord, are comfortable, and are pretty durable. Overall, I thought it'd be a good investment for souping up recording with the Zoom H1.

Opening Music Track

I was running over the opening sequence of our yet to be named zombie film and decided it'd be awesome to get a blues sounding guitar whining along with the actors' walk sequence. Guitar in hand, I tried to compose a basic instrumental blues beat that didn't sound like a total rip-off of guitarists much better than myself. It soon became clear that it would be an uphill battle.

Last night as I was hanging out with my youth group in a local coffeehouse, Calico Jack a local blues/folk rock artist from the band Fair Clara was performing. He's got a unique, gutsy blues tone and his opening song would be perfect to intro our upcoming film. So I waited around until the set was over, introduced myself, bought a CD, talked to him about using his stuff and BOOM, opening track fah yer film, right dare.

He's got some good stuff, I'd recommend checking it out here.