During the first few weeks of having my Roland, binaural microphones I have had a chance to experiment with them and experience what they are good at and also experience the problems that can come with recording binaurally.
One of the immediate problems that I encountered is wind noise is very noticeable even with the pop-shields placed over the headphones. I think this is mainly due to the fact that the microphones have to be placed in the ears so they are always quite high in the air (around 6ft).
The microphones are surprisingly sensitive which is both good and bad, on one hand it allows you to get the most from a recording as it can give you a real experience of that place, however it will pick up sounds that are quite far away or the sound of birds, which I don’t really want when trying to create a gloomy atmosphere.
As I am using in ear microphones as opposed to a static, fake head with mounted microphones, recording narration/voice-over can prove difficult/awkward as I either have to jerry-rig a fake head to simulate the spacing of a head or I have to ask a friend to wear the microphones whilst I do the speaking to them. I attempted to record voice-over with the microphones in my ears but the result was not good and you could hear every movement of my head and mouth.
I think the main goal to try and get the best binaural recording is to wait for the weather to be fairly mild and the wind to be low and also try and find the quietest times of the day to do the recording. And when it comes to recording the voice-over, I will likely stick to recording in either mono or stereo.
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