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Gear$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.

Portable audio recorder

Handheld recorder that captures sound apart from the camera

A pocket recorder that writes audio to a memory card, either through its own built-in mics or from a lapel mic plugged into it. Keeping sound separate from picture raises quality and frees the speaker to move away from the camera. You pay for that in a syncing step later, and in the chance of setting input levels wrong and distorting a take you cannot redo.

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  • Tiago ForteDoes it

    Productivity writer · Building a Second Brain

    Bought a Zoom H1n on a videographer friend's recommendation and paired it with a lav mic so he could record audio wirelessly. He says he would use it again, then flags his own error: trusting the auto-levels left the opening seconds of many clips peaked and distorted, which he says you can only partly fix after the fact.

    Source: fortelabs.com: My Complete Gear Kit for Filming a Personal Documentary

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