Andrew Williamson
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Many thanks for this Grant – I owe you an eBeer! I follow the reasoning behind this method and it seems to make sense to me. You’re right in that there certainly isn’t the time to Roto the whole shoot!
I’ll update when I’ve had a chance to try this out.
Many Thanks,
Andy
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Hi Ty & Peter,
Many thanks for your responses – that answers my question nicely.
I obviously knew that VU is a mean value indicator and not appropriate for peak monitoring – hence my question about how (and possibly why) Sound Devices use VU metering on their mixers! 🙂 also leading to my curiosity as to US broadcast legals. That the 442 displays peak and VU simultaniously explains a lot.
I’ve had the headache many times before of having to dubbing mix programs with audio recorded without PPM metering and though its no biggie, it does turn the Dub into an automation fest of gain riding.
I have a feeling my hard earned cash is gonna have to go with old familiar, partially due to ease of access to parts in the unlikely event of failure (SQN being based on the Isle of Man), but also, as I’m sure Peter would agree, it would be better to monitor using the same metering that delivery would have to be set by.
Many Thanks!
Andy
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Ace Bro. Many thanks!
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Is there a specific order for these to be dropped in – or does compressor let you assign which is which?
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Lol!
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For an even cheaper option the Tascam HD-P2 isn’t bad either. Timecode operation works nicely and if you are using it in combination with a good ENG mixer sound quality is very good. Only draw back is you have to use SD cards instead of having an internal drive, but unless you want to record hours of 192kHz 24bit audio without offloading, this isn’t so much of a problem…
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When you are in System Settings/Audio Clock Information and you are sending timecode from the Canon, is the Tascam acknowledging 24f is coming in?
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Hey David,
That should work – as you say; just make sure both your mixer and your recorder are not ms ganged and you’ll get separate channels for your super-cardiod (the M) and the figure 8 (the S) on the mic. You’ll then be able to do your MS processing in post if you so wish…
You might want to gang your headphone monitor tho – as you can still monitor in MS whilst recording the separate channels. Of course it depends on your mixer if you can do it – I know SQNs can. If your mixer can’t, just monitor off the M channel.
Hope that helps,
Peace,
Andy
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Or if anyone knows a way to work out the iso of a Digibeta camera, any information would be really appreciated!
Andy
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I’ve had really good results using iZotope RX, selecting the upper frequencies on the spectrogram and applying a heavy declicker.
We had a very similar problem with this talking head interview that came in for dub, where the guy speaking sounded absolutely disgusting! Had no joy applying filters without too many artifacts and must have tried a thousand other tricks and snips within my DAW, but going out into RX and being able to be frequency specific with the filtering really did the trick.
Hope this helps!
Andrew