[André Mascarenhas]

[Craig Alan] “I would get a SD 302 and mount it on a C stand arm close to your camera. It has a nice LED meter that will easily allow you to monitor the sound. It will be a solid investment and will accept up to three inputs. “

Thanks Craig! Some questions:
-would I connect the SD 302 to my C100? What about the 16-bit ?
– If I should go with an external recorder, what recorder would you recommend? Would a zoom/ tascam be enough, since it would be going through the SD?

As for the mic, I’m going for the MKH50, which seems to be a solid purchase that will last me for a long time, besides its beautiful nuances.

[André Mascarenhas]

Thanks, Bruce! Indeed I’ve learned tons of things already in the past days when researching, just going through threads from here , DVXuser and other similar communities.

I couldn’t really find used MKH50s, I’ve decided to go with a new one. It’s actually a piece of mind.

Thanks again for your help in my response, and your many other comments in CC that I already came across when doing my researches!

[André Mascarenhas]

[Bruce Watson] “there are (or were) quite a few on the used markets as people moved to the MKH8050 which is smaller and lighter which makes boom pole operators happy. “

Thanks, Bruce! Do you have any tips of websites to get used audio gear besides eBay? As you said, it seems hard to find used MKH50s.

[Bruce Watson] “The reasons to use a field mixer include better mic preamps, better meters, flexibility in what your output is (you can feed balanced mic/line or unbalanced mic level to your camera), and better headphone monitoring. But the main reason I like my little MixPre-D is the limiters. “

I’ve come through the name of MixPre-D a lot in many forums – seems like a great option, since is compact and affordable when compared to other SD options.
Still, I don’t know if I could take advantage of its potential. Do you know about any website, book, etc, where I can learn the basics of recording with a mixer? Pre amps, limiters, etc?

Thanks a lot!

[André Mascarenhas]

Oh, I see! A quite new update. Thanks so much for clearing that out, John! Such a relief… I just went through the 8.4 doc as well, always a good idea.

[André Mascarenhas]

That’s a great advice. I’m thinking of going with 32GB ram to start – upgrading to 64 if needed since it is not that expensive either. Thanks, hopefully the producer will understand and spend a fair amount that will give the project a deserved power – anyways for what I can see, I’ll be good.
Thanks again, Michael!

[André Mascarenhas]

Thanks, Michael.
Definitely a typo! 4TB – besides archive footage and photos.

The 4-core would handle nicely as well or should I just go with the 6-core if I want stability?