Brian Reynolds
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Hello Lee, may I suggest that you try seeking out DSLR forums and post your questions there, as this forum is an ‘Audio Professionals’ forum and do not often use the gear you are looking at so its hard to have an option on that gear.
Yes we can make some informed conclusions but based on our knowledge they may be way above your budget. -
Not with the 1800 system but have and still do use a lot of Sennheiser and AT products.
The reliability of the AT products is less than sennheiser overall, and where I am the backup service of AT products is minimal.
You can have the best system in the world but if it’s not backed up with technical and repair support it’s not worth a cracker.‘Celebrating 40 years of Broadcasting Audio….
Started with Magnetic stripe and Sprocket holes to now Gigabytes and Touch Screen Mixing Consoles’…… -
That’s a no brainier…… Sennheiser.
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Are you using the old Sony UWP system or the newer Sony UWP-D?. Or the newer version that has a yellow face plate on the front.
If you are using the newer ‘D’ versions it has a very nice scan feature that makes channel / frequency selection VERY easy. -
You can easily run many RF systems in various frequency blocks, just need to do some checking first.
May I suggest that you put your chosen frequencies into this ‘test’ and it will show if you have any problems.
It will work with ANY brand of radio mic / RF transmitters.https://ff.audiotechnica.com/index2.html
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Time to get a new unit….. Companies don’t offer backup support for cheap recorders.
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Before you get to excited… Is the system still in the ‘LEGAL’ band?
Recently there has been a major restructure of RF allocation in many countries and the chance is that you have been given someones castoff.Please find out if the system you have fits into the legal band in your country before we go any further.
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While the conversation is about ‘upward’ facing mics… A local sporting venue in Adelaide was re-vamped and upgraded and just by chance I found a very odd acoustic thing, at 2 (and only 2) of the many camera locations there is a ‘slap delay echo’ of about 1/2 a second. I suspect there may be other spots as well but it would be difficult to get a mic mounted there.
So in other words if you face a mic (cardoid or short shotgun) toward the roof the crowd acoustically sound much larger than it actually is. A 10K crowd sound like a 20K and a 20K sounds like 40K.
BUT it is a wash with little in the way of defined groups or individuals. -
I’ve always wanted to try these but never had the chance, it might suit you.
https://www.3dmicpro.com/Mitra-3D-Mic-Pro/dp/B004VQ9N8E -
A couple of mics in an XY (if you want stereo) at least 2m in the air on a mic stand and facing UPWARD.
If Mono is good enough then a cardioid mic would be suitable….. But get it up high and face it UPWARD.Upward facing mics are often used in sporting crowds for TV broadcasts, it give a broad wash with very little defined Fx., more defined FX like field Fx can be added in the mix.
DoNot us a MS stereo mic for this sort of thing as the fig 8 mic is facing sideways toward the sounds you don’t want.