Brian Reynolds
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Hire a sound person / crew to do the job for you….simple.
They would have done lots of stuff like this before, its very hard to teach a newcommer the in’s and out’s of a production like this over a forum.
It’s a bit like DIY dentistry…. Better off leaving it to people that have done it before.
It would be like me asking you how to be a top class Public Speaker with a couple of postings on a forum.
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Kevin, I would suggest rather than just focusing on your ‘normal’ setup find out how others use gear. Become involved in other areas of the audio industry before you spend the big $$$$.
I come from a broadcast background where a 788T would be about as useful as a brick in live to air / news / program production. A friend borrowed money to buy a 788T and now admits it was one of his worst investments he had ever made……It a great machine but only in some uses.
Perhaps a SD664 might be a better option for you?
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I have assumed you had mounted the mic on top of the camera? ……… A mic on a camera top would have be one of the worst positions for a microphone…
It’s to far away to be used for a person speaking, and when used for general fx sounds unfortunately picks up all the camera handling noise. -
What model of mixer?
Some old shure mixes had a MONO headphone output….
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Scans at sites / venues will change day by day, event by event, doing a scan is sort of worthless apart from getting the fixed frequencies in the area, and everything fits around those.
For example a local stadium would use 30-40 frequencies on radio mics, in ear monitoring and communications for an event and then the following day there would be nothing, with Multi function venues the possible variations are huge. -
Let me try and explain it to you….
Mono, A single track of audio.
Stereo, 2 Tracks of audio that are similar in content (think of a music track that has both Left and Right content). In the editing process normally the audio tracks are ganged and if you do an edit it will occur on both tracks at the same point.
2 Channels, The is often referred to as ‘split tracks’ where you might a voice on one track and FX on the other, this is a very basic setup for editing. In the editing process normally the audio tracks are NOT ganged so you do an edit on one track without effecting the other track.
Dual Stereo Is often used in Doco finalisation where you will have a FULL stereo mix (with voice / music / Fx) on the first stereo pair and on the second stereo will be the M/E tracks (music + Fx) this is there so that program can be re-voiced to suit another language but still using the original music and Fx.
In the editing process the audio tracks are ganged and if you do an edit it may occur on both tracks / all at the same point.4 Channel, There would be 4 separate tracks that can be manipulated as individual tracks in editing, this is how most news / current affairs programs are edited. Tk1 will have the voice / dialogue track, Tr2 will be for Fx recorded with the camera mic, leaving Tr3&4 for stereo music or additional material to go into the program.
Hope that has helped you.
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If you are using a shotgun mic, you do have a pole and boom operator?
Going into a difficult location (as you have experienced in the past) with NON pro gear and minimal time to prep it is asking a lot….. -
Every thing now is trial and error……. But I’m very insistent ….. Monitor the signal !!!!!!!
You wouldn’t use a camera without a viewfinder …… Don’t use an audio recorder that you don’t monitor the signal. -
Quite possibly a problem with fluorescent lights….. Use headphones to monitor the audio…… But be prepared to turn the lights off.
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It will be fine, just stay away from things with motors or switch mode power supplies in them …… Like refrigerators, microwaves ovens, computers, tv etc.
Monitor the signal with headphones and you should be ok