[Ed Denton]

Thanks guys. Sam I’m fairly sure that its not that the bands are too loose as I have them stretched quite securely around the mic. In fact I thought that it might be the opposite, that I had it mounted too tightly so the bands weren’t absorbing the shocks. But I might just go with a Rycote.

I have also heard of quality control issues with the Oktava mics. Do you guys know what sort of issues the poor quality control presents? Could my problem of rumbles and crackly peaks from slight movements be a result of a defective microphone? I might take it into a technician to have a look at to see if my mic is behaving like this because its faulty. I was using it this morning indoors and slight movements caused unusable audio. Had to put it back in the box and get out my MKH 60.

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[Ed Denton]

Yes I think the phrase you are looking for is “small-diaphragm condenser mic with a hyper cardiod polar pattern”. I’ve been looking into these recently as it was news to me that shotgun mics behave in this way. At my college we were never taught this and so we just used a shotgun mic for everything. In the lower budget you should look at an Oktava MK-012 (also called an MC-012) or Audio Technica AT4053 with hyper cardiod capsules. These get great reviews and are often compared with the Schoeps at a fraction of the cost. But as with everything to do with audio, more expensive is pretty much always better so go with the Schoeps that Ty recommended if you can afford it. I can’t!

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[Ed Denton]

Check out this post for great help about setting up an audio kit:

https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/30/860429#860429

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[Ed Denton]

Why wouldn’t you use a shotgun mic inside? And also what is the “snake”?

Cheers

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[Ed Denton]

This is a question that has been bugging me for ages? Why do you have to pay extra to have the option of exporting MPEG-2 from quicktime? What’s so special about MPEG-2 that it comes as an optional extra and they can’t have it as a standard export option like MPEG-4, AVI, DivX, H.264 etc? Is there some special copyright on MPEG-2 or something and you have you buy the rights to use it or something?

And as for a reason why you might need to export to MPEG-2 from Quicktime instead of Final Cut Pro/Compressor… what if you don’t have Final Cut Pro???