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Jeff Mcbride
July 9, 2015 at 2:11 pm in reply to: Which microphone to use for sit down interviews?

What’s my best option without a boom operator? Should I just lav for now? I don’t have to have perfect sound right now (and probably won’t because of my extremely low budget).
Jeff Mcbride
July 9, 2015 at 5:31 am in reply to: Which microphone to use for sit down interviews?

I think I get it now. I’m going to do some research into some super and hyper cardioids to find the best value for the money. Then get a boom stand as I don’t have a boom operator (It’s just me and the cameraman on set) and set the shot with the boom above. More than likely I will never have more than 3 people on camera at the same time during an interview so my will never be very wide.
Jeff Mcbride
July 8, 2015 at 4:14 am in reply to: Which microphone to use for sit down interviews?

I read somewhere that you should record with both a lavalier and a shotgun mic and mix both audios with 70% of the audio coming from the lavalier and 30% coming from the shotgun. I really forget where I read that though not the reason why you should do that. I will report back on using the lavaliers though.
Jeff Mcbride
July 8, 2015 at 12:16 am in reply to: Which microphone to use for sit down interviews?

The samsung s3 has a 3.5 trrs connector like the iphone. Luckily, rode makes a trrs to mic connector and irig has a trrs to xlr connector. So I’m not limited. I did some more looking last night and found a 4 lavalier setup from pyle where it had one xlr merged output that had ok reviews and is $120. A little over my budget but I can make it work then later I can by an in expensive shotgun and marry the two in post. Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t it 70% lav and 30% shotgun? Wouldn’t this be best? The pyle is vhf not uhf though but for the money I expect that.
Jeff Mcbride
July 7, 2015 at 8:27 am in reply to: Which microphone to use for sit down interviews?

Anyone?