[John Grothier]

Thank you so much Allen!

I’ve been researching a bit more, and I saw this very interesting interview with Simon Hayes, the production sound mixer on “Les Misérables”. Roughly at minute 13:30 he talks about the actual recording and how it took place. There were 2 boom operators, one to record the vocals and another who positioned the boom pole (with a roof cover) directly above the mic-ed boom pole.
I’ll leave the link below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbGpxsFDM74

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[John Grothier]

Thank you very much, Richard!

I’ve purchased a Rode NTG-2 due to a low budget (hopefully will be able to upgrade soon to the NTG-3;RF) and the next step will be figuring out a way to keep it dry in future rain scenes. Perhaps a 1-2″ sheet of hog hair around the zepplin, creating an open, almost “cone-like”, wrapping to protect the mic.

Many thanks again!