Jonathan Mitchell
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As a sound professional I would choose to use a 4 channel mixer such as the Cooper or sound devices or SQN they all have nice mic amps with decent out puts. A two track recorder would be fine I can easily have the boom mic to cover actuality and send it to channel one of the recorder. Channel two can have the mix of the radio mics. I would put a decent camera mic on the camera for synch purposes only and do not reliy on puralise.
From reading your comments you may have sceen a sound operator at work but not picked upon the finer details of there work. The whole point of hireing a sound profesional is to get good location audio. Spending hours in post trying to fix bad audio is frustraiting and a waste of time. it does not matter how many tracks you may have if the sound is off mic distorted or peeking at the wrong moements.
Kind regards Jonathan Mitchell
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Hello Tim,
To answer your questions is not so simple one both machines record sound to a lesser or greator degree. Try has given you a very good answer and has produced a very good film on the diferent mics you can use. I think you should keep your recording process as simple as possible. Two tracks is more than enough. If you are going to have a dedicated sound person then they can make the correct descission. If you are going to be camera director and sound op then keep it simple if you get one thing wronge in the filming process it can ruin a film.
Kind regards Jonathan Mitchell
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Hello Boby, For doco work the standard basic Audio kit consist of a stereo audio mixer 1 boom mic with pole and two radio mics and that will cover many aplications. What ends up being recorded is Boom mic to channel 1 and mixed radio mics to channel 2. I like the boom mic channel as it sounds more natural and you are booming interviews rather than mixing them. Remeber to have the mike favering the peron who is talking and watch the lipse of the person who is not when they breath in it is usualy a sign that they are going to talk and so you can move the mic closer to them as to be there for there comments. Remeber the mike has a average of 45 degrees of working enviorament so perhaps not having the mike pointed directly at them but slightly of may mean you get an average sound from the group rather than one person on mike and the rest off. Work with your camera operator and look at the lighting the last thing you want is good sound but bad shadows. good luck good sound is achievable but often compromised by bad picturs.
Best regards Jonathan Mitchell
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Have you looked at BB List it is a very good sight for used gear.
Try https://www.bblist.co.uk/regards Jonathan mitchell
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Have you considerd renting in the audio gear rather than making a capital expenditure? A good sound guy will be able to save you time in shooting and also in the mix because the last thing you want to do is ADR the whole film.
I have a Aaton cantar it gives me 8 tracks and is perfect for feature work through to short films.
kind regards Jonathan
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The first thing to check with your set up is that you have set the Zoom recorder to 48KHZ and yous cannot to 25 frames. If the settings are diferent this is why you could be out of sync.
You can connect sound directly to the camera with devices such as https://www.audio.co.uk/B2.htm
Kind regards Jonathan Mitchell