Peter Groom
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You mention about tones!!
Ive come across many cameras (XDcam/ Digi Bets etc etc) that have an internal menu setting, whereby when the cameraman selects BARS (quite usual for line up part of the process) the camera will generate its own INTERNAL tones, not look at your input tines.
Might that account why the cameraman may well have lined up tones (that the thought were yours) to the meters correctly, but then when he switches back to camera mode he records front mics???possible??
Peter
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Tough lessons
Id have wanted
1) the camera man wearing cans all day.
2) a return feed off the camera to cans by me, so i could hear what the camera was recording, and i would have wanted to hear my tone back from the camera on this.
3) A safety back up recording at my mixing position as Ill presume that someone will let you down if at all possiblepeter
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it wouldnt matter if the speakers are off or not. Only disconnected would stop the problem ive encountered in the past with un bal speakers where bal is needed.
PeterPost Production Dubbing Mixer
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Cant explain the levels (hot) part, but distrotion can easily appear if you are connecting speakers to the system using unbal connectors where balanced is needed. Check this too.
peterPost Production Dubbing Mixer
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Think Ill just stay put then for the time being.
PeterPost Production Dubbing Mixer
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And I ve never seen Sony Ex 1 /3 material presented in a stream folder. Alawys a BPAV and you have to keep the original folder structure in tact .
Stream folder architecture is (as far as Ive ever seen it,) and AVCHD rubbish thing.
PeterPost Production Dubbing Mixer
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TY
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WADR, please read the op. It’s a panel discussion, not a music session.Ive no idea what WADR means.
Also Ive no idea why you think i think its a music session. The only point where ill suggest about music is that this is def where i feel the sm58 sits in the market. Stage use with high spls, not quality recording.Peter
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Hi
Dv are pretty well respected. No worries there.
Im not suggesting youve been mis sold. i dont know what the conversations were regarding product and price and use etc etc, but its not what id be using in this situation. At £99 (including a boom stand and cable, it is a budget mic, and itll last you forever (even if you play the drums with it!!Maybe if youd asked them ” what would a broadcast sound recordist / engineer use to record 4 or 5 people having a discussion” you might have had other suggestions.
Im possibly a bit over picky. Cost isnt ever an issue to me when specifying a technical job. Only what is right for the job. And I dont have any corners cut, but Im lucky perhaps that , working in features and tv post and music post I can get quite demanding, and have my way!
My suggestion of Sony ecm77 is by no means a high cost solution. i was mindful of the cost when suggesting but theyre @£250 each. Similar in price to Sanken Cos-11 (my favourite personal mic.)
This is why I recommend hiring. its unlikely youre going to buy high quality kit.
PeterPost Production Dubbing Mixer
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re “The SM58 is the most popular vocal microphone in the world for live performance, studio recording and speech.”
Id walk out of the door of any studio that recorded on an sm58. Id suggest that Neumann u87i occupy that prestigious spot closely followed by a number of other mics whose price and quality makes the sm58 look like a disposable razor.
id agree that its is probably the most popular “vocal microphone in the world for live performance” ie live bands etc (though not the best)
I think the issue here is that you mentioned a “retailer” If you mean shop and not Pro audio supplier, then theres the differences.
PeterPost Production Dubbing Mixer