Peter Perry
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The 77’s are good mics….why not get another one? I like the sound of the Sankens, but they don’t seem to stand up to the rigors of the road well, and I have never been a fan of Countryman mics. I know lots of people swear by them, but they always sound a little muddy to me.
Peter -
Hi Joseph,
Have you tried changing the cables running to the speakers? You may have a broken shield on one of them. Is it just in the speakers, or is it coming from somewhere else in the system. If you can hear it somewhere in the chain before the speaker cables, then look for broken shields or long runs of unbalanced cables in your system. Your speakers should be fine. Maybe if you lift the ground on the power cables, that might help. Let us know.
On the talk show I work on, if someone uses a Nextel phone near one of the wireless PL packs, you can hear it ring throughout the whole PL system. The solution? No Nextel phones in use in the building during taping. Not an elegant solution, but it costs nothing to fix.
Hope this helps,
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Hi John,
[John M] “Forklifts are operating and conveyors are moving. Lots of background noise.”
Under these conditions, I would stick with the Lectrosonics. Unless you have an experienced audio crew, you will get more background noise with a boom than with the lav.
Also remember, when you use a boom for a two person interview, you need someone to operate the boom. It is not a “set it and forget it” thing unless it is an interview of a single stationary subject. I’m sure you know this, but I am a master of the obvious.
A mixer on the lines of a Sound Devices 302 or a Shure FP33 are always going to help matters if only in terms of setting your gain structure correctly, which is important in noisy environments.
Peter -
Aside from the obvious bebefit of having 3 inputs on the 302, the 302 also has better and more flexible metering, and more phantom power options.
If you can afford it, I would definitely go with the 302.
Peter -
Hmmmm……
I was trying to stay out of this, but….
There are a lot of people here on the Cow who promote their books, websites, DVD’s, what have you. As far as I know, it is not against the rules or even discouraged.
What ARE discouraged are personal attacks and threats. I’m as guilty as the next person of getting a little snippy at times, but this thread has gone way beyond snippy.
I respect both parties involved in this exchange. Matte and Ty are both knowledgeable and helpful guys. We all present ourselves to be professionals here.
Lets close down this thread, act like the pro’s that we are, and move on.
Please?
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Okay, I found this:
https://www.doctoraudio.com/828.html
See if it will work for you….it should.
It says it will support any audio app in Windows XP or OS 9
Peter -
Hi Bill,
Sometimes a question just gets under your skin and eats at you until you can find a solution. This is one of those questions.
I have been asking all my audio cronies if this is possible and no one seems to know if it is or not. I know you can record time code on an audio track, that is the easy part. Then you have to sync the laptop to your editing system. I just don’t know what is out there to do that.
I’ll keep looking.
Peter -
Hey Bill,
Here are a bunch of random thoughts that ran through my head as I was thinking about your post.
What are you using for cameras? How are you syncing the cameras up to time code?
360Systems makes a digital 8 track recorder that can sync to SMPTE TC.
Really, the old standby of a using a clapstick or the like still works well.
Does Premiere Pro handle SMPTE? I don’t think Premiere does up until 6.5, I don’t know about Pro.
With 4 lavs open simultaneously, do you really need 4 nat sound mics? And if you do, will the on-camera mics suffice, they will already be synced to the video. (This goes back to the first question)
I’m sure you were looking for some more concrete answers, but let’s start here.
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[matt] “there was a little hum or noise that I couldn’t get rid of. “
Was this acoustic noise or electrical? What kind of wireless were you using?
Peter -
Hey RJ,
When you say the levels are perfect, do you mean that the signal never goes into the red? If that is true then it could be that the mic was just too close to handle the SPL at that moment. A combination of the singers level and direction could have overloaded the mic….it happens. I don’t think there is a problem with the mic.
Peter