[Ty Ford]

Roger,

OK, so I’m guessing that the 0dB setting was when the camera was fed a line level to its inputs and -41 for mic level.

That would suggest that if you were feeding the camera with a line level from a mixer, that the 0 dB level should be used.

BTW, I was working with an EX-1 on friday and was dismayed to find another supposedly professional camera with no -20 indicators (or any others) for setting calibration. I think there ought to be a law.

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[Ty Ford]

Hello Roger and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

More information please. What’s a Sony XL-1?

This? https://reviews.cnet.com/desktops/sony-vaio-xl1-digital/4505-3118_7-31563801.html

What does the manual say?

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Dominic,

Glad to help. Please let us know how that works for you and what your impressions are.

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[Ty Ford]

Hello Dominic,

Thanks for the hat tip. Glad you could hear the difference! 🙂

OK, yes, the mic distance thing. Use your room tone looped under all of the scene to mask the transitions. Stagger the audio tracks when you can so the audio leads or lags at the video cut. Put a sound effect right at the cut to distract the ear.

The drive to get as close as possible does have its problems, especially when trying to edit close, mid and wide takes together. On the wide shots, can you lay down more sound blankets to knock down the bounce and even the differences out? Maybe not push in quite as close on the close shots?

During a mix I might “dirty the boom track” with some lav track. Other times the reverse works, go with the lav and add air with the boom to cover the differences at transitions.

Hpw’s that sound?

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[Ty Ford]

Then either there’s some operator error or it’s broken.

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[Ty Ford]

and the gain controls at the top of each channel are turned up?

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Hello Steve an welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

So the headphone output knob is turned up all the way?

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Al,

Which mixer?

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Nikos,

I think you’d do well with those.

Here’s my review of the NTG-3.

https://tyfordaudiovideo.blogspot.com/2012/04/rode-ntg-3-shotgun-mic-ready-for-action.html

I have heard the SCX-1HC, but have not reviewed it. I’d say it’s fair to say that it’s 70% of a Schoeps CMC641.

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[Ty Ford]

Nikos,

It is not a good idea to use a shotgun indoors or out of doors in any highly reflective environment.

Did my video not make that clear?

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