[Ty Ford]

Hello Terry and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum,

How about rca out of the Matrox and into the Rockit 5? Do you need the mixer?

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[Ty Ford]

Hello Mark and welcome back to the Cow Audio Forum.

Some clarifications please. 🙂

You have a piece of gear with Balanced TRS inputs or outputs? What is it?

Is this for a video editing system? If so, which one? What software? Are you Mac or PC?

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[Ty Ford]

I once worked a room in which I was having a monstrously bad time with my wireless. I found a facilities person and asked if they knew if there was anything on. They opened a closet and all the wireless transmitters had been left on. The church in which you shot may have the same thing going on.

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[Ty Ford]

Hello Paul and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

That sounds like an RF “hit” of some sort. Could be enough smart phones in the area or something else. Have you worked there before? Did you do a scan when you setup?

Getting closer to the transmitter helps, but I had a guy with a smart phone on his belt once and the transmiter a bit farther around his belt. Range went from 50-60 feet before I wired him up to a foot and a half.

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[Ty Ford]

Hello again Freidrich,

The secret sauce is approximately using 1-3 dB of gain reduction 2:1 ratio with compression followed by 1-3 dB gain reduction limiting. Fairly fast attack times moderate release times. Put this in the master stereo buss.

Keeping two booms phase correlated can be very tricky especially if both are moving. Using two booms, depending on how far apart they might need to be, how reflective the space is, I would record each on a separate channel and sort it out in post. Get room tone for each boom in every situation, even if the booms go to a different part of the same room.

I might (or might not) also use an automixer.

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[Ty Ford]

Hello Friedrich,

Thanks for the flowers! 🙂

I boomed the shot, moving the mic as needed. The blocking of the hat brims of the baseball caps caused me to pull the mic a bit farther out and angle it a bit more.

I had to coach the talent the talent to listen to each other to balance the volumes of their voices. On the rehearsals, he was much louder than she was. Even if I had had a two person audio crew, one booming one mixing, it wouldn’t have sounded right. He pulled back a bit and she projected a bit more. He was still a little louder than she was, so I kept the boom more on her side, even when he was speaking. A slight boom move and twist of the wrist to angle the mic to him, then twist down and move slightly to get her worked best. The final audio you hear has also been slightly compressed and limited in post so that it pops. I gave the post house my secret recipe.

I had two blankets spread out on the floor, the refrigerator turned off and the wall clock (TICK, TOCK, TICK TOCK) moved to another room.

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[Ty Ford]

Hi Guys,

I reached out to Sennheiser’s Brian Walker. His reply follows.

Ty,
Starting to see a lot more of this kind of complaint. The problem is not limited to Sennheiser, it is one of those evils called the Laws of Physics. Most commonly, what is happening is that a person has been using the same frequency for years and now because of the re-pack a few years ago of DTV channels and new channels coming on the air, the wireless frequency is now in the middle of a DTV channel. DTV transmitters broadcast a digital signal of 1’s and 0’s adding up to a value of 8. Occasionally, that DTV transmitter will kick out a 6, 7 or 8 on or next to the frequency in use by the wireless mic. This is what causes the blip in the audio. Even though the transmitter may be miles away, those 6, 7 and 8 pulses are a lot of power and cause havoc. The solution is to re-scan and re-tune. This is a problem that plagues all wireless mic manufacturers. Please, please, please send your users having this problem with Sennheiser product my way. I am more than happy to help them out.

Thanks!

Brian Walker
Market Development – Professional Systems
Sennheiser Electronic Corporation
1 Enterprise Drive
Old Lyme, CT 06371

Office: 860-434-9190 x 585
Cell: 619-933-9255

https://www.sennheiserusa.com

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yup!

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Andrew,

Yes, I agree completely about using monitors to hear things that may cause problems. You also need monitors to tell you what the actual playback problems will do.

Unfortunately, I can’t find 8020 for the price Scott wants to pay. I’d have offered that my Event Opals were just the ticket, but the money’s not there. Still, even with them (or my legacy JBL L100) you need to use test mixes to understand how much of your mix won’t make it through lap top or cell phone speakers. (and what to o about it)

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Guys,

Are the receivers directly attached to a camera in all cases? Which camera? Phantom power is off, right?

Thanks,

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