[Ty Ford]

Uwe,

In just about every review of a mic I’ve ever written over the years, https://idisk.mac.com/tyreeford-Public/Gear_Reviews_Mics, I use at least two preamps to determine what a mic sounds like. More often than not, the same mic sounds different through different preamps. Mics with transformer outputs MAY be less variable, as the transformer buffers the mic’s output circuit.

AGK C414 and TLM 103 sound pretty nasty through a Mackie mixer preamp and horrible through a Focusrite Red two channel preamp. Through a GML, Millennia Media, they sound quite nice.

There can be quite a difference between “bad”, “not as bad”, “not as good” and “really good”, although being in the right position to make that call is not easy. The question always comes down to, “Compared To What?”, as Eugene McDaniels so politically put it.

A lesser mic like the MXL SD mics compared some years back, a 603 I think, sounded better through the Mackie than my GML. However, It didn’t sound as good as a Schoeps through my GML.

I forget if I have heard the 2003. MXL sent a bunch of mics to me some years back and while they looked pretty cool and sounded OK, they all suffered from that nasty little distortion so common in Chinese-made mics.

There’s also the problem of mic to mic consistency. The Chinese-made mics of the same model can differ widely.

Having said that, a recent issue of MXL, the MCA SP-1, sounds quite remarkable. You should try it. Why not send me one of your twenty 2003 and I’ll compare it with my u 89/Millennia Media?

Regards,

Ty Ford

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[Ty Ford]

David,

If you have two mic level sources with XLRs that need to input a 1/8″ stereo input without combining, that IS the cable you need.

It’s a custom cable that Trew makes. They also make one that feeds a mono source to both stereo inputs so you can have one mic feeding both tracks equally.

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Ty

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https://www.remoteaudio.com/high_noise_headset/

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[Ty Ford]

Hello Michael and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

Noise canceling phones with active circuits usually mess up the sound.

The DIrect Sound phones weren’t that good.

Get some Dave Clark outers to cover a set of MDR 7506 SOny’s

Regards,

Ty Ford

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[Ty Ford]

figure the percentage drop from 24 to 23.976 and pitch the wild sound down by that much,
or as you almost did the other way, speed the pix up but at the specific %.

Let us know how that works.

Typically unless you are locked by a master source for word clock or smpte, any sync you get is pretty much accidental.

You may have to slice out parts of whatever turns out to be the slower source to keep sync.

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Ty Ford

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[Ty Ford]

sure.

https://www.trewaudio.com/store/product.php?productid=147&cat=21&page=1

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[Ty Ford]

Hello Zach and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

Bit rate data, e.g. 16-bit or 24-bit, has no bearing on sync. Closely matching sample rates, frame rate or digital sync via time code and word clock are what determines sync.

I’m thinking there’s something about the 24pn that’s the problem. Might be that your camera is at 23.976 and not 24. Make a copy of your files and experiment with sample rate conversion to see if that helps.

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Ty Ford

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[david payne] “And Ty thanks, I did just that for quite a while but couldn’t find out what I was after, only similar questions from people like myself. “

David,

Step away from the expresso machine! I plugged in those parameters and got this from the very first post.

“Sony HDR-FX1: The FX1 has, unlike the DVX, one of the worst audio systems of a prosumer camera. There are no XLR jacks (which begs the question, what was Sony thinking?) and all input is done through a 1/8″ unbalanced mini-jack. There are no phantom power provisions, and you can’t control the audio level of a track individually (the dial controls both tracks simultaneously.) ”

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Ty Ford

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[Ty Ford]

Hello David,

Let Google be your friend. Put Sony HDR-FX1 “phantom power” in the search field and see what you find.

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[Ty Ford]

Hello Chris and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

The receiver might be dead, or it might be picking up signal from something else like a new DTV station that’s keeping your transmitter from being received.

Doesn’t have to be a DTV station. It could be many other things. Try the pair in different locations.

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Ty Ford

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