[Ty Ford]

Hello Michael and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

I think what you have here is not uncommon in situations in which you go directly from mic to camera. Let me talk it through, though without the mixer.

Mics can, themselves, overload before getting to a transmitter or camera. If the mic too sensitive, you have to use a less sensitive mic.

The input of the transmitter could be overloaded by what the mic is picking up , even if the mic is not distorting. That’s an adjustment on the transmitter.

The fact that your FCP footage is a -12 means you probably weren’t overdriving the camera input, but with no way to calibrate the receiver to the camera, you could have been sending line level from the receiver to a mic input on the camera. The receiver output could have overloaded the front end of the camera before it even got to the camera input controls.

The term is “gain staging” you need to know that each stage is properly set to get the loudest audio that doesn’t get too loud and distort somewhere along the chain.

How’s that work for you?

Regards,

Ty Ford

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[Ty Ford]

Bob,

Dangerously close to becoming a video guy. 🙂

I’m just finishing an edit on a 40 min doc about what’s cool about the country of Turkey. WE also did 30 and 10 cut downs. The files came in on a hard drive….PAL…what a surtprise!

16:9, 4:3, and 45 different resolutions. A real salad! on two out of four interviews, they didn’t lav or boom the interviewees. Just the mic on the camera. In spite of all of this, the finished product looks a lot better than it should and learned eight years of editing in about eight weeks. Pretty fun actually.

Right now I’m in the middle of 4 days of shooting a PreViz for an indie feature. The shooter has an ex3, which I had never dealt with so I came over from the audio forum looking for some help.

So far, the files look just great, but I may have to pitch in for a real monitor to do the editing justice. It’ll be a 3-4 minute piece to sell the script.

How’s yerself?

Ty

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[Ty Ford]

not at my MacPro yet this AM.

Which ProRes?

THANKS!

Ty

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[Ty Ford]

I’ve never used anything but a Mac since 1986…SE to SE30, quadra 840AV etc.

Somehow, the changes in GUI have not all been sweet. A new generation of Appleites prolly.

Thanks for your help.

I notice that with this 1080P job, simple renders are taking longer. Pardon me, I’m new to FCP. Is there a way to dumb down the rendering for the monitor without losing res in the project?

Thanks,

Ty Ford

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[Ty Ford]

Ah, select the ALL icon, not “command-A”

Ty

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[Ty Ford]

Craig,

You must be kinesthetic. When I set preferences for my intended folder on my media drive, select the drive, open it and select all. NOTHING is “DONE.”
No copying takes place. Are you leaving some step out?

Ty Ford

[Ty Ford]

Ben,

You have asked four times, “Why not buy an Azden?”

Each time you have been advised against it by people with good audio experience.

There’s a Paul Simon song, “The Boxer.” In it there is a line, “A man hear s what he want to hear and disregards the rest.”

If the pressure to buy an Azden is more than you can bear, just do it. But against our suggestions. Then, come back and tell us how that works for you.

Regards,

Ty Ford

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[Ty Ford]

Hello Susan and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

Greg covered everything I can think of. We are all fortunate to have him here to provide such solid information.

Regards,

Ty Ford

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[Ty Ford]

John,

I like the sound on the sanken COS-11. I like the hideability of the Countyrman B6.
Countryman B3, and EMW are good.

The little paddle mic AT sells, can’t remember the number, is a surprisingly good. It the one that came with the AT U 100 kit.

Regards,

Ty Ford

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[Ty Ford]

Hi John,

The Sure is pretty noisy when you crank the side capsules all the way up.

The NTG-3 is nice. Wider a bit than the Sennheiser 416. Npt quite as much bottom as a 416, but that’s no sin. The NTG-3 is very well engineered. That and an AT 4053b for inside work will get you somewhere.

The AT BP4025 is good for recording ambi, but, for some reason, I don’t like it up close.

Regards,

Ty Ford

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