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Hi Paul,
This is why people who fish have tackle boxes! More gear!
The Countryman B6 is smaller, and that may help. The COS-11D is also a player.
Tell me about the doc. Do you really need to hide the mic? Regular folks are not always comfortable with someone getting all up in their wardrobe to plant mics. Are the setups sit downs? If so, a boomed hyper cardioid or super cardioid might be a better choice. My choice for that is a Schoeps CMC 641.
Regards,Ty Ford
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Hi Paul and welcome to the Creative Cow Audio Forum. I’m guessing the problem is not the transmitter or receiver, but the mic rubbing against skin and/or clothing. Smaller mics hide better. The way in which they are mounted makes a huge difference in the results. A small mic like the Countryman B6 can be much more successful. You can order it with connectors that will work with your transmitter. Tight fitting T-shirts will be more problematic. The best starting point is on the sternum, between the breasts using something simple like surgical tape. One strip on the body, another on the mic to hold it onto the first strip. Careful guiding of the cable to reduce cable noise is also required. Success depends on body type. Some shaving may be necessary for hairy chests. If the person is very active, this may cause clothing noise problems. Some have resorted to taping the B6 to the T-shirt instead of the body. Good luck and please let us know what you found.
Regards,
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Hello Robert and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum. What program are you using?
Regards,Ty Ford (Cow Audio Group Leader)
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Hello Robert and thanks for stopping by. John is correct.
I will also add that over-emphasized S sounds could be a speech defect of the performer. My experience is that a visit to a good speech therapist to learn where to place the tip of the tongue other than behind the upper front teeth, on the hard palate should work wonders….with practice. In the end if you have an actor who can’t speak properly. Get another actor.
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It depends somewhat on your hardware. If you have separate people on mixer/camera and on the boom, how does the boom op hear the audio to know if he/she has the mic in the best place?
Two receivers, one on the boom, one on the mixer can work, but they do hear different things because each has its own connection to the transmitter. Also, this can work on RF, but if you’re using Bluetooth, check to make sure one bluetooth transmitter can actually work with two bluetooth receivers.Having a small preamp with a headphone out strapped to the pole can work. Wire the mic to the preamp. Boom op listens to small preamp and preamp output feeds the transmitter. This means that what the boom op hears can be fine, but if something drops between the transmitter on the boom and the receiver at the mixer or camera, it’s lost.
Hope you’re getting the idea here. Even if the audio makes it back to the mixer input, you may still be burned because you’re not listening to the camera. If the levels are off between the mixer and the camera or if someone forgot to plug the snake back in after the camera op went to shoot B-roll, meters on the mixer will look good, but no audio will be going to the camera. Yes, this happens.
The only way to really tell is to throw some camera headphone audio back to the boom op via a cable or wireless. With wireless, there will likely be a slight delay, so that messes with the boom op hearing the best direct sound and not some bouncy strange stuff.
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Hi Randy and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum. Ben offers good advice. What Sony monitor are you currently using? If it reproduces too much bass, we call that “unbalanced.” It can throw your whole mix off, even though you like it.
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Hello D’Arcy and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum. Yes, Zaxcom wireless lavs record and record and transmit at the same time.
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Hello Jonny and thanks for stopping by. That’s lot of people to cover.
What is this and where will you be?
Hopefully you have more than one mic. One for the host and two for the other ten to pass among themselves. Wireless would be good so you you don’t have to manage cables. Can you count on the guests to pass the mics around or do you need two mic handlers?Regards,
Ty Ford
Cow Audio Forum Leader
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Aha! Thanks! Seems like a lot of work.
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Hello Ernest and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum. The standard for a mono, balanced 3.5mm TRS is positive to tip, negative to rig and ground to sleeve. A stereo unbalanced 3.5mm connection is positive to one channel for the tip, positive to the 2nd channel for the ring and ground to sleeve. Does your camera have a mono balanced or stereo unbalanced jack?
Regards,
Ty Ford
Cow Audio Forum Leader