[Ty Ford]

Thanks Tom,

There I was on the SE side of Capitol Hll one day and the producers says, “OK lets go outside. Our guy will be coming down the steps of the Capitol. I mumble, “um, you said we were all inside today. I have my 416 in the car, but it’s nowhere near here.”

With trepidation, I followed the crew out to the steps. The wind was light, but gusty. I only had the foam B5D filter. I stood near him, put my body between the mic and the wind and cranked up the gain on my mixer. Bingo! The cmc641 reached out and grabbed him.

I’m not saying it’ll do that every time, just that you can use a cmc641 outside as well.

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Ty Ford

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[Ty Ford]

That’s the one.

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[Ty Ford]

Hello Stan and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

If you’ll be inside most of the time, the Schoeps cmc641 is the mic of choice.

Sennheiser’s 8040 and 8050 are new entries to cardioid and supercardioid mics. They are a bit sensitive to low frequencies. The Rycote Invision suspension mount tames the boom handling noise.

Others are the Audio Technica AT8053a and Audix SCX-1HC.

You don’t want to use a shotgun mic inside. They are directional at high frequencies but not so much at mid and low. If used in normal interior environments, the sound will be indirect and “roomy.”

The 416 was designed in the 1970s the MKH 60 a number of years later. The 416 has a more aggressive sound, the 60 , more natural.

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[Ty Ford]

Alex,

upon further consideration (and more coffee) if using your t-power device no longer powers the 416 properly, there may be something wrong with the mic. I have mis-powered mics in the past with no damage. Maybe yours was about to fail anyway. If this is the case, the $50 trip to Sennheiser would be a good thing.

Ty

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[Ty Ford]

Ah, no problem.

There are two 12V powering systems. T and Phantom.

They are totally incompatible.

You can not power a T power mic with Phantom Power.

If your mixer has T power, you must use that.

I know of no cameras that offer T power, only Phantom Power.

PSC makes an inline barrel adapter that converts Phantom Power to T Power if you don’t have access to a mixer with T Power.

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Ty Ford

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[Ty Ford]

Hello Alex and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

The MKH 416P is not engineered to run on only 12V Phantom.

It requires 48V Phantom.

If you try it at 12V you starve the mic, the level will be low and the sound will be distorted, if you get any sound at all.

That’s normal. You have not harmed the mic.

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Ty Ford

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[Ty Ford]

Stereo with Lots Of Pops?

kidding! I think Thax is on the right track.

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[Ty Ford]

Hello Peter and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

Without knowing how far off and in what direction you may be, offering advice is difficult.

Generally, you’d want to use the same mic at the the same distance you did during production.

You can also try features that analyze the basic EQ curve from the original and apply that curve to your ADR. I’m having trouble remembering which programs do that. Perhaps someone will toss in here.

Regards,

Ty Ford

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[Ty Ford]

Hello Daan and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

Your english is better than most US citizens.

Your question brings up a sore point with me. Why DO camera makers fail to put even the simplest NUMBERS on their audio meters?

On my Sound Devices 442 mixer, set to 0dB output tone, I adjust the camera to -20. This gives me from 0dB to + 20 on the mixer. The 442 also has several very good limiters; one on each input and a pair across the outputs. I have my output limiter threshold set to +14. Typically that means my camera audio levels peak at -6dB. Sometimes very quick sounds like hand claps sneak though and that’s where having the space between +14 and 0 pays off. I suggest you do some offline testing to find out what the little dots mean and use that in the future.

Hope this helps,

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[Ty Ford]

Hi Bob and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum,

Someone may chime in here. If they don’t I’d check with Tascam or with the newsgroup rec.arts.movies.production.sound

Regards,

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