[Ty Ford]

Danny,

LOL. Yes, well, I’d love to hop the Concorde and fly right over. It’s the ONLY way I’d fly and, :sigh: It’s not flying these days. Damn shame, that. I’d fancy a look at London all dressed up for Christmas, too.

I’m sure there are soundies in the UK. If you don’t hear from someone here, many hang out in a newsgroup: rec.arts.movies.production.audio. If you post there with your particulars, you’ll hear from someone.

Even showing up with a downscale camera with external mic inputs and rigging a good boom mic works, just toss the video out. I’ve done that, using my Canon XL2 as a backup audio recorder.

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Ty Ford

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[Ty Ford]

Hello Danny and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

I get hired to “single-end record” an interview about 4-5 times a year. In that scenario, I go to the person’s home or office, find a nice quiet spot, setup my hard disk recorder boom and mic. The interviewer calls in. I record the interviewee’s half of the conversation and forward it by sending the .wav or mp3 file to a server where it can be downloaded.

NPR does this a lot. That way, you have a pretty near studio quality recording (ambience dependent) and it sounds quite nice.

Any use of regular telephone lines subject you to the vagaries of the line itself and the individual telephones used. I do know of a radio station that used a speakerphone and an electrovoice 635a mic to put their callers on the air, but it never sounded very good.

SKYPE sound pretty good these days when I’ve tried it, but not as good as my first example and, again, the quality is very subject to the hardware.

The question is, how good do you want it to sound?

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[Ty Ford]

hello Johnie and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

Maybe these folks can help.

https://www.live365.com/broadcast/

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[Andrew Williamson] “Now, as the SD442 uses VU display – how does this work for monitoring? Do you take maximum peak as equating to +8 VU? Where does the limiter kick in?

I know Sound Devices have a Nordic PPM version, but I am still curious as to what the Film and TV audio legals are for the US and if they are set by VU?

As PPM and VU balistics are different is there anyway I can monitor VU on the 442 and be happy I’m still broadcast legal? or should I ignore the shiny and go back to my equally shiny, but familiar SQN.”

Hello Andrew and Welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

Film and TV legals are all over the road here. Discovery has one set of “MUST” standards, satellite has another, broadcast iand cable are a wild and wooly freakin’ circus.

The limiter on the 442 is adjustable from +4 to +20. I have mine set a +16. It’s not a brick wall limiter, but a very good sounding one.

The O VU to dBu reference is VERY adjsutable. Look on page 20 of their manual.
https://www.sounddevices.com/download/guides/442_en.pdf

If you have additional questions, my suggestion is that you email jon Tatooles at Sound Devices, give him my regards and ask the questions directly. One thing I know for sure, Sound Devices is always good on their word. jon_tatooles@sounddevices.com

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[Ty Ford]

Hello Melinda and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

There are a lot of ways in which an audio file can become corrupted. It could also be that the production is corrupted. That you suspect it is is all that matters.

A lot depends on how long the project is and how many audio files you have. If the render gets part the way through before choking on the audio, my first inclination would be to look where the render jams.

You could also just render short sections in various places to see where it burps. Finally, you could pul them all out and try adding them several at a time until the render chokes.

I’m truly sorry for your pain.

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[Ty Ford]

Hello David and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum,

I’d check with Zaxcom and Lectrosonics.

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[Ty Ford]

Hello Matt and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

My guess, if you’re hearing yourself but at a distance from your mic, is that your computer (a laptop maybe) has switched to its internal mic. Check the sound control preferences panel.

If you’re getting ANY sound, tap around until you find what’s working.

Oh, some mics are directional. You are talking into the front of the mic, right?

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[Ty Ford]

Max,

Thanks for checking in and letting us know.

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[Ty Ford]

YAWN! Morning Dave,

Coffee, I need coffee!!!

David,

Dave’s right and you really can’t rely on default frequency settings. I’ve seen systems go from 30 feet to 1000 feet by changing .4 Megahertz.

The wireless landscape is becoming increasingly treacherous. You problems MAY be due to the Sennheiser, but get in there and see if you can find better frequencies first.

Hmm. I smell the coffee. Gotta go.

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[Ty Ford]

Hello Peter,

Since Patrick really hasn’t let us know what he’s about, the point is moot.

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