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Hello Jim and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.
My sympathies. Have you tried the Digidesign Users Conference?
The deal, as far as I know, They may be there, but not visible. You don’t want to write ANYTHING to that drive until you figure out if there’s anything you can use to get the files back, otherwise you may overwrite the files you want to recover.
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Arne,
The MDR 7505 are NOT the same as the MDR7506.
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Hello Arne and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum
You’re spot on with the headphone. I haven’t seen those beyers, but yes to the Sony and AT. I use both in the studio and on location. The MDR7506 are smaller and less cushioned than the ATH-M50; slightly easier to deal with than the ATH-M50, but the ATH-M50 are more accurate and cover the ear better.
The Sony MDR7509 are expensive, but very nice and have good sound.
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Hello Craig,
You seem to have several problems. Getting the proper level without distortion for you mic, recording in a non treated space with a mic that exacerbates the bad qualities of the space.
Solving these problems on line is difficult. There are too many places for things to be misadjusted. FCP and STP have meters to measure input. Metering in Quicktime is no very accurate. I have found that half scale on Quicktime is about as loud as I can record without distortion.
If your singer has excessive dynamic range, they need to cool it or you need to reduce your record level to allow for their louder parts. If you can record normal speaking voice with no problem, their dynamics may be the issue.
Again, you are in uncharted territory and are asking for a simple set of instructions to fix your problem. What I’m saying is that the answer is not simple. Audio is not plug and play. (If you didn’t know that before, you have learned it with this experience.) Take your time and use this as a learning experience. Let your curiosity fuel your enthusiasm and pay attention to what you’re doing so you can use what you learn to go from bad to better.
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Hello Tom and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.
Sennheiser Evolution g2 or Audio Technica 1800 wireless should work for you. Just make sure you get the right version for your geographical area. You want to be sure there aren’t too many TV stations on or near the frequency of your wireless. Your dealer should help you.
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Hello Craig and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.
Trying to achieve “Studio AUdio Recording” with your equipment and in the space you describe is extremely challenging, if not down right impossible. I suggest you try to contact an experienced audio person in your area who can help.
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Hello Mike and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum,
Dave’s call was a good one, but since that wasn’t the problem, I think you answered part of the problem – hard surfaces. Then there’s the mic.
There seems to be a presumption that a shotgun mic is always the mic to use on a boom. Not so. Especially in “live”, “slappy” environments, the shotgun does not do well. You need a hypercardioid or supercardioid which has a tighter pattern.
Schoeps cmc641 it the top shelf choice. Others are audio techinca 4053a or b or the Audix SCX-1 HC.
In future, shooting in places without big flat hard surfaces makes a big difference. If you must be in one, you need to think about sound blankets.
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[Nicholas Canavan] “So best to look if there is one for a rec out level which can control the output specific to my marantz?”
And it wouldn’t be the first time a mixer had a toasted section that no one knew about until you plugged it,
Can you get in there before they fire up the PA and just get a board feed to determine if you can get clean sound from some output somewhere that doesn’t get jacked up when the action starts?
This is not an unusual situation. The DJ keeps pushing the system and it’s so loud that no one really notices how distorted it is. If you’re taking a feed from that, it may not be your gear that’s distorting, it could be the console.
The Audio Technica ATH-M50 headphones are closed back and pretty isolative. They might also allow you to hear more of your audio and less of the PA. While you’re at it, listen to the headphone output on their mixer to see if you can hear distortion there when they get it cranked up.
Just a few thoughts.
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Hello John and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.
Sad to say, there is no reverb remover or early reflection remover.
Some try EQ and noise reduction plug ins and some claim limited success with them, but the cure is usually worse than the disease. If you find anything new please let us know.
One ploy is to figure out how to add some music to the sequences. Music makes reverb in other tracks less noticeable because it masks the reverb trails.
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NIck,
Maybe with a pair of less sensitive mics you’d be OK, but PA sound is pretty wonky. How important is the music? Is it just part of the scene or is this a music video? I forget. Are there live instruments or is this just recorded music coming from the PA?
The times I’ve worked in a room, I’ll take a board feed to my Sound Devices 442 mixer. It has mic or line inputs and enough gain stages so that I haven’t yet been jammed by the audio from the console. I then feed that to my camera. So the mixer is my magic bullet and I am listening All The Time.
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Ty Ford
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