[Ty Ford]

Hello Chuck and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum,

Yes there would be a difference, but there’s another more important issue.

You’ll be inside in normal spaces and not on a sound stage. Because of this you DON’T want a shotgun mic, you want a hypercardioid or supercardioid. Instead of a 416, get a Schoeps cmc641.

Some sound blankets will also come in handy.

And, yes, it sounds way better than an AT 897.

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[Ty Ford]

Brett,

You make me nervous, even though you contradict yourself. 🙂

Why is it always the sound that people toss to an unkowing neophyte? (Sound, Phht! Anyone can do sound!

As to the usefulness of a mixer in this situation (again):

1. Good mixers have better preamps than cameras. That’s a delicate stage, amping up from mic to line level.
2. Good limiters have MUCH better limiters.
3. Good limiters usually have input and output transformers that help to scrape off noise before it gets to the camera.

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Ty Ford

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[Ty Ford]

how bizarre.

I’m pretty sure I put this link to the videos in but it’s not there.

Try this.

http://www.youtube.com/user/TyFord

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[Ty Ford]

Hello Patrick and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

If the Pro Tools system handles OMF, I think the files can be exported with that data intact and imported into PT.

Or, you select each audio track in FCP and export it as an individual track from beginning to its end as a wav or aiff file, then import it into a Pro Tools session.

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[Ty Ford]

Hello Nicky and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

You won’t find the top VO talent using USB mics for several reasons. The mic portion aren’t as good as the good studio mics and the A/D conversion of the USB mics isn’t really all that good. I have tested and reviewed the Centrance MicPort Pro USB adapter and found that it works well with my best mics but doesn’t approach the sound of one of those mics with one of my better preamps and better AD conversion. In addition, plugging in a USB mic to a laptop without regard for the acoustical environment may not meet your client’s quality requirements.

As a member of AFTRA since 1970 and a member of SAG since 1986, I welcome you to the professional performing unions but caution you about working for free. First, if you start working for free, you have already set your price. Second, as a member of SAG, you can not work for free. Please go to the SAG web site and read about Rule One.

Here, let me help you: https://www.sag.org/content/global-rule-one

The idea of purposely working for free to get yourself into the market, while a staple in a capitalistic system, is anathema to SAG rules. As a member of a union, you are a member of a professional organization; one of whose missions is to establish rates for its members that will allow them to make a living. Working for free obviously doesn’t do that. Lowballing the rates of other members is diametrically in opposition to the one for all, all for one concept of unionism.

I don’t know which chapter of SAG you joined, as you live in Charlottesville, VA, but if they failed to explain this to you when you registered, they were not doing their job.

Please also know that while your posting at Voice123 indicates that you will accept PayPal for payment, SAG jobs can not be paid by PayPal. You need a paymaster or to be paid by a signatory who will put you on their books as an employee. Not many want to do that. That’s one of the many reasons paymasters exist.

In general, Voice123 is for non-union talent who can hammer each other until the inquiring producer gets the low price he or she wants. Again, not a great way to make a full-time living as a voice talent.

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Ty Ford

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[Ty Ford]

Mixers are more than knobs that let you vary the volume.

1. They let you vary volumes without shaking the camera or getting in the way of the camera op.
2. You may need to do that a lot with some people. I ride gain even if one person is talking if their voice fades on the end of each line. You can only do this in a relatively quiet environment, otherwise you bring up the ambient noise.
3. Mixer preamps (good ones) sound better than camera preamps.
4. Good mixers have input transformers that scrape off RF before it get into your audio.
5. Good mixers have limiters that allow you to record hotter, keeping your audio further above the noise floor without distorting.
6. Good limtiers have EQ that lets you roll of LF HVAC noise before it gets into your audio.
7. Good mixers have mulitple outputs so you can feed more than one camera, or separate recorder simultaneously.
8. Good mixers make your sound better. If they didn’t pros wouldn’t use them.

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Ty

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[Ty Ford]

1. it doesn’t mount on the face
2. you can move around a bit

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[Ty Ford]

Hello Kat, The cos 11 or Countryman B6 (not e6) would work. The B6 is the easiest to hide.

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[steven broido] “I often record panel discussions and find comb filtering (people being picked up on other people’s mics leading to hallow funky sounds )to be an issue. I realize that Omni Mics won’t help this much but perhaps one mic does better than others in this regard.

I record everybody on their own channel anyway and can duck people in and out as needed but the less of this I have to do, the better.

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated! And if one of these mics is more of an industry standard than the others, that would also be good to know. My main concern for our televsion appearances is that we are sending clean audio that sounds like what everybody else is using. Also, if there are other mic’s that you believe are much much better (Sennheiser MKE-2 or the Sony ECM-88?) I can consider those as well. “

The AT mic you chose, being cardioid, will present positioning problems and be more sensitive to wind and popping.

The ones you mention are industry standard. Also include Countryman EMW and the Sony 77B omnis. mics. MKE2 are good and the ECM 88 is as well.

Yes, you may have phasing problems if mics are too close together; more so in a reflective environment. Mixing the way you explain is one way. Using an automixer like the Shure FP410 also works.

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[Ty Ford]

Hello Eric and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

Rycote makes overcovers and Furries:
https://www.rycote.com/products/personal_mics/overcovers/
https://www.rycote.com/products/personal_mics/furries/

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