[Ty Ford]

Hello Drew and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

Not necessarily. It could also be a fake card or a card that’s not correct for the device.

However, any card needs to be formatted by the device its intended to be used in.

“Best practices” is to reformat at the beginning of each project.

Please read more about the issues here.

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-mistakes-avoid-buying-next-microsd-card/

The Zoom Support Forum is here.

https://www.zoomforum.us/

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[Ty Ford]

Hello Gabe and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

I see Bruce has already escorted you through “Location Audio 101.”

What he says is true.

Any questions?

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[Ty Ford]

James,

Thanks for noticing. ☺

Until you are ready to partner up with someone with sound/audio chops, a locked down boom for interviews is a good way to get to the next level. A light stand with a grip head, a fishing pole holder and a dirt bag for stability are your friend.

I like a Schoeps CMC641. Others prefer a Sennheiser MKH50 or DPA 4018. They sound better than your mics and they cost more as well. Buy a good mic once and EVERYTHING changes.

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[Ty Ford]

Hello James and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

Great post production audio starts with using the best sounding production gear. It also begins with being able to make proper sense out of what you hear. Unless you lead with that, you won’t get the best production sound and everything rolls down hill from that. How do I teach you that? How do I teach you to hear (as in, how to process what you’re hearing).

First, yes, your Tram is a great lav, but it is still a lav. When you step up to interviews with a proper boom mic, the sound quality changes dramatically. Can you now distinguish between lav and boom sound? What booms have you heard? (Do you know if they were they used properly?)

Second, which camera are you using?

Third, do you use a recorder/mixer?

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[Ty Ford]

Hello Erik and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

Perhaps you missed Sennheiser’s response further back in this thread.

I spoke with Lachlan Brennan at Sennheiser and he was kind enough to do some work and find an answer. Please note below.

Now that I have had the chance to confer with some colleagues I wanted to touch base with you regarding this AVX issue. Based on what I have heard from various colleagues it appears that this is a sporadic issue and it depends on the specific Zoom H6 recorder being used as to whether the issue presents itself. With some recorders there is no issue and with some recorders there is the issue.

Often with digital systems there is more proximity sensitivity than there is with a traditional analog system and depending on how the various components are grounded/shielded there could be “noise” issues. With the digital systems like AVX and EW D1 we needed to redesign the lavaliere microphones that connect to them to have more shielding so that proximity noise was not an issue.

I suspect that with older Zoom H6’s there may be a slight grounding or shielding issue that can cause noise when the receiver is in close proximity. This would not be an issue with an analog system but could present issues like those described with a digital system.

A work around would be to use a short extension cable to get a little distance between the receiver and the Zoom H6.

Also you might want to note that if any members of the site do need Technical Support they can reach the Tech Support Team on 1-(877)-736-6434 option 3 in the phone menu and we are more than happy to assist them.

Have a great day.

Lachlan

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[Ty Ford]

Hello Peter and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

I’ve been working with a software that makes the adjustment of levels of within a mix.

Xrtrax Stems: https://audionamix.com/products/xtrax-stems/

Looks like they have a sale of $20 off til Oct. 28. Oh, crap, that’s today!

It may or may not work. Could you send me a section?

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[Ty Ford]

Hello Merlin and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

Perhaps this?

https://theabcd.com/courses/

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[Ty Ford]

Well, you’re right that the MixPre preamp is likely better, but if the signal is still mitigated by the camera preamp, you’ll lose quality there. How much? Dunno. Clearly, a circuitry that offers an appropriate line level that bypasses the camera preamp is preferable, but camera specs seldom if ever offer that information easily.

Back in the miniDV days, some of those tape-based cameras, like the Sony PD150 had XLR inputs and could be switched to line level, but it wasn’t Pro Line level of 0 dB, or + 4 dB, it was consumer line level of -10 dB. If you tried to feed it 0 or +4, you could set tone, but the peaks would clip way early. What a mess!

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[Ty Ford]

Adrian,

Bruce is right, but…….many cameras, in order to be cheap, simply put a pad at their mic inputs and call it a line input.

As a result, the audio goes through the camera preamp anyway. The question becomes how much of the good audio in the external mixer preamp actually survives. I don’t know the answer.

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[Ty Ford]

Hello Adrian and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

I hope others will tip in. I have a JVC HM 650 camera. I think it has exceptional preamps. It’s pix limitations are relatively obvious.

Here’s Michael Gabel doing an audition. One Schoeps CMC641 on a locked down boom over his head.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erGL6dQ_wSs

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