[Ty Ford]

“Mr. Ford it is an honor, thanks for you response.

>>The honor to have you visit our humble corner belongs to Creative Cow, for whom I serve when I can.

Thanks for steering me away from the fostex I am a lil new to sound and overlooked the low recording rate.

As to the matched pair’ I;m referring to ATW 1821D.

>>To my knowledge, there is no such thing as a “matched set” of ATW 1821D. While there may or may not be slight differences, they are not sold as matched sets. If you are being told otherwise by someone selling you these mics, they are….misinformed.

I may be putting too much import on your choice of the word “matched” With microphones, a “matched set” implies that greater care than normal has been taken to make sure two (or more) mics sound as close to exactly the same as possible. For this matching, there is usually a price premium.

I quote you here ” Get a Mac, an I/O box and BoomRecorder software. ”
please excuse my lack of understanding but I’d like an example for the software and the also
‘i/o box’ … I don’t think I know what one is but am curious to know if a field mixer would fall into the category of an i/o box.
And, would a windows laptop not suffice for now, buying a MAC would set me back a bit leaving me with hardware that I could not give away much less sell. ”

>>BoomRecorder only runs on Macs. No, a field mixer is not an I/O box in the context I’m referring to. To research this more, go to: https://www.vosgames.nl/products/BoomRecorder/

My favorite choice for a dedicated field recorder would be a Sound Devices 702T, provided time code from your camera can be implemented. I’m thinking probably not, but maybe your next camera will, so opting for the 702T rather than the 702 would be a good decision.

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[Ty Ford]

Hello Joe and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum,

The MR8MKII, while attractive in price, only records at 44.1 kHz and only two tracks at a time.
It’s primarily a musician’s scratch-pad.

“The plan here is to bring along a laptop and capture the audio to either Audition or similar software.”
The, why bother with the Fostex MR8MKII? Get a Mac, an I/O box and BoomRecorder software.

“And at the moment I am using an AKG shotgun and Crown 100 lavs till I get my wireless AT mics which may have to wait a bit at 1200.00 dollars for matched pair.”
Are you referring to the Audio Technica 1800 wireless? Is someone telling you that they come in matched pair sets?

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-20 for tone and make sure your meters are set to read peak.

$25 USD.

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You want to see bad acting?

We watched the movie “Zacharia” last week just for kicks.

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I do. Good casting and good talent.

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Hello Chris and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum,

Make sure you are sending line out to a line level input, or mic level out to a mic level input.

The 302 has a menu switch that lets you choose either mic or line level out. The default is line level.
If you calibrate your camera with its input set to Mic instead of Line, tone will look fine on the meters but the audio will be very distorted.

If you send mic level from the mixer to a line level input on the camera, you won’t get enough level.

As I say in my book, ALWAYS MONITOR WITH HEADPHONES. When? ALWAYS!

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Ty Ford

PS: Did I mention you should ALWAYS monitor with headphones?

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Sean, you may find it’s a combination of things that does the trick, but these are pretty much all of the tricks I know.

Yes, please do let us know.

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Hello Ryan and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

24-bit, 48 is fine for dialog and most other things. I’m sure that some folks are working above 48 KHz, but there’s so much loss when you go to DVD, I’m not sure its worth it.

Even with blue ray, you have to convince me that going higher in sample rate or bit depth during production is worth it to the consumer.

::Dave. ;):

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[Ty Ford]

Hello Sean,

back to you point by point.

ISOBAR power strip with transformer separated banks
I haven’t been able to find any in Australia.
Tripplite makes them. Their website shows this in Australia.
https://www.tripplite.com/EN/products/model.cfm?txtSeriesID=324&CID=1&txtModelID=226

Ebtech Hum Eliminator
That’s a possibility, is it anything like this?
https://www.minidisc.com.au/xitel-ground-loop-isolator-p-423.html
Yes, like these. Don’t know about quality differences.

SImple three prong-to-two prong converters on grounded power plugs
Is this the kind of thing you’re talking about? I’m a bit suss on this solution and am definitely not comfortable messing around with power plugs.
https://www.filmtools.com/grliadco41.html
Yes, these.

I’m thinking the isolation transformer is my best bet at this stage.
You may need a combination of things and find each reduces a bit here or there. Some combinations may work better than others.

Is a ground loop inherently dangerous or just a fact of life in some buildings?
Fact of life (not dangerous) but potentially dangerous if someone has carelessly wired the structure.

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Putting a condom over a shotgun will drastically change its characteristics, and not for the better sonically, although it will be dry.

Keep it inside the zep. Bring a hair dryer and comb for the hair. Maybe two furries.

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