[Ty Ford]

Hello Luke and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum,

If I had to buy today, it would be a Sound Devices 302.

I have their 442 mixer and have used the 302 and MixPre.

Sound Devices are extremely scrupulous. If you have any questions about your specific rig, call them and ask them any question you may have. They don’t sell direct, but they will answer your questions. Tell ’em I sent you.

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[Ty Ford]

Hello Rod and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum

Providing your Mac has an audio in port and I think all do these days, you have a lot of solutions.

The trick is that the input jack is stereo, unbalanced. To feed it properly you need to use a stereo mic or a mic with a cable that’s been wired to feed a mono mic to both input channels. The Rode VideoMic is such a mic.

Your other option is to use USB mic. USB mics have latency (delay in the headphones) due to the time it takes to convert analog to digital and back.) That can be very disconcerting if you are wearing headphones while recording your own voice. If you’re not wearing headphones, it’s not a problem. The Audio Technica 2020USB is actually a very decent mic in this category.

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Ty Ford

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[Ty Ford]

Hello George,

Can you please explain why TOD (time of day) time code is not good to use?

Thanks,

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[Ty Ford]

Hello Bret,

I’m not entirely sure I know what you’re asking. The RMS to peak ratio?

What will you do with this measurement?

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[Ty Ford]

Hello George and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

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]

Hello Brian and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum

What you want is a telephone hybrid.

https://www.fullcompass.com/product/250765.html

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[Ty Ford]

While theoretically possible, you’d have to have the exact same “random noise.” That hasn’t happened on this planet yet, to my knowledge.

Is it a very time consuming/expensive process? — no
does it work on all noises,or some better than others? –no, yes
does it have to be a constant noise ? — for best results, yes, constant and unchanging in content.

Your best bet is to try various softwares or even a hardware box like the izotope NRX.

There is no magic bullet. That stuff you see on CSI is NOT what you’re going to get.

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[Ty Ford]

Hello Robin and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

Yes, wave or phase cancellation is the basis for most noise reduction circuits an algorithms.

How it gets done is a bit more tricky.

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[Ty Ford]

Hello Ana,

The NT3 is an OK studio mic, but too heavy to boom by hand.

Closeness is your friend with mics. 12″ – 18″ , just out of frame.

Boom stands are great, when the talent doesn’t move.

The Sound Devices 302 is the best entry level mixer and will keep working for you as you grow.

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[Ty Ford]

Huh?

Sorry Matt. You have lost me.

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Ty

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