[Ty Ford]

Hello Larry and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum,

Phew. I don’t really have an answer for you. Each situation is so different. I end up looking at wardrobe for possible places and trying them to see how they do with cable rub. Using G tape to damp cable noise is always a good idea. I do that for noise and strain relief.

BTW, what are they shooting?

Wind noise is wind noise. I don’t know that any exposed lav is much better than another. Some with a builtin screen like the Sanken COS11 maybe be better at deflecting wind, I just don’t have any data.

I’d ask Larry at Lectro if he has any help for you.

I’m guessing by “permanent” you also don’t want the mic to show.

Ricsonix has some neat solutions for mics that hide in plain sight.

Rycote stickies can also be useful.

Quick removal of vest? figure a way to fit the mic and transmitter into the vest.

Hmm, I think I just wrote an outline for my next Cow article.

Regards,

Ty Ford

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[Ty Ford]

Hello Jeffrey and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum,

Shotgun mics don’t do well inside unless the space is acoustically treated. Hypercardioids do better in untreated spaces.

A lot depends on how wide the stage is and how much of it the actors use. Can you get closer from overhead or on the floor?

If you don’t have enough mics to cover the action, you’ll get holes or hotspots in your audio.

maybe 3-5 mics with an auto mixer to turn off (or down) the ones not picking up voices at the moment. The Shure FP410 is a perennial favorite. Four mics, one output. (well, two really, but not stereo.)

You may not know until you try.

Each theater is different.

Using PSM (flat) mic can certainly pickup foot falls. PZM’s might work and Sanken makes a boundary that’s directional, the CUB-01, so you’ll hear less of the audience and more of the actors.

Sounds like you need to do a little experimentation to get the best results.

Regards,

Ty Ford

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[Ty Ford]

There are two completely separately issues; sound reflection and sound transfer.

Foam is used to stop sound reflection within an environment. It does little or nothing to stop sound transfer.

Reards,

Ty Ford

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[Ty Ford]

Hello Ramone and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum,

The door offers a good workable example of how to stop sound. Sound is stopped by having two dense layers on either side of an isolation layer. Density/Isolation/Denisity (DID)

As long as the sound isn’t sneakling in around the bottom and side, the best thing to do would be to affix dense material to both sides of the door, provided the door and hinges can handle the weight.

I have a cut sheet of acousti-lead lining the inside of the door of the closet in which I keep my computer, to keep the fan and drive noise from being picked up by my mics. I think I bought it from Markertek. Acousti-lead is a thin sheet of lead; very dense and capable of knocking down sound. I don’t know if they still sell it or not.

Anything dense will do. I’ll leave that to your creativity. Of course, you could also get a new door with heavier wood or double pane glass.

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Ty Ford

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[Ty Ford]

Hello Parker,

Features change, sometimes substantially, from one version to the next. The current version of PT is 7.4.

To reduce your frustration, mouse to the icon when the application is running and select “About Pro Tools.” Then go online and find the documents.

It won’t anwer all of your questions, but will fill in the cracks. There is also the Digidesign Users Conference (DUC) which can be accessed from their site. You have to register, which is free, but you can post questions and get answers from other Pro Tools users.

here https://www.digidesign.com/index.cfm?navid=75&langid=100&itemid=5071

Regards,

Ty Ford

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[Ty Ford]

soft CRT?

Can you try it on different monitors?

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Ty

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[Ty Ford]

I’m not writing the code, Steven. Go rattle your sabre somewhere else.

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[Ty Ford]

I gotta say I have NEVER been successful pulling video from a commercial DVD that’ll import into FCP with MacTheRipper, DVDxDV, Handbrake or Cinematize. I just tried it again with “Edward Scissorhands.” I had already trashed MacThe Ripper, but I couldn’t get the others to crack the DVD, or, if they did, FCP didn’t recognize the file format even if it played in Quicktime on my Mac.

Streamclip is now trying and is showing progress….Will it make it?! It’s working a little faster than realtime. It’s showing over 100 timecode breaks in about 26 minutes of programming in the first test DVD; a burn from MD Pub TV of a Show a friend of mine was on recently. Yep it works, but falls to the ground on Mr. Scissorhands.

Regards,

Ty (how I spent a friday afternoon) Ford

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[Ty Ford]

Chuck,

Thanks! I’m from across the hall in the audio forum and this helps me a lot. Stop by sometime if your audio is wacky.

Regards,

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[Ty Ford]

Hello and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

Page gravy sounds good, at least on my laptop speakers. The audio is well recorded to begin with. A little music covers up roominess.

The perfect combo of EQ, compression and limiting can be used to get anyone’s audio to this point. So, yes filters. Export to SountrackPro, tweek and pull the audio back into FCP. It also helps if your talent has a very good voice. She does.

Regards,

Ty Ford

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