[Ty Ford]

Hello Nessak,

I have been an 001 and 002 user for 6-8 years. I am currently evaluating the 003 Factory with work surface. Having come from a knob and fader background I have become quite used to NOT using a work surface. Relearning a hardware controller has been a pain in my butt.

I SO do NOT want a piece of plastic and metal between me and the screen.

Be careful what you ask for.

Regards,

Ty Ford

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[Ty Ford]

Hello Alan,

So you’re expecting to shoot, light and do audio wirelessly from a mixer to a camera?

I don’t know where you are, but most sound people are used to working on short notice.

I know a few “one-man-bands” and have been one myself on a number of occasions. There are a few who cling to the idea that there isn’t time, there isn’t money, there isn’t SOMETHING that will allow them to bump up their game.

Equipment, by itself, isn’t always the solution. Without the right people helping to cover your butt, you will hit the wall. Some would say you have already hit the wall by not being able to envision a solution that incorporates more people.

When you deploy wireless gear you add a new level of complexity to the job. That level requires that you pay VERY CLOSE attention to the link. Interference of many sorts can interrupt your audio.

RF solutions vary in price from about $500 up. The Sound Devices 302 is a very good mixer. If you pluuged a butt plug mic transmitter into one of its XLR outputs, you could transmit to a receiver mounted on your camera.

If you need both channels, Audio Technica, Sony and Zaxcom make two channel links.

We don’t know how you normally operate. Perhaps you could elaborate.

Regards,

Ty Ford

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[Ty Ford]

not too much bottom, not to much top, squishy in the middle.

The pure physics are against you. Parabolics work, but it ain’t hifi..

Ty

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Prolly not. Parabolic mics sacrifice fidelity for directionality.

Regsrds,

Ty Ford

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[Ty Ford]

thanks for the tip.

Ty Ford

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[Ty Ford]

[Rodney M] “For a lav system, you might want to consider the Sennheiser EW112P-G2, $500. I’ve used them before and they will do the job if you keep in mind the sacrifice of performance for budget’s sake. Also remember the sound you hear from professionals is a combination of wireless lav system AND the lav mic. Most mics that come packaged with lav systems are not that great. Unfortunately,great performance, flexibility and sound don’t come in cheap packages.

As far as shotguns, you can go as cheap as a couple hundred dollars. The cheapest shotgun mic that I could recommend would be the Rode NG-2 ($260) if you absolutely do not have the money. An honest comparison between the Sennheiser ME66/K6 combo ($480) and the Rode might favor the German, but it’s nearly twice as much. Don’t forget that windscreen.”

You want good sound, but cheap. Good sound doesn’t come cheap.

I agree with Rodney that the G2 is about as low as you wnat to go. HOWEVER, getting a better lav than the one that comes with the G2 is a help.

The Rode model number, BTW, is NTG-2. It’s OK and runs on its own AA battery.

You don’t say whether you intend camera mounting the mic or booming it. No mic, regardless of cost does as well camera mounted as it does boomed. Closeness to the person speaking is ABSOLUTELY essential to good audio.

Shotgun mics are not good when used indoors unless you are on a sound stage. For indoors (again, on a boom) you want a hypercardioid.

You also want wind protection for any boom mic.

Did I menton:Good sound doesn’t come cheap. If you go “cheap”, everthing you do will look and sound cheap.

You think you have budget restraints?! Hollywood is constantly looking for ways to keep costs down. If Hollywood thought they could get by with less, they’d be using $25 mics from radio shack.

Regards,

Ty Ford

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[Ty Ford]

Run balanced to the TV set, then use a cable adapter to unbalance.

Ty Ford

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[Ty Ford]

cool grommets.

Ty

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[Ty Ford]

Hello,

There are several issues you need to resolve to make this happen.
I suggest you drop into the rec.arts.movies.production.sound newsgroup.

Regards,

Ty Ford

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[Ty Ford]

I have limited experience with Sony Hi-MD recorders. They work pretty well, given their delicate parts.

I am a registered Sound Devices 744T user. It’s built like a masonry mammlian stinkpot.

Regards,

Ty Ford

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