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The new Audio Technica receiver is a two channel receiver that fits on the camera. I don’t have a lot of details about it yet.
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Ty Ford
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Add the SignVideo ENG-44 to the list. 4 channel. Less than $600.
Not an SD 442 by any means, but the basic stuff is there.
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Ty Ford
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I’d try a Countryman E6 with a wireless like a Sennheiser G2 and LISTEN REALLY CAREFULLY ALL THE TIME with good headphones (sony MDR 7506) to make sure you get everything you need.
Ty Ford
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Right. It’s in the throat, not in the box.
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Hi Bruce,
I’d check with the festival folks to see if snyone there had a preference. My guess is that regularity of level among tapes is equally important; so they don’t have to be jacking levels up and down for each piece.
There may still be level differences due to individual film makers using more or less compression and limiting of dynamic range in their audio. You may have to do a bit of mixing by ear to even that out.
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Sound soap is pretty inexpensive. There are noise reduction elements of Soundtrack Pro.
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Most TV networks spec audio levels on digibetacam (or digital) call for tone at -20 dB and peaks no higher than -12 dB.
I find that low. Unless I’m directed to do so, I set tone at -20 dB and usually try to peak about -3 dB, and with a good limiter.
Satellite transmission usually want -14 for peaks; something to do with lower headroom.
For analog, a lot depends on the machine you’re dubbing to and how much headroom they have. I don’t have a lot of good data, but peaks at +6 dB are not unheard of, in my experience.
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Ty Ford
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If four inputs is all you need, get a SignVideo ENG-44
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[Take Vos] “I have done some research in sample conversion and found the following gem. You virtually get a higher bit depth when recording at a higher sample rate (if the AD converter keeps its absolute accuracy at higher sample rates). In the 80’s we would have called this oversampling…..
Each sample rate conversion step, gains you one bit of precision.
Actually 24 bit AD converters do this internally, they sample at a high sample rate at low bit depth and then down converts the sample rate.In principle you don’t have to down convert at all, you can send 192 kHz to the speakers and the analogue filters and mechanical limitations would do the sample rate conversion for you.”
Hi Take,
Right, but as I said earlier, given the limitations of human hearing and the accuracy and bandwidth of playback systems, the reason to go there is not compelling enough for me to go for it on any regular basis, other than “because we can.” If you have a VERY, VERY high end project that will benefit from it (and broadcast or DVD distribution doesn’t warrant it) then fine.
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Ty Ford
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[Steve Wargo] “We plan to use a Multibridge. The input for video is an HD-SDI connection. The input for audio is “4 x inputs on DB-25 for 8 Ch Sample rate converted”.
We need to take our mics into a mixer of some kind and it must have an output to a DB-25 connector”. So, I guess I’m a little gray on the “4 inputs being 8 channels.” Does this mean that it’s 4 stereo channels and not 8 discrete audio channels?”
Steve,
I don’t know what “sample rate converted” refers to. It’s sort of weird hanging out like that, but not unsual for a video box to not be very explicit about audio details.
OK, there’s only one DB25 shown on the extreme and it talks about 8 in-8 out. So I’m thinking it needs something like the Apogee cable below.
That’s an Apogee breakout cable. Four AES in and four AES out. Each AES is a pair of channels. You could use a Yamaha mixer, which can be configured with the right I/O cards to feed and receive from the multibridge.
As for the AES 4 channel, 8 channel thing.
The spec for AES is audio in pairs.
My Aphex 1100 preamp has an AES out. In my Pro Tools system, I can designate each side to a different track. If the software of your system is capable of splitting the AES stereo pairs into individual tracks, you should be fine. It may do that with preferences or you may be able to unlink the tracks once you get them in your editing system.
How’s that?
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Ty Ford
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