[Ty Ford]

Um, the same?

You mean the Rodes and the Sennheisers, or just the Rodes?

I think the Rodes sound a lot like Sankens.

Ty

[Ty Ford]

What’s wrong with the software that came with the Mbox. The MBox and PTLE aren’t sold separately.

Ty Ford

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[Ty Ford]

Try an imic from griffith or griffin

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[Ty Ford]

The Digidesign Digi 001 is obsolete. It is no longer supported by Digidesign. Shoot for a Digi 002 or something else.

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TyFord

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[Ty Ford]

Yah, OK fine, but how’s that going to help you with the low level of the person talking? Now you have to crank up your preamp another 15 dB and introduce more noise.

I guess my “fix” would be to use a mixer capable of handling the hotter signalm and manually adjusting as needed.

Audio auto level controls on cameras are usually not very kind to the audio.

Congrats, you have stepped into the area where manual control is required. That means either you do it or hire a soundperson! They cost more than a capacitor, but work better. 🙂

Regards,

Ty Ford

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[Ty Ford]

The problem isn’t the mic, it’s your expectations in that specific situation.

When performance levels change as drastically as those you describe, you need to manually adjust them.

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Ty Ford

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[Ty Ford]

I agree. Many think location audio is trivial. If it were, the major studios wouldn’t spend the money on it they do. They’d just toss an intern a few mics and cables.

A good sound person knows how to get the good stuff and work with the rest of the crew. A top flight sound person, with his/her experience and tools will capture the dialog in such a way that your ear is never tweeked to ask the question, “Hmm, what’s up with the audio?”

Of course, when I went to the HDV forum to discuss why ANYONE would consider MP2 audio to be of appropriate quality for attribution, I was told that I was rude, brusque, lacking in respect (of whom I don’t know) and didn’t know what I was talking about. Perhaps the same sort of “us and them” applies here. Dunno.

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Ty Ford

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[Ty Ford]

Hum is one thing, hiss is something else. If it was hiss, it could be that you set the record level low enough to put the signal in the noise floor.

Sometimes a person SpeaKs with a veRy erratiC patTern. If you Try TO SET the level ProPERly, ThEY end up peaking. That’s when a mixer with a good limiter comes in very handy.

See what the playback levels are. If you had to boost it during playback until you could hear the hiss, you recorded at too low a level.

Regards,

Ty Forde

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[Ty Ford]

Stop feeding line level audio into mic level inputs?

Work on how to set audio reference levels before shooting?

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Ty Ford

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[Ty Ford]

Could be the lav. Could be the way you connected the gear. No way to say for sure. How did you have the lav connected…..details.

Regards,

Ty Ford

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