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Ty Ford
March 15, 2015 at 2:01 pm in reply to: Field mixer recommendations?

Hello Andy and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

If there is no scratch track on the camera, then you need timecode.

It would be best if the recorder were timecode hardwired to the camera, but you may find that jamming time code from camera or from the recorder will work just fine.

I have had people use the camera mic for sync and remarkably, that works if you’re using pluraleyes.

Yes, post is sometimes clueless. I fed split track to the camera from a two person interview. Post called and said there was a problem because one of the guys was a very heavy breather and could be heard during the other person’s response. I told them it was split tracked, problem solved. But you’da thought they’d have checked something that simple.

Regards,

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Ty Ford
March 14, 2015 at 3:25 pm in reply to: Field mixer recommendations?

Hello Per and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

A lot of good info on this thread.

Me? As long as you don’t need more than two sources, I like the Sound Devices MixPre-D.

The MIxPre-D has some very useful features. Here’s my review of it.
https://tyfordaudiovideo.blogspot.com/2012/07/sound-devices-mixpre-d-two-channel.html

If you need three inputs, then I like the Sound Devices 302.

The old Shure mixers are….well….old!

I agree that a hardwire is your friend. Wireless to the camera is interesting, but unless you’re plugged into the camera, you don’t know if the audio made the trip. (Yes, you could have a wireless return, but then you have another link that could cause a problem.)

I agree that post will typically use what’s in the camera.

Regards,

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Ty Ford
March 7, 2015 at 12:32 am in reply to: Anyone looking at the Sound Devices 688?

Hello Kevin and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

The 688 also has automix software on board.

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Ty Ford
March 5, 2015 at 5:59 am in reply to: new bluetooth wireless mic from Nikon

You and me too, Richard!

BTW, thank you for all of your help here. I really appreciate having someone of your deep knowledge and understanding here at the Cow.

Regards,

Ty

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Ty Ford
March 5, 2015 at 1:01 am in reply to: new bluetooth wireless mic from Nikon

Hi Bruce,

As Richard notes, I’m curious about latency and also frequency response.

My head was turned in another direction today.

https://www.sounddevices.com/products/mixers-with-integrated-recorders/688

Regards,

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Ty Ford
March 3, 2015 at 9:31 pm in reply to: Audio slate level is not the same after import Premiere

Hello Allard and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

I’m guessing that -18 is the maximum it might be. You may be farther away from the mic or speaking more quietly. Try moving in and speaking louder.

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Ty Ford
March 1, 2015 at 9:36 pm in reply to: Audio recording silence or muffled echoes

Hello Max and welcome to he Cow Audio Forum.

I think you have it right. Perhaps the feed to you suffered form reversed polarity.

This is not impossible and could have happened by simply using one mis-wired audio cable anywhere along the chain you describe.

If you still have that source setup, check by feeding it into a device that has the ability to monitor in mono. If it sounds OK in stereo but sounds like you described in mono, you have found the problem.

You may be able to fix this by bringing the bad audio into a DAW and reversing the polarity of one of the two tracks.

Regards,

Ty Ford
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Ty Ford
March 1, 2015 at 9:28 pm in reply to: Sound devices 302 TA3 out to camera (wireless)

Hello Alex,

Unless you have two channels of wireless, you can not transmit in stereo.

Regards,

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Ty Ford
February 28, 2015 at 3:56 pm in reply to: first use of shotgun mic on boom

Bruce,

I like being accurate with written and spoken word. This is about that. People make judgements about you when you stray from the correct use of words.

Now, about my pet peeves. The biggest one is about the loss of adverbs in daily language.

Regards,

Ty Ford
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Ty Ford
February 28, 2015 at 12:34 am in reply to: first use of shotgun mic on boom

Hi Clyde,

OK. Ohms is an impedance amount. That may or may not have anything to do with noise.

Typically an external 48 V DC phantom supply does result in a slightly lower noise figure than a small battery whose voltage has to be converted up to 48 V DC.

Regards,

Ty Ford
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