Sound for Video Session: Q&A, Ear Training, & More

In this week's Sound for Video Session, we cover your questions, talk a bit about Halter Technical's headphones designed for on-set use, what makes "pro" gear "pro" and whether you really need it, and do an ear training so that you become a better mixer.

Copyright 2021, Curtis Judd

Index:
00:00 "Sunset Drive" by Virgil Arles from Musicbed
02:55 Start of Livestream

[andrewp]

Ooh, that dialogue isolate…one day!Thanks for going over the order of operations again, especially your declicking preferences…handy tips

[MountainBoy]

Couldn't watch live this week. Your pro level gear discussion was really good. Been going through our fire incident team's AV kit this past week and it goes to your point of life/safety/property; for non-critical shoots we do have a WirelessGo (and just added a WirelessGo II) but I don't trust it as much as the Zoom F1.

[JoeMustang]

Regarding my question about the lav mic in high wind, I was able to get pretty good results Sunday morning with a small slip-on dead kitten on the Rode Lav plugged in to a Tascam DR-10L, with the mic alligator clipped under the bill of a baseball cap. Looked funny with the fur ball above my right eye, but sounded great on my voice in the wind, much better than with the lav+dead kitten on my chest clipped to the shirt button flap. Audio for comparison from a Tentacle Sync Track E was lost due to a full card and me not monitoring all the flashing lights on my belt while running 2 camera rigs and audio recorders in a 20 mph wind. I shot six hours of video+ audio last week in four 1.5 hour continuous recording sessions to get around 15 minutes of total content video footage published as 4 YouTube videos. I spent the rest of my time charging batteries...and emptying nearly all of my cards and Atomos SSD drives. I'm getting too old for this, LOL. Thanks for another great session.

[jeffbrass]

re the Deity BP-TRX - I have the deluxe kit, noise seems pretty low to me - better then my Sennheiser g4 & MKE2. However, one of the w.lav pro mics that came with the kit is faulty, really low output so have to crank the gain on everything to get much response...then it gets noisy as. But the good mic and good gain staging and its pretty clean....so far :) The latest firmware also fixed a issue I had with timecode. Fingers crossed a replacement mic isn't far away and I can get it out in the wild for more testing and use.