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Cail Young
08-20-2007, 08:20 AM
Just finished a run sound designing and engineering a musical. 18 radio mics and an 11 piece orchestra... Yikes!
Give me 2-3 radios and a boom any day.
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Shawn Nelson
08-20-2007, 11:00 PM
That's awesome! How many channels were you actually recording?
Fergus Meiklejohn
08-21-2007, 12:20 AM
respect:gun:
what mics and radio packages did you use, and how did you attach them to the talent?
Cail Young
08-21-2007, 02:31 AM
That's awesome! How many channels were you actually recording?
None. 31 channels total over the two desks into a left-centre-right PA, but we weren't recording the show - license won't let us.
The radios were older Sony WRx-5xx series transmitters and receivers, with Countryman E6 earsets for microphones. The orchestra was mainly Shure SM94 with a sprinkling of AKG C1000S and Sennheiser ME80.
The radio transmitters either clipped on to pant belts, bra straps or elastic waist straps; and the E6 mics are looped over one ear and taped or bobby-pinned down. They're really tiny. If you look here you can just see the shadow:
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Fergus Meiklejohn
08-21-2007, 04:26 AM
thanks for the info amigo :nerd:
Cail Young
08-21-2007, 05:54 AM
My pleasure. It's unfortunate that (at least in my particular neck of the woods) sound doesn't really get integrated as a film school thing, because it's so very vital and also such a hugely portable skillset...
chuck colburn
08-21-2007, 12:09 PM
I like those AKG C1000s mics. Had a pair I used in a XY stereo configuration with the hyper cardiod adapter. It had a nice reach to it.
Jim Hoffman
08-21-2007, 02:24 PM
My pleasure. It's unfortunate that (at least in my particular neck of the woods) sound doesn't really get integrated as a film school thing, because it's so very vital and also such a hugely portable skillset...
Sound is only given it's "props" by the smart ones... if even then...
Cail Young
08-21-2007, 05:11 PM
Sound is only given it's "props" by the smart ones... if even then...
Perhaps because you only really notice bad sound - good sound is invisible, or at least only visibly when it's supposed to be - like picture editing.
GlennChan
08-22-2007, 12:36 AM
My pleasure. It's unfortunate that (at least in my particular neck of the woods) sound doesn't really get integrated as a film school thing, because it's so very vital and also such a hugely portable skillset...
Maybe it's because everyone wants to direct... even the instructors. ;)
2- Mix magazine has some articles about sound for film/video... I read about some stuff I never encountered/heard of before, like directional antennas for the wireless systems.
Cail Young
08-22-2007, 07:46 AM
I read about some stuff I never encountered/heard of before, like directional antennas for the wireless systems.
Absolutely necessary in any high-RF environment or large area - omnidirectional antennae outlive their usefulness pretty quickly. Really depends on the application I suppose.