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Hej Koen,

Assuming everyone has a style and technique for booming. The most important is communication, during the rehearsal - be a more "aggresive" and if the boom will be "in"; pretty sure you will tell you. Either from camera dept. (eg. focus puller) or your sound mixer (if has a monitor). 24mm is wide, 35mm can be either wide or medium or close up, 135mm is close up; this is the most case in my experience. For documentary is a different story. With time and practise you will learn it and remember each DoP / Director has each own style. Again, communication with other dept. is key and with your own sound mixer.

Regarding booming & watching frame simultaneously: For me, it never worked. One second off to go down to watch the frame and the world has been changed. I prefer to have open eyes, particulary one in my marks (eg. on walls, horizon) and the other watching other things (eg. camera movement, camera pan etc). It takes time to learn this.

On 4/26/2023 at 1:08 PM, Patrick Tresch said:

PSI 😉 we went to the factory and where impressed by their sound. We have selected 3x A23-M for L center R.

I was looking into this for a while. Looks very neat and nice build along with Focal. 

I think the answer is the question. Both for show and useful, it depends of region - workflow etc. I have seen timecode to be fail, I have seen "end slate" and then there is no slate nor timecode; but camera is rolling to take the slate while sound no. Anyway, slate (digital and no digital) is necessary IMHO. It is also a good reminder for necessary dept. (cough!) there we are close to end of the shooting day.

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Hi,

If there such a topic exist for NAB 2023 news, please delete it.

Otherwise, we can post any new products from NAB regarding production sound (or not).

🙏

Worked an entire season, over a year; with MKH 70 + MTP 40 + PHA48 + Sennheiser Windshield / Pistol Grip; 100% for exteriors. Seems like people complain about weight and size where the thing is, the pointless to extend boompole (wide shot) in 6m to capture - what? Especially when the actors in looking like an ant in frame.

Plug-on or cable is fine. Even the MTP 40 + PHA48 is fine as well with MKH 50. I would carry more about "how it sounds" compared to cable rather than if it is A10 or MTP 40 or DPR. At least you have plenty of time waiting the lighting dept. to do their work, so you get enough rest. LOL

I had a similar in cooking show with induction kitchen.

When it was turned On, the signal went to black hole of Interstellar.

Cable and booming was the only solution. Since then, I have stopped using Sennheiser G3 as main option.

Burned once, learned once.

Actually from RX8+, not from R4+. 🙂

Yes! Finally! 🙏

That is a good question for Audiotonix.

On 4/6/2023 at 5:36 PM, The Documentary Sound Guy said:

Does anyone else miss the large, gripped fader knobs that could be adjusted by feel with one finger?  The Nomad had six...  SD 8 series is the last mixer with practical faders...

I assume the reason everyone has moved to these tiny pots that have to be gripped with two fingers is because of size, but they're just not the same when mixing by feel.

I see where you coming from, and agree. I had used 888 the other day, and adjusting the small faders was not fun - especially with -15C.

I don't know why and where that trend with small things come; like mobile phones in past where everyone tried to created the smallest one - but now we have more practical sizes.

Very nice and welcome! 

1 hour ago, Philip Perkins said:

You can record in 32 bit if you want but when your editor exports the film to me for audio post the audio needs to be in 24 bit.

+1

Nice! I have used SQN-4S Mini in the past. SQN still produsing these units?

+1 for Watson Wu

38 minutes ago, Matt Radlauer said:

Slate/Comms/Returns menu --> Return Level.

The 833 is the only one in the 8series lineup that you HAVE to adjust the return level from the menu... AND there is no real return meter. t's super annoying.

Interesting to know. Thank you for sharing! 🙏

That is trully unnecessary confusion IMHO, but at the end of the day will be: What setting to you need me to apply? 24, 25, 48, 44.1, it's your project; tell me. 😃

"Off the mark" - hehe

On 12/8/2022 at 3:25 PM, Michael Wynne said:

Thanks for sharing, nice to see a real photo of this that isn''t in a moody RGB dungeon with haze! LOL 🙂

 

Hi Michael,

Thank you for your comment and sorry for not giving an update. Didn't had the opportunity to play A-20 + Nexus at Visono in Sweden, due to heavy schedule. Planning to change a base from Athens to Stockholm or Oslo. 🙂

Happy to see it in action from other user and loved your tests so far with A-20.

Thank you, Tack, Takk
Vasileios A.

I had a play with A-20 Nexus at Visono, Sweden; yesterday.

UX: The learning curve is very fast and easy to operate it; even under stressfully situations. The AutoAssign feature will be a huge welcome and will cut the "setting time" in half. Things is getting more easier via web: In laptop you can have all the transmitter settings; and in iPad (example) you can monitor the spectrum. Cool!

I hope to find a time to play it (Nexus) with A-20 Transmitters and range tests with other colleagues here. 

8 hours ago, Constantin said:

that‘s a really weird conspiracy theory you‘ve come up with there. Just because you don’t like some of the aspects of the Nexus? Tell me how water- or dustproof is a Scorpio? 
just because you didn’t like the answer you got? Now you think they don’t care about location sound anymore? That’s a very steep hill you’re climbing there 

 

Did I wrote somewhere about I don't like some of the aspects of the Nexus? I said that was a bad promotion to location sound, IMHO. What kind of attitude, is that sir? Anyway, Paul and Sound Devices have delivered-answered my questions here and somewhere else.

9 hours ago, Paul Isaacs said:

You can do that docked or not. When docked, all 16 channels pass from Nexus to 888 via the expansion port and so can be recorded as backup on the 888. At the same time, those 16 channels can be routed to the main cart from the 888's Dante port.

Excellent! Thank you, Paul!

2 hours ago, Fred Salles said:

Hello, I finally bought my MCR54 and 4x MTP60 kit at AEITech and all went well. I am happy to have been able to get quick exchanges with the vendors and fast shipping. After looking around all summer it seems the prices all over Europe are quite the same. No significant difference weither directly in Italy nor anywhere else. The only element where there was is the BPA54 socket. For some reason it has different prices across countries. No big deal but a 100€ is noticeable.

 

Enjoy it! 🙂