shaneconnelly

What about final delivery formats? I believe the audio tracks for blue ray discs are 96k. Not sure about digital cinema.. So at some point the 48k files have to be up sampled and that may not be good for the integrity if the audio.

I was recording an interview with Mr. Moore for a documentary after he did "Roger and Me" in the Brill Blg in NYC when a loud siren went by. He asked me if he could back up to get his response clean, I said "Of course, yes please". He said "Im actually one of the few directors that really care about good sound." I said "Thats what they all say.." He said " shut the f--- up!" I guess he has limits..

The Ultrasone Pro series are absolutely the best headphones for what we do! If you spend time in headphones, you need to check these out. Much like listening to good speakers, comfy and- magneticly shielded! A Schoeps, a cooper and Ultrasone 900 equals an incredibly accurate listening experience.

I had the amazing experience of doing sound for an interview with Ray at his house in LA. We pulled up to his house in our beat up van and knocked on his door. He answered the door claiming total ignorance of the interview. He said, "you came all the way from Canada in that (our van)!? Mother F '&@$r! C'mon in! We'll do it by the pool!" Awesome interview, then he split, leaving us alone in his house with just the housekeeper. He had a recording studio in his kitchen and platinum albums in his bathroom! Great guy, incredible talent and an experience Ill never forget.

I have been using the DPA 4017 for a while with the mighty MKH 50 and find them to be quite complimentary. The sanken is not very close at all and the MKH 60, although nice, is not as good a match as the 4017, IMO.

I made the move to DPA lavs a couple of years ago for the significant increase in fidelity over the sanken cos11's I had been using. The 4060 omni's were my mic of choice but they ship with microdot adaptors which are large and needed to be rewired with lectro compatible connectors. I found the wiring scheme recommended by lectro and DPA made for a really hot signal but some experimentation with different resistor values in the connector padded it down to a happy medium. Remember that Lectro sm's arent as hot as sma's and different than UM's too. The 4061's are about 10db lower by design and are good for screamers. The supplied hi freq boost cap is handy for ties and thick clothing. They also work great in cars. In the music world, these mics are highly regarded for piano and strings. IMO, they are worth the extra money ($500ish), but it hurts more when they are busted by silly actors..

Im up for anything that helps me do a better job, which I think is what the Original post is looking for. Im a long way from the bottom.

Just bought a Decimator downconvertor and a used standard def transmitter for under a grand. It pains me to have to cough up for stuff that has historically been supplied by the camera dept., but recently getting any video at all much less consistently has become an issue. Partly due to a new generation of camera centric DIT's, lower budgets where that equipment is the first thing to be cut from the camera budget, I guess. A grand fixed my problem.

A plus to the cl9/788 setup is that you get 8 iso's plus a l/r mix track on the 788 as opposed to only 8 tracks with an analog mixer/788 setup. A negative to the cl9 is that you only get one band of eq as opposed to the usual hi/low shelf plus mid sweep with an analog mixer. A cl9 is a couple of grand, a nice juicy sounding cooper or sonosax is waay more.

The metering on the 664 are not calibrated in dbfs, where the top is zero, but in Dbu and you dont see what level is hitting the convertor, which I thought was odd..

Loving my new DPA 4017. Very detailed. Stopped using my noise cancelling Sanken because intelligibility punches through noise.

The camera operator, sitting on the dolly next to his Red camera in 'idle' mode (fans roaring) said "Can we turn this ^%$# thing off, I cant hear the director!" Classic. Now I know how soundguys felt 60 years ago.

I was recently asked to provide a reference audio track on a Red Epic (short for Epidemic). This camera emits so much RF hash that three different (model, freq, etc) recievers were swamped and could not get near this camera without interference and noise. I recommended a lead-lined helmet to the operator.

Condolences to family and friends.