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BillsBayou

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    New Orleans, LA
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    Father of three trying to embarrass the hell out of my kids with my gear.
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  1. I'm well into the realm of adapter-this-adapter-that. If I need some sort of external leveler, I'll have to pull that in later.
  2. Yes, the camera's mic input is mini-TRS. The Sennheiser receivers send their output to the same type of connector. Dan's idea is to have his tech guy build a 'Y'-shaped cable to feed one receiver to the left channel, the other to the right channel. As a test of his idea, Dan used a similar splitter that took two XLR connectors down to a 1/8" plug. He then connected a mic to each of the XLR connectors and did a sound check on the camcorder. This is the kind of good stuff that happens only by going in to the store. He'll make sure it works before billing me.
  3. Thanks for all the positive advice, guys. I went over to PSS at lunch. They're 8 minutes from my office. Dan Izen is a fantastic guy. I walked in, told him exactly what I needed to do, but that I did not know what I needed in gear. He pulled a Sennheiser G3 set off the shelf and said I should start with that. The same set which I had added to my B&H wish list. I was feeling comfortable already. He's going to order the Sennheiser handheld kit and have his tech guy fabricate a 'Y' splitter. He took the time to explore what I needed to do. Turns out, I don't need a mixer. I'm going to use a 'Y' splitter to pull in the lav mic on one channel and the handheld on the other. I can sum to mono later. He's going to hold off on the sale until we do a test of all the equipment together. Getting the right help from an in-person interview is indeed the only way to go. I got to learn a few terms, some techniques, and look at the accessories on the wall to give me even more ideas on what to do next.
  4. When I finally get all my gear, I don't want to have enough equipment to get paid gigs. Even crappy paid gigs. I just want to bring the audio quality up enough that viewers don't get distracted. I don't know enough to have an intelligent conversation with anyone in a sound store. Sharman, I'm guess you're talking about "Professional Sound Services" on South Salcedo? I'm at $1500 on-line with B&H, so I guess for that amount of money, not knowing what I'm doing, I'm best going in there. $1500 is where I'm topping out in pain. I'd rather not have them say "Oh, but you can't get anywhere for less than $3000". $1500 is not my introductory budget, it's the "what the hell did I just do" budget.
  5. The Sennheiser G3 wireless lav kit at B&H: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/618739-REG/Sennheiser_EW112PG3_A_ew_112_p_G3_Camera.html The Sennheiser G3 wireless handheld kit at B&H: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/618747-REG/Sennheiser_EW135PG3_A_ew_135_p_G3_Camera.html The Rolls MX124 4-channel mixer at B&H: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/294571-REG/Rolls_MX124_MX124_Portable_4_Channel.html The Sennheiser G3 ENG kit at B&H that confuses me because I think it lacks a second receiver: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/618735-REG/Sennheiser_EW_100_ENG_G3_A_Evolution_G3_100_Series.html
  6. I'm the "documentarian" for our garden club. Used to shoot just photos of guest speakers, I now want video. I have a Canon Vixia HF G10, but like anything, if I want to get the speaker, I'll need a mic. Since we do hands-on work in our field (sometimes IN a field), I'm looking at a wirelessa lav mic kit. Second, I'd like the presenter to also take questions from the audience, so now I need a handheld mic. Third, I have a Rode shotgun mic that I use for my children's school performances, I can use this for background. Lav, handheld, stereo shotgun: that's 4 channels. Budget: $500 $1000 $1500 (firm) This is MY mad money and I'm at the level of pain and doubting my sanity at this point. Turns out, anything kit below $600 has just enough detractors to tell me that I need at least a Sennheiser G3 set-up. Some reviews even point to the Sennheisers specifically. Here's where I am (at B&H): Sennheiser ew 112-p G3 Camera Mount Wireless Microphone System with ME2 Lavalier Mic - A (516-558 MHz): This gets me a Lav Mic, a transmitter and a receiver. Sennheiser ew 135-p G3 Camera Mount Wireless Microphone System with 835 Handheld Mic - A (516-558 MHz): This gets me a handheld mic with a built-in transmitter, and a reciever. Rolls MX124 Portable 4 Channel Stereo Mixer Converters for the 1/8" plugs to go into the XLR inputs of the mixer. Questions: 1) Did I do okay with my shopping list? 2) B&H sells Sennheiser ENG kits with one receiver, a lav + transmitter, and a handheld XLR transmitter plug. That's two transmitters with only one receiver. Am I missing something? Wouldn't this just result in a pile of crappy clipping of the handheld plug and the lav are transmitting on the same frequency? I'd need to buy another receiver and a mixer if I wanted to use both sound sources with such a kit. Right? I'll post links to all the products in question in a reply.
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