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Marco Lopez

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  1. Hello, It's been a long time that I wanted to know what's the level output that other sound engineers use to feed their headphones and why. And since I'm in this great group now, I can find out. I'm setting mine in a low level that I can hear clearly the dialogue. During the rehearsal I raise the level to make sure that nothing weird is happening and then I go down again. I would dare to say that this matter is also related to Mr. Wexler's topic "Petition to END LONG HOURS". Best regards, Marco
  2. Hey guys, Here's a booman you wish you never hire! http://www.todaysbigthing.com/2009/11/04 Perhaps you've seen this video. But anyway, here it goes for those who hasn't!
  3. Good morning, Thank you for your answers, RVD, senator and david. I got a funny story. I was involved in a project recently (low budget) and I had a ppm meeting with the director and the AD to talk about my sound worries. She assured me that se takes sound in consideration and that is very important! ( I don't know why, but every time I hear that line from a director I get the creeps). Then the locations were selected without asking my opinion. Anyway, the location(house) was in a remote place outside town in a small hill. One hour later several loading trucks started to pass by the location. I found out that there's a mine next to that place. And 1 km away there's an outdoor shooting target!! I was really in the hands of pure luck! Praying not to have a machine gun or a truck during the actors lines. 4 hours after the shooting started (the filming one) I got out the house to relax because I was really exhausted. One second later 3 military helicopters in formation were flying on top of the area we were shooting for 45 minutes! ( of course we had to wait). But then I started laughing and thinking is there anything else that could happen today? So, yeah, she got her lesson. She was embarrassed and apologized after those events. And I told her that bad locations( in sound terms) comes back to you. Production delays, frustration, you don't look professional and in the worst case you'll gonna have to spend money for ADR.
  4. Thank you Jeff for your answers. In situations like these I try always to do my best. I do have the SD 744T and I use boom and radio mics. I record wild lines and room tone and ambience as you say. I guess the frustration in some cases is not to be able to capture the performance of the actors while the take, takes place. Best regards, Marco
  5. So in the presented scenario, the part of the dialogue that takes place in the farest point of the camera (very long shot with a lot of headroom above the actors heads as they walk to the camera), they replace it with ADR and / or wild recording? I've seen(heard!) in some films a similar shot and the dialogue sounds as if there was a mike just in front of them.
  6. Senator, Rich thank you very much for your answers. Actually it's an honour to be a part of Jeff's group! I'll check the topic you've mentioned. Marco
  7. In a shooting whenever there's a very long shot, I get the creeps. Especialy when the actors start to talk way back and they keep on their dialogue lines as they walk towards the camera. I use radio mikes to deal with these situations, but there's always some clothing or some wind breeze or backround noise. So the question is how you guys deal with this situation? Omnidirectional radio mikes, cardioid? Wild recording? At the position camera do you use also boom mike? And a last question is the dpa 4060 omni capable of giving a similar sound of a boom mike? You're right I'm a newbie compare to you guys. So everytime I learn something new I get the feeling that I don't know anything! Best regards, Marco
  8. thanks michael for your answer i'll check that out
  9. Hi, Does anybody know if there are hairy covers for countryman b6? I've checked on the internet the Reinhardt Micro-Lap( http://www.reinhardt.tv/LAP.php ) but don't know really if they can be used with the country b6. Thank you, Marco
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