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  1. Thanks for the advice which is greatly appreciated.

     

    I hope it is the same when working with a Lectrosonics SRA receiver too. I have set the gain in the receiver to zero dB, and the channel 3 & 4 recorder gain to +5dB, as you have suggested.

     

    Now, I If I am to connect a shotgun microphone like an MKH 416 running on external +48V phantom power, will the +5db setting will be adequate or would I need to increase it?

     

  2. I am in favor of using 4x8 or 12  black thick cardboard boards creating a sound baffle which stand up on their own, when a couple of them are taped together. More effective than sound blankets, zero erection time and no reflections (camera department loves them due to the negative bounce). Not easily foldable like the sound blankets, but I strap them on top of my car, IKEA ad style.

  3. On 4/30/2020 at 4:11 PM, EmRR said:

    Asking as I encountered someone who was using the grommeted sides of two BBG's, taped together, to make something that would cover a pair of Sennheiser MKH 800's for DMS or Blumlien use.  It struck me one could possibly use a single BBG and mount a second grommet, and I wonder how treacherous an operation that might be.  I don't know what happens when you pierce the internal fabric, nor how fragile the frame is under cutting pressure, getting the grommet mounted, etc.    I'm told Rycote won't sell a version like this, likely doesn't meet their desired protection spec.    You could of course do this with a standard longer mono windscreen, but I'm thinking about something with a smaller visual footprint that wouldn't require another specialized conn box.    Thanks for any thoughts.  

     

    On 8/2/2020 at 2:33 PM, EmRR said:

     

    Thanks for that link.  

     

    On 8/2/2020 at 2:33 PM, EmRR said:

     

    Thanks for that link.  

    I Hi 

    I have this spare Rycote SuperShield front end which you could easily modify to fit a 8060 with an end cap.

    Rycote SuperShield front end.jpg

  4. On 11/22/2011 at 12:54 AM, Glen Trew said:

    The 416T-F is a T-powered 416 that has a flat response instead of the curved response (high-mid freq boost, low freq roll-off) of the regular 415 and 416. The "F" version is rare because the market did not embrace it, and Sennheiser stopped making it soon after they started. As I recall, the F version can be reversed to have the 416's normal curve.

     

    The reason the 416 has the shaped response that it has is not an accident or a mistake, but intentional for the application for which it was designed (pointing at an actor from an overhead angle at a distance on a boom pole). A very directional mic like the 416 is made to get a distant voice to sound closer than it actually is. When people used the 416F (whether 12T or 48ph) on the end of a pole 4 feet away from an actor, except for the reduced off-axis noise and increased low freq ambience (see below), they weren't happy that it sounded like it was 4 feet away. Also, since the interference tube design of shotgun mics like the 416 rejects the high and mid freqs much more than the low freqs (below 150Hz it is nearly an omni mic), the 416F makes the low freq ambience seem louder than it actually is. This is one advantage of the fixed low freq roll-off of the 416.

     

    Glen Trew

    So where does one get it modded to the regular curve and P48 conversion?

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