Olle Sjostrom

If id ever attempt such a thing I THINK id go for lavs only, prep the actors far in advance, make sure they sound good, record on the txs and have my small Nova, or similar, rig either visible or not, like in a backpack. I guess that depends on the level of stealth though. A boom is great of course, but sometimes it's just in the way. Especially if you're trying to be unintrusive. 

One time I filmed a scene in a park that needed to be on the low. So I just gave up on the boom, got the time to really get the lavs to work and was allowed that time. I sat on a bench with headphones on, all the gear in a backpack and just let that roll. I mixed using the app basically, occasionally I reached down in the bag to adjust some things. I just looked like a dude with a phone and headphones sitting on a bench with some weird bag and another guy with a monitor and follow focus next to him. No one cared... no one cared about the dude with a camera filming two actors arguing over and over again. 

This was 9 years ago so gear is smaller now. 
 

Video village were in a car on the sidewalk.

Well... It's what I thought initially. Trump MAGA in action. And it’s working !

And just to be clear, I dont really have an opinion. I hope lectrosonics can grow and prosper as usual and keep making amazing stuff.

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Tariff buster

Freedman says it is among the first solid examples of Trump’s tariffs working the way he’d said they would. 

“Dude, 90 days. Within about 90 days, I’ll be making RØDE product, and we’ll have Mackie product there as well. So Uncle Donald’s tariffs are no problem for me. It’s a double whammy.

 

Sorry for hijacking, if anyone else is a fan of birdsong, I can recommend listening to a radio show called Dawn Chorus from RTE - https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/mooney/generic/2024/0410/1442810-the-dawn-chorus-2024/

or the Swedish version Fågelsångsnatten where I worked one night; we paddled the whole night through. It’s a live 8 hour broadcast
https://www.sverigesradio.se/grupp/33920
Amazing job!

I was using a mixpre 10, DPA4017s in a stereo setup (just a rough ORTF style thing). The show host wore lavs on their foreheads. 
 

Hope you have a great session!

And sometimes all you need is a wrench and a hammer.

I reread this post and found that you could read a lot of snark into it, didn’t mean it that way at all! So please have that in mind…
 

These ” far superior” options haven’t really been around for that long, so you haven’t been in the dark exactly. There’s already kind of a plethora of them and all equally usable. If you think of it as different tools, specifically screwdrivers, I’d say izotope is a screwdriver with replaceable bits of a higher standard than your regular Target (or equivalent) screwdrivers might be, whereas the DxRevive is maybe a specialized special metal screwdriver that will work on most screws but not all, and the other ones are just variations on that. No one of them really offers a way to very easily apply them and get a good result, they still need tweaking and listening before applying. 

Izotope is going to see itself outrun in a few years unless they come up with something really bonkers mindblowingly crazy in like a year, like stem separating speech from a live feed and cleaning it with no audible artifacts, accurately identifying accents and language quirks, generating text and making that text editable and still match the source like Jim mentioned.. (I mean those things will probably happen within two years or is already in the works) 

but still I don’t feel like it’s ever going to be not a tool. There are no things that can do EVERYTHING. If that were the case than we’d have ONE audio recorder and ONE microphone… 

i guess what I’m saying is that new tools are great and they make things sound good, but they still need post producing and curating. I work in radio, and most journalists are not interested in good sounding material, they want the “text” or audible speech, not good sounding speech. These AI tools are great for “rescuing” bad audio, but the downside is - now they have even more reason not to properly learn to capture good sounding speech! And since bad audio = bad audio however you look at it, then.. well. Maybe that will change someday, if someone comes up with a way to physically move the sound source to the microphone instead of the other way around…

sorry for getting all philosophical, too

It was probably the first version, early. I bet you none of the pro AI models can do my tapes any good, unfortunately. At least the ones with real bad noise..

I used it as a beta tester but only for one thing really: my recordings of myself as a kid in cassettes. Those tapes were recorded on just a regular tape player standing on a table in my room so totally worthless audio wise. Thought maybe re-synthesizing my voice with material from other recordings could help, but no… first barrier of course being the language. One recording I used Adobe Podcast on came back sounding like every single language, it even changed my voice from female to male at points. 
So, totally worthless material still equals worthless after that. But that figures, obviously. 

When you say the whole boat I basically a hot tub, is it in fact just a floating hot tub? Or is there some motor on it, or anywhere where crew could be sitting?

On 2/4/2025 at 8:49 AM, Constantin said:

...places have different names in different locations. For example, here in Germany (and I believe Sweden, too?) we call it the „East Sea“ (similar to North Sea). Almost everyone else calls it the Baltic Sea. I honestly do not see a big problem with renaming something. That‘s not an authoritarian trait (ironically, Google has done this in other places, too, usually when there are authoritarian leaders). 

Well, yes that's right, we call it East Sea instead of the Baltic Sea. But! That name change was not due to some authoritarian leader in a country and Google hasn't changed it because someone asked them to. 
When I wrote my post I didn't actually know it was a decision made by the administration, and Google renamed it because of that. You COULD interpret that as just abiding, or taking sides, or Trump's administration being authoritarian and/or showing colonial tendencies. I'm leaning towards Trump is just saying stuff, playing a Big Guy and maybe there's not much weight to those words. And this might just be a small detail, but still. It's interesting that you can change a name like that. If it were that all of USA, Canada, all of the Caribbean and most other countries in america called the gulf "Gulf of America", then I'll change my mind. My understanding is that Trump just wants to call it Gulf of America and then Google changed the name. I could be wrong of course. 

Oh no.. so sorry Jeff. 

This a reply from my iPhone using Edge. I think it’s working? 

Well, if a leader says "let's rename this geographical location that is called the exact same thing all over the world" and gets to do that, is that not authoritarian?
I'm not saying it's a dictatorship, you have chosen a leader (Putin was also elected once, btw). But still, the devil is in the details. And renaming a very important geographical location (a pretty huge one as well) is hardly a detail. I dunno. It's foreshadowing in my book. Let's hope nothing else happens. 

So I just got the news that google decided to rename the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America in Google Maps. So starting to not being funny at all even more. If a giant corporation like that can make changes like that, laying the way for more authoritarian moves on Trumps part… dark.

oh hey here I was thinking google was being a doormat, but it turns out I had missed the part about renaming the gulf was actually a decision made by the administration and not by google… Wow. That’s some Putin shit right there

Sounds like maybe a Cantar X3 might tick your boxes. But I haven’t actually used one so I wouldn’t know sound wise, but on paper it looks and sounds like a device that would cater all your needs. Only problem is they’re not making them anymore, but you can find them second hand I guess

8 hours ago, RadoStefanov said:

I dont know what Russia and China are doing to their people.

By the way at the moment the chances of major cities in Sweden being nuked in the future is 60/40.

The sad part is the swedish politicians was forced by Us to make that choice.

And what is the only country ever to have used a nuke to actually kill?

also, I don’t know either what Russia and china are doing to their people, but the narrative is heavily US positive here in the western world. And I’m not convinced that the US is ”good” in that sense, more than any other countries. I mean I can’t say that there’s any one Right Country in this political landscape, they’re all trying to gain power in one way or another. Sure, if rather let a democratic power have the rights to things, but I’d rather choose to not have to be influenced by warmongering crazy rich people. But that’s not a choice I have because people with power are going to rule with iron fists, no matter if they’re democratically elected or not. It’s the same thing. In my book…

I mean yeah we couldn’t choose not to join NATO for example. 
 

this was a huge derail, I’m sorry. The whole crazy world leader thing is appalling right now. Israel Palestine, Russia Ukraine, Trump/Elon vs World (both virtual and physical Greenland and hitler salute shenanigans)… 

So let’s say a rich democracy with huge military and economic power allows for companies to grow huge and in and of themselves be a power big enough to crush other smaller companies and/or even countries. Let’s say this company wants to limit the use of its products in a specific country, even though the market of these products is “free” or liberal. 
Is that still democracy? Or free? Or liberal?

Are huge conglomerates not a power big enough to sway different policies in different countries? Are those companies not very much like in 1700s Europe and elsewhere, where the rich land owners owned people and property and ruled over them with no regards to, say, livelihood or rights? Like a feodal community almost. Or are they just a product of democracy and liberalism?

All the shiitake that Russia and china are doing to their people is terrible, but from my pov, the western capitalist democracy where we, like cattle, are being persuaded into, and get stuck to, products that lock us into an ecosystem, is equally bad. 

We’ll know in a few years I guess

Yeah you have a weird president saying funny things jokingly (maybe?) , being a bully and so on. 
Hardly funny. 
Hardly funny that that kind of a guy with that kind of power has a buddy who (kind of) owns space, the internet, our cars, our brains (possibly). I doubt think trump is scary at all, he’s just a bully albeit with enormous power, whereas Elon is a real scary dude. 

as for Europe.. I mean you can’t just say Europe and mean all the countries, we are extremely different, not at all like your states. And far right wing almost nazi politics is hardly a joke either, and we’re seeing the rise of it in some countries, which is scary. Not saying we’re not a joke though. But it’s not funny. 
 

i would argue the whole world is a joke, but you know who’s inspiring us westerners the most?
 

and… did he just make that salute?

On the other hand, people have known for a long time that smoking is very detrimental for your general health and is a cancer hazard, and we’ve sort of learned from that and put laws in place to make sure less and less people start, or keep, smoking. But yeah then those nicotine bags came along…

my point being, these warnings crop up from time to time and it doesn’t mean that everyone needs to stop using phones, but rather that the providers need to rethink and redesign to ensure more privacy. But then they come up with a new fancy app and they upend most of it. 
 

Money.

I like to, as we call it in Sweden, killgissa (to guess, like a guy does) which means you take a wild guess basically, so here it is:

The mixer is experienced and good. The boom op might’ve been new. So the mixer puts all the attention to the lavs for those shots, and in the tighter shots they can get a good boom sound. 
I make this guess purely based on a job back in 2016 when I was offered a mixing job for a new tv show with 12 pages every day where if I wanted a decent salary id have to have an inexperienced boom operator. I wouldn’t hear

of it so I split my salary with an equal instead. This production might’ve had the same solution. 

The boom op might not have been wearing headphones (which I have seen photos of, appalling), and since the mixer was mainly focusing on the radios, they might not have bothered listening to the boom in those shots.

there’s also the possibility that the DP and crew was nervous about shadows or reflections with this supposed fledgling operator, so in those wider/half wide shots there’s just simply “no room for error”, that boom op might’ve burned some bridges already with the camera crew… 

Go to the sound mixer directly. He/she might have a good story or reasoning. Most of the time these things, as you know, have nothing to do with sound. 

1 hour ago, Bob K said:

My client mailed a check forty days after the date of the invoice (ten days late).  It was good.  He again complemented my work.

 

For anyone wondering why I didn't post this two months ago, it's because I couldn't get back on this site.  Even though I have recorded my name and password in an address book, I was told wrong name, wrong password.  And there's no way to contact anyone with the site about the problem.  It's happened to me before.  I've now succeeded in changing my password (again).  And I expect to have to go through the entire exercise again the next time I try to log in.

This is off topic, I know, but I had this exact problem and then it was the theme that was the problem. After switching themes everything was fine again.

One unit is a thing that Rado built before Zaxcom manufactured the Nova. I think it was a Nomad that Rado opened up and put receivers inside of it? There’s a thread on here. 
anyway, oneunit is now a Rado trademark that he uses when talking about the Nova, because the nova was probably inspired by Rado. But I dunno

You can even make it even easier in Reaper. There is an "action" (Insert > Click source) that creates an item from Click Source, and you can modify the frequency and sound of that  click by double clicking that item. Now with later verions you can even customize separate beats from eachother, so you could have the 1 be louder or higher in pitch etc. And the click follows tempo and time changes so you can just drag that item out and it will adapt to the time/tempo changes in the project. 

Very easy

MKH50 is a superb mic wherever you use it. But it can be disappointing outdoors because of its size. There's this strange thing happening where you'd actually need a much bigger zeppelin for it to really sound good, but then you won't get as close as you want because of its size again. I used the MKH50 with a ball gag for quick in- and outs on reality shows. Worked perfectly in half breezes. If the wind picked up just a bit then it was totally useless. I had a zeppelin for it but again, that was a bit too big to really come close and get a good hit. 

I bought a Rode NTG3 which is a good mic. I preferred it over a MKH416 a while because of it having a bit more oomph to it. I changed my mind later on when I realized the 416s brightness is what makes it very useful, whereas the NTG3 has a dullness to it that indeed makes it sound fuller, but it doesn't help you in the field. 

Exterior shots often introduce the challenge of "reach" or distance and wind which takes the sound to weird places. 

If you really want a mic that you can use outdoors all the time I'd go for the CMIT, just bite that bullet. Maybe even a miniCMIT. 
One step down, still a fantastic mic is the DPA 4017 (that might be available used somewhere). 
The MKH416 obviously. It's one of those, like the MKH50, "boring" mics that just work no matter what. It might not have the most exciting sound, but it does the job and it never fails. Which is worth something. 

I'd say the barking order would be: get a zepp or a ballgag (or both), look at the cinela line, don't cheap out (I know that's easy to say but you WILL thank yourself later) and then get a mic, try many models. 
Trust your ears. 
 

Fire colors! I'll be wearing gray pants and stark blue shirts all year. 

Seriously though, great success! Apart from ugly (you're not supposed to look at mics anyways) the modularity is awesome.