nika paniashvili

If you'll buy 788 you will defo need an extra 1000$ for cl-8. nomad really wins the price battle here, be it 6 or 8 channels. I DLd nomad simulator and as an SD user I must say I didn't really get full grip of all the features it has, but Im sure when you really get to play with one + if you have the MANUAL(!) you dig it up really fast. and even if you don't do ISO's now, they'll ask for it some day

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interesting idea. gonna try that out. other than that Im gonna make some tests with my recorder+studio monitors. guess moderate levels save not only ears, but nerves as well and maybe some relationships on set too!

sometimes it happens that a water pipe, a ballast or other noisemaker is placed next to me and Im pretty far away off the set and if that sound is leaking through the cans Ijust remember it so I have it separated (in my head) from what the mics are picking on actual set. as well checking with boom op is a regular practice for me.

thanks for all the advices! I'll be more consistent with hp levels from now on. I do play with levels sometimes and get into paranoia with it, but generally I follow what has been told above - like comfortable levels (10-11 clock on 744 and 12 when hearing in for some specific noise/sound from background). When I have time Im listening to dailies on my dynaudio monitors in studio. As well I'm a bit familiar with noise reduction tools like izotope rx and others, so more or less know what can be removed without giving much damage and artifacts to the regions. As well some types of lights buzz and genny noise are really not a problem, but I believe the more Ill achieve on set the less time will be spent on it by dialog editor in post. My headphones are sennheiser hd-25s. I have sonny's mdr-7506, but don't really like them because of more "leakage". the scene with camera noise I described was really that bad, because could hear it in the studio as well on calibrated system... I did remove it by playing with it very briefly... but on the set this other soundie turned the level so low that it almost hit zero, which I found a bit suspicious and got me writing this thread... Gamarjoba Robert! I have met your utility girl once or twice in the past. never worked with her though. But I know well the rest of the Georgian crew that was on that movie. I work with them on features, doc's, shorts and commercials during past 5 or 6 years. So thats a lot of hellos Im gonnna say! btw I got offered the job as "boom operator" (utility I guess) on that movie, but turned it down due to some personal problems I had at that time. Would have got to know you if I hadn't... shame

greetings everyone! my first post on this great forum, wooohoo. My name is Nika Paniashvili. Im 27 years old sound mixer/recordist from Georgia (the country). been passively viewing some very mind opening threads in here for a while and decided to jump in with a question. hoping for your advice. Some years ago I boomed for a well known European mixer and once or twice when I reported some problem he said it's all good and gave me his cans to check out the mix. so I listened through his recorder with his hp level adjustment and the problem indeed was inaudible, simply because the levels where very low. What I heard was just the dialog with very little background. just finished doing a feature film on which we had a truck sounding "noiseless" Arricam st. so, one day a fellow sound guy dropped by on the set. I gave him my headphones to listen to the camera noise and he told me I was monitoring on a too high level. he said he never listens on such levels. what he must hear is the dialog and if S/n ratio is fine the rest will be cut away. I was wondering what headphone levels are common for monitoring? on my SD744 I set the hp somewhere from 9 to 12 O'clock, depending on dynamics of the scene. 12 clock might be a bit high, but I like to hear whats really in there so I can decide if it really is a problem or not. so is low level monitoring common and good practice or just "I dont hear, its not there" thing?