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Barton Hewett

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    Location sound technician/boom op/audio post for doc, reality, corporate and drama

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  1. Hi, I'm working for a documentary company that is doing a show on Chinese food and they will be requiring me a sound mixer with doc experience for a shoot in San Francisco Oct. 07 -12. Rate is $600.00 a day (which I know is a bit low, but you'll be fed well!). PM me if interested. Thanks, Barton Hewett
  2. This seems like a really good deal! Am I missing something? http://www.trewaudio.com/store/WisyCom-NAB-US-Intro-Special.html
  3. I have a Crown on loan from Trew and will test it this week, hopefully. Cheap: $75.00. If it works, I may buy a few more.
  4. We don't have enough wireless to mic all the students, nor the number of inputs in the recorder. I'm going to try either Crown's or the AKG suggested above. Lots of Crown's available on Trew's used list.
  5. but you guys are right - it is difficult. Last night, I was wishing I had a parabolic mic...
  6. Thanks for the replies. The problem I am having is that no matter how much you try to remind them, the Profs forget to repeat the question. The best success was last year when I had to cover a graduate seminar. There were a group of students sitting at a long table with the Prof at one end. I could get the student's who were close to the Prof off his COS-11; for the students at the other end of that table, I planted another COS-11 and most of the audio was usable (surprising how good those little lavs are!). The rooms I am in now are bigger. I am going to give the AKG boundary mic suggested by ramello a try. Thanks, Barton
  7. Hi Rich, In the larger auditorium, we have 4 SM57s set up on stands and it works great but it's not practical in the small classrooms as it interrupts the flow of the class. I tried using a hand held stick mic and having the students pass it around but that didn't work either as what happens in the classrooms is discussion and having to wait for the mic proved a hindrance. To do these recordings, we have to be a transparent as possible; even pointing a shotgun would be too much. So, it's a problem. Anyway, thanks for the input.
  8. I feel silly asking this, but I sometimes work for a college where we record lectures in smallish rooms where the professor is miced (wireless) but the room is not. When students ask questions, they don't get picked up on the wire well enough to use and we have to devote lots of time to re-voicing the questions. I'm wondering if anyone out there can recommend a good inexpensive mic that could be placed on a stand that could pick up the students questions reasonably well. This audio doesn't have to be broadcast quality but legible and usable. This has to be a simple setup as some of the recorders aren't professional sound techs but students with limited training. thanks, Barton
  9. Thanks Greg for the link. Some very useful info there. But if I hadn't posted this, I wouldn't have got such a nice response from Larry. Thanks Larry. You convinced me to keep a few as there have been a few situations in the last year where I have used my cos-11s in situations where I didn't want to (i.e. water). These could work well. Guess I'll get out the soldering iron...
  10. Hey, I just came into a bunch of these. I think they are Lectro lavs (M152s?). I seem to recall using these in my news days and they were adequate at best. Is there any reason to use them or are my set of cos-11, trams, and Countryman c6s going to survive without their addition?
  11. We did a workflow test and it turns out it is a bit tricky if you don't know what you are doing. The Blade defaults to a setting that assumes that you are sending audio via the stereo mini connector on the side of the unit, the analogue input; or at least the unit that we were using did. To make matters worse, it will still read the audio coming in via the SDI cable so you could think that all is good. What one needs to do is access the audio settings (touching the meters in the lower left corner of the screen) and specifically arm the tracks that correspond to what is going into the camera (e.g. CH 1 & 2). It will record 12 tracks if you can supply that but only after specifically arming the individual pairs of tracks. The shoot went well. The only glitch was when the camera guy discovered that he had forgot to put the SSD in the Blade after the first 20 minutes of shooting... Luckily we had it "backed up" on tape!
  12. Thanks for the answer. I do know how to get good audio to the camera, so I'll be OK there. In talking with the producer, she said "We had problems with the audio last time and want to make sure it doesn't happen again" so I'm guessing the last audio guy (not me) screwed something up and the Blade got blamed, if you get my drift. Anyway, I'm off to the rentals store to get a how to on using it which can't hurt. Hopefully more knowledge will mean more work!
  13. Hey, I have an EPK booked next week and they want too use The Blade, an "external hard drive we hook up to the HDX 900 and record to tape and the Blade." Anyone have any experience with this?
  14. NO, I'm not that into working for $15.00 a day...
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