WJJZ1069 Posted September 7, 2015 Report Share Posted September 7, 2015 Hey all, I was searching around before posting this, but I couldn't find it immediately (I hope I didn't miss a big thread on it). I notice that I'm recording audio from laptops more often than I thought I would be (all for broadcast work where a subject is sitting at a laptop listing to some random audio). The producers/camera man just ask me to lav the laptop speakers, but that creates various other problems including just bad quality. I would love to find if there's an aux > lemo5 or aux > TA-5 so I could just get direct audio out of the laptop and hook that up to a transmitter. Now, I know that would stop audio from coming out of the speakers, so I would also have to find a solution for that. I was thinking of also having this Aux out cable split so that I could hook up a small speaker and have the audio come out of that for the person at the laptop. Normally I would be fine with just securing a lav to a laptop to allow a bit of reality with shitty speakers, but I had some weird sounds because the speakers were hidden underneath the laptop on the last shoot. I just want to have a cable as an option in case that happens again. Also, what are your favorite ways of mic-ing up a computer if you want to include some of the ambient room noise? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarcanon Posted September 7, 2015 Report Share Posted September 7, 2015 If I'm understanding correctly, I would say record direct from the PC's audio out into a Tx, or, better, line in into your mixer. (Don't forget the output will be unbalanced stereo, so you'll need to account for that.) Record the room ambiance separately. I don't imagine it needs to be in sync, so you could just use your room tone track. Let post deal with mixing them. If you do record direct in to your mixer and you don't otherwise have a Comtek, you could use your wireless to feed an IFB signal from your mixer back to your actor and just make it look like he's jacked into the laptop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WJJZ1069 Posted September 8, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 8, 2015 The only issue with feeding audio back like that is just the time it takes to set up. I usually wont have the time to set up a comtek or IFB wireless, so that's why i was thinking setting up a mini speaker. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Radlauer Posted September 8, 2015 Report Share Posted September 8, 2015 How about a "Y" cable so that the "talent" can plug in ear buds and you can adapt out of a stereo mini to a TX.... You could build a cable wired like a Lectro MC35 only with a mini TRS instead of XLR...Or something along those lines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lloyd Carrick Posted September 8, 2015 Report Share Posted September 8, 2015 Possibly use a BEHRINGER U-CONTROL UCA202. It plugs in to a USB port and has left and right RCA outputs and an 1/8th" headphone output with its own volume control (could drive a small battery powered speaker). Cheers, Lloyd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Perkins Posted September 8, 2015 Report Share Posted September 8, 2015 Behringer is very cheap but also passed enough noise that I didn't want to hook it up to a playback PA system or use for in-ears. p Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lloyd Carrick Posted September 8, 2015 Report Share Posted September 8, 2015 Curious. In the past I used it to play quite loud thru a Nagra DSM amp on set and also checked music for playback, listening on headphones, and did not notice any particular added noise or hiss. L Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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