Earthworks SR314 Microphone from the Perspective of Live Streaming, Podcasting, and Voice Over
In today’s episode, we have a look at and a listen to the Earthworks SR314 condenser microphone. This microphone was designed as a live vocals microphone, but works very well for live-streaming, podcasting, and voice over work. It is a premium microphone with a premium price tag, but provides value in terms of its true-to-life voicing, stellar off-axis uniformity, and incredible build quality. And it looks nice, too.
If you’d like to learn how to make great dialogue audio for your film and video projects, please have a look at my courses including processing dialogue audio in Adobe Audition and DaVinci Resolve/Fairlight, recording sound, how to use the Zoom F4, F6, F8, and F8n, and how to get the most from the Sound Devices MixPre series of recorders.
Gear used or mentioned in this episode. The links below are Amazon.com, B&H Photo, Sweetwater, Pictureline or other affiliate links. As an affiliate, I earn from qualifying purchases:
Earthworks SR314 condenser microphone stainless steel - B&H, Sweetwater
Universal Audio Apollo x6 Thunderbolt 3 audio interface - B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon
Blackmagic Design ATEM Mini Pro HDMI switcher & recorder - B&H, Amazon
Sigma 24-70 f/2.8 DG OS HSM Art Lens for Canon EF - B&H, Pictureline, Amazon
Canon C200 camera for demonstration shots and live-streaming - B&H, Pictureline
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Copyright 2020, Curtis Judd
FEELWORLD LUT7S 7" HDMI/SDI 2,200 nit Monitor for Live-streaming and On-Camera
In today’s episode we review a 2,200 nit 7” monitor I use for my livestreams from FEELWORLD. They make the LUT7 in both HDMI only and HDMI + SDI models at an affordable price. The monitors support all of the best exposure, color, and focus tools like waveform, RGB parade, vector scope, RGB histograms, false color (in two varieties), zebras, and focus peaking.
If you’d like to learn how to make great dialogue audio for your film and video projects, please have a look at my courses at https://school.learnlightandsound.com including processing dialogue audio in Adobe Audition and DaVinci Resolve/Fairlight, recording sound, how to use the Zoom F4, F8, and F8n, and how to get the most from the Sound Devices MixPre series of recorders.
Gear used or mentioned in this episode. The links below are Amazon.com, B&H Photo, Sweetwater, Pictureline or other affiliate links. As an affiliate, I earn from qualifying purchases:
- LUT7 7” HDMI 2200 nit Monitor - Amazon, B&H
- LUT7S 7” HDMI SDI 2200 nit Monitor - B&H FEELWORLD Direct (non affiliate link)
- FEELWORLD Amazon Store including cables and accessories - Amazon
- Beyerdynamic DT770 Pro 80ohm Headphones - Sweetwater, Amazon
- Sound Devices 888 Mixer/Recorder - B&H, Sweetwater
- Sennheiser MKH 8050 Supercardioid Boom Microphone - B&H, Amazon
- Aputure Light Dome II soft box - B&H, Pictureline, Amazon
- Aputure 300x bi-color LED light - B&H, Pictureline, Amazon
- Blackmagic Design Pocket Cinema Camera 6K used for the talking head and b-roll shots - B&H, Pictureline
- Sigma 24-70 f/2.8 DG OS HSM Art Lens for Canon EF - B&H, Pictureline, Amazon
- Canon C200 camera for demonstration shots and live-streaming - B&H, Pictureline
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Copyright 2020, Curtis Judd
Live Sound for Video Session
Hello Soundies - this week we covered your pre-submitted questions. If you'd like to submit your questions ahead of time, please be sure to enroll for free at our school and be sure to opt in for the emails where we gather your questions.
Gear discussed or used for this livestream. Full disclosure - the links below are affiliate links. As an affiliate, I earn from qualifying purchases.
- ATEM Mini Pro 4 HDMI capture and switcher for live-streaming - B&H, Amazon
- ATEM Mini 4 HDMI capture and switcher for live-streaming - B&H, Amazon
- Universal Audio Apollo x6 Thunderbolt 3 Audio Interface with digital signal processing - B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon
- Allen & Heath SQ5 Digital Mixer - B&H, Sweetwater
- Shure SM7B Broadcast Dynamic Microphone - B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon
- Sound Devices MixPre II Series Recorders - B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon
- RODECaster Pro recorder/USB audio interface - B&H, Sweetwater
- Panasonic GH5 4K camera - B&H, Pictureline, Amazon
- Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K - B&H, Pictureline
- Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K - B&H, Pictureline
- RODE NTG3 Shotgun Microphone - B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon
- Sennheiser G4 wireless microphone system - B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon
- Focal Solo6 Be powered monitors/speakers - B&H, Sweetwater
- KRK Rokit 5 G4 powered monitors/speakers - B&H, Sweetwater
- DEITY Connect wireless microphone system - B&H, Amazon
- Sennheiser MKE2 lavalier microphone - B&H, Sweetwater
- Shure TL47 lavalier microphone - B&H, Sweetwater
- ZOOM Livetrak L-8 Recorder/Mixer - B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon
Copyright 2020, Curtis Judd
Live Sound for Video Session: Q&A
Hello Soundies, in this week's Sound for Video Session, we discussed your sound for video questions. You can sign up to receive the invite email where you can submit your questions ahead of time over at School.LearnLightAndSound.com.
Castmarker can help you make marks in your podcast recordings even if your recorder doesn’t support markers.
Gear discussed or used for this livestream. Full disclosure - the links below are affiliate links. As an affiliate, I earn from qualifying purchases.
- ATEM Mini Pro 4 HDMI capture and switcher for live-streaming - B&H, Amazon
- ATEM Mini 4 HSMI capture and switcher for live-streaming - B&H, Amazon
- Sound Devices MixPre II Series audio recorders - B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon
- Behring Shark FBQ100 Automatic Feedback Destroyer includes an audio delay feature which you could potentially use to re-sync your audio to video when live streaming - B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon
- XLR Audio cables. I have mine custom made by Performance Audio
- Audient USB audio interfaces - B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon
- RODE VideoMic NTG on-camera shotgun microphone - B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon
- DEITY D3 Pro on-camera shotgun microphone - B&H, Amazon
- DEITY Connect wireless microphone system - B&H, Amazon
- Shure SM-7B broadcast dynamic microphone - B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon
- Sennheiser MKH416 shotgun microphone - B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon
- Sennheiser ME66/K6 shotgun microphone - B&H, Amazon
- Sennheiser G4 wireless microphone system - B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon
- Shure in-ear monitors (se215) - B&H, Sweetwater
- Azden SGM-3500L shotgun microphone - B&H
Copyright 2020, Curtis Judd
ATEM Mini Sound Settings - Compressor, EQ, Limiter, Expander
In today’s episode we run through how to setup the EQ, compressor, expander, and limiter in the Blackmagic Design ATEM Mini and ATEM Mini Pro. This will help you achieve better sound on your livestreams. And, the settings we cover can work in other situations as well such as post processing video sound or when using other hardware.
If you’d like to learn how to make great dialogue audio for your film and video projects, please have a look at my courses including processing dialogue audio in Adobe Audition and DaVinci Resolve/Fairlight, recording sound, how to use the Zoom F4, F8, and F8n, and how to get the most from the Sound Devices MixPre series of recorders.
Gear used or mentioned in this episode. The links below are Amazon.com, B&H Photo, Sweetwater Sound or other affiliate links. As an affiliate, I earn from qualifying purchases:
- Blackmagic Design ATEM Mini Pro live-streaming USB capture device and switcher - B&H, Amazon
- Blackmagic Design ATEM Mini Pro live-streaming USB capture device and switcher - B&H, Amazon
- RODE NT1 microphone - B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon
- Sound Devices MixPre audio mixer/recorder - B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon
- Canon C200 camera used as the main camera here - B&H, Pictureline
- Panasonic GH5 used as the overhead camera here - B&H, Pictureline, Amazon
- Olympus 45mm f/1.8 lens for GH5 - B&H, Amazon
- Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L lens for C200 - B&H, Pictureline, Amazon
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Copyright 2020, Curtis Judd
Sound for Video Session: Fairlight 16.2 Highlights & Q&A
In this session, we take a high-level look at some of the new features in DaVinci Resolve Fairlight 16.2 such as 32-bit audio support and automated loudness normalization. We then take your answers to the community and discuss.
To output from a dbx286s to a Canon 80D, you'll need the following. Full Disclosure, these are affiliate links. As an affiliate, I earn from qualifying purchases.
- 1/4" to 3.5mm TRS cable - B&H
- 3.5mm female to 3.5mm male line to mic level attenuator cable - B&H
Please consider taking my courses on how to record better audio and post processing over at Learn Light and Sound.
Garrett Sammons is hosting an online film contest called Isolation. You can check out the details at the Isolation contest page.
Gear covered or used in this episode. Full Disclosure, some of these are affiliate links. As an affiliate, I earn from qualifying purchases.
- RODE Wireless GO (White) - B&H
- TZ Audio Stellar X2 Vintage large diaphragm condenser microphone, used this for this livestream - TZ Audio
- dbx286S vocal channel strip - B&H Amazon
- RODE NTG4+ shotgun microphone - B&H
- RODECaster Pro podcast preamplifier/processor/recorder - B&H
- Sound Devices Wave Agent
- Accusonus Plugins - Accusonus
- Sennheiser MKH416 shotgun microphone - B&H
- Sennheiser MKH50 supercardioid boom microphone - B&H
- RODE NTG5 shotgun microphone - B&H
- Sound Devices 888 mixer/recorder - B&H
- Shure SM7B dynamic broadcast microphone - B&H
- Sound Devices MixPre II Series mixer/recorders - B&H
- Panasonic GH5 camera - B&H Amazon
- Canon C200 camera - B&H
- Audient evo 4 USB audio interface - B&H
- Cloudlifter microphone activator - B&H
- Fethead microphone activator - B&H
Copyright 2020, Curtis Judd
Live Sound for Video Session: Accentize VoiceGate & Q&A
Hello Soundies! In this week's Sound for Video Session we demonstrated a new dialogue de-noise plugin which evidently uses neural networks to more effectively separate voice from noise. We ran a few different audio clips through the plugin to show where it excels and where it is not quite as effective. You can find out more about the VoiceGate plugin at https://www.accentize.com. Full disclosure - Accentize gave me a free license to demonstrate this plugin. I do not earn any money from purchases of VoiceGate.
Gear used or discussed in this session. Full Disclosure, some of the links below are affiliate links. I earn from qualifying purchases:
- Sound Devices MixPre II Series Audio Recorders - B&H
- Zoom F8n Audio Recorder - B&H
- RODECaster Pro podcasting audio interface/recorder - B&H Amazon
- Audio Technica ATR2100x - B&H Amazon
- Sanken CS-3e Shotgun Microphone - B&H
- Sanken CSR-2 Rear Rejection Shotgun Microphone - B&H
- Elgato HD60 S USB capture card for streaming - Amazon
- Blackmagic Design ATEM Mini switcher/capture card for live video streaming - B&H
- Canon C200 Cinema Camera - B&H
- RODE NT-USB Mini - B&H
- Lupo Superpanel LED Lights - B&H
- Aputure COB 120DII LED Light - B&H
- Aputure Tri-8 LED Panel Light - B&H
- Aputure COB 300DII LED Light - B&H
Copyright 2020, Curtis Judd
My Livestream Setup for YouTube - 2020
In today’s episode I run through all of the gear and the app I use for live-streaming on YouTube. I also mention some alternatives to the gear and apps I use covering a wide range of price options.
If you’d like to learn how to make great dialogue audio for your film and video projects, please have a look at my courses including processing dialogue audio in Adobe Audition and DaVinci Resolve/Fairlight, recording sound, how to use the Zoom F4, F8, and F8n, and how to get the most from the Sound Devices MixPre series of recorders.
Gear used or mentioned in this episode. The links below are Amazon.com, B&H Photo, or other affiliate links. As an affiliate, I earn from qualifying purchases:
- Shure SM7B Broadcast Dynamic Microphone, better suited for brighter or sibilant voices - B&H Amazon
- Sound Devices MixPre II Audio Recorder, this is the audio recorder/mixer to which I connect the Shure SM7B - B&H Amazon
- Canon C200 Camera, This is my main camera - B&H
- Panasonic GH5, this is my overhead camera for product demonstrations - B&H Amazon
- Panasonic 12-35mm f/2.8 OIS II Lens - this lens is super versatile and stays on my camera almost all the time - B&H Amazon
- HDMI Cables - I get mine at Monoprice.com
- Blackmagic Design ATEM Mini, my switcher and capture card combined into one device. This can take up to 4 cameras and two microphones via inputs on the back and outputs via USB to your computer. It also has an HDMI output so you can connect a screen to show the program - B&H
- RODE NT-USB Mini USB microphone. This is a good, reasonably priced microphone to improve the overall technical quality of your livestream - way better than in-built computer and webcam microphones: B&H
- D&O 180W LED Light Panel - D&O Direct https://bit.ly/37dNQeo see my review:
- AJA U-Tap HDMI, capture card for cameras with HDMI output. Sends the video to your computer via USB - B&H
- AJA U-Tap SDI, capture card for cameras with SDI output. Sends the video to your computer via USB - B&H
- Blackmagic Design Ultrastudio Mini Recorder, capture card for cameras with HDMI or SDI output. Sends the video to your computer via thunderbolt. Check at the Blackmagic Design site to make sure it will work with your computer - B&H
- Sennheiser Culture SC 60 Headset with Microphone, send audio to you computer via USB. Better sound than most webcam and in-built computer microphones - B&H Amazon
Streaming apps:
- OBS Open Broadcaster (PC, Mac, Linux)
- Streamlabs OBS (PC, Mac beta)
- Ecamm Live (Mac only)
- vMix (PC only)
If you’re a gamer and want more details on how to stream gaming, check out EposVox’s YouTube channel.
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Online Music Lessons, Streaming Microphones, and Other Streaming Gear
In this special live stream, we talk about some of the microphones, other gear, services, and streaming apps available to get you up and running. These are the questions we've received most in the last couple of weeks as more of us need to meet remotely or stay in touch via streaming.
Gear and other stuff mentioned in this video. Some of the links below are affiliate links. I earn from qualifying purchases.
- RODE NT-USB Mini Microphone, a USB mic which you can move closer to you and your instrument which improves the quality of the sound you can stream in large part because it is closer to the sound than a webcam or computer microphone - B&H
- Ecamm Live Streaming app for macOS
- OBS Live Streaming, free app for Windows, macOS, and Linux
- Sound Devices MixPre II Series audio recorders/mixers - B&H
- Shure SM7B dynamic microphone, this is the one Curtis used in this video - B&H
- Electrovoice RE20, this is the microphone Dani used in this video - B&H
- Shure SM58, this is the microphone Emma used in this video - B&H
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