Live Sound for Video Session: Q&A
In this week's session, we'll answer your questions submitted prior to the session and cover those in the chat as time permits. Join for free over at school.learnlightandsound.com and opt in to the weekly emails to submit your questions in advance.
DPA Microphone Dictionary: https://www.dpamicrophones.com/mic-dictionary
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, 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 microphone - B&H, Sweetwater
- Canon C200 Camera - B&H, PictureLine
- ATEM Mini Pro - B&H, Amazon
- SoundDevices MixPre - B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon
- Zoom F6 - B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon
- Shure SM 7B - B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon
- RODECaster Pro - B&H, Sweetwater
- Zoom F8n - B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon
Copyright 2020, Curtis Judd
Live Sound for Video Session: Q&A
In this week’s Sound for Video Session, we discuss and address your questions. Then in the second half, we run through an exercise of setting up my vocal channel on my Allen & Heath SQ-5 digital mixer.
John H's recording of rain and thunder: https://soundcloud.com/user-816176804/thundering-rain
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 - B&H, Sweetwater
- Allen & Heath SQ5 - B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon
- Canon C200 Camera - B&H, PictureLine
- ATEM Mini Pro - B&H, Amazon
- SoundDevices MixPre - B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon
- Sennheiser MKH 416 - B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon
- Mogami and Neutrik cables - B&H, Sweetwater
- Canare Cable - B&H, Sweetwater
- BMPCC 6K - B&H, Pictureline
- Zoom F6 - B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon
- Octava MK 012 - Amazon
- Deity Connect - B&H, Amazon
- Sennheiser AVX - B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon
- RODE Filmmaker Kit - B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon
- Lectrosonics DSQD Series - B&H
Copyright 2020, Curtis Judd
Live Sound for Video Session: Michael Wynne, Production Sound Mixer
In this week's session, I interview Michael Wynne, a production sound mixer based in Atlanta. After a discussion about his Aaton Cantar X3 recorder/mixer, he'll answered questions from the live audience. You can find some great videos on sound for film on Michael's YouTube channel.
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 handheld condenser microphone - B&H, Sweetwater
- AKG C414 XLII Large Diaphragm Condenser Microphone with multiple Polar Patterns - B&H, Sweetwater
- Aaton Cantar X3 Mixer/Recorder - Gotham Sound
- Sony MDR7506 Headphones - B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon
- Beyerdynamic DT700 80 ohm - Sweetwater, Amazon
- Blackmagic Design mini XLR to XLR adapter cable to attach XLR microphones to Blackmagic Pocket 4K and 6K cameras - Amazon
- Sound Devices 888 Mixer/Recorder - B&H, Sweetwater
- Sound Devices Scorpio - B&H, Sweetwater
- Sound Devices 833 - B&H, Sweetwater
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
Sound for Video Session: Mic Samples & Q&A
In this week's Sound for Video Session, we'll get you some sample audio from several microphones, show you some of the new RODE Wireless GO gear, and answer your audio questions.
Paul Figgiani's article describing asymmetric waveforms and how to process them to reclaim headroom :
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:
- RODE NT1 large diaphragm condenser microphone - B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon
- TZ Audio Stellar X2 Vintage large diaphragm condenser microphone
- RODE Wireless GO White - B&H, Sweetwater
- RODE Lavalier GO White - B&H, Sweetwater
- RODE Interview GO - B&H, Sweetwater
- RODE MagClip GO to magnetically clip the Wireless GO transmitter to talent- B&H, Sweetwater
- Lewitt LCT-440-Pure large diaphragm condenser microphone - B&H, Amazon
- Shure SM-7B - B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon
- Sound Devices MixPre recorders - B&H, Sweetwater
- Zoom F series recorders - B&H, Sweetwater
- Blackmagic ATEM Mini Pro - B&H, Amazon
- Blackmagic ATEM Mini - B&H, Amazon
Copyright 2020, Curtis Judd
Live Sound for Video Session: RTX Voice & Q&A
In this week's Sound for Video Session, we'll talk a bit about NVidia's RTX Voice noise reduction technology and answer your sound for video questions. If you are signed up over at school.learnlightandsound.com, you can email me. your questions ahead of time.
Sound Devices Sound Summit
NVIDIA RTX Voice realtime noise reduction: NVIDIA ShortCircuit Demo EposVox
Gear used or mentioned in this episode. Full disclosure: The links below are affiliate links. As an affiliate, I earn from qualifying purchases.
- Lewitt LCT-440-Pure large diaphragm condenser microphone - B&H & Amazon
Find out more from Lewitt themselves
- Sound Devices MixPre recorders - B&H Sweetwater Amazon
- Zoom F4 - B&H Sweetwater Amazon
- Zoom F6 - B&H
- Audio Technica BP4025 - B&H
- Oktava MK-012 - Amazon
- Sennheiser MKE2 Gold Lavalier Microphone - B&H
- Tentacle Sync E - B&H
- RODECaster Pro audio recorder/USB audio interface for podcasts - B&H
- Blackmagic ATEM Mini live stream switcher/capture card - B&H
- Blackmagic ATEM Mini Pro live stream switcher/capture card/encoder - B&H
- DEITY Connect wireless microphone system - B&H
- Birddog 4K NDI Encoder/Decoder - B&H
- Aputure C300D II LED light - B&H
- Aputure C120D II LED light - B&H
Copyright 2020, Curtis Judd
Live Sound for Video Session: RODE NT1 & Q&A
In this week's Sound for Video Session, we have a Q&A discussion. We're testing out the RODE NT1 large diaphragm condenser microphone. We also talk a bit about Hindenburg's new auto mix feature.
Please consider taking my courses on how to record better audio and post processing.
Gear used or discussed in this session. Most of the links below are affiliate links. I earn from qualifying purchases:
RODE NT1 large diaphragm condenser microphone - B&H Sweetwater
ATEM Mini Pro livestream switcher/capture device - B&H
ATEM Mini livestream switcher/capture device - B&H
Sennheiser MKH416 shotgun microphone - B&H Sweetwater
Audio Technica AT875R shotgun microphone - B&H
RODE NTG5 shotgun microphone - B&H Sweetwater
Rycote Cyclone wind shield - B&H
Rycote Super Shield wind shield - B&H
RODE Blimp wind shield - B&H
ADAM near-field monitors - B&H Sweetwater
Focal near-field monitors - B&H Sweetwater
Sound Devices MixPre II Series audio recorders - B&H Sweetwater
Shure TwinPlex lavalier microphones - B&H Sweetwater
Sanken COS-11D lavalier microphones - B&H
Voice Technologies VT500 lavalier microphones - B&H
DPA 4160 lavalier microphone - B&H
DEITY W.Lav - B&H Sony MDR-7506 headphones - B&H
Beyerdynamic DT-770 80 ohm headphones - Sweetwater Amazon
RODE NT-SF1 ambisonic microphone - B&H Sweetwater
Sennheiser Ambeo VR 3D microphone - B&H Sweetwater
Zoom H3-VR ambisonic microphone and recorder - B&H
Zoom F series audio recorders - B&H Sweetwater
Novation Launch Control XL MIDI control surface for MixPre - B&H Sweetwater
AKAI MIDIMix control surface for MixPre - B&H Sweetwater
Aputure Tri8 LED light panel - B&H Amazon
Shure SM7B dynamic broadcast microphone - B&H Sweetwater Amazon
Electro-Voice RE20 dynamic broadcast microphone - B&H Sweetwater Amazon
Audio Technica AT4053b hyper-cardioid boom microphone - B&H Sweetwater Amazon
Sennheiser MKH8050 super-cardioid boom microphone - B&H Amazon
Hindenburg audio editing app with auto mix features
Cinema Sound - potential resource for 5.1 monitoring and mixing
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
Sound for Video Session: MixPre Mix-Minus & Q&A
In this week's session, we cover how to set up a mix-minus on a Sound Devices MixPre and then answer your questions. What is a mix-minus? It is just a way to setup your recorder so that you can record a remote guest or host as well as yourself and others with your recorder. In this case, we show how to do this with the MixPre-3 from Sound Devices, assuming the remote guest will be dialed in via Skype on your computer or tablet.
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 how to process 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 discussed or used in this livestream. Full disclosure - the links below are B&H and Amazon affiliate links. I earn from qualifying purchases.
- Sound Devices MixPre Audio Recorders - B&H
- Shure SM7B Broadcast Microphone - B&H
- Sennheiser MKH416 Shotgun Microphone - B&H
- DPA 4060 Lavalier Microphone - B&H
- Shure TwinPlex TL-48 Lavalier Microphone - B&H
- Blackmagic Design ATEM Mini Switcher/HDMI Capture Card - B&H
- Blackmagic Design ATEM Mini Pro Switcher/HDMI Capture Card - B&H
- Shure Tone Generator - B&H
- Zoom F Series Recorders - B&H
- Panasonic GH5 Hybrid Camera - B&H Amazon
Copyright 2020, Curtis Judd
