Sound Bag Basics ft. ZOOM F8n Pro, DEITY SPD Mini, SRD Mini, & BF-1 Antenna
Our lighting and sound courses can be found here!
In this episode we show you a new simple sound bag setup and walk through some of the considerations we have to make when building out our kits as location sound recordists.
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. Our latest courses cover Sound for Live Streaming with the ATEM Mini and an Intro to Izotope RX.
Support my work creating videos by donating at Ko-Fi.com.
Gear used or mentioned in this episode (the links below are Amazon.com, B&H Photo, Sweetwater, or other affiliate links. As an affiliate, I earn from qualifying purchases):
ZOOM F8n Pro audio recorder
DEITY SPD Mini power distribution box
DEITY SRD Mini RF distribution box
DEITY BF-1 antennas
DEITY S-95 smart battery
DEITY 140W USB power adapter
Orca OR-30 sound bag
The outro music for this episode is from Musicbed - “Dynamo” by Virgil Arles. Take your films to the next level with music from Musicbed. Sign up for a free account to listen for yourself.
Copyright 2024, Curtis Judd
Sound for Video Session: DEITY SRD & SPD Mini First Impressions
In this week's Sound for Video Session, we unbox and have an initial look at the new DEITY SRD Mini RF distribution box along with the SPD Mini power distribution box. They also sent over the BF1 butterfly antennae and their new S-95 battery and charger.
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. We have a course on sound for live-streaming with the ATEM Mini, Introduction to Izotope RX for Dialogue Audio, and Mixing fundamentals in DaVinci Resolve Fairlight.
Gear I often use or that we mentioned in this episode. The links below are Amazon.com, B&H Photo, Sweetwater, or other affiliate links. As an affiliate, I earn from qualifying purchases:
- DEITY SPD Mini sound bag power distribution box
- DEITY SRD Mini sound bag RF antenna distribution box for wireless microphone receivers
- DEITY BF1 UHF butterfly antennae (470MHz to 1GHz) for wireless microphone systems
- DEITY S-95 smart battery for powering sound bag mixer and wireless
- DEITY DQC2 smartbattery charger
- ZOOM H1 XLR audio recorder — B&H
- Mackie DLZ Creator XS adaptive audio mixer — B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon
- Mackie DLZ Creator adaptive audio mixer (the original, bigger one) — B&H, Amazon
- Earthworks ETHOS microphone — B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon
- Allen & Heath SQ5 digital mixing board — B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon
- Sound Devices MixPre II Series Recorders - B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon
- Sound Devices 888 field recorder/mixer with Dante — B&H, Sweetwater
- Panasonic GH5 camera - B&H, Amazon
- Teleprompter Ikan 17" high bright — B&H
- Canon C200 Camera - B&H
- Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 lens — B&H, Amazon
- ATEM Mini Extreme & Extreme ISO - B&H, DVE Store, Amazon
- Rupert Neve Designs Shelford Channel, pre-amp, EQ, compressor - Sweetwater, B&H
- Universal Audio 6176 channel strip pre-amp, EQ, compressor — B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon
The intro and outro music for this episode is from Musicbed. Take your films to the next level with music from Musicbed. Sign up for a free account to listen for yourself.
Copyright 2024, Curtis Judd
6 Tips to Get Better Sound with Any Microphone for Podcast, Live stream, Voice Over
Our lighting and sound courses can be found here!
In this episode we show you 6 quick and easy ways to improve your sound for podcasts, live streams, or voice overs, no matter what microphone you use!
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. Our latest courses cover Sound for Live Streaming with the ATEM Mini and an Intro to Izotope RX.
Support my work creating videos by donating at Ko-Fi.com.
Gear used or mentioned in this episode (the links below are Amazon.com, B&H Photo, Sweetwater, or other affiliate links. As an affiliate, I earn from qualifying purchases):
- Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 USB audio interface to record to your computer
The outro music for this episode is from Musicbed - “Dynamo” by Virgil Arles. Take your films to the next level with music from Musicbed. Sign up for a free account to listen for yourself.
Copyright 2024, Curtis Judd
Sound for Video Session: Wiring talent with Brittany Myers
In this week's Sound for Video Session, we're joined by Brittany Myers, a utility sound technician (UST) working in the Atlanta, Georgia area. As a UST, one of Brittany's role on the film set is to position and concean lavalier microphones and wireless packs on the actors. This is an art and a science — to ensure the microphone is not seen on camera — but also to ensure that sound is captured at the highest quality possible.
Find Brittany's new course, Wire Like the Pros, here.
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. We have a course on sound for live-streaming with the ATEM Mini, Introduction to Izotope RX for Dialogue Audio, and Mixing fundamentals in DaVinci Resolve Fairlight.
Gear I often use or that we mentioned in this episode. The links below are Amazon.com, B&H Photo, Sweetwater, or other affiliate links. As an affiliate, I earn from qualifying purchases:
- Mackie DLZ Creator XS adaptive audio mixer — B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon
- Mackie DLZ Creator adaptive audio mixer (the original, bigger one) — B&H, Amazon
- Earthworks ETHOS microphone — B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon
- Allen & Heath SQ5 digital mixing board — B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon
- Sound Devices MixPre II Series Recorders - B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon
- Sound Devices 888 field recorder/mixer with Dante — B&H, Sweetwater
- Panasonic GH5 camera - B&H, Amazon
- Teleprompter Ikan 17" high bright — B&H
- Canon C200 Camera - B&H
- Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 lens — B&H, Amazon
- ATEM Mini Extreme & Extreme ISO - B&H, DVE Store, Amazon
- Rupert Neve Designs Shelford Channel, pre-amp, EQ, compressor - Sweetwater, B&H
- Universal Audio 6176 channel strip pre-amp, EQ, compressor — B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon
The intro and outro music for this episode is from Musicbed. Take your films to the next level with music from Musicbed. Sign up for a free account to listen for yourself.
Copyright 2024, Curtis Judd
ZOOM H1 XLR vs ZOOM F3 Audio Recorders
Our lighting and sound courses can be found here!
In this episode we take a look at and a listen to the new ZOOM H1 XLR audio recorder. We listen to the sound quality, test all the most important features, measure its sample noise floor, and I give my recommendations on whether to buy this or a different recorder instead, like the ZOOM F3.
See more of my thoughts on 32-bit float here.
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. Our latest courses cover Sound for Live Streaming with the ATEM Mini and an Intro to Izotope RX.
Support my work creating videos by donating at Ko-Fi.com.
Gear used or mentioned in this episode (the links below are Amazon.com, B&H Photo, Sweetwater, or other affiliate links. As an affiliate, I earn from qualifying purchases):
- ZOOM H1 XLR sound recorder — B&H
- ZOOM F3 audio recorder — B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon
The outro music for this episode is from Musicbed - “Dynamo” by Virgil Arles. Take your films to the next level with music from Musicbed. Sign up for a free account to listen for yourself.
Copyright 2024, Curtis Judd
Essential audio gear - batteries - CORE SWX Powerbase Edge Snap
In this episode we talk about o piece of audio gear that many don’t talk about — batteries. And specifically, in this case, a rather innovation battery called the Powerbase Edge Snap made by a company called CORE SWX. What’s so innovative about the Snap batteries? 2 things — you can piggy back them to make increase their capacity and everything still runs through a single cable, and they use a fully USB-C compatible cable called PD Pro. Let’s take a closer look at how you can use the Snap to power your audio field recorder and wireless microphone kits.
Support my work creating videos by donating at Ko-Fi.com.
Gear used or mentioned in this episode (the links below are Amazon.com, B&H Photo, Sweetwater, or other affiliate links. As an affiliate, I earn from qualifying purchases):
- CORE SWX Powerbase Edge Snap — B&H
- Sound Devices MixPre audio recorders — B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon
- Sennheiser MKH50 microphone — B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon
- Sennheiser MKH8050 — B&H, Amazon
The outro music for this episode is from Musicbed - “Dynamo” by Virgil Arles. Take your films to the next level with music from Musicbed. Sign up for a free account to listen for yourself.
Copyright 2024, Curtis Judd
Sound for Video Session: ZOOM H1 XLR First Impressions
In this week's Sound for Video Session, we take a first look at the new ZOOM H1 XLR audio field recorder. This affordable sound recorder has 2 XLR/combination inputs for recording with microphones or line level sources such as from a sound board at a concert. This could be a good fit for those looking to record two XLR mics on a budget ($149 USD).
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. We have a course on sound for live-streaming with the ATEM Mini, Introduction to Izotope RX for Dialogue Audio, and Mixing fundamentals in DaVinci Resolve Fairlight.
Gear I often use or that we mentioned in this episode. The links below are Amazon.com, B&H Photo, Sweetwater, or other affiliate links. As an affiliate, I earn from qualifying purchases:
- ZOOM H1 XLR audio recorder — B&H
- Mackie DLZ Creator adaptive audio mixer (the original, bigger one) — B&H, Amazon
The intro and outro music for this episode is from Musicbed. Take your films to the next level with music from Musicbed. Sign up for a free account to listen for yourself.
Copyright 2024, Curtis Judd
Open letter to YouTube on Stable Volume
In this episode we address YouTube’s new Stable Volume feature and its potential impact on the educational audio, music, mixing, and video communities. Let’s discuss, and request a better way to YouTube.
You can find YouTube’s extraordinarily vague documentation on Stable Volume here.
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. Our latest courses cover Sound for Live Streaming with the ATEM Mini and an Intro to Izotope RX.
Support my work creating videos by donating at Ko-Fi.com.
Gear used or mentioned in this episode (the links below are Amazon.com, B&H Photo, Sweetwater, or other affiliate links. As an affiliate, I earn from qualifying purchases):
- Sound Devices MixPre audio recorders — B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon
- Sennheiser MKH50 microphone — B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon
The outro music for this episode is from Musicbed - “Dynamo” by Virgil Arles. Take your films to the next level with music from Musicbed. Sign up for a free account to listen for yourself.
Copyright 2024, Curtis Judd
Sound for Video Session: Studio Condenser Voice over, Podcast, Livestream Mic A/B Comparison
In this week's Sound for Video Session, we do A/B comparisons of several studio condenser microphones for spoken word audio or voice over.
We'll compare these microphones:
- Neumann U87ai
- AEA KU5A
- RODE NTR
- AKG C414 XLS
- JZ Microphones Vintage 11
- Earthworks SV33
- Earthworks ETHOS
- Earthworks SR314
- RODE NT1 5th Generation
What's our goal? Just to have fun.
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. We have a course on sound for live-streaming with the ATEM Mini, Introduction to Izotope RX for Dialogue Audio, and Mixing fundamentals in DaVinci Resolve Fairlight.
Gear I often use or that we mentioned in this episode. The links below are Amazon.com, B&H Photo, Sweetwater, or other affiliate links. As an affiliate, I earn from qualifying purchases:
- Neumann U87ai — B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon
- AEA KU5A — B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon
- RODE NTR — B&H, Sweetwater
- AKG C414 XLS — B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon
- JZ Microphones Vintage 11 — JZ Microphones
- Earthworks SV33 — no longer in production
- Earthworks ETHOS — B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon
- Earthworks SR314 — B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon
- RODE NT1 5th Generation — B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon
- Mackie DLZ Creator XS adaptive audio mixer — B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon
- Mackie DLZ Creator adaptive audio mixer (the original, bigger one) — B&H, Amazon
- Earthworks ETHOS microphone — B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon
The intro and outro music for this episode is from Musicbed. Take your films to the next level with music from Musicbed. Sign up for a free account to listen for yourself.
Copyright 2024, Curtis Judd
Tiny but Mighty Audio Recorder — TASCAM FR-AV2 vs ZOOM F3
Our lighting and sound courses can be found at school.learnlightandsound.com!
In this episode we have a look at Tascam’s new field recorder, the FR-AV2! Most comparable to the Zoom F3, the FR-AV2 can record 2 channels of 32-bit float and generate onboard timecode. In this video we listen to some sound quality samples using a variety of common microphones, test out the 32-bit float recording function, and compare the recording experience to what you’ll find on the Zoom F3. Let’s take a closer look and listen!
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. Our latest courses cover Sound for Live Streaming with the ATEM Mini and an Intro to Izotope RX.
Support my work creating videos by donating at Ko-Fi.com.
Gear used or mentioned in this episode (the links below are Amazon.com, B&H Photo, Sweetwater, or other affiliate links. As an affiliate, I earn from qualifying purchases):
- Tascam FR-AV2 32-Bit Float Field Recorder — B&H, Amazon
The outro music for this episode is from Musicbed - “Dynamo” by Virgil Arles. Take your films to the next level with music from Musicbed. Sign up for a free account to listen for yourself.
Copyright 2024, Curtis Judd
