Sound for Video Session: Troubleshooting Recorder Issues & Q&A
In this week's session, we cover how to troubleshoot issues when you're trying to record with your field recorder/mixer, and you're not getting what you need. For example, what do you do if you can see that your mics are capturing something because the meters are moving, but you can't hear. Or perhaps like on our livestream last week, the mics were capturing sound and the automix was working, but that's not what we were hearing on the stream. We'll walk you through a technique that will ensure you can narrow down where the problem lies so that you can fix it. After that, we answer your sound for video questions.
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. We have a course on sound for live-streaming with the ATEM Mini and just added Introduction to Izotope RX for Dialogue Audio.
Gear I often use or that we mentioned in this episode. The links below are Amazon.com, B&H Photo, Sweetwater, DVE Store, Waves, or other affiliate links. As an affiliate, I earn from qualifying purchases:
Mackie DLZ Creator — B&H, Amazon https://geni.us/42KrX0
Earthworks ETHOS microphone — B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon https://geni.us/8G8UdBB
Sound Devies 888 field recorder/mixer — Trew, B&H, Sweetwater https://geni.us/zAryW4J
Sound Devices MixPre II Series Recorders - B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon https://geni.us/O8e0
Panasonic GH5 camera - B&H, Amazon https://geni.us/InspOl
Teleprompter Ikan 17" high bright — B&H https://geni.us/RcuXD3
Canon C200 Camera - B&H https://geni.us/9Zi4m4a
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 lens — B&H, Amazon https://geni.us/kZyU7e
ATEM Mini Extreme & Extreme ISO - B&H, DVE Store, Amazon https://geni.us/b8my
Allen & Heath SQ5 Digital Mixer - B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon https://geni.us/sRxFU90
Rupert Neve Designs Shelford Channel, pre-amp, EQ, compressor - Sweetwater, B&H https://geni.us/9ZfE77
Universal Audio 6176 channel strip pre-amp, EQ, compressor — B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon https://geni.us/505L55n
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00:00 Start
02:42 Beginning of stream
03:08 Agenda
06:01 How to Troubleshoot
16:16 Line level input gain
20:46 Condenser mics vs. P48
22:57 Signal chain presets
25:19 Mackie DLZ for streaming
26:35 Zoom F6 routing
30:53 Picking up feedback in lav mics
33:38 Overcoming fear of an intimidating recorder
37:05 Solving interference problems
49:03 Advanced use case: MixPre 3 as audio interface
51:43 Upcoming things!
55:51 Intricacies of 32-bit float
56:31 A20-Nexus vs. A20-RX
1:00:33 What new things have I been learning about?
1:01:27 Is audio half of the video experience?
1:04:30 Extra 48V power on RODE TF-5?
1:07:23 End of stream