Tip:


Here is a good one to go with!

Using an external Microphone Pre-amp? Instead of plugging it into the "line in" on your mixer, and running the signal through a pre-amp yet again and adding noise to your signal, enter in through your insert return.

This skips the pre-amp of the mixer and any attenuation and noise that the mixers lesser quality pre-amps will add to your signal.

Chris

http://www.jmu.edu/wmra-eng/archive/repeatcoil.pdf 

This is a photo from a recent film shoot I had done this past weekend. I thought it would be something worth showing. This is surely not one of my finest and proudest moments, but it was a feat of engineering at its best!

The night prior to having to leave for the cape at 5am on a Sunday morning, I had worked a charity event and did not get back to my place till 3am. With a two hour nap, I was not my sharpest when I had to repack from one event to the next. Luckily and unfortunately at the same time, the only item of mine I forgot to pack were the two microphone blimps I had set aside from myself for the day.

Thankfully there were only a few shots outside, the wind was very light, and the microphone I had picked to use for the outside shoots had three degrees of High Pass Filter, which does a rather good job at cutting wind rumble. A knitted glove of mine that I had on me did just the job of giving the microphone that added layer I needed, and sounded just perfect for the amount of wind that I had to deal with on that day, asidee from being a good source of a laugh.