Emergency! Help needed ASAP

[Guest]

We need help guys! We're shooting a movie, and the sound guys are *gasp* not the professionals they said they were!
We shot some footage last night. Half of it was picking up radio signals (not the score we were hoping for!) and half of it had a hissy air sound to it. We're using an Audio Technica mic, boom pole, and Mackey mixer. Any advice, help, etc is greatly appreciated! And if you *know* sound, and live in San Diego, come on over!! lol ???

[Barry_S]

Ouch. *Sorry to hear about your problems. *It's hard to diagnose your problem with so little information, but your sound people do seem grossly incompetent. *Not because they had some problems, but because they didn't have the sense or expertise to stop and fix the problems. *Were they even monitoring the sound during filming?

My first inclination is to have you remove the mixer from the signal path--it sounds like no one knows how to use it anyway. * *Go straight from your boom mic into the DVX. *Set the DVX audio levels so you're hitting 2-3 red bar segments for your peaks. * The boom operator should be wearing a good pair of headphones to check the sound quality while recording. *You* should doublecheck the sound after each of the first 5 shots and then occasionally thereafter--if the first five shots sound good. Ask your "mixer" to keep an eye on the audio level readouts of the DVX and to make sure the boom isn't dropping into the shot.

if this is going to be an extended shoot then find some new sound people--asap.

[oleg]

We need help guys! We're shooting a movie, and the sound guys are *gasp* not the professionals they said they were!
We shot some footage last night. Half of it was picking up radio signals (not the score we were hoping for!) and half of it had a hissy air sound to it. We're using an Audio Technica mic, boom pole, and Mackey mixer. Any advice, help, etc is greatly appreciated! And if you *know* sound, and live in San Diego, come on over!! lol ???
sorry cant help iam other side of the plannet , but next time just ask for razume or pay few bucks for people which living from that proffesion

[ullanta]

Some brief advice:

If you're really in a location that has lots of RF noise...

1. Try a mic that isn't as sensitive to it (and try a condenser if yours isn't)

2. Use good shielded cables that are as short as possible (if you can, preamp the signals close to the mic, then send over any necessary long distances)