looking for shotgun for hvx

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mikecentola

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Currently I have a sanken cs1 on my dvx, and a senn me66 with the k6 adaptor and a shure adaptor for my canon GL2. We bought an HVX and I want to get a good microphone comperable to the sanken cs1 if not better. What is a good choice? I've been hearing alot about the octavas, and I'm reading the shotgun shootout, but it doesn't give a good tabular comparison.

thanks in advance :)
 
i guess I don't need to keep a shotgun on the cameras if I plan to get two boom pole set ups. i'm still kinda confused as to what to do :(
 
I think the CS1 will do great with the HVX. It's a much better microphone than the Sennheiser.

I am not sure the 4073 would improve much on it.
 


Only effective shotgun to mount on your HVX (keeps your talent in-line and obedient). :)

CS1 is a pretty good mic. Really any cheap shotgun will work for mounting on camera. At the an average distance of say 5 to 6 feet there will be very little difference between shotguns. If that is your only intended use, mind as well go with a cheap one.

Cheers
 
greatest pic ever wabbit!!! :)

decided to go with the 4073a for the dvx, moving the CS1to the hvx, and getting an octava mk012 and boom setup for off camera recording. Coupled with a SD302, I think I'll have a pretty decent-above-average sound setup for indie features, tv pilots, and web features.

Any other thoughts?
 
Sorry, I missed that information of the mic being on camera. If you are going to leave it there, any mic will do. Don't waste money on an on-camera mic. There's very little you can do, quality wise, to get good audio from that position. It has everything going against it and little to favour it.

Put your quality mic (Sanken or AT or Sennheiser) on a boom or a mic stand, close to your subject. That is if you can't afford a sound person.

Even more if you plan on using an SD mixer, which is what you should do.

An on-camera mic it's only useful to get ambience or to pick a person talking close-by, less than 3 feet from camera. That is on a silent room.
 
Carlos_E._Martinez said:
Sorry, I missed that information of the mic being on camera. If you are going to leave it there, any mic will do. Don't waste money on an on-camera mic. There's very little you can do, quality wise, to get good audio from that position. It has everything going against it and little to favour it.

Put your quality mic (Sanken or AT or Sennheiser) on a boom or a mic stand, close to your subject. That is if you can't afford a sound person.

Even more if you plan on using an SD mixer, which is what you should do.

An on-camera mic it's only useful to get ambience or to pick a person talking close-by, less than 3 feet from camera. That is on a silent room.
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yeah thats very true. I wouldn't ever use the on camera only for dialogue. When we had a spokesperson for a car show we were taping, she had a senn handheld wireless mic, and I used the on-camera shotgun on the other channel. The on-cam shotgun seems to do well when recording cars and engines...

I do plan on getting an SD302, and feeding its outputs into the hvx, for when we're doing scripted taping and scripted tv shows. For coverage type scenerios, I think we would still benefit from the on-cam shotgun, and a wireless mic. Unless you guys have a better way to do coverage at a car show, etc.

thanks in advance!
 
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