help me reduce boom noise with oktava

As far as Fiddler's original question, you gotta replace that pole ASAP. While I have never used a painter's pole as a boom, I have played with one at a Home Depot after hearing so much buzz about using them as a DIY solution. Disregarding the ridiculous weight of those things, they are noisy as hell. Even on a quiet mic I can't imagine not getting a ton of noise unless your boom operater nevers moves.

After that you will want to replace the shock mount and wind protection but I am betting the pole is 90% of your issue.

Good luck
 
It's an Audio Technicia ATR55 (how much do Oktava cost?), the switches are set to 12... I plugged it in the second thing and set the thing for mic... switched the sound things to 2... I feel like throwing it... It's still not workin'... It was a mic and a boom pole, they came together... I got it a while ago and never used it...
 
FutureDVXUser said:
It's an Audio Technicia ATR55 (how much do Oktava cost?), the switches are set to 12... I plugged it in the second thing and set the thing for mic... switched the sound things to 2... I feel like throwing it... It's still not workin'... It was a mic and a boom pole, they came together... I got it a while ago and never used it...
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Shall we begin all over again? Then we are talking about an AT ATR55 mic that you are trying to use with a DVX100 camera?

http://www.audio-technica.com/cms/wired_mics/8db33c5971d3add5/index.html

To start with the ATR55 is an unbalanced mic, and the DVX100 has balanced mic inputs. Are you using any kind of adaptor to convert the mini-plug onto XLR-male? You need some way to convert an unbalanced signal onto a balanced one. If you don't have a balanced signal you won't have any sound, whetever the switches you set.

Many things might be happening, like the battery not making a good connection on the mic or being depleted; the microphone having any problems; the adaptor not being correct.

The switch on the mic just selects "normal" and "tele", so you can leave that switch on any position. The mic specs do not specify any level, so you can start with mic levels. The camera phantom switch should be set to off.
 
Please check both connectors in the RS adaptor.

You should have bought a cable which is 1/8" mono jack on one side and XLR-3 male on the other. Is that what you bought?

If the jack is stereo it won't work.
 
It's 1/4" jack, but I had a 1/4" adaptor... so it plugged into the XLR adaptor and I plugged it into both inputs, I'm gonna mess around with it in a little while... It's getting me frustrated
 
hOk back to the point of this thread.

I use a DIY fishpole with a 1/4-20 tapped screw in the top of it. Using (2) 1/4-20 nuts I secure it to the fishpole. (Pictures later) And im also using an Azden shockmount. I havent had any problems at all with this setup . Put some cloth gloves on to keep the boom from sticking to your fingers and your good to go.

Also I have used the Gitzo CF pole and yes its light and easy to setup, but if I turn the pole 180deg it pops and makes a loud "clink" sound from one of the joints. Yes all the sections are tight and the cable is securely fashioned to the pole as well. So its not that you need a $250 boom pole, learn what you have and make it work for you.

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Bayne said:
Yes all the sections are tight and the cable is securely fashioned to the pole as well. D
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Yes it's very important that your cable be in fashion with your pole!:huh:
 
the noise didnt come from the pole but from the wire.. i gaffer taped the wire along about 4 places to the pole and no matter where i touched the wire, i could hear it
 
FiddlerMD said:
the noise didnt come from the pole but from the wire.. i gaffer taped the wire along about 4 places to the pole and no matter where i touched the wire, i could hear it
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What cable brand and type are you using?
 
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Then I just don't know what might be happening. I have several Canare mic cables, and they are not microphonic, which is the effect you describe.

Are you feeding a balanced input? If you are not then that might explain it.

Balanced connections are just designed to avoid things like what you described, but you have to stay balanced on both ends.
 
as far as i understood it, a balanced input rejects electromagnetic noise, not mechanical.. but if someone wants to just post a pinout/solder diagram (including shield and whether it's supposed to be wired to the body of the connector and not just pin 1), go ahead.. only more useful...
 
Nothing so complicated. Just confirm the shield and the two wires remain separated, instead of being unbalanced on one end.

CMRR should reject any noise that involves both balanced wires.

Unbalanced wiring is very sensitive to handling noise, or at least some are. Lapel mic cables have that problem, but it varies from one mic to another, depending on the wire.
 
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