Hi,
I'm here to share with you a setup that I used a while back that seemed a tad unorthodox and that I couldn't find anywhere online...
My sister is a sound engineer and so she had a cheap little beginners Fast Track lying around the room. For those of you who don't know what a fast track is, here's a link to the one I have:
http://www.amazon.com/M-Audio-US44010-Interface-GT-Player-Software/dp/B00061ZM2Y
It's used primarily for indie band recording and this particular one was designed to take an instrument and a microphone to record vocals and guitars.
I had a 48 Hour Film Festival coming up and I was trying to get my equipment together. I wanted good audio but didn't want to be plugged in via a stereo jack, because that's bad news.
I wanted to be plugged in directly to a device using XLR for the best possible sound. At the time, I had a Canon HV30, which, like the 7D, had no XLR input. It only could handle stereo jack microphones.
So, I decided to play around with the Fast Track, which I found to be fantastic.
When this bad boy is plugged into a laptop, and you plug your boom pole into the fast track via XLR....it sounds fantastic.
The best sound I've ever got from my NTG-2 microphone came from this setup.
The thing I loved about it the most is that along with monitoring the audio through your headphones plugged into the fast track...you can also SEE the waveforms and the audio levels on the laptop as they're being formed.
On the laptop I had Garage Band running, and recorded directly into it. It was my friends laptop, so at the end of the shoot I simply dragged n dropped the files onto my external drive, went home, and edited.
I recently used this setup also for an educational video that I shot for a college here in Texas, and it worked just as good. I shot using a 7D but recorded the audio onto the laptop.
In both shoots (the 48 Hour fest, and the educational video) I had the luck of having a small rolling table that had the laptop on it. I had the fast track looped around my pants' belt loops and every time I moved with the boom pole, the table followed me.
This was pure luck with this setup, otherwise I wouldn't have known how to lug that stuff around with me.
Anyway, hopefully this gives you all some ideas for other setups, and if any of you "musicians turned film maker" have a fast track lying around then pick it up and give it a shot.
I'm here to share with you a setup that I used a while back that seemed a tad unorthodox and that I couldn't find anywhere online...
My sister is a sound engineer and so she had a cheap little beginners Fast Track lying around the room. For those of you who don't know what a fast track is, here's a link to the one I have:
http://www.amazon.com/M-Audio-US44010-Interface-GT-Player-Software/dp/B00061ZM2Y
It's used primarily for indie band recording and this particular one was designed to take an instrument and a microphone to record vocals and guitars.
I had a 48 Hour Film Festival coming up and I was trying to get my equipment together. I wanted good audio but didn't want to be plugged in via a stereo jack, because that's bad news.
I wanted to be plugged in directly to a device using XLR for the best possible sound. At the time, I had a Canon HV30, which, like the 7D, had no XLR input. It only could handle stereo jack microphones.
So, I decided to play around with the Fast Track, which I found to be fantastic.
When this bad boy is plugged into a laptop, and you plug your boom pole into the fast track via XLR....it sounds fantastic.
The best sound I've ever got from my NTG-2 microphone came from this setup.
The thing I loved about it the most is that along with monitoring the audio through your headphones plugged into the fast track...you can also SEE the waveforms and the audio levels on the laptop as they're being formed.
On the laptop I had Garage Band running, and recorded directly into it. It was my friends laptop, so at the end of the shoot I simply dragged n dropped the files onto my external drive, went home, and edited.
I recently used this setup also for an educational video that I shot for a college here in Texas, and it worked just as good. I shot using a 7D but recorded the audio onto the laptop.
In both shoots (the 48 Hour fest, and the educational video) I had the luck of having a small rolling table that had the laptop on it. I had the fast track looped around my pants' belt loops and every time I moved with the boom pole, the table followed me.
This was pure luck with this setup, otherwise I wouldn't have known how to lug that stuff around with me.
Anyway, hopefully this gives you all some ideas for other setups, and if any of you "musicians turned film maker" have a fast track lying around then pick it up and give it a shot.