GH2 Another GH2 Audio thread!Sorry!

[foggy]

Hi folks,

First the basics,audio wise I don't have much of a set up at the moment.My kit currently consists of a rode videomic and one of the popular,cheap audio technica lav mics.

I am looking to pad this out and improve my setup, I begin shooting a documentary next week that involves a lot of filmed interviews both in the street and planned interviews where by I can setup the audio properly,it will also feature in car discussions whilst travelling(we are driving across europe).

My thoughts are: buy another lav mic for the chap I am doing the documentary with, that way we can use the lav mics both in the car on ourselves, and on the interviewee when doing set up interviews.

However I am not sure what to plug the lavs into,I can plug one of them straight into the GH2 if needs be but it only has the one input.The other option is to get a cheap H1 and plug one lav into that and one into the GH2 but that involves a lot of faffing in post for not very good results. I am edging towards picking up a H4n and plugging both lavs into that.I have read that you can then plug the zoom into the gh2 and won't have to sync in post as the GH2 will use the zooms pre-amps but record on the cameras card,is that correct?If so I assume I will need a sescom cable, but then how do you monitor audio with only one input? You could monitor from the H4n I guess but that is assuming the audio going into the gh2 is the same as the audio coming out of the zoom which isn't neccersarily the case.


I don't want to buy twice so I need a best possible solution and then I can build a shopping list.

Cheers.

 

[CSFilms]

With PluralEyes, Premiere CC, Final Cut X being able to sync audio, I would recommend just separating it out. It's not too difficult. But if you really did want to just record the audio through the camera, then I would recommend getting a Juicedlink. You'll get a lot cleaner audio that way vs. using an H4n.
If you did want the possibility to record separately at some time, I would also recommend the Tascam DR-40 / DR-100 over the H4n (unless you're getting a really good price for it). Or else splurge a little and get a Zoom H6.

If you're close enough to the people you're interviewing with though, wouldn't your Rode mic be good enough? It'd be a lot more convenient than having to set up lavs every time you need to interview someone (Not necessarily recommending this, but I'm assuming you're on a budget).

I would still recommend just grabbing a Zoom H1 / Tascam DR05 / DR07 and just pocketing it + lav, recording the audio separately. That way you won't have to have an extra item attached to your GH2 and wires streaming out from it to the interviewees. Just throwing out options. Good luck!