Boom Microphone..

Mj882

Mj882

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Hey,

I've just tried using a Boom microphone to pick up ambient sounds, such as birds tweeting, children playing, etc etc

Although it picked up those sounds, it also picked up a significant amount of wind noise and it is even that much of a windy day.

Can anyone help me on this problem..
 
You need to use something like a rycote suspension system with a furry wind gag. That would protect the mic from most normal wind conditions, certainly with the mic pointing away from the wind.
Also if you are standing at a distance from the source you want to capture, then the mic is also going to pick up a lot of other stuff going on too. You might want to get closer to the source.
 
You definitely need to get some adequate wind protection for your mic. Foam covers only go so far. Zepplins with furry covers are much better.

What mic are you using, by the way?
 
Yeah you're right, I was standing quite far away. The boom microphone does have a furry wind gag over it.
 
Define "wind noise," then. Did you just hear the sound of the wind whipping through trees, or are you talking about wind creating nasty rumble and over-modulation in your mic?
 
The micrphone is a sennheiser 416 in rycote windbasket. I think it might been because I was standing really far away from the subjects.

Also does moving around make the microphone pick up more sound?
 
Well a bit of both really, a bit of the latter, it created a nasty rumble and over-modulation was present albeit not immensely loud. But it deffo is present, it was there as much as the other sounds I was trying to capture.
 
Mj882 said:
The micrphone is a sennheiser 416 in rycote windbasket. I think it might been because I was standing really far away from the subjects.

Also does moving around make the microphone pick up more sound?
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If you have a zepplin and you are using it properly, there should be no wind noise coming across the microphone. Now, if you are recording a wide field of sound out doors and you hear a lot of low-end rumble, it could possibly be noise from a nearby roadway, HVAC unit, etc. outside, especially if recording sources that are farther away, the shotgun mic will amplify lots and lots of stuff that you'd never notice otherwise. That stuff can be tamed one of two ways. If you're using a field mizer and you have a bass roll-off switch on the input, use it. Or, if no mixer, you can use EQ in post to remove/reduce the lower frequencies.

Can you post a clip of what you've recorded? It'll help us to hear what you're hearing.

As for the question about moving around... what do you mean by does it "make the microphone pick up more sound?"
 
Mj882 said:
Well a bit of both really, a bit of the latter, it created a nasty rumble and over-modulation was present albeit not immensely loud. But it deffo is present, it was there as much as the other sounds I was trying to capture.
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It may have been something like a rumble created from handling noise, if you moved the pole around a lot. A smooth motion shouldn't hurt you at all, but closer it gets to jerking the pole around, the more likely it is to produce noise.
 
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