Booming with the Rode Videomic

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liscos909

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Hi given I have a minuscule budget is this a good option to record dialogue. There's the RODE "booming kit" with the Rode Videomic, a boompole and an extension cable so I can hook it up to my H4n. The price is reasonable so is this a decent set up? Has anyone had experience with this set up? Or if anyone has any other alternatives for under 200. Thanks.
 
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siberia88 said:
Hi given I have a minuscule budget is this a good option to record dialogue. There's the RODE "booming kit" with the Rode Videomic, a boompole and an extension cable so I can hook it up to my H4n. The price is reasonable so is this a decent set up? Has anyone had experience with this set up? Or if anyone has any other alternatives for under 200. Thanks.
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The problem with this rig is that the videomic. is unbalanced.

Fine for on-camera work, but using it off-camera on and extension cable leaves it very prone to picking up RF interference (unless the cable has balancing/unbalancing transformers at both ends).
 
Unless you are crossing a bunch of electrical lines or are in the proximity of heavy RF sources, your unbalanced line should be ok. Believe it or not, 10' to 15' of unbalanced wiring is not a deal breaker. Balanced wiring is the norm, but not the law in those short distances. Go beyond that, and signal degradation and susceptibility to RF go up exponentially.

But you have to measure from the end of the mic itself and the termination point.
 
For my purposes I can't imagine having to use more than 10 feet... I hope. It's just basic narrative dialogue work nothing too complex.
 
siberia88 said:
Well here's the cable its a 10 foot extension cable. I've read that any more than 10 feet will be a disaster but 10 iitself will fare well.

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/392841-REG/Rode_VC1_Stereo_Mini_Male_to.html

What if I use a VXLR mono mini-jack to XLR converter and hook that up to the videomic then hook that to a XLR extension Cable then plug that into the H4n?
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Doesn't do what you want ... straight converters like the VXLR don't balance an unbalanced system. Doing what you describe will still leave you with an unbalanced system from beginning to end even though you have an "XLR Cable" in the middle. You''d lose any noise immunity normally associated with balanced cabling.
 
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