DVX100B - How many mics do YOU use?

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bigox

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Just curious how many mics you use when you use the DVX100B?

For example, do you ever use a shotgun mic for input 1 and a different mic for input 2 at the same time? Or do you typically just use 1 shotgun mic and close off the other input all together and then do your audio adjustments in post?

I'm not a sound expert, but have experimented with several different way. I've used 2 boom mics at the same time, used a boom and internal at the same time, used a boom and shut the other one off. But not being a sound expert by any means, I'm not sure what the norm is for most of you, but I'd really like to hear about it.
 
2 as often as possible! What can it hurt???
Sometimes you can use the 2nd mic as a "safety" at a lower or higher level.
I often use 2 in different positions to capture dialog. For instance if one person needs to turn away from the other yet still be heard. There are many instances where only 1 boom mic or shotgun mic will not cover your sound sources.
And the fact that the 2 mics go to the 2 separate tracks is a huge help for working with the audio in post.
I suggest using 2 mics whenever possible.
And don't forget that your ONBOARD mic can be a second mic too!

~DPS
 
I typically only use one at a time. If it's an interior, I'll usually use a hypercardoid (Oktava) and use the shutgun for mostly outdoor shooting. I set it up to run both channels from input 2, and keep one of the channels at a little lower level than the other in case something is blows out the first channel. I never use the on-board mics -- their range and sound is terrible.

If you have a good boom operator and the right mic, you'll only ever need 1 mic. Cardoids and hyper-cardoids have a wide enough "sweet spot" to pick up dialogue well regardless of which direction the speaker is facing, as long as the boom operator knows where to place and how to move it between your actors.
 
Which mics you use would, of course, depend on the scene you're shooting. I want to try something new and just bought 2 Rode NT1-As and built an enclosure for them. I'm going to Olympia National Park in Sept. and want to capture some high quality sound and video.
 
I think a typical two mic set-up would be a wireless and boom. Ive had good success with editing out the boom temporarily if its picked up something unwanted, but the lavalier, with it's small area/fast fall off, wasn't affected by the stray sound. Also nature recording Ill use two hyper oktavas
 
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bigox said:
Just curious how many mics you use when you use the DVX100B?

For example, do you ever use a shotgun mic for input 1 and a different mic for input 2 at the same time? Or do you typically just use 1 shotgun mic and close off the other input all together and then do your audio adjustments in post?

I'm not a sound expert, but have experimented with several different way. I've used 2 boom mics at the same time, used a boom and internal at the same time, used a boom and shut the other one off. But not being a sound expert by any means, I'm not sure what the norm is for most of you, but I'd really like to hear about it.
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Typically you'd use one (and it wouldn't necessarily be a shotgun, especially if you're indoors), but a second, backup mic certainly doesn't hurt.

If you ARE using one, the better way to go, by far, is to plug into input 2 and set both audio channels to that input, so you have the same mic recorded to both left and right. Then, set one channel slightly lower than the other (about 6 dB), and you'll protect yourself against clipping off the top end, because one channel should be clean if the signal is too loud on the other.
 
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