lachefilms
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I'm using a wireless mic and a boom mike. I need an audio mixer, would you tell me any one I could get? I 'm using a panasonic dvx100b.
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I need a good audio mixer
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saneproductions
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the Sound Devices Mix Pre is a great starter mixer. If you can afford it get the sound devices 302.
SiliconAudioLabs
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What's your budget?
Great sound is half the picture!
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lachefilms
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LOW...LOL not so low but you know....
hemophilia
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Just two mics? Why bother with a mixer?
saneproductions
Veteran
A mixer is great because you get the control of the audio off the camera. That way you are not jiggling the cam when shooting and the camera person can focus on framing the shot! There are many other benefits (boom op can hear, better pres, less noise, better heaphone monitoring, ability to split the ouput to 2 cams (with splitters) and on and on.)
MattinSTL
Sound Modulator
You'll know when you need a mixer... it's almost impossible to get good sound in a complex audio situation without one.
As long as nobody is paying you for good sound then you have time to learn for yourself why you want a mixer. I resisted the mixer move for a long time... then once I got one I felt really stupid for not getting it sooner.
It also depends on the shooting you do... if you are stuck in "one-man-band" mode then you need a buddy or a soundguy first. I shoot a wide range of content... some days I bring a $10K sound kit... some days I bring a $6K sound kit... and some days I bring only a wireless and a mic/pole and run it into my camera. It depends on what I'm hired to do and what they're paying.
We have a crazy spectrum of users on this board... there are guys involved with million dollar budgets and there are guys who think $100 is a lot of money... and both of those guys are often times part of the same thread. This makes it really hard for people to give the best advice w/o knowing the background of the guy asking questions. Other times we have people who want to sound like they're working on major stuff, but they really aren't and don't want to spend the money to support the project that they're over-selling.
That ends up making a bunch of people mad because they asked the wrong questions which were based on a reality that was not their own.
Generally speaking... the mic is the power and the mixer is the control.
As long as nobody is paying you for good sound then you have time to learn for yourself why you want a mixer. I resisted the mixer move for a long time... then once I got one I felt really stupid for not getting it sooner.
It also depends on the shooting you do... if you are stuck in "one-man-band" mode then you need a buddy or a soundguy first. I shoot a wide range of content... some days I bring a $10K sound kit... some days I bring a $6K sound kit... and some days I bring only a wireless and a mic/pole and run it into my camera. It depends on what I'm hired to do and what they're paying.
We have a crazy spectrum of users on this board... there are guys involved with million dollar budgets and there are guys who think $100 is a lot of money... and both of those guys are often times part of the same thread. This makes it really hard for people to give the best advice w/o knowing the background of the guy asking questions. Other times we have people who want to sound like they're working on major stuff, but they really aren't and don't want to spend the money to support the project that they're over-selling.
That ends up making a bunch of people mad because they asked the wrong questions which were based on a reality that was not their own.
Generally speaking... the mic is the power and the mixer is the control.
saneproductions
Veteran
Matt,
You, as always, cut through the muck and say it how it is!
You, as always, cut through the muck and say it how it is!
TyFord
Well-known member
Mixers are more than knobs that let you vary the volume.
1. They let you vary volumes without shaking the camera or getting in the way of the camera op.
2. You may need to do that a lot with some people. I ride gain even if one person is talking if their voice fades on the end of each line. You can only do this in a relatively quiet environment, otherwise you bring up the ambient noise.
3. Mixer preamps (good ones) sound better than camera preamps.
4. Good mixers have input transformers that scrape off RF before it get into your audio.
5. Good mixers have limiters that allow you to record hotter, keeping your audio further above the noise floor without distorting.
6. Good limtiers have EQ that lets you roll of LF HVAC noise before it gets into your audio.
7. Good mixers have mulitple outputs so you can feed more than one camera, or separate recorder simultaneously.
8. Good mixers make your sound better. If they didn't pros wouldn't use them.
Hmm, is this a sticky or what?
Regards,
Ty
1. They let you vary volumes without shaking the camera or getting in the way of the camera op.
2. You may need to do that a lot with some people. I ride gain even if one person is talking if their voice fades on the end of each line. You can only do this in a relatively quiet environment, otherwise you bring up the ambient noise.
3. Mixer preamps (good ones) sound better than camera preamps.
4. Good mixers have input transformers that scrape off RF before it get into your audio.
5. Good mixers have limiters that allow you to record hotter, keeping your audio further above the noise floor without distorting.
6. Good limtiers have EQ that lets you roll of LF HVAC noise before it gets into your audio.
7. Good mixers have mulitple outputs so you can feed more than one camera, or separate recorder simultaneously.
8. Good mixers make your sound better. If they didn't pros wouldn't use them.
Hmm, is this a sticky or what?
Regards,
Ty
shawnmaddock
Active member
lol tim. maybe he meant a camera operator. =)
