New Rode Wireless

puredrifting said:
I will buy one of the Røde GOs, mostly out of curiosity but I think I am ordering two more of the DR-10Ls, that will give me four of them.
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If you can get your hands on the European version, The Rode GO will pair nicely with it. Tiny and slim profile make it easy to stick the two together with a Command Strip. Both safety and wireless at the same time - Zaxcom be damned!

I'm tired of collecting wireless microphones, but there is an appeal to these. I imagine pancaking two of them together, running it into Ch. 3-4 of my C200. And using them as tabletop mics for roundtable discussions. Or basically little pucks you can throw around quickly to get decent audio.
 
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Yes, that is what I am thinking. Throw or clip this little puck in all types of types of situations to get proximity. I know they are going after the phone/blogger market but I would like to see a receiver that is an XLR plug. Sort of like one of the Senn. models. Then no cables at all.
 
Hey looks like a 1980's style pager, very retro.

Seriously there are those who's work makes that OK and those that it won't work well for at all. Picture your favorite narrative film with all the principals with pagers clipped to their lapels...
 
Noiz2 said:
Hey looks like a 1980's style pager, very retro.

Seriously there are those who's work makes that OK and those that it won't work well for at all. Picture your favorite narrative film with all the principals with pagers clipped to their lapels...
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Hahahahahahahaha... I almost posted the below, this afternoon.

Remember this...?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPZ3cO2zOdQ

And yes, I actually had a SkyPager.

I'm trying to remember when cell service actually got affordable enough for us to get rid of our pagers.
 
Paul F said:
It certainly is bigger that what people are used to, but this doesn't look so bad.
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I don't think I'd use this as on "on camera" lavalier. I do actually use my Instamic like this though. However, it is a bit smaller and probably the maximum size I'd want. To my eye it's actually better than a lav with a wind-muff. And somehow I never find I need a windmuff with the Instamic. With the RODE, I could see using it in a pinch where it is just below the camera frame.

In general, I'm trying to move off of lavaliers though. Shotgun's always sound better to me. I just haven't found the right self-powered one yet. I like my Rode NTG-4+, but it is just too big for situations where I have to carry the mic with me on my body. I just ordered the Deity V-Mic D3 Pro which I have high hopes for. It seems to be really well thought out.
 
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Run&Gun said:
I'm trying to remember when cell service actually got affordable enough for us to get rid of our pagers.
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I got a cel phone in 1997, mostly because I was commuting late at night over a barely used road and didn't want to get stuck having to walk ten miles to a phone if the car broke down. That was also the era of having a palm pilot or similar to keep your contacts so you could find the number to dial.
 
brettsherman said:
In general, I'm trying to move off of lavaliers though. Shotgun's always sound better to me.
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I cut and mixed a film where they used both, and that's kind of ideal. Mixed together, the boom mic gives you a nice, present room feel, while the lavs add extra clarity and volume when needed.
 
Batutta said:
I cut and mixed a film where they used both, and that's kind of ideal. Mixed together, the boom mic gives you a nice, present room feel, while the lavs add extra clarity and volume when needed.
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On a lot of interviews, "double mic'ing" is SOP for us.
 
Batutta said:
I cut and mixed a film where they used both, and that's kind of ideal. Mixed together, the boom mic gives you a nice, present room feel, while the lavs add extra clarity and volume when needed.
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Yes. In controlled interview situations it makes sense. However most of my interviews are impromptu, in the field, one-man band, really noisy or somewhat noisy scenarios. Even when I have both lavalier and shotgun I always elect to go with shotgun - more clarity. I will fully admit that if I had a higher-end lav like the Sanken I may warm to lavaliers. My Rode lavalier just sounds too dead and a bit processed sounding.

Also complicating this are the 2.4 ghz mics. Unless you run wired on both shotgun and lavalier, you will introduce delay. 2.4 ghz mics have a pretty substantial delay making it unworkable to mix the two without a lot of fiddling.
 
brettsherman said:
Yes. In controlled interview situations it makes sense. However most of my interviews are impromptu, in the field, one-man band, really noisy or somewhat noisy scenarios. Even when I have both lavalier and shotgun I always elect to go with shotgun - more clarity. I will fully admit that if I had a higher-end lav like the Sanken I may warm to lavaliers. My Rode lavalier just sounds too dead and a bit processed sounding.

Also complicating this are the 2.4 ghz mics. Unless you run wired on both shotgun and lavalier, you will introduce delay. 2.4 ghz mics have a pretty substantial delay making it unworkable to mix the two without a lot of fiddling.
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How are you handling camera and shotgun mic one man band/run n' gun? On camera shotgun is a very dicey situation...
 
I shot an interview with a director yesterday, on set. Couldn't find my sound mixer, it was very impromptu so I just stood about 2' from him and it's usable. Doesn't sound great (noisy set during a company move) but that's the nature of BTS work, you get people when you get people and sometimes your sound mixer is elsewhere and if you wait 5 minutes for them to come back, you miss the interview. I figured lousy quality sound, in this situation, was better than no soundbite at all. AT-875r with a Rycote Dead Cat.
 
puredrifting said:
I shot an interview with a director yesterday, on set. Couldn't find my sound mixer, it was very impromptu so I just stood about 2' from him and it's usable. Doesn't sound great (noisy set during a company move) but that's the nature of BTS work, you get people when you get people and sometimes your sound mixer is elsewhere and if you wait 5 minutes for them to come back, you miss the interview. I figured lousy quality sound, in this situation, was better than no soundbite at all. AT-875r with a Rycote Dead Cat.
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Unless they were "indisposed of" at the moment or the producer said everyone was free for a while, there would have been words afterwards.
 
Run&Gun said:
Unless they were "indisposed of" at the moment or the producer said everyone was free for a while, there would have been words afterwards.
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We had just arrived on set and he was getting a wireless feed from production sound. Not his fault, he was just tied up and director freed up.
 
Run&Gun said:
Cue the “You can never use an on-camera mic except for scratch” debate... ; )
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Just wondering if he had some trick - like velcro it to his underarm or something ;)... But seriously I've used the same setup as Puredrifting with the "it's better to get something than nothing" philosophy...
 
scorsesefan said:
How are you handling camera and shotgun mic one man band/run n' gun? On camera shotgun is a very dicey situation...
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Not sure how he does it, but I also do a lot of shotgun work in the field (corporate/event bites = a few feet away from people) and use a small Beachtek preamp that allows for a safety track. Mic sits right on top of the camera or extends out a bit with a small gooseneck if lens/sensor allows.

Not much to handle on my end...the volume is stabilized for the most part unless people get a bit excited in which I'd mix in the audio from the lower track.
 
scorsesefan said:
How are you handling camera and shotgun mic one man band/run n' gun? On camera shotgun is a very dicey situation...
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Mostly putting camera on tripod. Holding shotgun mic with my left hand with a pistol grip-style mic mount. Right hand on Camera grip with thumb on AF button if need be. I've also been known to do this handheld - not easy and makes shoulder rigging a necessity. The nice thing about this is it makes impromptu interviews faster, no wiring up. And for those situations where people are not wearing something that allows mounting of a lavalier. Though I always have my Instamic in my pocket in situations where it doesn't work.

Super impromptu "ambush" interviews (though friendly), are handled with camera mic and close proximity to interview subject. I always explain that I'm going to have to get the camera close to them because it's noisy.
 
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