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Muttondraw

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Prompted by a question from LMGvideo a while back I have been looking into a good lightweight mic preamp to use with RedOne in single user mode. Mono is fine, limiter is essential, I would prefer it to be powered from the camera and be small/light enough to attach directly to the rig. The best option I have found so far is the Sound Devices MM-1. I assume that there are quite a few reservation holders who are going to be in the same boat, any ideas for other options, or thoughts on the MM-1.

Martin
 
Here is another option the PSC DV PROMIX 1 Isn't quite so pretty but it's quite a bit lighter and has a peak meter. Both just a bit too big though, I would love to find something smaller.
 
I have a PSC DV PROMIX 3, the big brother of the one you are looking at, and I am certainly very pleased with that. I have used it on a few doco shoots with my Z1, and had no problems. Obviously it's not a full SQN, and the meters are not brilliant, but it's a lot cheaper.

I would recommend splashing out for the extra channels if you can afford it, as you may often find yourself in a situation with a boom and a lapel mic, and the ability to run them to a camera via a mixer is very useful.

Nick
 
Good to hear about your positive experiences with the PROMIX 3 Nick. My only concern with running a larger mixer was when I need to use an on camera mic (an unfortunate neccessity sometimes). The ideal would be to have a very compact mic preamp that would mount on the camera in this situation. It would certainly make sense to have a larger mixer too.

Martin
 
Sound has not been mentioned much by Red at all. It may well be that if all you need is a simple top-mic setup then Red may have built in mic pre-amps and phantom power as traditional video camera do. Then you wouldn't need an external box.

Nick
 
Nick_Shaw said:
Sound has not been mentioned much by Red at all. It may well be that if all you need is a simple top-mic setup then Red may have built in mic pre-amps and phantom power as traditional video camera do. Then you wouldn't need an external box.
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Is this so RED? Does the camera have high quality built in mic pre's?
 
Nick_Shaw said:
It may well be that if all you need is a simple top-mic setup then Red may have built in mic pre-amps and phantom power as traditional video camera do.
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Now that would be handy, but I suspect it will just be line ins. I would be very happy if there were a couple of mic pres built in though. So far the only specs I have seen specify 4 channel uncompressed, 16 / 24 bit, 48KHz.

Martin
 
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