On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 6:22 PM, Cotty <[email protected]> wrote: > On 28/4/10, Rob Studdert, discombobulated, unleashed: > >>Oh it's fine over a short distance and absolutely no problem with >>these pre-amplified hot shoe mounted mics. Balancing only reduces >>cable induced noise, a bad balanced mic pre-amp can sound worse than a >>good unbalanced system. > > Well, you kn ow as well as I do that the worst place for a mic is on > board - and especially the cheap shit rubbish they supply with most > cameras. Even my HM100 came with the most awful crap mic. I replaced it > with an ATR-75, but for anything worthwhile the 416 is ready to go :) > > The problem with most people shooting (DSLR or otherwise) is that audio > is a mystical add-on that one hopes will turn out alright 'in the end'. > Then the last part of post production happens, the final sound mix, and > the recriminations start! > > -- > > > Cheers, > Cotty
One advantage to only shooting video of drunken engineers is that nobody actually wants to hear them. Needless to say the anemic audio capabilities of my K-x have not yet proven to be an issue for me. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
