Re: [videoblogging] lapel mic advice needed
Gimme some time, Deirdre - on a project that will soon leave no energy left for much else besides laundry and sleep. What's your schedule for deployment? Jan On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Deirdre Straughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks! I can probably bump up the budget if I need to, say around $1000, $600 was just a wild guess. My travel could be anywhere (and I hope it will be!) from California to Beijing to Europe to India... On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 7:09 PM, Jan McLaughlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds like you're talking wireless, then. $600 is not a lot to cover two transmitters, two receivers and two lavs, unless you find 'em used. You'll find plenty used these days as certain frequencies in certain areas are NG. Which makes me think that you should definitely have two very different blocks of frequencies in your kit. You'll be traveling around, so you'll need frequency agile transmitter/receivers which have 'blocks' of a bunch of frequencies to which you can shift if a bunch of freqs are in use wherever you are. Let me ask the guys @ the R.A.M.P.S. newsgroup what blocks might best serve such an international lass as you. Are you mostly traveling to certain areas, or do you have to be ready for any city / anywhere? Jan On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Richard Amirault [EMAIL PROTECTED]ramirault%40verizon.net wrote: - Original Message - From: Deirdre Straughan Set = two mics plus the receiver and whatever other stuff I need to make them work. receiver??? Do you want *wireless lavs? If so, do you want both mics working at the same time? They'll need to be on different freqs. unless you connect them into one transmitter. But, I don't know the feasibility of getting a stereo transmitter / receiver (if so .. it's a lot's more $$$) Or maybe you meant mixer (for wired lavs) Richard Amirault Boston, MA, USA http://n1jdu.org http://bostonfandom.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7hf9u2ZdlQ Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- best regards, Deirdré Straughan living travelling in Italy (and other Countries Beginning with I) www.beginningwithi.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] lapel mic advice needed
Thanks! I can probably bump up the budget if I need to, say around $1000, $600 was just a wild guess. My travel could be anywhere (and I hope it will be!) from California to Beijing to Europe to India... On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 7:09 PM, Jan McLaughlin [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Sounds like you're talking wireless, then. $600 is not a lot to cover two transmitters, two receivers and two lavs, unless you find 'em used. You'll find plenty used these days as certain frequencies in certain areas are NG. Which makes me think that you should definitely have two very different blocks of frequencies in your kit. You'll be traveling around, so you'll need frequency agile transmitter/receivers which have 'blocks' of a bunch of frequencies to which you can shift if a bunch of freqs are in use wherever you are. Let me ask the guys @ the R.A.M.P.S. newsgroup what blocks might best serve such an international lass as you. Are you mostly traveling to certain areas, or do you have to be ready for any city / anywhere? Jan On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Richard Amirault [EMAIL PROTECTED]ramirault%40verizon.net wrote: - Original Message - From: Deirdre Straughan Set = two mics plus the receiver and whatever other stuff I need to make them work. receiver??? Do you want *wireless lavs? If so, do you want both mics working at the same time? They'll need to be on different freqs. unless you connect them into one transmitter. But, I don't know the feasibility of getting a stereo transmitter / receiver (if so .. it's a lot's more $$$) Or maybe you meant mixer (for wired lavs) Richard Amirault Boston, MA, USA http://n1jdu.org http://bostonfandom.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7hf9u2ZdlQ Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- best regards, Deirdré Straughan living travelling in Italy (and other Countries Beginning with I) www.beginningwithi.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] lapel mic advice needed
Set = two mics plus the receiver and whatever other stuff I need to make them work. On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 6:36 AM, Richard Amirault [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: - Original Message - From: Deirdre Straughan Somewhere around $600. Jan McLaughlin wrote: What's your budget? Deirdre Straughan wrote: My job is increasingly about running around the world videotaping stuff for Sun, and I now have the opportunity to upgrade my kit (see http://blogs.sun.com/deirdre/entry/my_videoblogging_rig for what I currently have). I'd like to add a set of decent lapel mics, (snip) AND ... is that *each* mic? AND .. how many is a set? Richard Amirault Boston, MA, USA http://n1jdu.org http://bostonfandom.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7hf9u2ZdlQ -- best regards, Deirdré Straughan living travelling in Italy (and other Countries Beginning with I) www.beginningwithi.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] lapel mic advice needed
- Original Message - From: Deirdre Straughan Set = two mics plus the receiver and whatever other stuff I need to make them work. receiver??? Do you want *wireless lavs? If so, do you want both mics working at the same time? They'll need to be on different freqs. unless you connect them into one transmitter. But, I don't know the feasibility of getting a stereo transmitter / receiver (if so .. it's a lot's more $$$) Or maybe you meant mixer (for wired lavs) Richard Amirault Boston, MA, USA http://n1jdu.org http://bostonfandom.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7hf9u2ZdlQ
Re: [videoblogging] lapel mic advice needed
Sounds like you're talking wireless, then. $600 is not a lot to cover two transmitters, two receivers and two lavs, unless you find 'em used. You'll find plenty used these days as certain frequencies in certain areas are NG. Which makes me think that you should definitely have two very different blocks of frequencies in your kit. You'll be traveling around, so you'll need frequency agile transmitter/receivers which have 'blocks' of a bunch of frequencies to which you can shift if a bunch of freqs are in use wherever you are. Let me ask the guys @ the R.A.M.P.S. newsgroup what blocks might best serve such an international lass as you. Are you mostly traveling to certain areas, or do you have to be ready for any city / anywhere? Jan On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Richard Amirault [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: - Original Message - From: Deirdre Straughan Set = two mics plus the receiver and whatever other stuff I need to make them work. receiver??? Do you want *wireless lavs? If so, do you want both mics working at the same time? They'll need to be on different freqs. unless you connect them into one transmitter. But, I don't know the feasibility of getting a stereo transmitter / receiver (if so .. it's a lot's more $$$) Or maybe you meant mixer (for wired lavs) Richard Amirault Boston, MA, USA http://n1jdu.org http://bostonfandom.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7hf9u2ZdlQ Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] lapel mic advice needed
- Original Message - From: Deirdre Straughan Somewhere around $600. Jan McLaughlin wrote: What's your budget? Deirdre Straughan wrote: My job is increasingly about running around the world videotaping stuff for Sun, and I now have the opportunity to upgrade my kit (see http://blogs.sun.com/deirdre/entry/my_videoblogging_rig for what I currently have). I'd like to add a set of decent lapel mics, (snip) AND ... is that *each* mic? AND .. how many is a set? Richard Amirault Boston, MA, USA http://n1jdu.org http://bostonfandom.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7hf9u2ZdlQ
Re: [videoblogging] lapel mic advice needed
Somewhere around $600. On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 8:40 PM, Jan McLaughlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's your budget? :) Jan On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 11:04 AM, Deirdre Straughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] deirdre.straughan%40gmail.com wrote: My job is increasingly about running around the world videotaping stuff for Sun, and I now have the opportunity to upgrade my kit (see http://blogs.sun.com/deirdre/entry/my_videoblogging_rig for what I currently have). I'd like to add a set of decent lapel mics, but need to strike a balance between quality and size/weight - I don't have a crew to carry equipment for me! Suggestions/experiences welcome. -- best regards, Deirdré Straughan living travelling in Italy (and other Countries Beginning with I) www.beginningwithi.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- best regards, Deirdré Straughan living travelling in Italy (and other Countries Beginning with I) www.beginningwithi.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] lapel mic advice needed
Back in the 70s and 80s Radio Shack has inexplicably not-sucky microphones for the money. Don't know if that still holds true. They did all tend to be a bit low in the output though. Never did do that crazy modification to turn my Radio Shack PZMs into something closer to the Crowns, but people did it, it was cheap, and got great results. Brook ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab
[videoblogging] lapel mic advice needed
My job is increasingly about running around the world videotaping stuff for Sun, and I now have the opportunity to upgrade my kit (see http://blogs.sun.com/deirdre/entry/my_videoblogging_rig for what I currently have). I'd like to add a set of decent lapel mics, but need to strike a balance between quality and size/weight - I don't have a crew to carry equipment for me! Suggestions/experiences welcome. -- best regards, Deirdré Straughan living travelling in Italy (and other Countries Beginning with I) www.beginningwithi.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] lapel mic advice needed
What's your budget? :) Jan On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 11:04 AM, Deirdre Straughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My job is increasingly about running around the world videotaping stuff for Sun, and I now have the opportunity to upgrade my kit (see http://blogs.sun.com/deirdre/entry/my_videoblogging_rig for what I currently have). I'd like to add a set of decent lapel mics, but need to strike a balance between quality and size/weight - I don't have a crew to carry equipment for me! Suggestions/experiences welcome. -- best regards, Deirdré Straughan living travelling in Italy (and other Countries Beginning with I) www.beginningwithi.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
