If you are new or just wanting to refresh your skills you know there are so many terrible videos and guides online on how to hide a lavalier. When I got started a few years ago I watched quite a few of them. Most come from indie directors or wedding videographers who also do their own sound and whose tips involve the dreaded gaff tape football. … Continue reading Tutorial: How to Hide A Lav
I am co-writing this article with Kevin Sorensen who did the actual hard work and invented this plant mic rig. I say co-write for one of two reasons. One, he did the labor and should be credited for all the original thinking. Two, because when I asked him about doing a tutorial on his build he was humble and told me to write it. I … Continue reading Tutorial: Planting A Mic With A Flower Pot Mic Rig
Because putting SMA ports on things is cool @JacobVarley said why not put one on a Lectrosonics LMa. A LMa housing couldn’t be too different then the um400a right? Warning: The following video tutorial very hard. But wait, there’s more! Jacob ends the video by saying that it is a very labor intensive mod and if you want him to do it to message him and … Continue reading Tutorial: How to SMA your LMa
Since doing my tutorial on how to mod the Sennheiser G2/G3 to have a SMA port I’ve been recieving a lot of questions on SMA antennas. And up till now I’ve said that people should only mod their recievers. Well I talked to some RF experts who have said that modding the transmitter would also help a lot too. I still use the Semnheiser G3 for talent … Continue reading Tutorial: $1 SMA Flexible Whip Antenna
Last week I tested the Deity short shotgun microphone from Aputure against the Sennheiser MKH 416. This week I found some cool YouTube videos that review the EV-643 Dynamic Shotgun microphone. This microphone was produced in the mid 60’s by Electro Voice and in the manual references a patent for some of the other dynamic unidirectional microphones Electro Voice produced at the time. electro-voice-643-users-manual-539054 Here is … Continue reading Retro Reviews: EV-643 Dynamic Unidirectional Microphone
So this past week my show had me fly out to Rochester Minnesota…. in the middle of a blizzard. But never the less I still found some time to review the new Aputure Deity microphone. Aputure Deity – http://amzn.to/2k705FH Overall the build quality is amazing. Its a tad bit heavier then a 416 which is odd for being nearly identical in size. It is made up of … Continue reading Review: Aputure Deity Shotgun
I have been seduced by the DPA 4098s for a while now. It has replaced the omnigoose as the perfect car rig microphone. I have been working on designing my own with some success. I built a goose neck microphone that is terminated to Sennheiser 3.5mm. The gooseneck arm is from a Newwer Skype mic and the head is from a in-car-mount microphone meant for … Continue reading Review: Audio Technica Unimount
Two weeks ago David Peterson of New Zealand (He is like a Barron or Knight down there in the land of New Zealand, I totally researched it too.) reached out to Aputure and recommended a few bloggers to review the Aputure Deity Shotgun microphone. And this past Monday DHL dropped off a box at my apartment so I felt that I should also do an unboxing video. … Continue reading Unboxing the Aputure Deity Shotgun Microphone
This past week sound mixer Fernando Muga of Muga Inc messaged me asking if I wanted to meet up and check out a new prototype cover for the FRC-8 mixing console. We met over coffee and discussed the details of what he had designed. He brought a few prototypes and ended up sending me home to play with a preproduction model of the final prototype. … Continue reading Review: Muga Dust Covers for Mixing Consoles
So in the past few months I have gotten a lot of request to help repair/build custom lavalier, microphones, and SMA Mod G3 form fellow sound mixers. A few months ago I wasn’t setup to do more than just a XLR cables. A shopping spree full of trial and error would follow in filling out what would become a very practical and efficient soldering kit. … Continue reading My Soldering Kit
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