Hey everyone,
I'm hoping I can get some advice on my current mic situation.
I've had my current mic for around 6 years now it's the ATR-6550 (Don't laugh I had no idea what I was doing when I started out) which I boom and run it into my Zoom H2 (again no sniggering) and I great clean sound. Once I run it through Audition's filters to boost the volume, Channel Mix, run a Compander, do a little noise reduction (all presets I've defined) it comes out sounding really nice and noise free. I've shot on a pretty windy day before and got great audio with this set up, for my hobbyist filmmaking this has been a great budget option.
All this proves that I don't NEED to change my audio set up when it comes to Dual Audio.
I've now decided to start doing some more videos for my Youtube channel which I've always recorded using Dual Audio but I've decided to try and go with in Camera audio to allow for faster turnarounds and less hassle generally when it comes to simple tips videos.
I've tried running my Mic via the Saramonic Smartrig and a couple of Rode adapters into my Canon 550d Running Magic Lantern with AGC turned off, Analog Gain set to 10db and the Smartrig set to about halfway, through this I'm getting a decent noiseless sound but it's far too quiet to use. I'm thinking that this is because the ATR-6550 is a mono mic. I'm considering purchasing a Rode Videomicro as I know this combined with the Smartrig will produce a decent sound (as highlighted in DSLR video shooter's video linked below) but I'm wondering if I should put the money spent on that towards a new XLR Shotgun mic maybe a Rode NTG3.
So at the moment it's two options:
1. Buy a Videomicro - cheap and should do the job for talking head shots / bts etc
2. Buy a new XLR shotgun mic to upgrade my old mic and maybe this will fulfill both roles.
Video
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers
Tom
www.youtube.com/BlendThatFilm
I'm hoping I can get some advice on my current mic situation.
I've had my current mic for around 6 years now it's the ATR-6550 (Don't laugh I had no idea what I was doing when I started out) which I boom and run it into my Zoom H2 (again no sniggering) and I great clean sound. Once I run it through Audition's filters to boost the volume, Channel Mix, run a Compander, do a little noise reduction (all presets I've defined) it comes out sounding really nice and noise free. I've shot on a pretty windy day before and got great audio with this set up, for my hobbyist filmmaking this has been a great budget option.
All this proves that I don't NEED to change my audio set up when it comes to Dual Audio.
I've now decided to start doing some more videos for my Youtube channel which I've always recorded using Dual Audio but I've decided to try and go with in Camera audio to allow for faster turnarounds and less hassle generally when it comes to simple tips videos.
I've tried running my Mic via the Saramonic Smartrig and a couple of Rode adapters into my Canon 550d Running Magic Lantern with AGC turned off, Analog Gain set to 10db and the Smartrig set to about halfway, through this I'm getting a decent noiseless sound but it's far too quiet to use. I'm thinking that this is because the ATR-6550 is a mono mic. I'm considering purchasing a Rode Videomicro as I know this combined with the Smartrig will produce a decent sound (as highlighted in DSLR video shooter's video linked below) but I'm wondering if I should put the money spent on that towards a new XLR Shotgun mic maybe a Rode NTG3.
So at the moment it's two options:
1. Buy a Videomicro - cheap and should do the job for talking head shots / bts etc
2. Buy a new XLR shotgun mic to upgrade my old mic and maybe this will fulfill both roles.
Video
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers
Tom
www.youtube.com/BlendThatFilm
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