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Posted by William Davis on 01/12/35 11:53
In article <1153493202.410834.326570@s13g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
riclanders@gmail.com wrote:
> Ty Ford wrote:
> > On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 08:31:52 -0400, riclanders@gmail.com wrote
> > (in article <1153485112.655687.178680@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com>):
> >
> > >
> > > riclanders@gmail.com wrote:
> > >> I'm hearing the Senneiser 300 is a great mike except for its delicate
> > >> cable which is prone to go bad if stretched.
> > >>
> > >> Is there a similar quality mike with a more durable cable for under
> > >> $200?
> > >>
> > >> ric
> > >
> > > May be able to answer my own question here. The Rode video mic at $149.
> > > seems to be a much better deal and the RODE NT3-HYPER CARDIOID at $199.
> > > seems to be better yet.
> > >
> > > ric
> > >
> >
> > If you do a lot of run and gun shooting, the VideoMic will wiggle audibly.
> > If
> > shooting on a tripod or slow handheld, it's very nice.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Ty Ford
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> What about the RODE NT3-HYPER CARDIOID?
>
> ric
> >
> >
> >
> > -- Ty Ford's equipment reviews, audio samples, rates and other audiocentric
> > stuff are at www.tyford.com
ric
We're all trying to be gentle and kind here, but it's difficult because
you keep trying to get us to validate something we're just not
comfortable validating.
In my seminars, one typical audience light bulb moment is when I do the
following exercise.
I'd get the audience to close their eyes - then I'd announce Hi, my
name is Bill Davis and I've been making video professionally for more
than 15 years.
Then I'd ask them to open their eyes and I'd silently mouth the words I
live in Scottsdale, Arizona on an old horse property the barn of which
I've converted into a purpose-built video production studio
Then I'd ask them to tell me which presentation mode they got the most
information out of. AUDIO without VIDEO or VIDEO without AUDIO.
The point is that in most typical videos the AUDIO track actually does
more of the communications heavy lifting than does the VIDEO.
If you want to rest that component of your work on an inexpensive mic
with a suspect cable, hey man, you go right ahead.
Its simply that most of us would NEVER consider any mic that didn't have
a long, solid, verifiable track record of performance in actual field
conditions in these circumstances.
Maybe the RODE gizmo is the next great field production mic and we just
don't know about it. Or maybe it's a fragile gizmo with a 100% margin,
lots of marketing bucks, and no place in any videographers bag. We don't
know, because we haven't used it and likely NEVER WILL use it. Because
our time and work is too important for trial and error and there are
already time tested products that we KNOW work correctly.
You want to try it out. Go right ahead. If you and a couple of dozen
other guys start raving about it, it MIGHT earn a place in our bags -
provided one of our EV-635s or Beyer M-58s or Sony 672s or one of the
other couple of dozen mics that we've all had knocking around in our
bags and that are still working flawlessly after 15 or 20 years without
a failure gets run over by a road grader or something.
Nothing wrong with asking these kind of questions.
Nothing wrong with not taking the answers and doing it your own way,
either.
You want to learn though your own trial and error - have at it.
Most of us had to at some point.
Welcome to the club.
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