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Posted by riclanders on 01/12/01 11:53
William Davis wrote:
> 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 ³light bulb moment is when I do the
> following exercise.
>
> I'd get the audience to close their eyes - then I'd announce ³Hi, 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 ³I
> 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 ³presentation 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 ³heavy 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.
Not to put too fine a point on on it, but the people at Dvcreators.net
have now think the
RODE NT3-HYPER CARDIOID at $199 offers more value than the Senneiser
300. They, in fact, no longer recommend the Senneiser 300.
Is your point I should ignore this and select the Senneiser 300 over
the Rode anyway?
ric
http://www.dvcreators.net/products/videomic2.html
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