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Scott Lancaster · April 26th, 2005, 11:14 AM

Many of you may know I am going to be working on a reality tv pilot episode soon... takes place in Brazil. We will be using 2 XL2s(hopefully) or 2 XL1s... we have 2 wireless lav systems (lectrosonics with tram mics) and one ME66 shotgun mic (plus the canon mics). Here's where I need you opinions: for capturing audio for a reality series, how can I best utilize this setup... also keep in mind much of it will be run and gun and our crew is limited to me and another guy... so with 2 cams rolling, what would you do? How would you handle it when there are multiple people speaking in one room... like an inpromptu meeting? Each cam use a wireless... for best quality, or split each cam to record 4 channels... using the lavs AND a on camera mic... how much will sound quality degrade using 2 audio sources on one cam (I have hardly ever used 2 sources... cause I like to keep my audio/video at top quality)... I want to get the most out of our audio... limited as it is. Thanks for your help!

Rob Lohman · April 30th, 2005, 03:10 AM

I have moved your thread to our audio forum (Now Hear This), hopefully you
will get more replies there (since it is more about audio than the XL2)...

April 26th, 2005, 11:14 AM	#1
Scott Lancaster Regular Crew Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Jackson, TN Posts: 64	Audio advice -XL2/XL1 Many of you may know I am going to be working on a reality tv pilot episode soon... takes place in Brazil. We will be using 2 XL2s(hopefully) or 2 XL1s... we have 2 wireless lav systems (lectrosonics with tram mics) and one ME66 shotgun mic (plus the canon mics). Here's where I need you opinions: for capturing audio for a reality series, how can I best utilize this setup... also keep in mind much of it will be run and gun and our crew is limited to me and another guy... so with 2 cams rolling, what would you do? How would you handle it when there are multiple people speaking in one room... like an inpromptu meeting? Each cam use a wireless... for best quality, or split each cam to record 4 channels... using the lavs AND a on camera mic... how much will sound quality degrade using 2 audio sources on one cam (I have hardly ever used 2 sources... cause I like to keep my audio/video at top quality)... I want to get the most out of our audio... limited as it is. Thanks for your help!

April 30th, 2005, 03:10 AM	#2
Rob Lohman RED Code Chef Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Holland Posts: 12,514	I have moved your thread to our audio forum (Now Hear This), hopefully you will get more replies there (since it is more about audio than the XL2)... __________________ Rob Lohman, visuar@iname.com DV Info Wrangler & RED Code Chef Join the DV Challenge \| Lady X Search DVinfo.net for quick answers \| Buy from the best: DVinfo.net sponsors