DV Info Net - Under Water, Over Land https://www.dvinfo.net/forum/ en Fri, 15 May 2026 08:35:44 GMT vBulletin 60 https://www.dvinfo.net/forum/images/misc/rss.jpg DV Info Net - Under Water, Over Land https://www.dvinfo.net/forum/ Audio for nature videos https://www.dvinfo.net/forum/under-water-over-land/539744-audio-nature-videos.html Sun, 03 May 2026 13:11:47 GMT Hi,

I hope that this is ok to post here as I'm not sure if this belongs in the "All Things Audio" section?

Anyway I have 2 scenarios that hopefully I'll get some ideas into which direction to go down....

Scenario 1:

For this scenario I've been following 2 videos for ideas and I'm a little lost!


The first by Morten Hilmer (Danish wildlife photographer/film maker and vlogger:


and the second by Petri Koivisto from Finlamd:




As there are many different ways of doing this I really want to figure out a solid direction to get started.

One of my ideas was to use a Sound Devices MixPre 3 or 6 linked to a stereo X/Y pair; Morten does this on a T-bar mount while Petri seems to use the Audio Technica BP4025 stereo mic

I'm not sure what mics would be a good choice for this as my experience is in music studio recording and not live sound or field recording.

I kinda had a look at a Neumann KM 184 Matched Pair - which is great if your doing overheads for drums but not sure about field recording?

In terms of directional mic, will any shotgun mic work well? Again the Sennheiser MKE 600 is discussed, but what about something like a Neumann KMR 81 or 82 i?

Incidentally I have the Sennheiser MKE 400 but haven't used it much, only really for voice overs in terms of narration.

How would say a large or small diaphragm FET based mic work out in this type of scenario or are there more suited mics?

Also does polar pattern matter too for this type of application? I guess it depends on preference and what you are trying to do.....


Scenario 2:

A little more complex as for this I wanted to mix and match a group of up to 4 speakers with ambient sounds.

It would be a single shooter "run and gun" style scenario where you are following 3 - 4 people all hooked up to wileress lav mics in a forest or somewhere.

Looking at options from DJI, Rhode, Sennheiser etc.... they all have a standard Rx unit with 3.5mm output that can be linked to 2x wireless Tx mics

(I have the DJI Mic 2 (single) that I use in Bluetooth mode and it is pretty good for speech)

If using a camera like the Canon R5C which only has a single 3.5mm stereo input, what would be the best way of doing this?

It seems a little tricky but my current thought was something along the lines of a field-recorder that can take up to 4x jack inputs or 2x jack and 1x 3.5mm aux stereo input

The MixPre's I think you can get like a sling bag for them which would make them a little clunky for this, while using something like a Zoom H5/6Studio you could belt or pocket clip it (there's a picture on the website showing something like this) then use the 2x lav module for it and then get any external dual lav Tx/Rx combo of choice.

As a total beginner here with this, how would you then go to rig this all up? As in, taking the Zoom H5/6Studio option... sure it's just a 3.5mm to 1/4" mono jack for the remaining 2x mics but then you need timecode.
By default the Canon has a DIN connector while the Zoom needs bluetooth using an Atomos module or can use a Tentacle SyncE module linked to an audio track... that's fine as you have 2x tracks remaining in the device

I guess you'd need another SyncE for the Canon too then? so how and where would you place these things?

Would you just stick them in your pockets or use a cage like something from SmallRig and either screw or zip ties these things somewhere?

If you wanted to add ambient sounds too, would you then just go ahead and Jam Sync the time code to the MixPre discussed earlier and leave that positioned statically somewhere?


Maybe I'm over complicating things here but from what I can see this is kind of the best way that I could think of to do this....?

How useful would timecode be in a situation where you need speed of setup? Neither Morten nor Petri talked about audio/video sync so I'm a little lost here!!


Any suggestions would be really appreciated :-) ]]> Under Water, Over Land Kaya Saman https://www.dvinfo.net/forum/under-water-over-land/539744-audio-nature-videos.html