Do you use digital audio recorders?

[Rodrigo de la Garza]

Originally Posted by Taky Cheung

I have a video to show how the groom ruined the sound =)

Lav Mic Failed in Action on Vimeo

Hahaha what is the groom doing? What is that he pulls out? It almost looks like it's on purpose, just take out a big clump of paper and play with it :D

[Taky Cheung]

I have no idea what he was doing.. but certainly made my work more challenging =)

Now I will also place a voice recorder in front of the speakers. It works better this way with Catholic weddings too.

[Taky Cheung]

There are times I will place the voice recorder on top of the speaker. Then have the wired lav mic dangling in front of the speakers. I have a comparison clip.. you will need headphone to listen to left/right channel to listen to the difference

Recording Good Sound at Event | L.A. Color Blog

However, this only works well with small to medium size speakers.

[Elias Neris]

Taky Does the Olympus DM420 you use stay in sync or does it drift slightly?

[Taky Cheung]

I was told the DM520 doesn't drift at all. DM420 and DM520 are basically the same unit except for the smaller internal memory in DM420.

I only use DM420 the first time last week. Haven't started the editing work yet =)

[Corey Graham]

Originally Posted by Elias Neris

Taky Does the Olympus DM420 you use stay in sync or does it drift slightly?

Originally Posted by Taky Cheung

I was told the DM520 doesn't drift at all. DM420 and DM520 are basically the same unit except for the smaller internal memory in DM420.

I only use DM420 the first time last week. Haven't started the editing work yet =)

The DM420 doesn't drift for me at all.

[Ian VanCattenburch]

We use Yamaha Pocketrak 2g's along with Giant Squids. During reception we use a Sennheiser e604 in case we can't tap into the DJ's line outs. Pocketrak's are super thin and work well for beach weddings when grooms don't wear jackets.