JeffErie
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Jun 25, 2008, 7:18 AM
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Don't get rid of those iRivers just yet...
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I have a corporate shoot this friday and monday. It is a unique situation, in that I have to mic two groups. One group of four and one of two.
They will be sitting facing each other. I've done this before with two hypers and have gotten mediocre sound. I decided to try it a different way. I wanted to put lavs on everyone. The problem...I can't affort 6 wireless systems. So, I decided to go with wired. For $160, I picked up lavs and mini to xlr cables to run to my Edirol R44.
The lavs are dynamic so I bought them assuming that I wouldn't need phantom. Wrong...and right. They don't need phantom, but their sensitivity is so low that they need some preamp voltage to boost the signal.
I'm screwed, I'm thinking. But of course, I reach out to our resident audio guru, Mark Foley.
Mark suggests that I run the lavs to my iRivers, let the iRivers act as a preamp, run cable from the headphone jack to the R44. Voila! All the signal I need.
What a great idea! The great thing is, I can record on the iRiver and have some redundancy, or just out to the R44 and the iRiver will run forever.
Jeff Natalie - President, ErieKIDS
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"In the Middle" debuts November 13, 2008
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