external mics

[Derek Raby]

Another thing that helps minimize camera noise is if your shotgun mic is
mounted on the handle of the Videosmith Mini Rover, an L-shaped handle that
screws into the tripod mount of your camera and allows you to hold the
camera easily with 2 hands, as well as giving you a 2nd hotshoe mount 6
inches to the left of your camera.  I find it works great and it's only $59.
http://www.videosmith.com

DR

On 12/7/02 8:25 AM, "Macintosh Digital Video List"
<MacDV at lists.themacintoshguy.com> wrote:

> Message-Id: <a05100303ba16ac5299b4@[137.151.100.251]>
> Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 11:40:55 -0800
> From: Ross Jones <RJones at fullerton.edu>
> Subject: [MacDV] Re: External mic as an alternative
> 
>> I'm looking for an alternative that will hopefully pick up less of
>> the sound of the
>> mechanics of the camcorder and therefore more of what I want to
>> capture. Maybe one of
>> those 'zoom' mics that sit in the shoe on the Sony can fit the bill.
> 
> Anything that physically resides on the camera will pick up motor
> noise and the AGC circuit will search for any sound anytime it is
> quiet.  Someone once also a device to fool the AGC circuit (high freq
> tone) but I have not seen it around lately.
> 
> Get an external mic (I use Samson and Sennheisers) and don't mount it
> on the camera if possible.
> 
> Also visit:  http://www.locationsound.com/   and
> http://www.trewaudio.com/  for best info