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Gear / Technical Help => Microphones & Setup => Topic started by: Gordon on January 09, 2010, 02:38:22 PM
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thought I'd see what y'all had to say about this. here is a copy of the email.
We tape a bi-weekly news broadcast here at work and our shotgun mic has stopped working on us. Do you have a good recommendation on one that we can get that is affordable? I think we spent $100 on this last one and it never worked to our liking at all. We just set up in an office and our "news guy" stands about 3 feet in front of the camera and we shoot the footage that way. Already have the stand and XLR, just need to find a new mic. The attached mic works pretty good, it just sounds too boomy/echo-ey in the room when we use it.
too bad most of my mic knowledge involves mics that cost $1000 each or so ;)
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Maybe a Rode NT-4 or something like that? They seem to be fairly popular among the ENG types and aren't too expensive.
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Maybe a Rode NT-4 or something like that? They seem to be fairly popular among the ENG types and aren't too expensive.
Agreed on NT-4 for boom mic.
Also consider lavaliere (clip to shirt) varieties. Been too long since I've been doing video interviews so I have no idea what to recommend in that line of mics any longer, but using lavalieres is much better for the situation you describe, Gordon.
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http://www.audio-technica.com/cms/wired_mics/697235da7c34d03d/index.html