This is a brief excerpt from the Hurlbut Visuals blog
By Thomas Popp
In order to be a well-rounded audio engineer, it is crucial that you understand the tools available to you. I would like to begin by breaking down the audio equipment available and teach you their purpose, limitations, and some tips on learning how high quality audio is recorded. A good place to start is with an introduction to wireless systems.
A wireless system is a piece of equipment that allows you to take a sound source (microphone) and send the audio wirelessly through the air to a receiver instead of physically tethering that source microphone to its destination (a mixing console) with a cable. The benefit of wireless technology is that it allows the sound engineer to capture a source of audio that may not have been attainable in the past. We use wireless systems on talent when we are not able to get a boom microphone in the shot as well as to occasionally plant a microphone that will allow us to get a better ambience in a scene.
One of the debates that I always get when working on jobs is the highly opinionated question of WHEN to use them. On many productions, I receive …
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