Digital mics - need some helpful info

alantan wrote:

Magnar W wrote:

alantan wrote:

Magnar W wrote:

After I posted here, I got the chance to work with two digital microphone solutions for the Sony Multi Interface hot shoe: The ECM-B10 and the wireless ECM-W2BT with an aditional lavalier mic. These small units are easy to carry, and discrete when in use.

Both solutions seems to work well for my lower end professional work. Setup is super-simple, and both mics offer clean voice recordings when used properly within the intended range. The signals are pretty robust when imported to Adobe Audition and Premiere Pro. Not much post processing is needed to get okay final results.

After doing simpler reportage style work for a few weeks with these mics, I decided to keep both, as they fill out each other nicely.

Thanks a lot to everybody who chimed in!

I just got the b10 mic on a74 and I have it set to auto 0db attenuation. I find it picks up noise very easily. If I press the joystick for af, I hear noise picked up from the mic. Is that normal?
I have to be very gentle in moving the camera else it’s just going to pick up noise.

I normally use -10 db for noise recording, and this works well when using wide angle and close distance to the subject. I try to avoidhandhelt for interview, except for walking and talking Then I use a wireless mic, bou this solution also have it's noise problems. The most challenging part is the environment you work within, unless you have a decent studio. Most of my work is at location, repotage style stuff. For most productions I need to add some noise cancelling at post processing.

After all, it is about avoiding the worst pitfalls, and then focus on content quality. This my take.

Good luck with your journey into voice recording.

thanks for the reply. I was naively thinking if I spend more money on the mic, the audio will become better. It seems to be the other way round as the B10 seems to pick up noise much easier vs my old rode video micro mic.

These are sensitive mics. Better in some areas, like clean voice, but also be careful to pick the right sound pattern a nd db for the job

I find -10db a bit too soft. I also find the hot shoe mount very tight on my A74. it is very hard to take off the mic. Maybe the tight connection is necessary to ensure a good contact with the digital interface... but it kinds of makes it less convenient than my rode wireless go which slips on and off easily.

After a few timesofuse, themic will slide nicely on and off the multi interface shoe.