Pro Location Sound LLC

I will be posting daily again soon. I have been doing alot of travel work the last month  I will start posting a bunch of great stuff this week.

Been busy traveling for work and was in the middle of nowhere working last week so was unable to post. On this very demanding shoot I tried out my new REMOTE AUDIO EARBUD single sided headsets for all my producer comtek and everyone loved them. Below is that Remote Audio has to say about them:

Single earphone with swivel ear hook. This allows you to wear it on either the left or right ear. The 3.5mm mono plug is a molded right angle and is ideal for a Comtek or IFB feed.

Got this from a friend of mine who works at a large post house very interesting:

As for as dual layer DVD+R DL media is concerned, the best, most reliable, and only true archival-quality media is Verbatim 2.4x DVD+R DL; that said, only seek the discs with “Made in Singapore” on the packaging, and when inserted into a drive and checked with an app such as Nero DiscSpeed, are denoted with a manufacturer ID: MKM 001

Many other brands (and even outsourced Verbatim), are made in Taiwan and India; the success rate of these are roughly 50% on a burn, if the complete a burn even; personal experience further backs this up. The Memorex 8x DVD+R DL from Tawian with an ID of RITEK S04, for example, have layer break issues. I have experienced this firsthand when many a times when shifting to burn Layer 2, the burn fails out. Be sure to check the manufacturer country. On three identical store displays, discs with the same packaging, price, size, and brand had three different manufacturer locations on their packaging!

The Verbatims MKM 001 are the only reliable dual layer media source, be it for archival or video masters.

I wanted to share this with all of you, in the media industry, hopin to further support the need for proper and reliable data archival, and being able to put our trust in a media format that will work. DVD+DL has been a shotty format with minimal reliability, but, the Verbatim MKM 001s will get the job done right when you need the reliable 8 gig capacity.

Having to work in the rain is no fun but protecting yourself and especially your gear is very important. For many years I have used the MTO Sound Slicker to protect both me and my gear, However it is very large and a real pain to carry around. So recently I bought a MTO Audio Slicker, which just protects your sound bag. I then wear my rainsuit to protect me. So if you require a rain protection system consider MTO Rain products.

Well after a busy few weeks doing some Reality TV I finally had some time to test out my new RODE NTG-3. I never like to use new gear for the first time in a high pressure situation so I have been waiting for a lower stress job so that I could play around with it. This week I worked on a short film for a day filling in for a friend who really needed my help so I decided it was a good time to try the NTG-3 out. We were filming in an abandoned dilapidated floor of a building right on a major highway with HMI’s inside the room for lighting. The film is a period piece in the late 1880’s and what we were filming involved a very soft spoken girl practicing her violin. So good boom technique was very important to try to get good clean dialogue.

The Rode NTG-3 preformed great all day. It had great reach for the soft dialogue during the wide shoots, handled the high frequencies and SPL of the violin very well and had the rejection I needed to due to the location. I would say after this brief use and test I like it just as much as my MKH 416. I am going to try it out on my next reality shoot and see how it handles that. Overall I am very happy with my purchase