What’s the best settings for the RØDE Wireless Micro in noisy environments?
I just tested recording at an outdoor café, but there’s way too much background noise, clinking glasses, music and people talking.
What settings do you recommend to get the best possible results in environments like that?

I can change:
1 Overall gain mode. - Low, medium, high.
2 Noise reduction. - Off, low, high.

Hey all, shooting an indie feature this summer.
Looking to rent a good shotgun mic for our boom, anyone got experience with the Sennheiser MKH-8060?
Renting our lens from lensrentals.com so easiest for us to get a mic from them, this was on their site and it looks good to me. Am I missing anything about this?

I’m a DP/camera op. More and more I’m being asked to do sound for interviews. I had a boom that my clients were happy with for many years. It has been so long I don’t even remember the model. That gear was stolen recently so I need to get a new mic. For my needs the mic will almost alway be indoors and on a stand during an interview. I want a quality mic that works well and I won’t have any issues. I’m considering a Sennheiser MKH50. I would rather spend a little less.

Currently looking to invest in a wireless mic setup for filming. I've got a documentary coming up, along with starting a Youtube channel where I'll be posting short films, creator-type content, and long form talking head style videos. I'm looking for something that can be used for all three things. Here's my constraints.

- Budget is low, $2-300 (so sadly no Lectros or high end tx/rx)
- Looking for something with 32 bit float as I'll be solo operating a lot of these shoots
- Want something with good range, build quality, and can travel well

My research has pointed me towards the RODE Pro system (since it's cheap, good quality, has 32 bit float, etc.) and I've used it before and it sounds good.

However, wanted to see if there are any other better options, or if it actually makes sense or would be cheaper to rent something better for the documentary and narrative work, and then use the RODE for my personal Youtube content filming.

Looking to purchase a couple nice lav mics (Cos 11s or DPAs) to go along with the system. Connectivity is another challenge, since those mics aren't always wired for 3.5 mm if I'm going with something like the RODE system. Happy to use cheaper 3.5 mics for personal use but for location sound I'd prefer something that actually sounds great and is reliable.

Thanks!

P.S. - been doing post audio and some field audio for 15 years, so feel free to talk technical to me ;)

I'm a videographer and have experience of working with sound using a boom mic and a bag recorder for example.

I've also worked as a tutor on community filmmaking projects where the participants are taught how to use an ENG camcorder and a boom mic to make their films. They use the equipment under supervision.

In these projects we've connected the boom microphone directly to the camcorder and then used a splitter to power two sets of headphones one for the boom op and the other for the camera op.

Is there a better way of managing monitoring for the boom op - I'm reluctant to use a bag recorder. Some kind of headphone amp that takes a split from the microphone perhaps. We're shooting a drama.