Zexun Tan
March 28th, 2014, 02:20 PM
Hi guys, I'm quite new to the audio side of things, but hear me out ok?
So recently I was on a fast paced event shoot where I was working with an assistant who was handling my lenses and grip gear while I was focused on getting the highlights. We both had comms, using standard motorola units with earpiece + boom mic (to mouth). Prior to this, I was using throat mics which were really bad.
Anyway, it was a very loud environment, and throughout the shoot, my assistant kept complaining that he couldn't really hear me over the music / noise. We had to use hand signals sometimes. Odd.
However, what surprised me was that I had a sennheiser g3 + lav on me that fed into my BTS guy's 5D3 camera, and he was monitoring audio through it. He could hear every single thing I said clearly, and that way, he stood next to my assistant and told him what to do when my radios failed.
So, long story cut short, I wanna ask if anyone's ever tried this setup:
Lav -> Wireless TX -> Wireless RX -> Beltpack interface (smth like the new Juicedlink DARling or headphone portable amp) -> headphones/earphones
And then mirror that setup, with a different pack (on diff freq), so that 2 people are mic'ed up and listening to each other and able to do full duplex.
Is this a thing? It seems similar to what live singers have for monitoring their own voice through IEMs and wireless packs, but in a different context / setup.
Anyone?
So recently I was on a fast paced event shoot where I was working with an assistant who was handling my lenses and grip gear while I was focused on getting the highlights. We both had comms, using standard motorola units with earpiece + boom mic (to mouth). Prior to this, I was using throat mics which were really bad.
Anyway, it was a very loud environment, and throughout the shoot, my assistant kept complaining that he couldn't really hear me over the music / noise. We had to use hand signals sometimes. Odd.
However, what surprised me was that I had a sennheiser g3 + lav on me that fed into my BTS guy's 5D3 camera, and he was monitoring audio through it. He could hear every single thing I said clearly, and that way, he stood next to my assistant and told him what to do when my radios failed.
So, long story cut short, I wanna ask if anyone's ever tried this setup:
Lav -> Wireless TX -> Wireless RX -> Beltpack interface (smth like the new Juicedlink DARling or headphone portable amp) -> headphones/earphones
And then mirror that setup, with a different pack (on diff freq), so that 2 people are mic'ed up and listening to each other and able to do full duplex.
Is this a thing? It seems similar to what live singers have for monitoring their own voice through IEMs and wireless packs, but in a different context / setup.
Anyone?