Mike Wallach

I have the HV20 and use my beachtek with it. That's why i was recomending it. I <3 my HV20.

I never used the cheap ones. I know for a fact the beachtek works I have one. that's all I can tell you.

You're better off getting an original score done, IMO. When something is made exclusively for your film/story, it flows much better than any pre-recorded song could. Everyone has a pre-conceived image of those songs, which then takes away from the one you try and create.

1.) When shooting digital, does it make sense to still record to a separate recorder and then re-sync it with the video tracks in post as opposed to running the microphones through a pre-mix and record right onto the DV Tape or HDD/HDCard? 2.) If you are say running a wireless and an open mic on the same track, and you move in for a closer shot, and you hear a kind of echo is that just because they are both recording onto the same track? can that happen if each mic is on it's own track? And for the love of god, why do they call the Ari BL called a sync sound camera? Is there actually such thing as a quiet film camera?

...you could just have actors deliver lines off camera. That would be a cool experiment actually...

You want headphones that are preferably flat and get good mid-ranges. You don't want crappy ones that only hear lows or super ones that only hear highs.

It's actually generally always a better idea to not put the wireless mic on the actors head. To get the best sound you want to place it somewhere centered on the torso, generally around the sternum. We are taught to start from the sternum and then work up. The most common one is in the knot of a tie, but otherwise it's just a matter of the outfit/wardrobe.

This might sound extremely elementary, but couldn't you just use one of those toy train tracks that you used to set up around the christmas tree when you where a kid?

Not sure what everyone else is talking about, but I would just use a beach box adaptor. It comes with a 3.5 minijack that plugs into the camera, and then allows you two XLR inputs... http://dvcreators.net/beachtek-xlr-adapters This is, of course, if you want to record sound to tape. The real answer is to just get a sound recorder..