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The microphone preamplifiers in most low-cost audio mixers and recorders are now optimized for high-output condenser microphones. However, dynamic and ribbon microphones produce output levels that are too low for normal use by these devices. There is now a simple solution to this problem.
Ribbon microphones are as old as recording itself. Now a new generation of ribbons has erased old problems and limitations and excels in modern digital recording.
Shotgun microphones have long been the staples of live recording. In the 1970s and 80s, virtually all professional shotguns used for location sound were “true” condensers costing over $1,000. Now, a new breed of electret condenser shotguns have appeared. Many wonder, what are the differences and how much does it matter?
Before computers — when the audio for television commercials was edited with razor blades — sound mixers typically created premixed tracks at the beginning of the spot-making process. Then, after computers, the mixer’s role was reversed — with many relegated to simply polishing the final commercial after editing. Now, sound mixers want that to change.
Britain’s exit from the European Union will be “devastating” for the UK’s creative industries and “negative” on the country’s overall tech sector, according to pundits and analysts. It was hard to find any positive predictions following the results of the national referendum.
I was all set to write my next chapter on standards and terminology when the The Broadcast Bridge published an article quoting the Olympic Broadcast Service (OBS) that said, 4K is just a Bus Stop to 8K (along with 22.2 audio channels).
As the industry increasingly adopts IP and virtualisation technologies, the role of the video server is rapidly changing toward being a tool for managing the process of converting streams to files and vice versa, whatever flavour those streams/files happen to be in. In part two of an examination of these changes The Broadcast Bridge airs the views of Dalet, Harmonic and Grass Valley.
Since the dawn of digital production, many links in the workflow chain have produced their own metadata. Now the “Production in the Cloud” project is making all that metadata useful.
