Getting Wireless Audio to Video Village

[Tyler Newhouse]

Hey all, trying to put together a video village package for our production company, and curious to know how people get their externally recorded audio (for instance, from a Sound Devices mixer) to headphones in video village.

We just got the Paralinx Arrow X for video out from our RED Dragons, but especially when we've got them on the Ronin, and you can't really jam audio in camera, we need a way to get the boom op/mixer's audio to our director and producers in video village. And being fairly audio illiterate, I could use any and all words of wisdom. Thanks for the help!

 

[Marc Wielage]

If you just need to monitor audio, Comtek transmitters and receivers are widely used, relatively inexpensive, and very reliable:

http://www.comtek.com

I've used them frequently with Sound Devices recorders and mixers and they work very well. Be advised that you'll need to drop in a sound delay to compensate for the processing delay within the camera going to monitors. Some (but not all) of the Sound Devices recorders will let you dial in a delay on one or more of their outputs, selectable in milliseconds.

 

[Tyler Newhouse]

Awesome! Thank so much, Marc, that was exactly what I needed.