SEEKING TIME CODE ADVICE: I've moved up to a Sound Devices 552 field mixer (from my old Shure FP33) and I'm loving it! Loads of connectivity and features. It has TC input, meaning it supports time code, but does not generate it. If I want to get started with integrating TC into my gear, what sort of outboard units are recommended? I'll likely be buying used equipment to save a few bucks, but I'd like to invest in a unit that is stable and reliable enough that I won't outgrow its usability any time soon. What will I need to get started? Feel free to post links to forum discussions, product reviews, tutorials, pictures of your own rigs, etc. Thank you kindly for your insights and expertise! -Carl Welden, Location Sound. Freelance boom-op, sound mixer Based in New York's Hudson Valley
Carl Welden, serving as boom operator while working on Toaster Phantom Productions' zombie short "The Last July" on location at a horse farm in Wallkill, NY Photo provided by Director Robin Weisel Pictured gear list/audio-chain, for those interested: Sennheiser 415T Short shotgun mic housed in Rycote Windjammer blimp-kit on vintage 14' aluminum boom-pole, running through PSC T-power (Tonaderspeisung) converter into a Shure FP33 field mixer, housed in Porta Brace case on Remo Slider harness, with Zoom H4n recorder, foldback-monitored with Sony MDR-7506 headphones.
Ah the warm glow of a VU meter... In this case, it's emanating from my voice-over rig,which includes an ART VoiceChannel class A tube mic preamp, upgraded with a Telefunken 12AX7 tube. Picked it up in May of 2010 and it payed for itself mighty quickly! Now, I get to make promotional imagery with it too!