My Gear | Sound Recordist 2021

 
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We’ve now got our location-sound gear to a very solid level for any one-to-three person dialogue features - all available for dry hire. Larger productions can have equipment hired in easily but this is the perfect PSC set-up for most branded content, documentary and short-film requirements.

Sound Kit:

  • Zoom F8 Sound Recorder at the heart of the kit (adaptable with mount to sit under a DSLR or in it’s own saddle bag). The F8 can send multiple outputs via wireless or directly input into any camera (via XLR or mini-jack) if conducting a stationary interview and you would rather not have to sync sound in post. If you are renting and moving around our Zoom H6 Hand-held may be a better choice. A warning though, that mic inputs on cameras are rarely any good (in particular RED) and you will have higher quality audio if you sync from the recorder in post.

  • Sennheiser MKH415 - slightly warmer sounding 416.

  • Oktava MK-012 Hyper-Cardiod Microphone for interior work - similar sound to Schoeps MK41.

  • Wireless Lavalier Systems - 2x Sanken COS 11-D’s (1x Black, 1x White), 3x Sony UWP-D11 transmitters with Sony ECM-77 Microphone’s as back up.

  • 2x Tentacle Sync E Time-Code devices for timecode into any camera, including GoPros.

  • Sennheiser e845 S Hand-Held Microphone for broadcast. (Wireless on available via external rental house).

  • Shure SM57s.

  • Various Sony & Rode Shotgun Microphones with adaptions for cameras.

  • Additional Microphones needed for voice-over or studios: Warm Audio WA47 (Amazing take on the beautiful U47s), Shure Sm7b (the ‘BBC Radio’ microphone, perfect for clear Voice-over when on location), Shure SM81 Matched Pair Pencil Condensers (used as overheads of drum kits and guitars in studio recordings but also perfect for picking up a wide stereo image of a choir or a room that you want a rich detailed sound).

  • Plus many accessories from Rycote, URSA & Bubblebee including fantastic tools to hide microphones plus Booms, leads, headphones and more.


Get in touch! My name is Sam Boydell and I’ve been a Sound Recordist for nearly a decade for advertising, commercials, short films and TV Dramas/Documentaries. Clients such as BBC, Ford & the FA.