strawBoss
New Head-Fier
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After much lurking and hours of reading ( this place rocks ) I’ve come to the realization that maybe it’s just better ask rather than piece all this info together myself.
Here’s the sitch; my “night job” is freelance videographer and after far too much day money spent on a HD video set up of portable lights, packs, screens, filters, gels, tripods, lens’ and a solid pro camera things are starting to pay for themselves. Now it’s time to take the audio up a notch. Most of the work I do is travel based and or sports/outdoor adventure which means whatever gear I get has to embrace the confines of air travel, resist Mother Nature, and accept reasonable wear and tear (I certainly don’t abuse my equipment, but it can’t fall apart, or let me down, delicate equip need not apply).
The microphone upgrade has been narrowed down to a couple, however if anyone is inclined I’m still open to options (shotgun), but what I really need is advice on audio from the camera to my ears. Specifically cables, portable amp, headphones. Since I’m usually a bit of a one man band (no audio guy) I monitor audio from the camera headphone mini-jack ( not perfect but this is a work in progress and eventually I’ll invest in a unit such as Sound Devices 702T Digital Recorder and go completely separate with audio, but one step at a time.) It’s become obvious from reading here that there are better amp/headphone combinations and while I’d like to collect and experiment my location and funds necessitate a better then “adequate” first try.
Parameters and possible preferences:
Amp:
-Amp under $500 USD
-Size – Predator or smaller. It has to either fit clipped to the camera on or in a vest chest pocket)
-Reasonably uncoloured (for obvious audio reasons)
-Enough juice for full size cans (headphone criteria below)
-Good battery life
-Reliable (every company says their stuff is reliable but we all know that isn’t so)
-DAC? (I do a fair amount of rough editing with a laptop while on the road)
-Has gotta love the headphones it’s hooked up with (hence the reason for the post in here and not over in the headphone section - the sum of the parts.)
Headphones:
-Closed? (most fellas I’ve worked with use closed but you guys know head-fi best so I’m open to options, but no in ear, I’m not that open to options.)
-Accurate and uncoloured (I’ll end up using them for hours of travel entertainment with a pod but that will be the secondary use.)
-Reasonably durable
-Folding (minor requirement – nice but not critical)
- $350-ish USD ( yes I know, the price is lower than the amp, but a guys gotta draw a line even if it’s blurry, but that price zone appears to keep me in the right ball park)
-Prefer no coiled cord
-Suggested phones from the audio/video folks: Sony MDR7506, Sony MDR7509, Audio-Technica ATH-M50, Beyer 770pro
So, I realize this is slightly redundant question, given the recent “pro-audio monitoring” question but this is a from scratch monitoring situation - I’m looking combined sound, portability and don’t have a current favourite headphone.
Thanks in advance for the advice.
Here’s the sitch; my “night job” is freelance videographer and after far too much day money spent on a HD video set up of portable lights, packs, screens, filters, gels, tripods, lens’ and a solid pro camera things are starting to pay for themselves. Now it’s time to take the audio up a notch. Most of the work I do is travel based and or sports/outdoor adventure which means whatever gear I get has to embrace the confines of air travel, resist Mother Nature, and accept reasonable wear and tear (I certainly don’t abuse my equipment, but it can’t fall apart, or let me down, delicate equip need not apply).
The microphone upgrade has been narrowed down to a couple, however if anyone is inclined I’m still open to options (shotgun), but what I really need is advice on audio from the camera to my ears. Specifically cables, portable amp, headphones. Since I’m usually a bit of a one man band (no audio guy) I monitor audio from the camera headphone mini-jack ( not perfect but this is a work in progress and eventually I’ll invest in a unit such as Sound Devices 702T Digital Recorder and go completely separate with audio, but one step at a time.) It’s become obvious from reading here that there are better amp/headphone combinations and while I’d like to collect and experiment my location and funds necessitate a better then “adequate” first try.
Parameters and possible preferences:
Amp:
-Amp under $500 USD
-Size – Predator or smaller. It has to either fit clipped to the camera on or in a vest chest pocket)
-Reasonably uncoloured (for obvious audio reasons)
-Enough juice for full size cans (headphone criteria below)
-Good battery life
-Reliable (every company says their stuff is reliable but we all know that isn’t so)
-DAC? (I do a fair amount of rough editing with a laptop while on the road)
-Has gotta love the headphones it’s hooked up with (hence the reason for the post in here and not over in the headphone section - the sum of the parts.)
Headphones:
-Closed? (most fellas I’ve worked with use closed but you guys know head-fi best so I’m open to options, but no in ear, I’m not that open to options.)
-Accurate and uncoloured (I’ll end up using them for hours of travel entertainment with a pod but that will be the secondary use.)
-Reasonably durable
-Folding (minor requirement – nice but not critical)
- $350-ish USD ( yes I know, the price is lower than the amp, but a guys gotta draw a line even if it’s blurry, but that price zone appears to keep me in the right ball park)
-Prefer no coiled cord
-Suggested phones from the audio/video folks: Sony MDR7506, Sony MDR7509, Audio-Technica ATH-M50, Beyer 770pro
So, I realize this is slightly redundant question, given the recent “pro-audio monitoring” question but this is a from scratch monitoring situation - I’m looking combined sound, portability and don’t have a current favourite headphone.
Thanks in advance for the advice.