4:31 One thing is not clear to me, is the additional 3.5mm input to connect a third microphone? Do you record it separately from the other 2 using the SMAD-P5?
So when it scans for an available frequency, and that frequency it has picked is not covered by the standard OFCOM PMSE license, can you change it to a frequency that is allowed within your license? This maybe means that you never want the receiver to scan and therefore input the frequency in manually every time perhaps?
Hey Alister, first time contacting you. I'm trying to ride audio levels with the UPX P41D with the Sony FX3 camera on a gimbal. The menu won't allow me to go into the setting? I've been told that it's not a problem with the fx9 or fx6 but I really bought this to keep the gimbal footprint small.
Thanks for the video. With the new D27 Reciver, Can you monitor the levels of each of the transmitters separately? Hot Shoe one and two in the FX6 Audio Controls are for Transmiter one and two?
The digital link between the receiver and camera will make this part of the chain more robust, but if there is a strong interference signal this could still affect the transmission between the mic transmitter and receiver.
Thanks Alister for the great review. Just confirming that the SMAD-P5 does allow dual channels into the FX6 (like the older SMAD-P3D)? Hard to find anything specifically pointing this out.
Alistar, great content! Quick question, I purchased the dual lab set and consequently purchased the new handheld mic. For some reason the handheld mic won’t sync to the receiver, any thoughts?
maybe the mic pres on the camera is not the best for the noise test? using a dedicated recorder would give some better insights into this system. Really confused between this and the Sen G4 system as they are fully analogue, these have an ADA at the transmitter and another ADA at the receiver. so a test with better mic pres would be superb!
I wanted to ask you a question about recording with s-log2 in the 8-bit alpha cameras. When first shooting with S-Log2 S-Gamut3.cine on the A7C, I was exposing the highlights so the zebras just disappeared at 106 IRE (I think 107 IRE is the clipping point of s-log2). In high contrast situations this would often result in the skin tones sitting well below 50 IRE so when I bring them up in post they get the horrid 8-bit patchy color shift. If I were to expose for lighter skin tones using zebras in standard+range mode set at 60 +/-5 to preserve that data, do you think the highlights that are blown out would make the image look a bit amateurish looking? Take in account that this is shooting in run and gun situations where I cannot use additional lights to bring up skin tone exposures.
Hi Alister, thanks for your review, great to listen to you as always. I have one quick question: I've read somewhere that you not only can power the devices via USB-C but also recharge the batteries inside this way. This would be a great usecase in my opinion, but I'm looking for a confirmation right now if that's really possible. Do you know something about this?
