Heat84 Why are one and two microphone clips used at the same time on a set? One person would have a 1 microphone clip and another would have a 2 microphone clip.
Depends on where they are located on the set, there could be other mics in use that are off camera..
It’s very rare to see a field reporter without a hand microphone. They also need them for doing interviews.
That’s the ole wig-wag it’s is easy to do and the audio guy doesn’t have to mic the person being interviewed.
I actually remember watching a reporter on Fox News doing a report yesterday or the day before in Texas where the flood happened. She wasn’t a regular Fox News reporter. She was a freelance or whatever you call it reporter. She was doing a field report using a lapel mic. I can’t remember the last time I saw that
That’s known as a stringer, a freelancer who is paid for each story filed, I had been doing that as a videographer for almost 3 decades, as during the day I was on the road and always had a scanner in my vehicle, if I heard something breaking that might be something I could sell, I got on it for awhile.
This is an example of such a find.
Raw video.
As aired
That one paid well.
Whenever there’s a major event here in Florida, you always see the same freelance field reporter guy at the scene on Fox News.
That would probably be Phil Keating, we have never worked together as a team, but he is a very nice person who I met while covering the death of Anna Nicole Smith.
Hand microphones are all wireless these days, so that problem you had wouldn’t happen anymore. Although I assume they keep the wired microphones for backup.
Wireless is very problematic and best avoided if possible.
Why were you a sound guy for a news station instead of a band?
I was never a sound guy for media, I did videography as a stringer, but all of my audio and major RF work was as a contract broadcast engineer mostly for WNWS AM and WLYF FM in North Miami or down in North East Miami way back when I was a teenager trying to learn audio engineering at Criteria.
https://www.criteriastudios.com/history
That job didn’t pay much but I met a lot of really good musicians and subcontracted work for a few of them and one thing I learned about that industry is it’s very tight, take good care of one of them and next thing you know your name will be spread far and wide and for me even to this day it is still happening, though I am sort of retired.
Another thing I learned is the real ones pay their bills, but the work must be just as they want it, no exceptions, I actually had one guy bark at me, he explained what he wanted and just how he wanted it, I made a stupid comment “do you understand how much that will cost,” he yelled back “what you don’t think I can’t afford it,” I looked down and commented “I’m sorry Sir that was a stupid comment, please forgive me.”
It was as sound system he wanted installed in his living room, what I found out later from his wife he had already purchased all of the equipment from a reputable company in Broward, but they refused to install it because he wanted the speakers recessed into the walls, one of which required cutting into a wood load bearing beam, they like I knew it was there by the build of the home.
I had to hire a structural engineer to design a temporary method to support the upper part of the beam to the lower part of the beam allowing a custom made prefabricated steel box to be installed which would carry the load while providing a location for his speaker to be installed in.
Then all the damage had to be repaired, new paint and all the other crap needed to complete the work.
The price six weeks later $23,300 I handed his wife the invoice, she thanked me for doing such a great job stating her husband loved the way it was done, opened his checkbook wrote out he check and handed it to me.
Then the other shoe dropped she let me know they where remodeling their “out west home” in California would I be willing to go out there for a month or two and get involved in that project.
