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Sound
Microphones, recorders and radio — the half of a film an audience notices first when it is wrong.
39 products · 4 groups · 17 makers
Shotgun & boom
- Schoeps CMIT 5 U — What the best boom operators are holding
- Sanken CS-3e — The tightest shotgun on the market
- Sennheiser MKH 50 — Supercardioid for interiors, where a shotgun fights the room
- Sennheiser MKH 416 — The shotgun on half the films ever recorded
- Rode NTG3 — RF-bias shotgun that shrugs off humidity
- Rode NTG5 — Light, open-sounding shotgun — the indie boom mic
- K-Tek Avalon boom pole — Internally cabled carbon pole that holds all day
- Rycote Super-Blimp — Outdoors, in wind, this is the one
- Sennheiser MKE 600 — The 416’s affordable cousin
- Rode VideoMic NTG — On-camera shotgun that doubles as a USB mic
- Rode NT1 5th Generation — Studio condenser for ADR and voice-over
- Rode Blimp — Wind protection and a shock mount in one
- Rode Boompole Pro — Carbon fibre, internal cable
Radio & lavalier
- Sound Devices A20-Mini — Radio transmitter that records its own backup
- Deity Theos wireless kit — Digital UHF radio at half the usual money
- Sennheiser EW-D ME2 Set — Digital radio lav, wide tuning range
- Sennheiser EW 112P G4 — The analogue radio lav crews still swear by
- DPA 6060 subminiature lavalier — Smaller still, for a close frame
- DPA 4060 CORE lavalier — The lav that disappears under wardrobe
- Countryman B6 lavalier — The size of a match head
- Rode Wireless PRO — Two radio mics with 32-bit float backup recording
- Deity S-Mic 2 — A shotgun that punches far above its price
- DJI Mic 2 — Radio mics with on-board recording and noise cancelling
- Rode Wireless GO II — The clip-on pair that made radio mics cheap
Recorders
- Sound Devices 833 — A proper mixer-recorder for a sound mixer
- Zoom F8n Pro — Eight inputs — a one-person sound department
- Sound Devices MixPre-6 II — Six inputs, 32-bit float, timecode
- Sound Devices MixPre-3 II — The cheapest Sound Devices preamps there are
- Zoom F6 — Six-input 32-bit float recorder with timecode
- Tascam Portacapture X8 — Touchscreen 32-bit float recorder
- Deity BP-TRX — Pocket recorder, timecode and radio in one box
- Zoom F3 — Two channels of 32-bit float in a cigarette packet
- Zoom H6essential — 32-bit float, six tracks, no gain to set
Monitoring
- Beyerdynamic DT 770 PRO — Closed-back with real low end — editing and ADR
- Audio-Technica ATH-M50x — The ubiquitous studio closed-back
- Sennheiser HD 25 — On-ear, brutally isolating, built for noisy locations
- Shure SRH840A — Flat closed-back for checking a mix on location
- Sony MDR-7506 — The headphones in every sound bag on earth
- Sennheiser HD 280 PRO — Closed-back monitoring that isolates on a noisy set
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