Hi, we've had lots of people asking us
what do you have in your kit bag, because
there's loads of photography kit bags
around as well, so what we did was we had
a look at this bag, this is my specialty
this is my 'go everywhere bag'.
I have a couple of bags,
so I've got bags for
specific jobs like recording proper
sound effects, so I'll show you those
bags in a later episode, which is my
field recorder, and my mics, and all the
leads and everything you need to go and
record sound effects somewhere.
So I shall go through all those units with
you, and we'll go and have a look at that.
But this is my fun bag... this is the bag
that I take everywhere when I go for a
walk with the dog in the morning, myself
and Coco we go down the park, and we
bring this, and we bring this to the
mountains, and we go in our boat.
When we bring this and why we bring this
is because it's for capturing for sound design.
Capturing ideas for sound design,
capturing actual sound design, so
anything I'm recording, I will try and
record as best equality as is a can, and
get as close to the source as I can, so
this is the fun stuff, so I will get going on it.
The older ones among you won't
remember I Omega drives between 250 Mg
and 125 Meg per disc, I Omega, the
1990s I think it was, this is an I Omega
drive bag, from back then and this
is really important, to grab yourself a
proper bag, whenever you can, because one
you have an awful lot of kit in there,
you want to keep it dry, you want to keep
it clean, you want to keep it safe, so
always think about your bag in the first place.
There's me headphones, they don't
fit in my bag but hey what are you gonna
do.. so I have an iPad.
On my iPad I have loads of different
software on there, and I have loads uses
for this as a recorder, as an editor,
we'll go through that in a minute.
I also have, because of the bulk of an
iPad you're trying to walk
around with an iPad, it can be very bulky
and tricky to walk around with and get
into angles, I have an iPod Touch as well.
Be really careful if you're buying a
secondhand iPod Touch, or iPad or
something like that for audio because
an awful lot of the software it doesn't work
on the older iOS, so you have to be
really careful what software and
hardware you're buying, and make sure you
have those working on your older Apple products.
The iPhone, iTouch, iPad, i stuff, i stuff.
So first things first,
Fluffy ears - fluffy ears are not fluffy
ears... they're Windjammers from Rycote,
best Windjammers you're gonna get, so you're
not gonna get any wind on your
recordings, and destroy your recordings,
so these go onto all of my recorders, so
there's your Rycote, I've got two of
those for two different recorders, here's
another one, but this is much smaller,
because this is covering my iXY from
Rode, it's a stereo pair of mics and the
stereo pair mics literally go and click
into your iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad and you
have now got a stereo field recorder and
we did a show on getting sound effects
and stuff like that, our wild track for
directors, and I was suggesting get one
of these.
If you have an iPhone and you
just plug it in, there you go, now you
have a field recorder, so they are really,
really, high quality.
It's an iXY from Rode, really high quality
microphones, and of course you have
your Windjammer for that as well,
the next thing we have is
these crazy Dog's ...
this is a Sennheiser Ambeo Smart
headset, and if you notice,
not only are they headphones, but there is
microphones on there as well,
for a binaural sound, and the binaural
sound is basically - it gives you the best
perspective of what you're listening to,
so you put these on like so,
and you plug that into your iPod touch,
your iPhone, or your dada dada...
and now you're recording binaural sound,
so binaural sound is giving you the actual
ambience that you're... the natural sound
that your ears are gonna hear in a scene,
so if you imagine me shooting something on an
iPhone, or on an iPad, I plug this in, I'm
shooting on my iPad, so there is a sound
source that I'm looking at..
I turn around and I'm still looking at my ..
so the perspective of the viewer listening
to the audio from these, now that audio
source is there, so the natural movement
of the head is followed with the
movement of the camera, so sweeps pans
all that, so, so if you're shooting on a
iPad or iPhone, it's really extraordinary,
and it really puts the person in the space.
And this is my old friend, the old
dog, my old buddy, this is a thing I've
gone high and low with...
this is an H2n, the reason I love this so
much is because you get so many different
methods of recording.
I've got X,Y, I've got MS, and I've got four
channels surround.
There's a two-channel surround as well,
but that's worth playing with,
so this recorder, if I want a stereo
recording, if I want a surround recording,
I literally just bring this everywhere,
and it just allows me to record on all these
different means, so anything I record
even in for track, the quad recordings,
you know, I can use those even in movies,
the caps on these are really, really,
really nice, I've just pulled out a
handle, the handle is there, and it
basically gets rid of hand noise
traveling through the recorder, and onto
the caps, which really can destroy
recordings.
You put your Rycote on there, that's on
there, and you're ready to go, simple.
So there is a suspension mount as well from
this handle, and make sure that there's
no movement going into the recorder, and
it's isolated, I generally have a tripod
with me as well, so if I wanted to pop
that up on a tripod, and keep any sort of
vibrations away from the recorder, I can
pop it on there.
So that's my H2n, with the Rycote, and
that is a wonderful piece of gear,
we go everywhere, I've lost
a couple of those to recording
situations, like the sea taking them out
or whatever else.
Am, the next thing I
have here is a really interesting
recorder it's called the H3-VR from
zoom, so if I'm recording in any of my stereo
areas, you're recording this way and this
way, 45 degrees, and it's flat, that's
where it is, that's where the sound is,
that's where it picks up, whereas
naturally in the natural world,
we're surrounded completely by up
stairs noise, downstairs noise,
around, behind you, everywhere,
so we listen in a, in a 360 field.
Stereo doesn't capture that
correctly, stereos is a pseudo trying to
give you a representation of what you're
looking at, this actually records in full
360, so it's the whole sphere around and
behind you, above you, on to you,
everything, this records the whole lot,
and there's different moulds, and you know
binaural stereo, etc, what this
essentially records in 360, and the great
thing about this mic is, it's fully
controllable with the iPad app, I can
connect the iPad up to this, and have
control over absolutely every aspect of
it, right down even to the metadata,
typing in exactly what's going on with
which file.
Naming it, you know stuff like
that, so the iPad app - I can walk away 28
feet, and still be able to control this,
so I can get really close to a source
that might be a little more, risky, you
know, I'm at the side of a road,
and I can put the thing at the source,
which is you know
might be a little dangerous, so I can
move back and I hit record, and change my
levels and everything on the iPad up
here, so super little recorder, and it's
amazing, some of the recordings you can
get from this is extraordinary, and sit
there and listen to it, and with
headphones on is quite brilliant!
Love that little recorder.
So that's the zoom H3-VR, lovely lovely
machine, oh and of course don't go
anywhere without a power bank.
Power banks are super essential for all
your stuff, especially with the batteries
and iPads, iPod Touches, and all sorts of
machines that can just die on you.
I check my batteries every single week on this.
There's battery indicators on each
machine, so I know exactly how much
battery I have for absolutely everything.
Now the 'Le Pièce de résistance..'
these.. this is a toy that I bought,
all this year actually,
just a few months ago, and and it is a
hydrophone, and a hydrophone is a
microphone that goes underwater without
destroying all your gear, and destroying
any microphones, and this is brilliant,
it just it goes under the water, it
records fishes, and boats, and all sorts
of stuff.
I use it out on my boat, myself and
Coco go out there, and we just record
underwater ambiences, and it's amazing,
the differences of ambience that can get,
you know, from places like a main port to
go up the coast, you know, two miles,
and the different ambiences that you're
gonna hear with a hydrophone,
it's extraordinary, and you can also hear the
health of the water that you're in
currently with this, if there's more
noise there's more life.
I mean noise, natural noise as opposed to
ship engines and stuff like that, but it
is amazing, and I can also use it as a
contact mic, so for designing sound
effects it's really really cool, for
putting into contact on different
surfaces, tape it down, and do some
recordings on there, you know,
using different noises, and using this to
pick up that sort of noise,
it gives you a whole different timbre to
the noise and you can play with that,
that records directly into the H2n -
so I bring my H2n and the Hydrophone
out on the boat, or I
can go away to rock pools and listen to
limpets scratching at the rocks...
or whelks walking around or clicking
shrimps, and it's just absolutely
extraordinary, it brings you, it immerses you in
a whole world that we're not used to,
and it's a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful
piece of kit... I love that..
and as I saycget yourself a decent bag,
but that ultimately is what I carry in my
"camera bag" for want of a better term,
and that I go anywhere and I have the
means to record anything anywhere with
all sorts of different methods, whether it's 360
binaural surround stereo, I have
everything covered in the one small unit,
it's light and I just throw it on me
back, I go and if I hear something that I
want to capture, birds, air, water, if I'm
up the mountains, and I happen to be going
for a lovely walk, brilliant, pull this
out, get some ambience while I'm there.
Why not add it to the sound effects library,
so that's what it allows me to do, it
allows me to go out and record and find
stuff and ideas, and it's just the most,
it's taken me a long time to come up
with this bag, and what it does, and what
I have, and it does an awful lot of jobs
really, really, really well, it doesn't do
amazing jobs in other fields, but for
what I use it for, it, it's really, really,
really effective, so if you're looking to
get your own bag together, have a think
about it, have a real good think about
it, put a unit into a bag, go for a walk,
see is the right unit for that moment, or
find a unit for you that is good to go
into field, up a mountain, out in a boat,
you know, and just give yourself a little
diversity, so you're not stuck to one way
of recording or one way of
dealing with the situation, they have
options, given yourself options..
it's lightweight and it's mobile, and that's
what I happen this bag.
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