Im glad you mentioned foley in there somewhere as I've been trying to look for best mics for foley and SFX work but videos are so hard to come by, sure they show you how to record foley but they don't give you that main ingredient and that's the mics used. Great video.
Good review I may look into this Mic over my NTG-2 which has been my go to mic for such a long time. One of these days I need to get out there sounds like you have having such a great time sir. keep up the great work!
Appreciate the feedback, man! Yeah I'd probably go for one of the S-Mic 2 models over the NTG-2, and you can always hang onto the one you've currently got as a backup / if you need that AA battery powered feature for any non-phantom-powered kit you may be plugging into. Honestly, every day I am super glad I made the move; it's a ton of work to be out here, and it's certainly never boring. And heck yeah! You should totally come visit. Would love to see ya. 😁
I agree with you on a lot of points and great video. But just wanted to flag your praise of Deity delivering this in a pelican. While its nice, I think in our world of excess packaging waste I think the pelican cases are total overkill for a mic like this, a mic is relatively cheap and tough and can live in an audio bag or on the camera setup in a Dr bag or stuffed anywhere where it will fit really. If every manufacturer for small things like mic's made a hard plastic cases most would get thrown out as it would be impractical to travel with a hard travel case for several camera accessories. If someone needs a hard pelican case they should buy one specific to all their needs. Just my 2cents.
Yeah, I can see that. Though I generally consolidate multiple items to a single pelican or pelican-like case; and any excess cases I have *plenty* of use for (cable organization, lens filters, adapters, etc) so I always appreciate an extra halfway-decent hard case I will actually use to protect something, even if it's something else than what came in it. The massive chunks of Styrofoam packaging can be really frustrating and wasteful, in my opinion. But a thing that comes in a pelican type case, you can always count that as a huge win for me! Massively reusable and repurpose-able over Styrofoam and cardboard.
Im glad you mentioned foley in there somewhere as I've been trying to look for best mics for foley and SFX work but videos are so hard to come by, sure they show you how to record foley but they don't give you that main ingredient and that's the mics used. Great video.
6:50 was super useful thanks! Was looking for a shotgun that can handle 4ft+ and this helped a lot
So glad to hear that!
Good review I may look into this Mic over my NTG-2 which has been my go to mic for such a long time. One of these days I need to get out there sounds like you have having such a great time sir. keep up the great work!
Appreciate the feedback, man! Yeah I'd probably go for one of the S-Mic 2 models over the NTG-2, and you can always hang onto the one you've currently got as a backup / if you need that AA battery powered feature for any non-phantom-powered kit you may be plugging into.
Honestly, every day I am super glad I made the move; it's a ton of work to be out here, and it's certainly never boring.
And heck yeah! You should totally come visit. Would love to see ya. 😁
I agree with you on a lot of points and great video. But just wanted to flag your praise of Deity delivering this in a pelican. While its nice, I think in our world of excess packaging waste I think the pelican cases are total overkill for a mic like this, a mic is relatively cheap and tough and can live in an audio bag or on the camera setup in a Dr bag or stuffed anywhere where it will fit really. If every manufacturer for small things like mic's made a hard plastic cases most would get thrown out as it would be impractical to travel with a hard travel case for several camera accessories. If someone needs a hard pelican case they should buy one specific to all their needs. Just my 2cents.
Yeah, I can see that. Though I generally consolidate multiple items to a single pelican or pelican-like case; and any excess cases I have *plenty* of use for (cable organization, lens filters, adapters, etc) so I always appreciate an extra halfway-decent hard case I will actually use to protect something, even if it's something else than what came in it.
The massive chunks of Styrofoam packaging can be really frustrating and wasteful, in my opinion.
But a thing that comes in a pelican type case, you can always count that as a huge win for me! Massively reusable and repurpose-able over Styrofoam and cardboard.