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Strikerz04:
I've watched the latter episodes of Wink's TTD, he had the mic too. I saw him walk into the stage, and he'd swing the mic around too...

clemon79:
[quote name=\'Argo\' date=\'Sep 24 2003, 06:18 PM\'] they had a pic of 2 celebrities and Dick in the middle [/quote]
 Man, you guys make it too easy sometimes. :)


--- Quote ---just wondering, where did the wire go for those? i saw a few pictures of a few shows, and Jack Narz had one, and the cord would come out of his pant leg, or looked like it did.
--- End quote ---

This is a common way of wiring someone up with lavolier mic, particularly one with an XLR (or Cannon) connector. The connector is where the battery for the mic lives (assuming you're not using phantam power at the audio board, but now I'm trying your patience), so it's kinda bulky. (Picture a tube about the size of a cigar, and about as heavy as an equivalently-sized MagLite with the battery in.) Since the lav wire is very thin. you don't want that thing dragging around freely, as it will cause stress on the lav wire and will eventually break. So, to keep the mic wire out of the shot, what the talent will do is run the wire up their pant leg (usually stuffing the connector in their sock), up under their shirt, and then clip it on at the appropriate location.

tommycharles:
[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Sep 24 2003, 09:36 PM\'] This is a common way of wiring someone up with lavolier mic, particularly one with an XLR (or Cannon) connector. The connector is where the battery for the mic lives (assuming you're not using phantam power at the audio board, but now I'm trying your patience), so it's kinda bulky. (Picture a tube about the size of a cigar, and about as heavy as an equivalently-sized MagLite with the battery in.) Since the lav wire is very thin. you don't want that thing dragging around freely, as it will cause stress on the lav wire and will eventually break. So, to keep the mic wire out of the shot, what the talent will do is run the wire up their pant leg (usually stuffing the connector in their sock), up under their shirt, and then clip it on at the appropriate location. [/quote]
 I only wish our college TV station were that professional...

The connector you speak of runs right into the camera for our mics, and boy are those wires thin. For a reason I've yet to figure out, they seem to just accept that they will break and have to be replaced every fifteen minutes, rather than slapping the talent around until they are more careful.

Oh, and given the fact that the connector goes into the camera, it's fairly impossible, given the length of the cord, to hide it anywhere, so you just see the black cord running down everyone's clothes (sometimes they will run it down their shirt , so it's fairly invisible if they're sitting, but then if they have to stand up...boy does that look peculiar...

clemon79:
[quote name=\'tommycharles\' date=\'Sep 25 2003, 10:00 AM\'] The connector you speak of runs right into the camera for our mics, and boy are those wires thin. For a reason I've yet to figure out, they seem to just accept that they will break and have to be replaced every fifteen minutes, rather than slapping the talent around until they are more careful. [/quote]
 Maybe I just had good professors in college, then, because they taught us respect for the equipment above everything else...a real TV station has the budget to do crap like that, a college one definitely does not. The first TV station I worked at was impressed that I knew how to properly wrap a mic cable. :)

Maybe you can impart the financial benefit to buying a few feet of mic cable in lieu of re-soldering those lav wires every other day :)

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