Christopher Brown Location Sound / Audio Recording for Video Production

Christopher Brown    336-403-5766    

   Location Sound Mixer / Audio Recording for Video Production
   Winston-Salem, NC and Packed to Travel Internationally


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    My Professional   Audio Gear is from:
Trew Audio

  

Equipment

  • Lectrosonics Wireless Systems - 4 total
  • Wireless Camera Send - 2-ch Wireless Hop to a Camera
  • Double Record System Available - Sound Devices 744T 4-ch HD recorder
 Four Channel Mixer

Sound Devices 442 Four Channel Mixer

Very quiet professional performance for field production, plus a versatile package of features that lets me configure it for numerous situations. This mixer can handle all kinds of audio level inputs and can output to three cameras at once.

 Four Wireless Systems

Great location audio relies heavily on the wireless systems that are used. With that in mind I purchased the best wireless systems I could. My total wireless system package consists of:

  • 2 Lectrosonics 411 Digital Hybrid, Diversity, frequency agile systems
  • 2 new SM super small, lightweight bodypack transmitters (See below)
  • 2 Lectrosonics 401 Digital Hybrid, diversity, frequency agile systems with bodypack transmitters.


These systems can be used as a four wireless system or as a two-person wireless system with a two channel wireless camera hop send. For the camera hop I have a Anton Bauer adapter plate with a double receiver holder and a DC Y power cable for powering the receivers from the camera.

 Sound Devices 744T Hard Drive 4-ch Recorder
In those harsh adventurous environments I want to make sure that the audio is recorded cleanly. Besides sending audio to camera, I can also record isolated 4 tracks of audio from my mixer to a Sound Devices 744T HD recorder and back-up the files to portable hard drive.. With 80 track hours of storage on its hard drive, the 744T can record days worth of audio tracks as well as giving the editor the ability to have isolated 4 tracks of audio instead of mixed to 2 channels feed to camera.
Audio Double Record System
 Sennheiser 416 & Sanken CS1 Boom - Ready for Wind

I primarily use the Sennheiser 416 for my documentary work. I keep the CS1 as a second boom mic.


I have both a softie and a full Rycote suspension, Zeppelin and Windjammer system to be able to not stop production for wind noise.

 Multi-Camera Shoots

The 442 mixer allows two channels of audio to be sent to three cameras simultaneously. The three camera sends are achieved by utilizing the ENG breakaway cable, XLR outputs on the mixer, plus the wireless camera hops.

 Look Ma, No Batteries!
My whole system is powered for DAYS (not hours) off one Li-ion NP1. The BDS (Battery Distribution System) sends power to the mixer, wireless receivers, and camera hop wireless transmitters. I'll always have two spare NP1's with me and the system includes a double bank charger.
 Other Gear

Two Tram Lavalier mics w/ microcat high velocity windscreen
RE-50 Hand-held stick mic
ENG 20' Breakaway cable w/ headphone jack for cameraman
ENG 25' Breakaway cable extension
Sony MDR-7506 Professional Headphones
Remote Audio 7506 High Ambient Noise Headphones (NASCAR Muffs)
Pelican 1600 & 1650 cases for all the gear to travel anywhere in the world!

 

 

Recent
Productions

True Crime Series Audio







Beijing summer Olympics Sound Mixer

TruTV sound mixer



Verdict, You Decide

Torino Winter Olympics

NASCAR audio, sound mixer

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