Playing with the Gopro

"CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever" (carsoffortlangley) 03/21/2019 at 10:48 • Filed to: None

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Testing my new camera/mic set up. Seems much improved. Although now I feel that I didn’t have the camera on the right mic setting. Having it on standard external rather than powered which my mic and camera support.

The mic cord runs from the gopro mic adapter along the “rain channels” of the hatch (across and down the tail light housings) into the hatch where the extra cable sits and then down, under the car. The mic itself, a stereo Sony lapel mic à la Doug DeMuro, sits in a windsock tucked under my bumper cover.

Ideally the adapter would be more secure, as well as the mic. Both were unsecured tonight but no issues. This was a temp test setup.

In the last photo, you can just make out the grey windsock tucked up under the bumper cover, quite close to the exhaust. I may move it next time, but first will try the “powered mic” route. I was getting a bit of wind noise still. Not surprising given the location of the mic.

What do others use for a setup?

NKato > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 03/20/2019 at 22:25

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Zoom time? :p

Deltyn drives a meh car > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 03/20/2019 at 22:43

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I had fun with my action cam for a while but without an editing rig, I fell out of it pretty fast. also, congrats on stepping up to a microphone setup as my raw clips always sounded like wind noise.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > Deltyn drives a meh car 03/21/2019 at 00:27

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It really cut down on wind noise.  I am no editing pro, but I will keep at it.

diplodicus forgot his password > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 03/21/2019 at 11:02

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You should let me borrow your go pro to check my e30 diff for movement on the highway.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > diplodicus forgot his password 03/21/2019 at 11:03

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lol, how close are you?

They are not that expensive, I got this one (Hero 5 black) for like, less than $200USD new.

diplodicus forgot his password > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 03/21/2019 at 11:08

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Im in Michigan so pretty far away. I'll see if I can find a cheap one for sale used or something

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > diplodicus forgot his password 03/21/2019 at 11:10

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I got one 3 generations old. I wanted a touchscreen, 4K and some stability. I didn’t want to pay for all the fancy shit on the new ones.

I also have a Hero Session as my back up/2nd cam.  But that does not have an exterior audio jack.

Manny05x > Deltyn drives a meh car 03/21/2019 at 11:15

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The editing turned me off from using it on my bike.