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Shoot Tools: Core Sound 

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Shoot Tools: DPA Microphones 

By Dan Ochiva

Despite many advances in case compositions and electronics, lavalier microphones often still suffer from noise caused by the talent’s movements. Denmark-based DPA Microphones says it has solved the problem via a unique cable wrap used with its new miniature cardioid DPA 4080-BM...

Shoot Tools: Audio-Technica 

By Dan Ochiva

While it can be useful to have separate sets of audio gear for field production and studio use, moving between wireless and wired setups means that you often need to keep double the number of microphones on hand...

Shoot Tools: K-Tek 

By Charissa Young

K-Tek has created a lighter-weight carbon-fiber version of the Avalon Traveler, a professional boom pole designed to fit in a standard equipment case....

Edit Tools: Azden 

By Charissa Young

If you need to mix field audio for projects with a fast turnaround, look to Azden’s FMX-42....

Shoot Tools: Sony 

By Charissa Young

Sony's switchable stereo/mono ECM-680S MS shotgun mic might let you avoid carrying multiple microphones into the field. ...

Shoot Tools: M. Klemme 

By Trevor Boyer

Wind is a major hindrance to capturing clean audio, as M. Klemme, the manufacturer of K-Tek boom poles, knows well. Shooters slide fuzzy windscreens onto microphones...

Edit Tools: Bias 

By Trevor Boyer

The venerable Peak is one of the best-loved audio editing programs for the Mac, and the new version 6 adds more than 100 new features, according to Bias....

Shoot Tools: Roland 

You can never have enough storage capacity, and that goes for both large facilities and small devices....

Shoot Tools: Focus Enhancements 

By Trevor Boyer

The whole point of using non-tape recording methods is saving time — no digitization and no rolling tape all the way through. ...