Uploaded November 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
In this week's session, we'll demo the AEA KU5A ribbon microphone, explore some basic sound design, and answer your sound for video questions.
If you’d like to learn how to make great dialogue audio for your film and video projects, please have a look at my courses at school.learnlightandsound.com including processing dialogue audio in Adobe Audition and DaVinci Resolve/Fairlight, recording sound, how to use the Zoom F4, F6, F8, and F8n, and how to get the most from the Sound Devices MixPre series of recorders. We have a course on sound for live-streaming with the ATEM Mini and just added Introduction to Izotope RX for Dialogue Audio.
Gear I often use or that we mentioned in this episode. The links below are Amazon.com, B&H Photo, Sweetwater, DVE Store, Waves, or other affiliate links. As an affiliate, I earn from qualifying purchases:
- AEAKU5A active ribbon microphone — B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon geni.us/OBUvsAG
- Earthworks ETHOS microphone — B&H, Sweetwater geni.us/8G8UdBB
- Sound Devices MixPre II Series Recorders - B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon geni.us/O8e0
- Panasonic GH5 camera - B&H, Amazon geni.us/InspOl
- Canon C200 Camera - B&H geni.us/9Zi4m4a
- Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 lens — B&H, Amazon geni.us/kZyU7e
- ATEM Mini Extreme & Extreme ISO - B&H, DVE Store, Amazon geni.us/b8my
- Allen & Heath SQ5 Digital Mixer - B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon geni.us/sRxFU90
- Rupert Neve Designs Shelford Channel, pre-amp, EQ, compressor - Sweetwater, B&H geni.us/9ZfE77
The intro and outro music for this episode is from Musicbed. Take your films to the next level with music from Musicbed. Sign up for a free account to listen for yourself: geni.us/G7by
Copyright 2022, Curtis Judd
00:00 Start
02:48 Beginning of stream
03:06 Agenda
03:46 AEA KU5A
14:30 Mic placement for the KU5A
17:38 Ribbon vs. condenser mic designs- ribbons more fragile?
24:24 Mid/side recording
26:13 KU5A discovery
26:18 Front vs. side-address
27:27 Preamp quality on SoundDevices 8XX vs. MixPre
31:29 KU5A use cases/applications
31:59 Traveling with production gear
32:40 Discussing sound design
55:01 Mixers for semi-permanent Zoom conference setup
57:06 Learning from big projects
59:55 Amplifying with just a PA system
1:03:00 Wrap-up
1:03:16 End of stream
In this week's session, we'll demo the AEA KU5A ribbon microphone, explore some basic sound design, and answer your sound for video questions.
If you’d like to learn how to make great dialogue audio for your film and video projects, please have a look at my courses at school.learnlightandsound.com including processing dialogue audio in Adobe Audition and DaVinci Resolve/Fairlight, recording sound, how to use the Zoom F4, F6, F8, and F8n, and how to get the most from the Sound Devices MixPre series of recorders. We have a course on sound for live-streaming with the ATEM Mini and just added Introduction to Izotope RX for Dialogue Audio.
Gear I often use or that we mentioned in this episode. The links below are Amazon.com, B&H Photo, Sweetwater, DVE Store, Waves, or other affiliate links. As an affiliate, I earn from qualifying purchases:
- AEAKU5A active ribbon microphone — B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon geni.us/OBUvsAG
- Earthworks ETHOS microphone — B&H, Sweetwater geni.us/8G8UdBB
- Sound Devices MixPre II Series Recorders - B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon geni.us/O8e0
- Panasonic GH5 camera - B&H, Amazon geni.us/InspOl
- Canon C200 Camera - B&H geni.us/9Zi4m4a
- Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 lens — B&H, Amazon geni.us/kZyU7e
- ATEM Mini Extreme & Extreme ISO - B&H, DVE Store, Amazon geni.us/b8my
- Allen & Heath SQ5 Digital Mixer - B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon geni.us/sRxFU90
- Rupert Neve Designs Shelford Channel, pre-amp, EQ, compressor - Sweetwater, B&H geni.us/9ZfE77
The intro and outro music for this episode is from Musicbed. Take your films to the next level with music from Musicbed. Sign up for a free account to listen for yourself: geni.us/G7by
Copyright 2022, Curtis Judd
00:00 Start
02:48 Beginning of stream
03:06 Agenda
03:46 AEA KU5A
14:30 Mic placement for the KU5A
17:38 Ribbon vs. condenser mic designs- ribbons more fragile?
24:24 Mid/side recording
26:13 KU5A discovery
26:18 Front vs. side-address
27:27 Preamp quality on SoundDevices 8XX vs. MixPre
31:29 KU5A use cases/applications
31:59 Traveling with production gear
32:40 Discussing sound design
55:01 Mixers for semi-permanent Zoom conference setup
57:06 Learning from big projects
59:55 Amplifying with just a PA system
1:03:00 Wrap-up
1:03:16 End of stream
