Uploaded October 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
In this week's session, let's test a few automixers to hear how they differ. Automix is useful for cases where you're recording or live broadcasting multiple people with multiple mics in the same space. If you don't use an automixer of some sort, you'll end up with microphone bleed, comb filtering, and more noise. An automixer will help reduce all three of those issues. After that, we 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:
- Mackie DLZ Creator — B&H, Amazon geni.us/42KrX0
- Earthworks ETHOS microphone — B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon geni.us/8G8UdBB
- Sound Devies 888 field recorder/mixer — Trew, B&H, Sweetwater geni.us/zAryW4J
- Sound Devices MixPre II Series Recorders - B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon geni.us/O8e0
- Panasonic GH5 camera - B&H, Amazon geni.us/InspOl
- Teleprompter Ikan 17" high bright — B&H geni.us/RcuXD3
- 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
- Universal Audio 6176 channel strip pre-amp, EQ, compressor — B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon geni.us/505L55n
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 2023, Curtis Judd
00:00 Start
02:43 Beginning of stream
02:55 Agenda
04:02 Mackie vs Allen & Heath podcast mixers
05:47 MixAssist for panel discussion
11:46 Automixing intro
19:10 Our signal chain
19:29 BlackMagic camera app
20:04 Dante-equipped mixer for broadcast
20:52 Automix sound comparisons
25:06 A&H SQ5
36:20 SD 888
47:39 Optimal overhead mic positioning
50:02 Automix in small spaces
52:16 Less-aggressive automixing
54:13 Automix vs ducking
1:00:24 Mackie automix updates?
1:01:06 Upside-down British lavs?!
1:03:34 End of stream
In this week's session, let's test a few automixers to hear how they differ. Automix is useful for cases where you're recording or live broadcasting multiple people with multiple mics in the same space. If you don't use an automixer of some sort, you'll end up with microphone bleed, comb filtering, and more noise. An automixer will help reduce all three of those issues. After that, we 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:
- Mackie DLZ Creator — B&H, Amazon geni.us/42KrX0
- Earthworks ETHOS microphone — B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon geni.us/8G8UdBB
- Sound Devies 888 field recorder/mixer — Trew, B&H, Sweetwater geni.us/zAryW4J
- Sound Devices MixPre II Series Recorders - B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon geni.us/O8e0
- Panasonic GH5 camera - B&H, Amazon geni.us/InspOl
- Teleprompter Ikan 17" high bright — B&H geni.us/RcuXD3
- 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
- Universal Audio 6176 channel strip pre-amp, EQ, compressor — B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon geni.us/505L55n
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 2023, Curtis Judd
00:00 Start
02:43 Beginning of stream
02:55 Agenda
04:02 Mackie vs Allen & Heath podcast mixers
05:47 MixAssist for panel discussion
11:46 Automixing intro
19:10 Our signal chain
19:29 BlackMagic camera app
20:04 Dante-equipped mixer for broadcast
20:52 Automix sound comparisons
25:06 A&H SQ5
36:20 SD 888
47:39 Optimal overhead mic positioning
50:02 Automix in small spaces
52:16 Less-aggressive automixing
54:13 Automix vs ducking
1:00:24 Mackie automix updates?
1:01:06 Upside-down British lavs?!
1:03:34 End of stream
