mic wind blocker

[CBRHoonigan]

haha yeh sorry i should of elborated more, yeh run the mic into a pocket then its not getting the wind noise if you have a cheaper helmet, downfall they cant hear you talking but if you have a nice sounding bike they will hear that with a far more crisp noise

 

[DMotovlogs]

haha yeh sorry i should of elborated more, yeh run the mic into a pocket then its not getting the wind noise if you have a cheaper helmet, downfall they cant hear you talking but if you have a nice sounding bike they will hear that with a far more crisp noise

Ohhh this is actually a good idea. Too bad I don't have a sexy sounding bike... yet

Is it bad that my voice is sexier than my bike?

 

[RoBoCox]

The irony of the cat making noise in the background of your "dead cat" video EN187

 

[Arctic Pride]

Foam from old ear phones
Kitchen sponges

Dan the man! So this morning in a mildly hungover state i decided to screw around with this. I chopped up a sponge , taped it to the 3550 and what a difference!

Going to head out to get some more footage on the pedal bike but I was shocked!

New mount spot for the gopro too!

 

[dandoolittle]

Dan the man! So this morning in a mildly hungover state i decided to screw around with this. I chopped up a sponge , taped it to the 3550 and what a difference!

Going to head out to get some more footage on the pedal bike but I was shocked!

New mount spot for the gopro too!

Good stuff

I've done the same thing with the mic attached to the bike and it works better than the ones you get with the mic

I'm glad it worked

 

[JoeParkerPoe]

I cut the foam off of a foam paintbrush and duct-taped it around my Olympus to block the noise. You may try that? Or a ripped up shirt?

 

[CoolCrazyChaos]

The best/cheapest solution is just to stuff the mic in/behind your cheap pad

 

[Marbro_za]

The best/cheapest solution is just to stuff the mic in/behind your cheap pad

some helmets are a little noisy, so then you hear more windnoise etc if its behind the cheek pad

 

[Arctic Pride]

Alright now with the sponge in the moto helmet (FLY F2) its too muffled in the cheek pad, going to have to try some new locations

 

[dandoolittle]

Alright now with the sponge in the moto helmet (FLY F2) its too muffled in the cheek pad, going to have to try some new locations

You should have asked me at the meet last week

 

[Arctic Pride]

That whole ocean thing, its a serious inconvenience

 

[dandoolittle]

That whole ocean thing, its a serious inconvenience

http://arcticride.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/monkey-meet-and-6-days-to-go.html You'll have to forgive me but I have good reasons

 

[FloridaOutdoorAdventures]

???

 

[Shirou]

Here is what I do:

Here is an example of how well it works:

I had to hunt this thread down to get back and comment.
Did you use the built-in image stabilizer on the Sony camera? I get some tricky video and I'm pointing at the camera.

 

[SlickR6]

I actually cut a small hole in my cheeckpad inside my helmet and kinda stuffed the mic inside there near where my mouth would be, it works pretty well

 

[Arctic Pride]

Man this is a never ending story, I moved the mic placement in my MX helmet (FLY F2) because the cheek pad was too dense and muffled my voice. So i cut up another piece of the good ole sponge and moved it forward of the pad just taped on the inside, annndddd now its too sensitive/ picks up my breathing. Next video is all like

 

[TekNinja81]

I had a spare mic foam kicking around from my Scala G4 set, and am using an $8 "Genius" brand lapel mic from a computer store. Covered it with the Scala foam and it makes a world of a difference -- the mic *just* sticks out from the front-right cheekpad and now produces excellent audio quality, with little to no wind noise. The only issue I do note still, is the high-pitched noise the Drift Ghost-S seems to make when using the external mic. That will require some further testing...

 

[alchemy69]

I had a spare mic foam kicking around from my Scala G4 set, and am using an $8 "Genius" brand lapel mic from a computer store. Covered it with the Scala foam and it makes a world of a difference -- the mic *just* sticks out from the front-right cheekpad and now produces excellent audio quality, with little to no wind noise. The only issue I do note still, is the high-pitched noise the Drift Ghost-S seems to make when using the external mic. That will require some further testing...

Use audacity to apply a notch filter to the audio. I have the same issue and can easily clean it up by setting a notch filter for 11KHz.

 

[alchemy69]

My current setup (I have a very windy helmet + bike so cheek pad doesn't work for me):

Drift External mic + The thick scala foam designed for open face helmets + the thumb from a latex glove. Foam goes over the mic, the thumb goes over those together and its then sealed in place with a cable tie. Cuts out a vast majority of external noise to the point i can be understood again. I still do quite a bit of audacity work in post however so its not perfect.

I AM thinking about trying out a different mic though.

 

[nedder]

FWIW the setup I'm familiar with is atr-3350 with a lapel wind screen and duct tape sitting just in front of the cheek pad. I can't post links yet but the wind screens come in a pack of 5 for $6 on Amazon and you can find them under "Tetra-Teknica MNWS5P Mini-size Lapel Microphone Windscreen." They are about three or four times bigger than the little wind screen that comes with the atr-3350. I think it never hurts to shield the mic from direct air with a little tape of any kind. I do think the proximity picks up my breathing a little too much and am looking for some way to improve that. It's not a buffeting of direct breathe on the mic kind of sound, just the sound you hear when there's a bucket on your head or you're Darth Vader. If you want to hear what it sounds like the YouTube channel is hermitdavlog.