Rain Silencing - Sound Speeds
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.พ. 2025
- For years now professional production sound teams have used hogs hair to quiet the sound of water hitting the ground or inside of a bucket. Before commercially available microphone rain protection options like the Rain Man, Pia-Kelly or Duck Raincover, hogs hair was used to quiet down water droplets from hitting a zeppelin.
Hogs hair has been laid down in buckets, on the ground and inside of sinkholes in attempt to keep the rain from making a sound hitting the ground or worse yet, dripping into a puddle. Fake sinks on set drain into buckets thru a drain hose but most times that hose makes all kinds of noise but I have a trick to remedy this watery noise issue... Sound Speeds!
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LOVE this series. Keep it up!
TailStix Thank you!
awesome as always, is it a good idea to poke holes in the bottom of the polystyrene to help with drainage?
Matt Price from Soundrolling dot com They'd have to be pretty considerable sized holes and I don't really see a benefit. Water hits the hog's hair and flows over the side in a stream. Of course I don't know but I'd assume that having more streams for water to escape would cause more sound.
Great advice. I only wish i could use it. I have been trying to find hogs hair in the UK for ages now to no avail.
rebel200794 No furnace filters or air conditioner filters that would work?
Not that I've been able to find. All the stuff I've found over here is a radically different texture, seems to be far more solid.and compact. Maybe I'm just looking in the wrong places but every fellow UK based soundie I've asked has yet to find an equivalent over here.
rebel200794 I just reached out to a mixer friend that moved to the UK last year and asked him what he found as a replacement. He said that padding for old cars works. He's getting me a URL for some. I'll post here when he sends it to me.
I searched Google.co.uk for coarse fiber mats and came across pond filter mats. They aren't exactly like hog's hair but there are low density options that could work.
rebel200794 I've added this link to the video description. You can find hog's hair in the UK here: www.woolies-trim.co.uk/product/1532/rubberised-horsehair
Excellent! I have been looking for this sort of thing for ages. Thank you for the help.
Hi, do you have any experience with the Remote Audio Rainman, to soften the impact of raindrops falling onto the boom microphone? If so, do you think it's a good solution? I feel like the exposed front of the microphone is great for audio, but bad for wind noise. Also, I heard the rain can end up dripping in an unnatural way in the shot. Do you have any other recommendations to protect a shotgun microphone in the rain (and from the sound of raindrops on the mic)? thank you :)
Personally, I'm not a fan of the Rainman. Even with water resistant spray it soaks and gets heavy quickly. Plus it closes off the entire mic except right down the barrel and when you go vertical, you have to tip down the nose to keep water out. The Rycote Duck doesn't cover enough IMO. Personally, I think the best solution is the Cinela Pia-Kelly with water resisting spray on top. It's the best at rejecting water and routing it away from the zepp. The Rainman allows it to pass into the zepp.
@@SoundSpeeds Thank you so much. I have a Rycote super-shield blimp. Do you think the Cinela PIA-KELLY would fit on it? it seems to be made for their own zepplin/blimp style system.
Correct. The Pia-Kelly is design for the Piano or Pianissimo Cinela zepps. They won't fit anything else.
@@SoundSpeeds Thanks for the info. Keep making your awesome content. Take care!
Thank you and thank you for watching.
Maybe a I can sleep now
Hopefully