Rode and Sennheiser are good for shotgun mics. I would recommend recording the lavs in stereo, one left and one right, and then edit back and forth as the dialogue demands. If you can manage you can also adapt the lavs to a wired system instead of wireless. Less batteries, no interference.
Great thought on insert jacks. I would say before spending money, just exercise the plugs by going down the line and plugging quarter inch into the jacks a few times on the channels that have open insert jacks.
No not really. Those are "Default Levels For New Audio Cues". The output matrix mixer will be found in your inspector on each particular audio cue under the "levels" tab. But if you dont have a ProAudio or ProBundle, then you simply cannot route to other outputs via the "crosspoints" matrix...
Bypassing doesnt necessarily turn off the unit. And all a/d provides anywhere between .5 and 4ms of delay. So if you are running the reverb unit in parallel, you will be combining the original signal with a delayed version of the same signal, thus creating a phase discorrelation. That is...
Phase can be eliminated by having a 18dB difference between the two microphones. You can even delay one of them a few milliseconds and see how much that affects the phase relationship between the two mics. A slight delay helps surprisingly well.
Phil
I will certainly have a kershaw knife, cell phone, sharpie, pen, e-tape, credit card and ID with me at any given time during a show.This list will soon grow as Im gonna be working for IATSE.Phil