The Only Recorder You Need for Wedding Videos? Sony TX-660 Review
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The Sony TX-660 has become a staple piece of gear for the wedding videographer's audio kit. Not only does this audio recorder sound really good; it is small, light weight, and perfect as an on mic recorder.
Recently in our mastermind group we were discussing capturing audio for wedding videos and a student asked, "I have the Sony TX-660, why do I need to plug into a sound board?"
So in this video that's exactly what set out to figure out. Can you get by only using the Sony TX-660 or do you need to capture audio through the board as well?
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This has saved my ass a couple of times when my recorder failed. Run a tx660 through adobe podcast and it sounds so good!
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I used to be big on using what was plugged into a soundboard as my main audio source, but more recently I find I’m leaning more towards the tx-660 for a few reasons:
- some couples have actually fed back regarding audio sounding too flat (too clean) from the board and not being able to hear people laughing to lines etc. switched it to the tx-660 and they much preferred that. We’re making wedding films for normal people most of the time, not sound engineers/film makers.
- the speed and convenience is unbeatable. Time can be a real pinch at weddings, it’s so much quicker putting these on than mic’ing someone up. I always want to mic each person speaking as some people decide they don’t need to use a venue’s mic!
I do find them a bit “tinny” and can sometimes scratch a bit on clothing, but adding some base, denoise and dereverb can make them sound great and get lots of ambient laughter. I’ve never had a couple complain about the audio with the tx660, but have with soundboard recorded audio.
I still record both and edit both then go with what I think is best for the couple, but I’m now thinking more “what would the couple want” rather than what do I think sounds the most professional.
Good perspective - thanks for sharing!
With how the world is going I do wonder of about 'less polished' approach in certain circumstances. All good points!
@@HowToFilmWed yeah don’t get me wrong I still like to have at least 2, sometimes 3 different audio sources if possible and always check each time which I think is best. Sometimes the couple/wedding I’m doing also influences that decision - a more hyped up party type might suit the tx660 better with more ambient whereas a quieter more emotional day might suit the more polished cleaner sound better. Sometimes the speakers projection is so loud the tx660 has too much reverb for my taste even with some cleaning in post. All depends on the day really! 👍
They really need to put out a 32bit version I would buy two instantly.
When they release a versión with 32 bit float, is gonna be legendary
Exactly!
My favourite!
It’s a great back up or run and gun quick audio. A lot of audio clean needed for busy atmospheres but if it’s relatively quiet and only the vocal is standing out then it will give you great audio. But you can’t beat it and the price. Great back up.
Yes!
Love the comparison! One other thing that does need to be considered is reverb. In some smaller rooms, especially with Rehearsal dinners, there is sometimes a lot of reverb that will not be picked up by the handheld mic but would be another thing to deal with in post and I find that recording straight from the receiver/sound system eliminates that issue.
Dude, yes. Reverb can be a pain to deal with. Great insight!
I love my TX660. If they Made a white one with 32 Bitfloat then it would be perfect 👌
a white one would be pretty helpful - waiting for that 32 bit float!
Sony TX-660: What would be the best configuration? I have it! I love it!
Get the mic strap that I have linked and put it directly on the mic for toasts.
@@HowToFilmWed What would be the best configuration for the recorder? I have the band for the microphone
How do you think of this as a dictaphone? Does it have input for headphone/ external microphone? Can the files be download to iPhone or iPad?
Can you use an external microphone on these please?
There is a microphone jack on the recorder
@HowToFilmWed thank you
Lately the recorder we've been putting on the microphone has saved us! Lots of DJ boards have been popping, peaking, or even going in and out so a lot of it is unusable. It's a great backup!
I 100% agree with you on that! From the example I shared it was very usable for me.
good option, but IMHO Instamic is superior (and it's 32 bit)
My biggest complaint with the Instamic is how it looks as a back up on the mic
@@HowToFilmWed you can put it on the side and shoot from the opposite angle, if it's so annoying to you. Frankly, considering its quality, I really don't care about how it looks (and neither do my clients) 😃
I bought a sleeve for my instamic...much smaller footprint on the mic...also have the tx660 as well which I love too!
The 660 needs to be set to low sensitivity. And you need to mono it in your editing. It sounds strange here.
Just looked and my sensitivity setting was on medium, that's a good call on it being low.
Why are you suggestion mono on editing?
@@HowToFilmWed because it records in a wide stereo mic pattern. And for a narrative vocal you really want to control that to a mono and cut out a width or phasing for a narrative vocal.
Thanks for the info!
@@HowToFilmWed love the test tho. Super interesting to hear a good side by side.