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Best practices

Best practices

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Best practices

- So, Cheryl, there's a few additional things that I want to mention that I think are kind of best practices when it comes to placing the transmitter. The first, obviously, is check out your batteries. - [Cheryl] Absolutely, we're stressing that. - [Robbie] Stressing that. - [Cheryl] It's the worse thing ever. - [Robbie] Then the other thing is the frequency adjustment. You really need to check that your frequency of your receiver unit and your transmitter are all on the same page so that they're talking to you. - They have to match. - [Robbie] They have to match and then you might need to dial through them or cycle through the different frequency options to get the best match based on RF interference and that kind of stuff, but besides that, matching the frequencies, there's one other thing that I have learned the hard way. Now it's hard to believe that I'm a loud, kind of gregarious kind of guy. It tends to be when I'm shooting here on production recording titles like this for Lynda…

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