u/Romanski141

20×40 inground pool here. My old robot would die halfway through every single time. Had to charge it and run it all over again, and still never got the whole thing clean. Drove me nuts. Grabbed a Scuba v3 about a month ago and honestly kind of annoyed I waited. Battery handles the full pool without issue, which was my main concern. What really surprised me was how it cleans though. Goes for leaves and heavy debris first, then works its way around the rest methodically. Old one just bounced around randomly and half the pool never got touched. On a pool this size you notice immediately when something is not pulling its weight. What are you guys running on bigger pools? Does yours actually handle the full cleanup or did I just upgrade from garbage?

I shoot a lot of street vlogs. Walking around, taking to camera, traffic and random city noise doing whatever it wants behind me. Lost a clip last spring that still annoys me. Great light, good moment, actually said something I like. Played it back and the background noise completely buried my voice. Tried cleaning it up in post with noise reduction and it just made my voice sound robotic. Ended up scrapping the clip.

That was the point where I stopped relying on fixing audio in post. I'd rather get it right while filming.

Been using the DJI Mic Mini 2 for the last few weeks. I usually keep it on Basic noise reduction for normal street walks and it handles traffic hum pretty well without making my voice sound overly processed. Last week I filmed near a construction site and switched it to strong. The jackhammer noise was still here, but my voice stayed clear enough that the clip was actually usable. That honestly surprised me.

Curious how other people handle this stuff:

1. Do you try to fix noisy audio in post, or focus more on getting clean audio at the source?
2. If you do clean it up, what's your go-to method?