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Yes, I feel if the severe supply disruptions we've had since early 2020 (for all the obvious reasons... plus less obvious reasons, such as the factory fire) are to sort themselves out (I'm the optimist!) within the next couple of years, then I expect the prices of secondhand goods will drop again (as secondhand prices for many items have been surprisingly high! Simply because people can't source brand new stock). So for anybody considering selling, then within the next six months is probably optimal timing.

I just looked up the Sony DWR-S03D, thinking surely there is one Sony receiver which does line level output. https://daleproaudio.com/products/sony-dwr-s03d-dual-channel-superslot-receiver-for-dwx-digital-wireless Nope! Mic level. Curious. Ah well, it has AES instead! So not such a big deal it is missing Line Level.

blk26 vs blk24 should be far apart enough to be "workable". (but maybe use the outer edges of the blocks?) Just make sure you're doing frequency coordination, and putting the transmitters as far away as physically possible from the SL2 antennas!

Yes, because basically all pro wireless offer line output. Be that Wisycom, Shure Axient Digital, Lectrosonics, or Sony DWX digital etc I'd classify Sony UWP wireless (along with others, such as the Sennheiser G series or the Deity wireless) as prosumer grade. And in fact, I'd regard the Sony UWP-D21 as the very best prosumer wireless there is. I don't believe so. You could take the headphone output instead, and crank that up to the maximum, you'd get a bit more level out of it that way. But really, that's just suitable for scratch audio. That's why I say use inputs 1/2/3 instead. (or get a Sound Devices 833... which has limiters and preamps for all its inputs! Not just the first three like with 633, then has no limiters or mic preamp for the rest of them)

I'd feed your Sony wireless into channels 1/2/3 so that you can use the mic preamps. Use your pro wireless with line level outputs for 4/5/6.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/DeityMicrophones/ Just checking you mean this one? As there are no month old pending requests with that group. Try again? With your support issues you have, have you tried first going through your retail store where you got it from? Dunno if that would help, but it is the usual process people would take with consumer/prosumer equipment, rather than trying to talk directly with the manufacturer.

Yup, I think the issue is if you want to mix and match DSR4 with your existing SRc. Then you have to put the DSR4 in analogue mode, so that the SL2 can use the SRc at the same time as well.

Interesting reading the comments underneath this interview. Seems like she had a really good experience with Gravitas? (which would have been back in about 2017 I guess) And Gravitas was a good place to go to for distribution of indie films. But people who have dealt with them in the last couple of years, haven't had such a good experience, because Gravitas no longer has the same ownership and got sold a little while ago to new owners.

I do find it surprising that the SL2 didn't have BNC connectors for the inputs or outputs. After all the SL6 (and many other products) had BNC connectors. And it isn't like say the PCS RF Multi which "needs" smaller connectors (but even it has BNC at least for the inputs!!), as surely the SL2 had space to use BNC for inputs and outputs. Wonder if Sound Devices is open to releasing a new updated SL2 version with only BNC connectors instead?

Deity had already given us sneak peaks at tradeshows, but now the smart slate is officially launched and available for sale. Newsshooter has published the first review of it I think: https://www.newsshooter.com/2022/10/25/deity-tc-sl1-smart-slate-review/ I've already got a couple of timecode slates, so I think I won't be getting one, but if I ever need another in the future then the Deity TC-SL1 will be at the top of my list to consider. The Deity TC-SL1 is priced at $999: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1705810-REG/deity_microphones_dtt0286d81_tc_sl1_wireless_timecode_slate.html https://www.adorama.com/dytcsl1.html https://www.trewaudio.com/product/deity-tc-sl1/

How do Lectrosonics receivers in Mode 6 sound when receiving from Shure UHFR transmitters? (if it works at all?)

I use it all the time with either a Lectro UM400 or/and a Lectro T4 IFB transmitter. (I get better range with these, than with the Sony transmitters I used to use) I find the battery door seems to be easily damaged, so I tend to always hand them out in MSC-20A pouches now and haven't had any issues since.

You could post to their facebook group? https://www.facebook.com/groups/613875948820541/

Thanks! That's a good point I hadn't considered. I had last year been considering using Cat5e cable (with audio being analogue, at line level) for a feature film which would have necessitated sending audio over fairly long-ish distances at a small farm / lifestyle block. (sadly the film never went ahead, but I did instead work on another feature film with the director/writer this year. I hope though the script from last year does eventually get made!) And I do indeed have the XL-AES (with line level to AES convertors too for it), but I never did consider using AES as a means to double the number of channels I could have with the Cat5e cables. (but then again, for this film I'd usually only have needed three channels of audio per Cat5e cable, and never more than four)

Sadly Timecode Systems Ltd never released any integration of it with the 8 Series like they had already with the 6 & 7 Series 😞

Has Sound Devices responded at all to these reports of issues? (perhaps released a minorly tweaked hardware revision with steeper filters?)

You'll never get AES out of your MKH50, not unless you're passing it through an Analogue to Digital converter (or it is wireless, with a receiver that has a digital output).

You're just renting in two more SRc to supplement the two SRc you already have, just for the day for this one scene? Yeah, don't bother with an RF Distro, especially as all the talent will be close by to you it sounds like. (just do sensible scanning and frequency coordination beforehand) Only if you were buying the extra two SRc then would I suggest you should be considering more seriously getting an RF Distro, as you'll be having an using your four SRc many times more during the future years to come. But if it is just a one off event for the day? Keep it simple. What block are your receivers on vs your camera hop TX? Keep those blocks as far apart as possible, and keep the TX physically as far away as possible too.

Sony recently published on their youtube channel an interview with a Production Sound Mixer, Christopher Strollo:

You've already got +dB thanks to the antennas you're using.

Can you do a scan with RF Explorer? To see what else there might be out there that maybe your receivers are not seeing. Do scans in other parts of the set too, other than right next to your cart. What are you settings in FreqFinder? Perhaps it got accidentally set too loose. That is kinda short, I'd want another couple of feet at least? So we can get the antennas above people's heads if we want to. Honestly you shouldn't have to have this setup with 1dB, I might in your shoes even run it at slightly negative dB. Couldn't you get two sharfins? Or do you need one to be omni? Are the hits matching up when walkie talkies are keying on the A band receiver and not the C band receiver? (it might be, is my possible guess) If so, swap out the SRc A1 for a SRc C1, then you can also run a tighter filter before your receivers. If you can't swap out the SRc, at least use the top end of the A1, not at the lower end of A1. (if you think the issues are coming from the walkie talkies)

This was not really an option back when this thread was started in 2010, but seeing as it was freshly bumped up, I thought I'd mention it now: If I was in a scenario where I knew I'd need 100ft of cabling, then I'd probably just use DANTE to remote my receivers much closer to set. (as I use 2x Venue1 or a Lectro Octopack, then I'd need a converter to DANTE, such as a Ferrofish PULSE16 DX. Then either upgrade my Sound Devices 833 to an 888, or get myself another to be converted back to analogue at the recorder end) Then I just need a simple CAT cable to run it back to me. And I could easily go double, or even triple, the distance. So plenty of margin of safety to go further than 100ft if the situation called for it. Remoting antennas might still be the better approach for many other people, but worth consider the DANTE approach as well.

Lectrosonics as well offers a few products using frequencies within the 900MHz band. (probably some other brands too, I think maybe Audio Ltd & Wisycom? )

So what you want, is for Lectrosonics to stop caring about backwards compatibility?? I love that I can mix and match my Lectro C1 gear with my Lectro blk24/25/26 equipment. This is a strength of Lectrosonics, not a weakness. Just read the manuals (I'm not even an A1 user, and even I still knew about 470/19 overlapping), learn your gear, and understand it. All the info was right there in front of you on the display for you to immediately realize what was going on. This isn't Lectrosonics fault at all. Yup, I've done that too if I feel a gremlin is at work, and we've got to go immediately with no time to get to the bottom of it. I'll just tell the Boom Op to focus on that one actor and ignore all others just for that one take, so that we're 100% confident we still get all of their lines. Another super quick solution is just grabbing a spare transmitter you've got ready to go, and swap it out for the dodgy one. No need to rerig the entire lav setup. That's very fast, won't hold you up for 10 minutes.