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Philip Perkins

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  1. After years of having Comteks broken by clients and being unhappy about their cost, I went to an all-FM system using the old Walkman style FM receivers. The audio was MUCH improved over the Comteks of the day, but no matter how much tape I put on the tuner knob of the RX the users would fiddle with them and then complain that they were not getting audio. I also found that the battery operated FM TX I had were not stable, and that we had to retune everything a few times a day, especially if the temperature changed a lot. After about a years and a half of this I finally gave up and went back to Comteks--lower fi, but much more stable frequency-wise. The base station TX make a big difference over the "pocket" sized transmitters in terms of consistency of coverage. It seems like Bluetooth RX would have issues with obstructed line-of-sight to the TX, as in Camlynx etc.. Philip Perkins
  2. If I'm on a mixer that has EQ I'll use it if I think I can make an improvement, within reason. In all types of recording one has to guard against a tendency to use EQ to correct the effects of bad mic placement. In dialog recording EQ is for small tweaks--if you really don't like the sound then you have the wrong mic up or the mic in the wrong position. Philip Perkins
  3. Is the camera dept cooperative? Will they barney the monitor with something (duvatyne, someone's sweater etc)? Philip Perkins
  4. I'd also ask Redding if they can test the capsule for you. Performance or lack of might also be a reason for an obscured SN. Philip Perkins
  5. It should work, but I couldn't get an older MBox one to work on my G4 laptop. (USB) Philip Perkins
  6. The audio is all one take, unedited (the take from the widest shot where you see the whole flagpole, which was the last take shot). I used two wireless to give the cameras a free-fire zone, and so the takes would be consistent sounding if they had wanted to intercut. That wasn't necessary since Dave Smollen knew his song cold, did 16 takes that were within a few seconds of length overall, and got better and better as the shoot wore on. B6 on Dave (under shirt), B6 on guitar (see it near the sound hole). I did the post too, and opened up the lav sound somewhat just like I would any dialog recorded that way (mostly upper mid boost), as well as getting the guitar out of the way of his voice. Dave played all the takes live--that was what the director wanted. There had been talk of making it a pro-Obama video, in the end I'm glad they didn't and just asked people to vote, to participate honestly no matter who they voted for. thanks for looking Philip Perkins
  7. Non-partisan. All-volunteer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifG6LeOTyJ8 thanks for looking Philip Perkins
  8. I think I read that the FCC has a new "Chief Science Officer", a younger guy with big time credentials. This kind of gave me hope that something realistic will be worked out. Philip Perkins
  9. Well good--you'll get yr 24 bit audio anyhow. Philip Perkins
  10. What's "expose"? A utility? USB2 can work fine--on my particular system Firewire has had fewer hiccups. Soon we my not have a choice anyhow. Philip Perkins
  11. In what app did this dialog pop up? FCP? The over-2GB thing must mean that the handles are not being properly spec'ed somehow. It may be that FCP is trying to export the merged video+audio clips--are you specing audio only for the OMF? Try having the editor make a new sequence and bring in only the audio from the master sequence (and set it to 24 bit), and export from that. If original material was imported into FCP via a file transfer then the audio is on her drives at 24 bit. If they diged from tape at 16 bit you my be hosed on that account. I generally always run FCP OMFs thru AVTransfer in order to "regularize" them so that DAWs have no trouble with them. Philip Perkins
  12. Generally, I've found that Firewire seems to have fewer problems w/ high track-count recordings (in Metacorder) than USB. There was a thread here (I think) recently in which it was explained why that is--sorry I can't remember the name. Philip Perkins
  13. Dude--where are the pix? Philip Perkins
  14. And too big. (Bigger footprint than my reel-to-reel Nagras.) But light. The first Nagra I saw in the flesh was actually an instrumentation recorder--they sold a lot of those too. Philip Perkins
  15. Before you clip leads or solder the convertor, try it out with some alligator-clip leads on your rig. Some of those types of convertors make a lot of RF, and it will be in close proximity to your wireless RX. I had a big problem with this a few years ago and ended up having to switch out convertors because of it. Philip Perkins
  16. There is still a good deal of purist classical type recording done in good venues with just a few mics. However I have observed that even that market has been moving in the direction of more mics/tracks both because of clients' demands for a more close-mic sound and because more music is being performed in halls not suited to that kind of micing arrangement (ie they don't sound very good). If Nagra can make money selling 50 units at a crack then more power to them, I just don't see it as much of a tool for film/video dialog work. Philip Perkins
  17. Does the Deva write to the DVDRAM continuously or only when it is not recording? I ask because I remember the Deva II working this way, and the OP had very long takes to mirror. Philip Perkins
  18. Too big by half for bag work, not enough tracks for cart work. Nicely made, sounds good, don't care about the colors. Philip Perkins
  19. So how much does the Mix 12 draw, then? Philip Perkins
  20. Simon--does using the Mix12 up the power draw of the Deva significantly? Philip Perkins
  21. I'll bet the cart is cooler than the Nagra. I checked out the Nagra VI @ AES. Seemed huge for 4 inputs (ok 6, 2 are line only). It is fairly light, but the size really put me off. I wasn't knocked out by the control ergonomics either. No one in the booth could answer for why it was so big. Philip Perkins
  22. Meanwhile....this is one of the reasons I do not like the idea of "swappable" media for delivery to post. I don't want to be recording on the set on media that has been out of my control and on another system: drive or CF card. I'm way over the time it takes to burn DVDs, but am very careful about who gets to download my CF cards, and I try to reformat them (on the recorder) for each job. Big jobs get an HD that I supply (new), load up and sell to the client--theirs to keep. If I got a virus from a data wrangler's or post company's computer I'd want to charge them time and materials on what it took to get my stuff working properly again. Maybe they'll be more careful next time. Philip Perkins
  23. I asked Paul about this specifically, and he said they were working on it. Philip Perkins
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