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Jim Feeley

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  1. Hope they start making these for zeppelins. http://www.redheadwindscreens.com/
  2. Have looked through the two learning lab notebooks from 2000 that ratshack has online? Looks like they're for the version you have. Both include some synth projects....might include the specific info you need. RELL Workbook 1: http://www.radioshack.com/graphics/uc/rsk/Support/ProductManuals/2800027_P1_PM_EN.pdf RELL Workbook 2: http://www.radioshack.com/graphics/uc/rsk/Support/ProductManuals/2800027_P2_PM_EN.pdf Jim "mine was cardboard, I think" Feeley
  3. Ya, but Gibson also owns KRK, Oberheim, Opcode (for what that's worth now; sigh), Baldwin, and bunch other stuff. Tom of TASCAM writes: > I personally have high hopes. (just came back from a tour of the Nashville factory). > The Gibson group is now a powerful force in the audio industry, not a hodge-podge of unrelated companies. Good to hear, Tom! Hey! What the hell is this? Ya, it's a Gibson: http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Divisions/ValleyArts/Brent%20Mason%20Signature/ Jim
  4. So this includes TASCAM, right? Hope it all goes well. Henry Juszkiewicz, Gibson CEO (last I checked), doesn't (or at least didn't) have the best reputation amongst some people I know at companies he acquired. Though perhaps things have improved. Sure hope so. They own almost everything now.
  5. Can't wait to learn about what you're doing next. Thanks for everything so far...
  6. I have a MixPre (Shure FP24). It's still a useful piece of kit. But the MixPre-D has so many more features...and even if you don't need those features, the much nicer metering and mic/line (as opposed to just line) XLR outs on the D are worth a couple hundred.
  7. Hope you have a great birthday celebration.
  8. I too would guess the World Wide Developers Conference in June would be the likely place for such an announcement. But check out this chart of Apple's Q1 2013 revenue: (From this Jan 23, 2013 Macrumors article: http://bit.ly/17HOCwt) CPU net sales comprise about 10% of revenue. That includes Macbooks, iMacs, and Mac minis. So what I take from this: The next Mac Pro could be the last Mac Pro. More constructively, I'd like to see Apple make a computer with a six-core i7 CPU. I'm pretty sure I can do everything I need to do with a CPU that costs a heck of a lot less than a Xeon CPU. Cram that i7 into a lego-style Mac Middi (a bit bigger than a Mini) and let me stack them if I need to.
  9. The Robin Williams piece is nice: === My father’s laughter introduced me to the comedy of Jonathan Winters. My dad was a sweet man, but not an easy laugh. We were watching Jack Paar on “The Tonight Show” on our black-and-white television, and on came Jonathan in a pith helmet. Who are you?” Paar asked. “I’m a great white hunter,” Jonathan said in an effete voice. “I hunt mainly squirrels.” “How do you do that?” “I aim for their little nuts.” My dad and I lost it. Seeing my father laugh like that made me think, “Who is this guy and what’s he on?” ==== Rest of it here: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/16/arts/television/robin-williams-recalls-the-lessons-of-jonathan-winters.html
  10. Happy Birthday Eric! Hope you have a mildly (or wildly) inappropriate celebration.
  11. Check the MAXX thread. I think this is the key one: Main takeaway for me: Should be shipping in 6-8 weeks (if I recall correctly).
  12. A VFX friend used drivesavers (or one of their direct competitors, I can't quite recall), and they did manage to salvage the files on his drive. Impressive. But VERY expensive (a few thousand dollars). Also, they weren't able to recover the file names; so he had hundreds of files with something like binhex filenames. Though that would probably be less of an issue for a camera card with perhaps a couple dozen (or fewer) files. My guess (and only a guess but based on some experience with recovering drives and cards) is that if they just chose to have the C300 "erase" the card, the camera may have just deleted the directory...the files are probably still there and may not be difficult to recover. I've had some luck with with SanDisk RescuePro on both CF and SDHC cards. $40 from SanDisk. But different tools seem to work better & worse on different problems. Me, I'd send the DP's card to a local smart tech who can suss out and probably solve the problem...and who won't accidentally press the wrong button while the EP is breathing over his/her neck. If that doesn't work, production can then consider a more expensive service like drivesavers.
  13. And the little BMD camera claims 13 stops dynamic range vs 8-9ish for the t4i in video mode.
  14. I'd guess yes. I just searched the FCC site (since I couldn't find much of anything anywhere else and the stew is simmering). And looks like REDLINK is a 2.4GHz connection. At least, my cursory glance at their current FCC authorizations for REDLINK show it to be 2.4GHz. Could be RED will expand the use of the term REDLINK to include other frequency ranges. If you're bored, go here: https://apps.fcc.gov/oetcf/eas/reports/GenericSearch.cfm And for "Applicant Name" search on "RED.com"
  15. Adobe has a new sound remover feature in the spectral editor of Audition (let me disclose that I did a little contracting for Adobe during this release cycle...but I wasn't working directly with the Audition team). You paint on the spectral display to select what you want to remove. It's demoed during the first three minutes of this video: http://tv.adobe.com/watch/adobe-at-nab-2013/adobe-audition-overview/ I haven't used it in any real-world situation. No have I compared it to SpectraLayers (which Sony acquired---at some state of development--from Divide Frame (a smart kid in Paris)). I'm guessing there was some great AES paper a couple years ago that inspired a bunch of people; nothing wrong with that. > Isotope is one of those tools. Sometimes it works amazingly. Other times, not so much. Ya; I'm trying to figure out what other such tools are worth investing my money and time.
  16. The fan engineer had a pretty good rap about how the new fans really are quieter (summary: they're deeper than the old ones and move more air with less effort, and there's more of them). I'm not enthused about RED's stepping into wireless TC and audio. I was naively hoping to hear, "we decided to work with Denecke/Ambient" but I didn't.
  17. I stopped by the RED booth at NAB a couple times to inquire. But the dudes behind the counter didn't have many specifics. Here's a picture of the REDLINK products: I'm particularly curious about REDSYNC MASTER. IIRC, the minimal info on red.com remains the same from a while ago: ===== With the REDsync Master, your cameras will all be synchronized wirelessly to reduce clutter and improve efficiency. Send wireless timecode and audio to one or more Meizler-connected DSMC brains, without worrying about excess cables or timecode drift slowing your shoot down. With the ability to genlock and start/stop multiple cameras all at once, REDsync Master delivers the perfect solution for multi-cam shoots and wireless synchronicity. Control multiple cameras Wireless Timecode (no drift) Wireless Audio ===== OK. But does anyone have any more specific info they can share? Please don't send me to reduser.net...
  18. >> The world's first handy recorder with interchangeable mic system '' > A little pompous and not exactly true: Nagra already has something like this... Hell, so does the iPhone. But for their target market, reasonable claim (I think). > And I suspect a tiny rise in right angle XLR sales ... :-) And gaffers tape. Not sure I could slip this into my bag. Not that I'd want to. But interesting... This was a Musikmesse announcement, right?
  19. Totally agree, Phil. Though at NAB, there is a little FCPX bubbling around the edges. Partly because of concerns about Avid's long-term viability, FCP7 getting funkier as it decays, lack of enthusiasm for (or trust in) Premiere Pro or Lightworks, and so on. Kind of reminded me of when FCP was around version 2... So I'm just keeping my eyes open. [quick edit] Just to be clear, I'm not routing for FCPX. Just want to be prepared if it does become part of my little world.
  20. > It may be that we have outgrown the Satay Grill, this will have to be addressed > before next year as a change of venue may be in order. There has already been some preliminary discussion about this. I may post some discussion-starting thoughts later. For now, let's all recover from NAB and post incriminating pictures from the party. Great seeing and chatting with so many people at the RAMPS/JWS party.
  21. They post their manual online, and on the main product page they post a link to the help file and mention to check the list of what translates and what doesn't. And that PDF talks about dealing with compound clips, mono audio channels, etc. Also note the 100% guarantee called out with a flurby: http://assistedediting.intelligentassistance.com/guarantee.html Every piece of software from Intelligent Assistance comes with a 100% satisfaction guarantee. If you’re not happy with your purchase, deactivate it and we will refund your purchase price. The only “condition” is that we ask you to explain what you were expecting and how we fell short, so we can improve the software. That’s it. We want you to be satisfied with your purchase and if you’re not, you get your money back. I saw one of the developers at NAB this week. So if you follow up with them, give them a couple days to respond.
  22. I was told RTAS was kind of a pain for plug-in developers...sucked a fair amount of engineering & QA resources. And since it was just for PT, recouping that cost was passed along to customers. IIRC, there wasn't a licensing fee (NOTE- I may not RC). AAX is apparently less awful to work with, and the same code can run on DSP cards and native. This transition was announced quite a while ago, wasn't it? This commentary from 2011 provides what looks to me like good background and perspective: Transition to AAX: A Real Programmer's Perspective (as posted to the DAW-MAC mailing list 23 October 2011) http://coolstufflabs.com/aax.html Money quote: "Believe me, I am less than thrilled that the 17 years of expertise, techniques, tools, and libraries I built around the RTAS/TDM spec are now as useful as COBOL. But AAX was a necessary move on Avid's part, and not one they took lightly." And there's lots of discussion here: http://duc.avid.com/forumdisplay.php?f=98. Guess we'll have to see how much developers will charge for cross-grades, or if they'll even offer them at all. As for Avid's fragile financial position, ya that's an issue. But they're hardly in a unique position. And heck, everything's an expendable these days (well, except production audio equipment). Does it work for me now? Can I earn back the cost (both financial and time/learning-curve) within a year or 18 months when I may need to replace it?
  23. I hear what you're saying. But how many Alexas have been sold? How many Scarlet and Epic cameras (since we're not talking about ancient-history cameras like the D21 and RED one)? It would be interesting to compare number of hours of material produced that was seen by more than 5,000 people (ie- not film festivals and vanity DVD releases). I don't know how that would compare. Anyone know if such an analysis (or a better analysis not conjured by a guy waiting for his flight to NAB) exists?
  24. Next time you hate it, drop me a line... I may buy it when you're willing to let it go cheap :-)
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