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JAppleton

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About JAppleton

  • Birthday 05/20/1986

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    I'm James. I was a touring musician for a long time, now I'm a production sound mixer. I like the outdoors.
    www.sound4picture.net

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  1. I'm curious to know when/why people prefer cabled poles vs uncabled. I've seen some posts here say for ENG they like cabled and narrative work they prefer uncabled. To me a coiled cabled pole is always easier to deal with (out of sight, out of mind perhaps?) Ktek have designed great bases to plug right into while other companies have the flow through base options for cabling as well. However to me it seems like a constant headache having all the extra cable (from an uncabled pole and from a flow through straight cabled pole) to deal with. I have my boom op plugged into a sound devices MM1 and with that I feel less cable the better as they plug a 2' coiled cable from the bottom of the pole to the MM1. Nice and clean. BUT I'm interested in other opinions and your thought process/workflow on the subject and what poles you find yourself partial to and why.
  2. I did, yes. I tried shutting it down, taking the card out, powering back on. Then tried to re-format got the same error. Still stumped.
  3. Hey guys I am trying to record for the first time with my SD 664 I just got and had this warning come up; "CF Warning Media I/O Error". I checked the manual, altered some settings, to no avail. My set-up included 3 Lav's on channels 2-4. The SD card works but the CF is giving me the error. Is the CF card bad? It's brand new. Both cards I'm using (CF and SD) are approved cards on the Sound Devices website for the 664. I also was unable to reformat the card, as I was given the same error. I checked SD forums and there was a thread regarding the SD card not working, but did not see this error for the CF. Any wisdom is greatly appreciated
  4. Well everything went very smoothly and I'm happy to report the sound came out excellent. Since I read through the 744T's manual front-to-back twice before getting to set I was able to hit the ground running with getting the recorder all set-up to what I needed and it worked out well. Thanks everyone so much for taking the time to help out a "newbie" and giving me your advice/input. Learned a lot!
  5. Thanks Marc. Very informative as well and I will be sure to take your advice with the workflow test on set and thanks for the settings you suggested to use. Ive been reading through the 744T manual today and printed it out to reference while on set. Fortunately, as I mentioned it's a student film so it will be more laid back than a typical shoot and I expect to be able to set up the recorder to how it needs to be.
  6. Matthew, I'm located in New York. Thanks everyone for the input it has been extremely helpful. I have been working in Grip/Electric for the past few years and have been transitioning to Sound and began buying equipment and working/learning as I go. I understand it isn't the best way to work, but it unfortunately are how the cards played this time around. It's a student's senior film, so we will do what we can with it all. Thanks everyone!
  7. Hello all, This is my first post and I have been researching online to figure this out and have not been able to get a hold of various sound mixers I know to talk about it with them either, so I'm coming to you fine folks. I'm doing my first Sound-only gig for a student film starting tomorrow. I own a SD 442 mixer and they have rented a SD 744T recorder. However, they were not able to get a breakaway cable I mentioned to get (I said to get a dual-XLR male one end female on the other). I thought this is what I should be using, and please tell me if I'm wrong and there is a better, more efficient, or more accurate way to run the mixer to recorder. I'm new at this and learning as I go via forums, product manuals, etc. I am wondering if two separate XLR cables run the same way out of the mixer into the recorder will give me the same outcome and work appropriately. I unfortunately will not be able to get the recorder and play around until we get on set tomorrow night (but I have been reading through the manual online). We're shooting on the RED Epic so if there is anything you feel you'd know about the correct sample rate, bit rate, and recording settings for this job I'd be thrilled to hear your thoughts. Any input is greatly appreciated. Thanks so much!
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