Izen Ears

Wow I hadn't seen those freq distinctions in a diagram before! I wish every maker did that. (Heh, do they already do this now?) All these years my ears have told me just how much of a giant rear lobe that mic has, in fact to me it's practically an omni at those lower freqs. Thanks for posting! Dan Izen

Thank you all for your replies! After getting majorly burned in 2008 using digital wires I just stuck with the Lectro hybrids. Good to know they work as advertised these days! Dan Izen

Is 35 watts enough, or are these semi-immune to RFI or something?

Haha! Nice. I once had an issue with a guitar amp where everything was working great, but when I installed the chassis into the cabinet, the sound disappeared. I took it in and out and couldn't find any cause. Then I looked at where the chassis screws went and noticed another wire in close proximity to one of the holes. Turns out the screw was grounding a signal wire and I had to reroute the wire and repair the break in its insulation. Glad it's solved

I think it was insurance?

I have seen a high res of this that was part of a commercial. I thought that whole thing was just for a commercial? I agree that it is amazing and I watched it many times when I first saw it. I couldn't believe it was staged either.

That is crazy, never heard that before. I'm very interested in this, I hope it gets solved. Did it happen with more than one mic? It does kind of sound like resistor hiss, but I can't imagine this being that since they recover and sound normal again. It may have something to do with those resistors? Are you trying to simply add a dB pad? Maybe remove the resistor and see if it still happens. (Calling John Blankenship!)

Thanks for doing this! Super interesting.

What's this about a factory 3.2k tone?

Does that mean the Deva 24 is permanently out of production?

I love this! So hardcore. Thanks for posting and the warning. They should go to jail.

Once around 2009 or 2010 I spoke to a Lectro rep and he asked me what would I like to see. Immediately I answered recording transmitters. What a bummer Zaxcom has killed that dream. I was an early adopter of Zaxcom wireless because of this feature, but they just sucked so hard I ended up selling them at a great loss. If only their tech could have lived up to their patents.

Oh man this'll be gooood! I heard a podcast that featured rats hanging out - all originally above 60kHz. They had to slow down the recording so we could hear em. Apparently all the fun playing and hanging out noises (including procreation) happens up there, and the mostly only distress sounds are audible. So yeah, there is a secret universe of sounds!

Even for these shout/whisper scenes?!

Probably not helpful thought here, but when I encounter whispers-with-loud scenes, I just mix the scene quietly so the loud sounds are proper. I think the real solution is a limiter on the Comtek / IFB outputs. Then people could jam up their volumes and they wouldn't care about the heavy compression when the loud sounds happen. (At least they wouldn't care as much as post production would care if the compression was on the source track.) I've thought about trying this with guitar compressor pedals...