Izen Ears

You need to use the cloud lifter before the preamp, then any preamp should work. Until you try it out with a cloud lift, I would assume your mic is perfectly functional.

Have you tried a CL-1 or CL-2? The cloudlift will probably take care of that noise floor.

Yes! I have two that are maintained and ready to work. I love analog and don't care about any digital benefits or remote control controllers. I love having a standalone analog mixer! It's so sad to me that all the name brand digital recorders are built to use their own remote controllers that are not compatible with other devices. The Solices have both had minimal maintenance over the 10+ years I've had them, and it was never expensive. Compared to a digital mixer I used to love until its processor died and no replacements were available, the Solice is a lifetime piece of gear. Like tube amps, if you know how to keep them. I have no idea what I'd do if I lost them. At this point they are the most prized items of the kit! I am so happy I invested when I did. Dan Izen

NOOOOOOOOOO! Dang. Good thing I'm all stocked up. ACs love them so much...

It seems this is clearly addressed in their logo - nothing restricting those jewels!

Oh man I totally missed this. I barely knew him either, but I did speak with him a few times. Mostly I'm a fan of his awesome and emotional posts that he used to make here. Somehow, I always remember his stories about dishonest DPs and camera ops, and how he almost got in a fight with the DP in the middle of a highway scene. That's my kind of guy. I wish I knew him better, he was clearly a giant. RIP Mr. Coffee.

Hey Rado I realize this is waaaay OT, but I think those images are misleading because they don't have any distinctions for different frequencies. We all know that even a super cardioid essentially captures bass freqs the same as an omni. Also despite the name, there is always a big sweet spot on all omni's I've handled - right in front of the element. Neither of these issues is evident in those kinds of illustrations. Apologies for the OT. I just wish the audio industry was regulated the way other ones are. For example, forcing all mic manufacturers to publish clinically-tested specs, including the most important spec that no one talks about - off-axis response. The music industry equipment also needs some standardization.

"Bored" does not describe your reaction. I'm curious what your problem is (you didn't mention it), and why you felt the need to dive bomb into this thread with weird negative energy.

Say those are some nifty treats! I don't happen to use any of the gear that those mounts and clips are for, but I love what you're doing!

Call me weird but I like about 3" clearance on each side of the deck. With that rig, what happens to the cables? Are there cables in those photos?

I feel I this was a result of shooting with too many cameras and having horribly loud clothes. I personally would have chosen a B6 button ring for that kind of indoor scene.

This is awesome! Thank you so much. One factor I am curious about is temperature. It seems that batteries most enjoy the 70s. What about 90s or hundreds or 40s? Would that change the performance? Those Energizers have run through hot and cold very reliably, I'm curious if the others would.

Oh man I had no idea!! And I still wouldn't if you weren't kind enough to reply, thank you! Dan

This is something I've enjoyed in other forums and have wished it were here for years. When I click on a thread with unread replies, it would be great to be taken directly to there, instead of the beginning of the whole thread. I have tendinitis from a computer job in the 90s and my thumbs do not enjoy all the scrolling around at all. This would save so much of that it's silly. In fact I've gone months without logging in because of it. I realize this might be a heap of code and also that online forums are somewhat antiquated so it may not make sense to invest in this. I am not on social media so I will be here to the end, and I would love save all that scrolling. Dan Izen

This is awesome! About 20 years ago I was hanging out in Austin and there was a little bar that had punk rock karaoke. Obviously there were no actual karaoke tracks, they just played the regular tracks and performers sung over it. This app would have catapulted that club into a massive hang out. I tried it on The Manges "I Will Always Do" and another one. The backing vocals are untouched, they come through clearly. The main vocals are gone and the sound quality goes down a little. It's a little "digital" sounding, not exactly muffled and having kind of 8-bit compressed artifacts. I think it sounds great though! That little club would have created a million tracks on this.

Have you seen the show Swear Words? I haven't but I know about it. Nic Cage hosting a 1/2 hour deep dive into popular curse words. Fuck is the first episode. Now I'm curious! I read that it originally meant to plant a seed, which I think was in the middle ages or maybe later. So that seems like good timing to become slang in the Renaissance. I bet the show explains that completely. "Sucks" is not one of the words! I wonder if that's because it's never really been a curse word, or if the public has forgotten its taboo origin? I personally don't see how it could have a sexual origin, the logic escapes me there. Was it so horrible to engage in oral sex that it became equated to something being truly bad?!! No one said it to mean that until the 70s right? I mean in the 50s people were insultingly told to "suck eggs," which I could believe morphed into an adjective to describe anything bad. "School sucks eggs" becomes "school sucks." I woke up at 2:30a and can't get back to sleep...

Hey can these older Devas use these adaptors with 128GB, 256GB, or even 512GB CF cards? I think it's time I upgraded. I have one of these adaptors lying around that I could test with.

Where did Rich Van Dyke's posts go? They vaporized! That is a great thread, just before my time. Thanks for posting Mono!

That's very interesting about "long time no see" and "no can do." I have never heard of them coming from that. Growing up in Hawaii everyone spoke pidgin, and those phrases fit right in. I would have never thought they were insulting! Then again I miss a lot of social cues so maybe it's not that surprising. Word origins are fascinating, and I believe the science that purports that language can be oppressive. It's funny how it goes both ways. No one cares about the original meaning of f*ck or b*tch, why is that? I think it's years and usage. With much years or much usage, the meanings change. When none of us older folks who associate Money Shot with porn are left, there will be no other meaning than "the shot that sells the movie." Check out this fella's take on "sucks:" "Besides, it’s not even clear that sucks has naughty origins. We might trace its roots to the phrase sucks hind teat, meaning inferior. Or there’s sucks to you, a nonsexual taunt apparently favored by British schoolchildren of yore. Of course, when a 9-year-old girl walks up to you tomorrow and tells you that “Blue’s Clues sucks,” she won’t be aware of these past usages. But neither will she have in mind (or understand) the much dirtier alternative. The point is that sucks has become untethered from its past and carries no tawdry implications for those who use it. " https://slate.com/human-interest/2006/08/a-defense-of-the-word-sucks.html

I think it's gross and hilarious, and I make it a point to convey where the term came from. Pun intended.

They are entitled rich people who have been given permission to publicly disdain regular people, which I think is thanks to this horrible trend of "us vs. them" culture. I'm talking about these "culture wars" that are really "rich warring on the poor" wars. It's nothing new, it's just more public. I can picture scenes where executives say things like "well all these other industries are shitting on their workers, why don't we?" In a sane world, billionaires would not exist and normal 9-5 jobs could pay for a perfectly workable standard of living. In a sane world, companies would be required to provide living wages at the expense of their profits. By the way folks I'll say it again: unions are the only thing between serfdom and a decent life. The producers don't care about us unless the unions force them to. They will never see us as real people with bills and families. I've seen this happen on an individual level when a formerly cool person moved up the ranks and then became a total asshole. It's as if there is an unwritten producer rule that you must keep yourself separate from your workers and never be bothered to try to understand them. There are other kinds of work, including A/V, ENG and live sound. They don't pay as much but it's much better than Uber or retail. I am taking this time to Ebay hundreds of comics and graphic novels I've been wanting to get rid of. In a few months I'll probably head out into the AV world. One good thing I thought I have is that just like after the Covid lull, there will be a massive boom of work after these strikes. Possibly the largest boom the industry has ever seen, and we will all be getting those fat post-covid wages again.

Your efforts are greatly appreciated! I totally had this problem on my last show and it took the camera department a bunch of trial and error to figure it out. Thank you so much! Talamas was the first place I bought any sound gear! Good to hear they're still around. Saw my first HD-TV there too, and that was really something. I remember looking between a window and the monitor and thinking how much more clear the HD was!

No way! I appreciated the post very much. I thought paper was made from pulp, in fact I even made some of that in college. I guess the fibers you're talking about a super small? Doesn't this support my theory that it's better to just throw paper away and grow more trees? If the recycling industry were more transparent, I bet a lot of people would stop recycling and start reusing. I feel pretty stupid for not realizing the role incinerators played in municipality trash processing. Mega-derrr. I think the glass thing could be solved with local processing plants, which could only be the product of a progressive government. What if each city had a huge plant that took all glass and turned out those raw industrial glass rods for fabricating? Wouldn't it be wonderful for each city to have its own locally manufactured glass products? It could be profitable also. But what do I know?

I've miced a dog to match a lipstick cam, it sounded awesome! I put it low on the collar to get his breaths.

Thanks for the info, somehow I didn't know that trash is just burned instead of sent to the landfill. I can't believe it's worse to landfill trash than to burn it, but what do I know? I also don't know about landfills being that bad of a thing. (What's wrong with vermin living in a landfill? Don't they help the trash breakdown? I think they have more of a right to live than we do; they didn't put the trash there. I'm glad they will inherit the earth after humans extinction.) Gonna "whatabout" so please excuse that - Those harmful gases you're talking about are far more of a problem with livestock than landfills, to such a degree that I would imagine the landfill numbers are downright marginal. That doesn't make it good, but less problem than it might seem. We are too dependent on industrial meat products, which are a true environment-killer. And soy farming of course, the co-leader of deforestation (along with pasture for cows), which is 80% for livestock. You just can't talk about this stuff in a vacuum. What you say about paper not being able to be recycled endlessly makes sense, can you elaborate on that? I fully accept that other countries are actually recycling, but not the one I live in. And there is still a great shroud of mystery around what actually happens in those plants, and if anything beneficial is happening at all. Glass may be technically recyclable endlessly, but there is a cost that is greater than just throwing it away and making new glass, which is the transportation and maintaining the facilities. This is a US thing, it could be that other countries have more accessible glass recycling plants. I don't know. And - what happens in order to recycle metal and glass? How many resources are used to make those recycled products? This information is kept secret here, I believe it's because recycling doesn't happen cleanly if it happens at all. That's pretty cool about Sweden using their trash fire heat, but what about all the environmental pollution from the combustion? I'd guess with all that land and air and small population, it's inconsequential?