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Hello, hallo, Ciao, Hóla, I am looking for 1AS/Boom Operator in Amsterdam, Torino and Valencia. Thanks. Emanuele

There is nothing wrong with it. The metadata are still there and the number ( _3 for instance) I think is a technical requirement. Software like Pro Tools can recognise they are part of the same root file and group them in a multitrack channel, if needed. Nuendo does the same when splitting the files. I don't think there is a software giving you the option you are asking about, you need to do it yourself (quite quickly also) with a renaming software like NameChanger: https://mrrsoftware.com/namechanger/ once you changed the name I am not sure if PT will be able to recognise your files as being part of the same root ones.

I got an answer for Timecode Systems clarifying impedance needs: "LTC is high impedance when in the input mode and low impedance in the output mode. Because it doesn’t carry any high frequency/fast edge signals (like genlock) the impedance matching to 75/50Ohm doesn’t apply." For the suppliers, the usual suspects.

Tried. No answers so far.

Hello, I would like to know if European (possibly UK) users have a reliable (and not escruciating expensive) source for the DIN 1.0/2.3 connectors. Ideally right angle ones. How everyone is doing with impedance? Genlock 75ohm, LTC 50ohm, right? Thanks.

Which basically brings things back to ten years ago, when the Berlusconi government cut 60% of the funds for arts and films. Not a step forward, but at list is a back to square 1. :-)

In UK there is Everything Audio: http://www.everythingaudio.co.uk/ and Pinknoise: http://www.pinknoise-systems.co.uk

Here I am with my first hand ot it. It's small, very small. Also the knobs and buttons are accordingly small, keep that in mind if you have sausage fingers. Is lightweight, of course. Three ways to feed power: 8 AA batteries, external power supply on a circular connector and 1 external power supply on a Hirose 4 pin connector. Battery level meter on the main screen. I guess you can have them all connected together at the same time and the machine will recognise which is the better, but I haven't tried because I didn't need to, so I may have just written some idiocy. Inputs are on the hybrid Neutrik XLR/6.3plug connector. Mic level on XLR; line level (only -10dBV) on plug connector. Automatically selected also during a recording if you plug/unplug for whatever reason. Outputs are: main OUT on two TA3s and sub OUT on one stereo minijack3.5. One headphone output with loads of volume to drive your cans. 2 SD cards for redundant simultaneous recordings or other options to select from the menu. Menu is very easy to use. There is some degree of file naming and metadata and I guess there are better options using the external iOS app but I haven't tried that yet. The WI-fi electronics are already embedded in the machine and we just need to install a software extension to make it work. Time Code IN and OUT on 2 separate BNC connectors. Quite stable and reliable Time Code. When the machine is turned off it will drift (Zaxcom does the same, right?) because they saved in internal button battery. So any time the machine is turned on we need to remember to rejam. Work flawlessly, so far. RF spray. Yes and please make a test recording before starting your day to check if is interfering with your radiomics. Today I had one set to 606.450Mhz which became unusable once pressed the REC button. I then did some test and the broadbad RF spray settled and minimize once the whole startup bootstrap is over, so the idling machine is not affecting much. Once the REC button is pushed, the data transfer create a wideband RF spray with some main peaking frequency. Mine are 603.250Mhz, 636.450Mhz, 603.250Mhz, 711.000Mhz. I guess any machine has its own peaking frequency, like the 788T, so please check yours. File management resemble a bit the Sound Devices one so is quite familiar to all of us. Sound quality. I cannot say much yet. I recorded dialogue via Line level from my 552 and I am quite happy, sound nice and quiet. They declare 127dBu Equivalent Input noise (120dBu on the H6, the 788T is not declared but I think should be between 128 to 133dBu, the 552 is 126dBu), so I am expecting great quality sound out of that little beast. A colleague told me he measured a difference of 15dBu between the H6 and the F8 but he didn't tell me, yet, which one is declared wrong. I think for what it cost is worth having. I would buy a second one if needed. Knowing the brand I am not expecting any post selling assistance or any customer care. I wrote to them in the past and they usually don't answer. Also I am not expecting many firware revisions, like our beloved brands, to improve the machine facilities. They are probably already working on the developement of the next recorder which will be out in a year or so, I guess, but that's just my immagination so dont' trust me on that.

I double checked with the gurus and EQing before X-volver won't affect the conversion. They told me that using a recorder with the facility to preamp the 4 channels with just a knob (SD 788T for instance) is quite critical and is a must. Ambisonic mess up once the difference between the recorder tracks is just 0.5dB.

Hello, after a bit of testing, doing and undoing, I finally found my way to use the Brahma and a workflow with it. I am quite happy with it and is always with me when travelling. Please read my experience in my paper about this microphone here: http://www.ecsound.net/pages/projects/tech_notes/engnotes.html Any feed back is welcome. Please keep in mind that english is not my first language, so I am sure that some of the reading will be hilarious for that. Again, feedbacks are welcome. Thanks.

I replaced my director's feed TX antenna with a SMA connector and used the leftover aerial to fit a SMA connector on it. Not a difficult job at all and works very well. Then you could do a SMA to BNC adapter if you need.

Hi, after a while using it I can confirm is a quite good little box. I bought it to replace my old M-Audio Lightbridge (which support stopped for the new OS) for my home studio to keep using all my ADAT hardwares. Drivers works well in OSX Yosemite and I don't have annoyances to report, so far. ----- Has now drivers for MacOS Sierra: http://www.directout.eu/en/support/legacy/

Hello, I just found an official table document describing what's on what frequency in Italy: http://www.sviluppoeconomico.gov.it/images/stories/documenti/radio/Tabella_B_PNRF_2015.pdf If you look at it from 470Mhz to 862Mhz, you can see the owner is "Ministero dello Sviluppo Economico" and you can use them ALSO for radiomicrophones. In the CH38 area you can also find TV and Radioastronomy. I guess this means you can use radiomicrophones at your own risk. Same for the other frequency bands because they are allocated also for Radio Stations and Mobile Cell phones. I am not aware of any office or place where you can buy a licence to use a specific frequency band and they don't mention that anywhere in their website. The only mention and chance to buy frequency was for the EXPO2015. In my experience I would suggest to scan for free frequencies and if you find one you can use, is your until someone else with a more powerfl TX step in. Not much regulation over there. When I was living there I never bumped into and never heard of anyone who bumped into a "frequency Marshal". I think they don't exist there. Good luck. Ministero dello Sviluppo Economico http://www.sviluppoeconomico.gov.it/index.php/it/comunicazioni/radio/pnrf-piano-nazionale-di-ripartizione-delle-frequenze

Anyone worked out what spanish film is that?

Hello, anyone has the EXBOX.UMA and can tell us how good and reliable is it? Thanks. Emanuele --- Answer to myself. Apparently not. I just bought one myself and I hope to be able to review that soon.

Hi, I am in London and available on that day. I'll PM my details. Thanks. :-) Emanuele

Hi, what about input with mini lemo 3 pins connectors, for hi end Sennheiser and Wisycom and Zaxcom. Also the jack 3.5" Sennheiser in not lockable, which is very dangerous with an high risk of loosing connection. Great machine though! :-)

Dennis, don't bother to try them out. They are awful. I was forced to use them in Italy when I was living there because for some reason they are a standard. They are heavy, a pain to put on clothes, impossible to hide, the cable is quite rigid and they sound quite harsh. Then I started to use smaller lapel mics and my professional life changed.

I just called them and for the EW series the tone is not recognised, so the led will reamain blue. Audio signal will work anyway. --- As you can see on Wisycom pdf, our receiver is not able to detect the tone for EVO, SR and AL companders. Only for Wisycom and SEN compander the receiver is able to detect the battery data and the tone from the transmitter. Therefore you have to disable the tone squelch setting on our receiver (Tone squelch OFF). ---

Hi there, as a H6 owner I suggest to have a look also to the Olympus LS100. http://www.getolympus.com/us/en/ls-100.html I haven't tried myself but a lot of Nature Recordists agree about the better engineering and sound quality for the same price range. Back to the H6. I'm using it for few months now as a fourth option (after my 788T, my computer based Nuendo, my Edirol R4 pro) and it is always with me when I am travelling. My decision to get it followed the H4N I had and having the option to have 6XLR inputs is very attracting. Compared to the H4N is a bit more a toy. Is bigger, so less comfortable to hanldle and keep in small pockets. Is heavier, so is a bit trickier to use with my Jobi gorillapod. In sunlight you won't see the screen. The file management suck. Preamps sound quite thin (but we can fix that in post :-D ). The MS mic is a good idea but is very noisy. The minijack input for PIP mics is not as good as the one on the H4N. On the old one I could plug my DPA4061 straight in and it worked, while now is not. I think they are using a different model/brand which is slighlty different in size. When I handle it I have to be more careful than the H4N as it resonate a bit more. Battery life is amazing. I'm just back from a three weeks travel in Mexico and I changed to new batteries once, just for safety because I wanted to do a very long recording. You can use it as SD card reader, which is very good. You can put any SD card from your camera or other brand recorder and it read it. You can use it as computer audio interface, which is splendid, thinking you can have a six track computer based system

Hi thanks for your quick answer. I do receive audio signal when set to EVO but the led is stil blue. Tuned also with the second receiver with the same result. Did the Reset from the Advanced Menu as well: Is there any other way to do it? Thanks.

Hello everyone, has anyone ever set up this configuration before? I am trying to set up a transmitter Sennheiser EW100G3 with a Wisycom MCR42M. In the expander options I have: EVO, AL, SENN. I suppose AL is the AudioLtd emulator, with which I can get audio through despite is quite hissy. If I select EVO (supposing is the emulator for the evolution series) I've got a good signal and I can hear a slight compression coming from the compander. The AUDIO led remain blue, which means "Audio active & tone squelch not detected", despite the transmitter is sending the tone. If I select SENN, I get a better sound (at a lower level though) and the AUDIO led goes green that means "Audio active & tone squelch detected". The pumping noisefloor of the compander is awful though. Any advice on the better setting for this configuration? Many thanks.

Over the year I bought several blipms and with all of them I've got the issue that I cannot adjust the balance and on most of them the mic goes upside up pointing the wrong direction. As you all know when booming we need to touch as less as possible the boom pole to avoid handling noise, I usually use two fingers to hold it and two or one to drive it. On over the shoulders jobs very ofter I need to boom with one hand while fiddling with faders and buttons with the other. That is quite difficult with unbalanced blimps and on those occasions I'm forced to grab the pole to keep the mic facing down. I would like to describe my experience with the brands I handled so far: Sennheiser The pistol is put on the back, quite close to the lock. The whole mic weight keeps the microphone pointing down, (hurray) but I think is too backward and I need to drive the pole harder to move the mic side by side. Pro aim / Pro long / whatever else Is a copy of the Sennheiser and you can actually use and adapt the Sennheiser parts and vice-versa. Same as Sennheiser. Rycote All the ones I own or used have the same issue: the mic is going upside up and there is no chance to modify that, so booming means mostly holding the pole instead of driving it. Rode You can adjust the balance (hurray)!!! Cinela I just used the Piano and is balanced when the blimp and the boom pole form a perfect T. If you need to lift the blimp a bit more up, not to face the ground but some actor a bit further away, it goes upside up. I'm not comparing price, built quality or weight, just balance. I think engineers don't talk to boom ops or never use the blimps themselves to test how to drive them.

I don't think is very practical. It would be great having the option to show just the iso track on the meters, don't care about LR and x1x2. I'm clever enough to stick a piece of white tape over the printing on the cabinet and rename accordingly with a sharpie. We are continuously tapeing our beloved 788 to write actors names and notes aren't we? Then when I won't need that visualisation I can use the standard ones and take the white tape off. Easy, I think.

still cannot visualise the whole 8 iso tracks on the led meters.