Jan McL

SD cart slot opening is flush and not much room around the card. For now I'm not going to worry about it and keep my eye on the RX's LREC as usual. At your prompting, I pushed the fleshy part of my thumb then forefinger against the card and couldn't get it to release. I need to push the card in with a fingernail to get it to release. That's good.

Nope. I'm going to add the best advice I ever got: see the big picture.

As others have stated in other ways, even with $40,000 of the best gear their inexperience practically guarantees that the sound will suck very well indeed even with you available by phone for advice. Better to give a motivated not-quite-just-out-of-school student with their own gear the $3K and go forth that way. Well that assumes they want it to sound semi-professionally done. As Johnny noted, wireless should permit mixing from the next room, but not in the hands of someone totally inexperienced.

OXOXO José.

After some consideration, allow me to reframe the question so that I may best answer: every time I place a lavaliere I get better at it. Even when everything has worked in my favor (wardrobe good, actor head placement good, props good) I replay the game tapes to figure how I might do it better next time if only to improve the experience for the individual who's being wired. Two decades into this biz I rarely love how any lav sounds.

....pardon me...had to clean the coffee I laughingly spit all over the screen before typing. Ha! Good one.

Like where you're going with this. Might be fun to have optional side tables, too. Wonder about your thoughts relative to having only two wheels. Perhaps simplicity is best here.

Oh yeah, they fit right in!

Glad you weighed in here, ao. Worked the summer having eliminated the DC power injector in the 2.4G Zaxnet chain and troubleshooting the firmware alley fight between the RX12 and its TRX's on which unit code controls. RX12's since been named permanent unit code winner. In the meantime what that meant in practical terms was that I changed my gain staging workflow: planned for TRX gain changes during scan & prep of the units rather than forgetting about it until there was an issue and solving with 2.4Ghz. Continuing bottom line even with the 2.4 system again DC injected, TRX's remain pretty much on the same gain on a per-character basis and I fine tune gain at the Nomad inputs for surprise shouts/whispers via the 'Setup' button. Furthermore scan for new freqs at every new location and choose hi and low sens mics based on the character and what I eventually learn about each's dynamic range. Should state that 8 wires are AES from RX12 --> Nomad. Have not yet needed more wires than that though wires 9-12 are available via analog. I now LOVE scanning for clear freqs. OK, that's strong, but I no longer devote fifteen minutes to re-freq all the wires and there's my lost coffee break back. Love seeing all the TRX's come back online with their meter blips. Yeah, when I re-freq they all get updated just in case. Saved my bum more than once that rule. All that to say (again) 2.4's a wuss and I'm not relying upon it to save me. With the revised workflow, it hasn't had to and I'm all the happier for it. I use R1a's for my private line comms and Comteks for the Village.

So nice to have you chime in, Philip. HNY!!! Didn't ask if / how much he used my mix since it mostly sucked. Just a fact. LOLZ: "He is a tough room!" Since I only ever knew Mark in text from here and mostly from that wonderfully disruptious thread about mixing, you can imagine I might have taken a steely shot of something aged in a cask before dialing his number. Turns out, needn't have supped.

Now you're a pro cat photographer, everything looks like a cat. Hazard of the trade, my friend.

Learned that our own Mark Hensley was the post sound king for "Zelda" and managed to speak with him on the phone. Thanks, Mark! Admit some anticipatory trepidation since my stye is not in keeping with Mark's recommendations to PSM's here: wire everyone all the time since the first thing he said he does is toss the PSM mix. Fact is, I worked this job with the idea that the mix is less valuable to post for cutting and more important for dailies. Often times brought up this or that iso during a take just to let editorial know what we'd gotten for them and not giving that move a second...well OK, a third...thought. Bottom line was our tracks were such that Mark had time to work on the mix rather than spent fixing iso tracks. Best outcome IMO. When I asked whether he was aware of the wholly-digital signal chain that the TRX900's --> RX12 --> Nomad --> Oasis provided he said, "No," but then allowed as how #1's frequent whispers were brought up significantly without adding hiss. That's a huge performance-saving win. Mark also said that while they recorded a lot of ADR they mostly used the production tracks, "...for the performance." Yes, performance matters. He also allowed as how he would often, "...go to the boom". Yeah. Had a stellar team in Tim Cargioli, Julie Stalker-Wilde and Brendan O'Brien. Wouldn't have been as possible were it not for Elanor Rimassa, Nick Graziadei and Andrew Cavagnet so brilliantly keeping the background noise bogies and village in check, among a million other essential things. We used DPA's all the time. Put slims on #'s 1 and 2 at first; 4063's else. Soon switched in a high-sens 4063 for the quietly-spoken #1 much like I switched to a low-sens for a big character on another show. They sound so good to my ears. Took me a long time to get the new instrument panel and workflow down, mostly because I don't retain as quickly as I used to. Only now does my intestinal tract begin to unclench. Even with the workarounds, it's an incredibly flexible system; Oasis worked a charm for all the music and VOG as I anticipated. Put music / time code on the rightmost faders of Bank 3 and VOG on the leftmost of Bank 2, then set them and mostly forgot about them. We never needed more than 6-7 mics IIRC, so 8 AES proved plenty to keep the project in 0's and 1's, which was the goal. What a ride. Too soon to speak with post for OLBNY since picture's not locked. Excellent photos by Niko Tavernise.

Yes! Accolades hard-earned by all. Brilliance.

Yeah, I'm coming out of the corner antenna based on Billy's config too. When I saw this at Gotham last spring, preferred the size, weight and color (girlie, I know). Spent the summer with it unamped and decided to go back to powered. Much better.

Revisiting this thread since the bunch of us (Brendan O'Brien and newly-minted Local 52 brother Austin Moore along with Egor Panchenko and his outstanding out-of-craft video assist additional whose name I forget at the moment) finished a little motion picture. The two-week break between the end of "Zelda" and the beginning of Marc Webb's shoestring "The Only Living Boy in New York" was just enough to contemplate and prepare a couple improvements. Had a little time to critically listen. Missed being able to adjust some EQ just to the mix, but there it is. One improvement idea arrived today (see photo) having stared at it for a week. Simple solution to mount the 2.4 Ghz amp to the RfVenue antenna that we failed to figure out while on the clock for 6 weeks. Such are the limits of the human brain. The amp had been mounted rotated 180-degrees and to the right of the antenna and that arrangement left the N-connecters exposed to direct rain. One hole drilled; one to fill. I'm liking how the TRX's --> RX12 --> Nomad --> Oasis sounds. Took some getting used to. Need convos with post. Check. Not much to do for pending work, thankfully. Glad to have another trip with the same cart.

Decade! Decade-nce. No, I did not just type that. So for sure there's something GOOD happening in 2017! Yay. Congrats, Jeff.

Devastated for Germany, Berlin and the families and friends of those so tragically lost and what it means for the future of humanity everywhere.

A properly diameter'ed coffee stir straw. Cut to length and a wee bit of Joe's Sticky Stuff to keep it on the antenna. I had a gal who was sweating profusely from hot flashes upon whom this worked a charm after a lost a lot of range with her TRX. I keep a couple of those straws in the drawer. Might want to add some moleskin to the top since the edge is sharp.

Great news! Congratulations, y'all.

DPA headset mics: https://www.google.com/search?q=dpa+headset+mic&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS690US690&source=univ&tbm=shop&tbo=u&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjV1-eMp6vPAhWKez4KHbnMBSMQsxgIHg&biw=1275&bih=676

Happy Birthday to me...a couple of cables! Thanks AO for the suggestion. Will give cables a try. MacBook Pro has USBC, so in a pinch... A powered hub with USBC / 2A delivered to it might do the trick. Mini doesn't get enough power to stay charged when mostly on MovieSlate: 5-10 minutes away from Touch / Kangaroo disconnects OSLinx so every time I wanna change scene name I have to re-boot it. I think that may tax the power... iPad Pro back up and test running. Left on Touch it stayed at same % for an hour. Now at 100% and on MovieSlate with timer calling me every 30 minutes to check.

If poetry is esoteric and not fun it's not worth much IMO.

This device is good for a fast charge on iPhones and iPad Pro. 2.5A out of Lightning connector has proved sufficient to top the thing off for a long day in the woods, particularly if I'm taking notes by hand and leaving the iPad off except during setup changes when I do data entry. With that in hand I've not gotten too worried, nonetheless would like it to be worry-free insofar as charging is concerned. Less I have to think about the better. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00Q2B5KY2/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Others have also sent me links to this discussion, including Uncle Al, here that offers solutions: http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/yes-the-ipad-pro-charges-slowly-here’s-why.1939002/ Today's data point collection involved hooking the old iPad Mini up. It too loses charge with only OSLinx and MovieSlate8 running, wifi 'On' and connected to home router. Think I shall try running the Mini directly into the best USB port on the Kangaroo as a test.

Elanor, darlin', your presence with us was a saving grace on so many levels I cannot recount the ways. Thank you, thank you, thank you for your good work and voice of reason. Your fan, Jan Thanks for the great suggestion and information ao, the problem with this setup is the iPad Pro must be USB'd to the Kangaroo either directly or indirectly through USB hub. Both power and data come to/from iPad via Lightning. Have tried various connection configurations with no luck. USB hub and Kangaroo are AC-powered when I have AC which is most of the time. Sigh.