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Do It Yourself
for those who are brave enough to go it alone... with a little help from your friends
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After picking up a very cheap Sennheiser SK50 transmitter and doing some research, I found it should be possible to re- tune it by replacing the PROM chip which contains the PLL prescaler values. Sennheiser will re-tune it at the factory at a price, but I've go this far (and learned quite a bit about how radio mics work in the process)- Firstly I've managed to read the PROM using an Arduino board: http://hackaday.com/...ade-rom-dumper/ and got the following values (HEX), corresponding (?) to frequencies (MHz): 48054385 724.9 48444385 724.1 40724385 721.4 48414385 719.3 48604385 718.1 400F3385 715.2 400E3385 713.6 406C3…
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Does anyone know if the guts of an EMC female connector can fit, or be modified to fit, into a right angle shell?
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I'm working on a shoot where I have to record a phone conversation between 2 people. I'll be in the room with one person and the other on the phone. I've done this before with a phone hybrid, but I don't have access to one. I was just thinking about planting a lav near the speaker and just put the call on speaker and lav the person in the room with me. Any other alternatives? Thanks
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If this already exists, or someone can tell me a better way to do this, I'd love to hear/see it...but in the meantime I'm wondering if I can get a little help on trying my first DIY project. I'm currently working a gig with another sound guy and comtek's are needed. He has some talent wired, I have the others, and we're each feeding different cameras. In coming up with a cheap/fast/easy way to send out a single comtek feed with all the talent being heard I've set him up with a comtek TX feeding a receiver that I have built in to my kit. The audio out from it goes into a splitter like this: http://www.thesource.ca/estore/product.aspx?language=en-CA&cat…
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as i am looking for a bag based multicoupler for 4 ucr's , i am playing with the idea of disassembling a UMCWB and fitting the guts of this device in a sturdy custom housing with a footprint as small as possible. before i get out saw and driller, i wanted to ask around if someone of you planned or even successfully finished such a modification. greetings
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I finally got fed up with buying little things I knew I had but couldn't find. I've certainly accumulated a lot doohickeys, thingamajigs and assorted whatchamacallits over the years, but they were scaterred throughout the house; in a drawer here, in a plastic bin over there, in a bag up on a shelf. It was time to centralize. Also, I wanted to have an area where I could build/repair/solder in my office, away from the computer/paper part of it. I came up with this desk; Looks like any other desk except for the drawers with flexible dividers. I didn't fill all the drawers, so there's room to grow. I also added a 3x diopter lamp…
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Hi All, I need to make up several cables to feed one side of a Sennheiser IEM headphone output into one audio input on a RED camera for guide track use only. Obviously the IEM headphone output is unbalanced - what would be the preferred way to wire the TA3M input connector - - IEM hot to RED Pin 2, IEM cold to RED Pin 3, RED Pin 1 (ground) floating - IEM hot to RED Pin 2, IEM cold to RED Pin 3, RED Pin 1 (ground) tied to pin 3 - IEM hot to RED Pin 2, IEM cold to RED Pin 1, RED Pin 3 floating I've read several threads where people have used an IFB receiver of some sort for this. I tried a search, but searching this forum doesn't seem to be working too …
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For people with custom carts and BMX tires (12 or 20inch), what are you using for brakes? Before I make a bracket to mount an actual BMX/MTB brake, is there anything else you guys have been using? My cart right now is a "PSC-style" inspired cart made from 80/20 T-slot extrusions. I have some sweet 80's BMX 20" mag wheels on it. I had to remove the front wheel brakes when a nut fell off during a film. They didn't work so well anyway. This is an old setup, but the cart/wheel configuration is about the same:
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Has anybody here had any experience with nested apple boxes. I saw a set the other day where the side of the full box came off to reveal a half, quarter, and pancake inside. I have been toying with making one slightly modified so as to be able to function as a boom caddy for those times I want one. Maybe an enlarged circular hole in the half and full box on one side instead of the typical slot. Also I will probably add a bead of silicone between all the joints to deaden any creaking noise that might come up as it ages. What I am wondering is if any of you who have seen them up close can tell me is what kind of hasp is used on the removable end cap. The one I sa…
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Sometimes when filming in public places, the lockup capabilities can be stretched pretty thin. PA's will hang up posters apologizing for the inconvenience and ask for bystanders to please keep quiet etc., etc. The signs and posters are still easily overlooked and people will ignore them. On a particular shoot when this was a problem, we were near a hardware store that was selling clip-on bicycle tail lights for 1.99 incl. batteries. I bought a few and clipped them to the posters and the flashing red LED's caught people's attention and they would go to read the posters and then actually keep their voices down. The lights can sometimes be pretty effective.
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It has definitely been done before. But I wanted to see if I could do it for less. I sourced all my parts from markertek, lowes and the local frys. For about $30-$40 dollars it's not a bad package at the end of the day. It obviously draws a lot of ideas from the BoomBox v1. Integrating talk back from the boom op is the next step, but it achieves the goal of having one cable for the boom to wrangle. For more detailed pictures you can read my brief writeup here: http://www.danacsimmons.com/content/boom-buddy-integrated-boom-cable-system
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http://www.xantrex.com/power-products/power-accessories/truecharge-2-usb-charger.aspx i have not tried it wolf
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I've never done a Snake cable that terminated in a DB25 connector but I was thinking of giving it a try. It's for an analog mixer to recorder connection on my cart. My first basic question is: I've made all of my previous snake cables (for my cart) using Canare Mini Star Quad (L-4E5C) and wrapped in flexo expandable tubing. Do I do the same here or do I use multi-pair cables like Canare L-4E3-8P or L-4E4-8AT? After that, I'll take any advice on DB25 connectors and making 8 channel snakes with them. Thanks, Josh
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Hi, Does anyone know if it's possible to get hold of DPA microdot connectors? And if so, would it be possible to wire them to a Sanken Cos 11? I'd like to have a little flexibility with my lav mics. I have used DPA mics, although it was a good few years ago. I seem to remember the microdot connectors being comparable to SMA connectors, i.e. just a screw in pin and screen connection. My memory could be failing me here but if that's right then how would the Sanken's three wires connect into the microdot? I've read a little about a similar connector that Rode are now using but as far as I know they don't do a 6 pin Lemo connector, which I need to fit to my …
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I'm thinking about putting my Cooper 208 on a sliding shelf in an SKB case. I've never had a chance to really look at this kind of setup from the back end. Anybody care to comment on a good approach for a collapsing cable bundle? - one that will unfold and fold back up without wear and tear. Thanks
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Jeff W. What 80/20 profile did you use for your current cart? Which corners, and did you have the pieces cut to length by the factory? David B.
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If you can do it yourself then you should just do it. In my case, Chinhda did not have the time or the desire to make the one off bracket that I wanted to have for my little Cooper CS-306. I wanted to be able to mount the Deva attached to the mixer so I could carry it as an all in one for mobile work, insert car work, etc. So, I made the bracket myself, took me a few hours and $28.00 in parts and material. It will get the job done and I did it myself. The angle of the photo makes it look as if the Deva is over-powering the mixer, and it is to a certain extent but the whole rig is very stable and a relativley small footprint. At some point in the future I imagine I ma…
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would I best choose to go from XLR to RCA? I'm looking to make cables to go out from a Wendt mixer, line in to a Tascam HD-p2. (Tascam's XLR's are mic only) Thanks, Scott
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I'm about to do my summer overhaul, re-install, upgrade, etc. This go around I'd like to rewire my patch bays and audio interconnects with console cable. Any favorites out there. Thanks everyone. PWP
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An original, bulky TS-1 slate, with its C-cells and outboard TC gen, went under the knife this week and resulted in this handy-dandy doc-style mini-slate, & I'm the envy of all my friends. Just the thing for for those 5D shoots where you're expected to carry the damn thing around. Get a table saw with a metal cutting blade. Wear ear protection. 1. Dissasemble slate, unscrew the sticks, cut the reed switch wires. Take the frontplate and photo scan it on your computer. Trace the rear enclosure around where it meets the faceplate. Saw/file the faceplate down to match the rear enclosure size. On the rear enclosure, mount a surplus handle and momentary push-button wire…
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3 camera dinky cam shoot on Sat....split tracks to the A cam...the cameraperson has ONE Lectro 100 and ONE Senn G2. So had to build a 5 pin XLR(SQN mini mixer) to a TA5F for the left channel, and a locking mini plug for the right channel!!!!!!!!!!!!! B cam gets a mono of both, so that is easy, mini to mini to another G2! C cam gets nothing. All backed up on my PMD 660 just because I have one more output left. OH BOY!!!!!!
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This isn't exactly DIY but it isn't full up expensive gear either. I've always wondered what I could use the digital-only output bus 2 on my 744T for (since it can be set up to have different outputs from output bus 1). I HAVE used the 744 as a 4 channel digital interface--using one digital output bus to feed the SPDIF input of a Traveler and output 2 to feed the AES input of same (with appropriate internal routing in the 744)--that worked well. But what about in the bag etc? Well, here's a cheapo accessory from Gefen that is a 24 bit 48k stereo DAC that runs on DC. I hooked it up to output 2 of the 744, and it worked. Sounded good. Not a lot of level--sort of -15-…
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Hey everyone, This is actually more of a question for Jeff, but I thought I'd post it here in case anyone else knew the answer, or would be curious about doing this in the future. In this post, Jeff was talking about how he hooked up the amp section of his Cambridge Soundworks System 12 to his DC distro on his cart. I recently purchased a used system 12, and I was going to wire up a cable this evening to interface with my PSC Power Station. However, I was concerned that I might be risking blowing out the amp hooking it up directly. Is there anything else I need to do besides wire up a 12v cable with a XLR4M on one end and the appropriate DC connector on the other…
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Pretty smart cookie. Might make a great 3rd or A2 in a few years! I especially love the saran-wrap and tinfoil shielding bit! I wouldn't have thought of that.
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