Do It Yourself
for those who are brave enough to go it alone... with a little help from your friends
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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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Thinking of building myself a mixer based upon the exact features that I'd like... feedback - good idea or just plain silly. I have a very specific idea of how these features would be implemented, curious to see if others see things the same as I do or don't get it. Panel dimensions would be 12" wide by slightly under 3", overall dimensions would grow a bit given the casing. Faders are Penny and Giles 45mm throw. Sort of a design exercise to see if a linear fader bag mixer could work or not. Also thinking of maybe cutting it down to 4 channels instead. Switches are NKK, rotary pots are Alps push-lock style. The monitoring section on the right has a top row of …
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Just wanted to check with those that do their own soldering to make sure I'm doing this right. I'm making a cable to go out of a 3.5mm unbalanced mono mic-level output from a 442 to a Lectro Rx (either servo-bias or not). Lectrosonics' wiring diagrams don't explain this particular setup, but I'm pretty sure all I need to do is connect tip=pin3, and sleeve=pin1. Since this is just a mic level output and not an actual microphone connection, I don't need to bridge pin1 to pin4, correct? Thanks to all for any info. Stephane
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I picked up some consigned NP-L7S's recently, and one turned out to be faulty. Since they were used, I had no real choice but look into re-celling. I figured that either way it would be a learning experience. First, they make these things NOT to be opened! I was able to eventually get in, but it required a combination of finesse and brute-force. First, I removed both of the stickers from the outside of the case. I wish I had heated these up first, as I had a bit of cleanup on my hands afterward: Next, I removed the four screws from the top and bottom of the battery case: Once the screws were removed, the case was still glued shut. I heated t…
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12 Volt Minder UPG 71730 Low Voltage Warning Device for 12 volt battery systems. Prevent low or dead batteries by installing Volt Minder which has both LCD voltage read out and audible alarm. Customer adjustable low voltage setting, with a range of 10.5 to 13.8 volts, and audible on and off switch. Automatically monitors charging system and detects battery loads. $ 30 with cigarette lighter adapter cable. very accurate voltmeter too! http://www.batterystuff.com/battery-products/UPGvoltminder.html WE DONT SELL 'EM BUT USE THEM WOLF WOLFVID.COM
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Hi does anyone know how to make a cable for the following story? a sanken cos11 (red mark) wired to TA5F for lectrosonics sma, i need to make a cable TA5M to sennheiser... does anyone know how to make this cable? Thanks...
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I am looking for a recommendations for a 5 wire cable (4 wire plus shield). I'm looking to wire a 5 pin to 5 pin. I thought about using some star-quad but I heard from various sources that by using a star-quad in this application wasn't a good thing since star-quad wasn't designed to operated this way. Thanks Jack
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I'm thinking of building a stereo to mono summing box so that I can send a mono signal and was wondering if anyone has done this... any suggestions/refinements? I'm probably going to make it along the lines of this one from the Rane Note "Why Not Wye": I'd be using it to sum the 2-channel output of my mixer, since I want to keep both channels separate to the recorder for ISO's. It doesn't necessarily have to be a balanced signal since it's just the scratch track. What do you think? John
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I was looking around at some battery solutions, and found this item. Looks pretty cool. A 4-pin XLRF could be soldered on, or Hirose, etc., if you didn't want the plug that's already molded on. I was thinking about buying a couple, but the smallest number I can find is on this site for a minimum order of 12. http://www.sourceresearch.com/store1/quickstore.cfm?ProductID=90868&do=detail Is anyone interested in having one or two or three? I would have to stick it in a box and send it, so that would be a little over $5 in the US. So if $12 would be fair (there's a similar thing on eBay for $13 with a seemingly lower build quality), I'd buy a handful and mail …
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My old (OLD!) Weller soldering station is dying. Probably nothing I couldn't fix with a good soldering iron, but now I'm facing the soundie's version for "There's a hole in the bucket." And anyway, it's really old. I need a new iron/station, but geez, Weller makes a million models, and I'm not familiar with other brands. I'm not sure what to buy. Would love some suggestions and perspectives. A bit of background: I used to be quite handy with an iron... using one was a big part of my job. But that was a long time ago. Now I just occasionally make and repair basic cables and stuff. My needs are simple and my skills meh.... Also, I don't want to spend a lot of money. N…
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I'm wiring a 5 pin XLR female to a 3.5 mini TRS female so that I can have stereo (left / right) in the female TRS for a headphone feed. I wired the 5 pin as: Pin 1to sleeve of TRS Pin 2 to tip of TRS Pin 4 to ring of TRS Pin 3 and 5 I tied both into the ground of pin 1 When I tried this I was getting signal to the headphones but there was a lot of noise. What am I doing wrong?
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First off I want to give a big thanks to Mike Van Tine- he was a big help with info on how to do the 3047 card install on an older mother board... I've said it before: he's a go-to guy! All I had to do was cut 2 board traces, add a shunt wire and a 10k ohm resistor & it's good to go... Of course, my wife kept looking over my shoulder & pronouncing me wacko: "brave man, maybe not too smart- but brave". Hey- it worked... now it's time to install the 4-pin Hirose power connector. I was tempted to put in a 4-pin XLR, since there's plenty of room, but the Wendt X3 is also 4-pin Hirose & I've decided to standardize on that. John Here's a pic:
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Greetings all: I have a simple technical question: I'm finally wiring up some camera return adapters for my 788T/CL-9 Sound Devices setup. The 2 returns on the CL-9 are line level balanced XLR inputs. Camera return will be on an unbalanced stereo 1/8" TRS connector. What would be the appropriate wiring for the TRS 1/8" female to XLR male cable adapter? Thanks! -Adam
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Hi All, Attached are a few pictures showing a cable I bashed up, it was mostly "GID" (get it done) and a bit of DIY. I needed to record 5 channels of house wireless (dialog + solo singer) and the musical cue. My initial recce found the house mixer to be a Mackie configured for live sound (e.g., onboard effects, no direct outs) and the aux's were inaccessible due to routing issues. The ideal thing would, I suppose, have been a split before the board but this posed two problems: I didn't have 6 channels of split (relatively easy to solve) and, explaining why / obtaining permission to re-patch the mic inputs (much more difficult). Although the board lacked direct…
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Hi everybody, I am lucky enough to grab mr Mondo Vilas used 208 mixer. I tremendous step up from my 106. But i hate the knob colors. I would like to replace the purple knobs for the Aux 1 and Aux 2 controls. 18 knobs total. Anybody here every replace their knobs? I'd go with the white or grey. Obviously, simple DIY project. Would love to go directly to the source not thru service company. If possible. Thanks, john
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