Do It Yourself
for those who are brave enough to go it alone... with a little help from your friends
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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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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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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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