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 have some cables which need their ends/connector swapped. Mostly XLR and TA5 (mini-XLR). I supply the connectors and cables. May I please get a newbie "without-an-income" rate? Thanks!
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I came across a marine voltmeter with two USB ports and I knew I had to make a BDS with it. I've been using batteries with a USB port built-in. I thought why have the ports in the battery and have to duplicate them (plus having to swap cables during a battery change) when they should be external. You may have seen this, but it's new to me. I bought it more for the USB ports than the voltage meter. But the display a nice bonus. The toggle is a locking switch so it won't accidentally switch off. The input is on the side. I use non-locking connectors. The 5.1/2.1 connectors make very solid connections and I'd rather not mess with the lock if I don't need to, wh…
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The Rode Blimp 2 is a vast improvement over the first version. They upgraded it to adopt the Lyre suspension by Rycote, which is orders of magnutude better than the old traditional rubber ring suspension. Alas, it seems to be a half baked product and so far they haven't shown much interest on it. Two important flaws are: 1- The built in Lyres are too soft. Rycote manufacturers Lyres with several grades of stiffness. The possibility of using different lyres would be great. Sadly Rode decided to manufacture a sort of standard Lyre but with a built in adapter for the Rode rail, in a single piece. This makes it difficult to adapt Rycote spare Lyres. …
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ERX for camera mod that I did long time ago. Posting because of the many discussions lately about camera people switching the erx off. Just pull the switch out and connect with a wire. Enjoy!
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Have you tried making a sound cart from wheeled walker? https://www.invacare.co.uk/invacare-banjo-ma-75banen
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Cart building day!!! 1 2 3
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After many months of planning, the parts for my new cart have arrived! Can't wait to share pics Sent from my SM-G935F using Tapatalk
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I am looking for recommendations for the next step in my power distribution bow. Thinking of putting it into a pelican case.
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Hi, I have a Teac r1000, which is 4 track 2 channels, and have restored the transport to good working condition. My plan is to use it as a delay, so am searching for full track mono heads for it. If I do find compatible heads, would the circuit in the preamp section of the deck for the three heads most likely need modifications, or could I simply use one of the 2 channels to work with the mono head by making the necessary calibration adjustments? Thanks, Rodrigo
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I have a couple of older Lectrosonics M150 lavs wired to a 5 pin plug and I'd like to re-purpose them for use with my Sennheiser transmitters if possible. Has anyone tried this? Thanks for looking...
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Well i thought i just rewire some Roland Roland WPM-10 Wear Pro to be used one a ZOOM, or antyhing with plugin power.... well so far so good but watch and listen what then happens... |
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Ok so I am finally getting around to building a couple of boxes next week and am wondering about a couple of things as I don't have any boxes in front of me. 1)should there be a vertical reinforcement panel in the center of the full boxes.. i.e.. from the top there would be a front back and 3 sides. I for some reason think I have seen this somewhere before though can think of no practical reason to do so as long as your top and bottom are 3/4" ply 2) wood... is birch ply ok I see no reason why not but somebody else mentioned maple to me in an off topic conversation last week. The maple would be harder stuff but I see no reason why birch should not work. Act…
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Hi, I'm using a Senn MKH50/30 MS rig with connbox > 5pin to dual 3pin XLR > MixPre6. My 5pin to dual 3pin XLR cable broke, so I'm trying to make a new one before recording today. I've wired it exactly like the old one, and as far as I can tell, exactly as I should according to the internet, and yet, when I MS decode my file after recording, it doesn't sound correct. Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong? I've attached pictures of my cable, and a sound clip of the decoded MS stereo file, in case hearing it helps. I've also tried rewiring the 5pin so that the positives and negatives are reversed, but that didn't fix it. mi…
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Hi folks. I've got two of the following do-dads with problems: https://ambient.de/en/product/emp5s/ Apparently whatever they use to hold the TA-5 bit in place is not very rugged, and after a while it starts to rotate loose. I've got one where the TA-5 rotated so much that a wire inside snapped, and another I'm babying because the TA-5 is loose, but it's still working for the time being. Problem is I cannot figure out how these things come apart. The XLR end is stamped as a Neutrik "NC*MX-HD", and it looks for all the world like the black collar should rotate off the silver barrel, but I can't get it to budge. And I also don't see any set-screws anywhere,…
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Quick question to brains trust, I’m wanting to make a BNC antenna cable to go from my VR Field receiver up (approx) a 3 metre mast to my SNA 600 antenna. So just wondering what would be the best cable to use for this set up? I’m currently using a 4 metre cable of Altronic W2230 RG58C/U 50 OHM MIL-C-17, which I’ve a feeling may not be the best. Thanks guys, look forward to any suggestions. cheers, scott
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I was sick of my Zaxcom CL3 spraying into my RX so I build a dipole antenna and hat I can stick on my harness. It works great and weighs practically nothing!
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Hi Folks! So I did my own SMA antenna mod on my Sennheiser G3 receivers. And I said, ok, If they now have the sma plugs, it might be a good idea to have and external LPDA antenna to then, so this way I could have all my rx on my cart, and have then with longer range! So I bough a rf passive splitter from 1 in to 2 outputs, and 2 passive splitter with 1 in to 4 outputs, this way I could send 1 antenna signal to 8 rx. I bought a LPDA printed antenna which claims to have 18dB of gain. To compensate for rf loss on the passive splitters, I also bought a chinese RF amplifier circuit with more 20dB of gain. As I knew all this amplification this could o…
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Quick question to brains trust, I’m wanting to make a BNC antenna cable to go from my VR Field receiver up (approx) a 3 metre mast to my SNA 600 antenna. So just wondering what would be the best cable to use for this set up? I’m currently using a 4 metre cable of Altronic W2230 RG58C/U 50 OHM MIL-C-17, which I’ve a feeling may not be the best. Thanks guys, look forward to any suggestions. cheers, scott
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It was once suggested to me to try a drop of olive oil as a method for cleaning the cables on DPA 4071 mics...it sort of works, but sometimes the adhesive from using surgical tape can be difficult to remove-I've been advised against using adhesive remover as it could be potentially corrosive and cause damage to the mic cable... Has anyone come across any other successful methods of cleaning lav mics?
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i’ve built this 12volt power distribution box for my cart, so for I’ve got power coming direct from the battery(lead acid sealed) direct to the 4pin xlr’s with a on/off switch, now everything seems to running ok. But I’m wondering what components I’ve should have in there regards to short circuits, clean power etc. As I say it’s a very basic design but I don’t seem to have any problem with noise etc. But anyone can help point me in the right direction for adding the right components would be a great help. I’m ok with a soldering iron as I make all my own cable etc.
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Always thought it was the cable connection, trying to reinsert it solves it for a while, but the actual problem is inside the cup: http://youtu.be/WRXYgfIkX18
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What is the correct way to wire the x1 output from sound devices 664 to a sennheiser ew100 g2-g3. I am going to to minixlr 2 to ring, 3 to ring and 1 to sleeve, is it correct?
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Hello. Where to buy some Canare L-4E5C starquad cable in LA? (Bare) For a friend in Rwanda whose producer leaves from LA very soon and need to bring the cables along to Kigali (so pretty urgent) 🙂 thanks
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Ikea made a bluetooth speaker for which you can buy a 14.4V, 37Wh battery, costing about $20. I made a 3d-printed holder for it so it can be used to power a sound bag and other equipment. These packs can be charged in the speaker (the smaller model) itself or with smart chargers like the Imax B6. I've mentioned these batteries in Allen Rowand's DIY BDS topic, and being inspired by his contributions to the location sound DIY community I wanted to add to it as well. Speaker https://m2.ikea.com/us/en/p/eneby-bluetooth-speaker-white-40401393/ Battery https://m2.ikea.com/us/en/p/eneby-battery-pack-20414264/ Th…
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i'm about to put together a bunch of TC cables, and was wondering about ground. for example, the TC LEMO 5-pin pinout from the SD633 is: 1 = ground 2 = SMPTE TC in 3 = ASCII in/out 4 = tuning out 5 = SMPTE TC out so, using a single conductor cable, i'll connect LEMO pin 5 to the DIN conductor pin for my uni-directional cable for feeding TC from my SD633 to UltraSync One. but i'm wondering if it's necessary (or at least wise/best practice) to connect LEMO pin 1 to the cable shield for grounding? or is that totally unnecessary?
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Maybe this is of interest for some here. Here is how I turned an ordinary Sennheiser G3 receiver to function as an IEM, have appropriate levels and have sound in both ears for around 30 bucks. TLTR Behringer P2 Hopefully it is interesting for anyone!
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