Do It Yourself
for those who are brave enough to go it alone... with a little help from your friends
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Here's a little diddy that uses the gpio of the 788t to switch the timecode on/off to your iDevice (iPhone/iPad) in order automagically roll MovieSlate,
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Needed a mic transmitter belt for an actress. Bought some heavy elastan/polyester fabric, large velcro and started the sewing machine. Custom fit!
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I recently got my SD 664 and want to use my schoeps CMC4/MK41 which needs 12T power, which the 664 doesn't have. I've owned the PSC 48v-12T adapter for a few years, but only use it when not wearing a bag as I've found the power will drop out if the the barrel gets moved around too much. I'm trying to figure out a solution to avoid buying a CMC6 or CMC5, though I know might have to. Has anyone used the 12T barrel adapter in a bag with success and avoided the power dropping out? I'm thinking about making a cable with the 12t barrel taped or shrink sealed to the xlr connectors so movement is limited.. but thought I'd see if anyone here had any good suggestion…
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Hello wondering if anyone has adapted a sanken cub phantom adaptor to power lavs, cos 11 etc, I have an adaptor that I cut the cable and added a 5 pin to the cub and been using it wireless, found the adaptor and thought it might do as a 48v to lav adaptor, but can't figure out wiring and voltage seems high, any advice welcome..thanks..richard
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Short question: connecting a condenser microphone to a transmitter, can it be done? Eg: connecting MKH-50 with xlr-lemo to a SK50...
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So I've got a 40' XLR cable, and a 50' 1/8" male - 1/8" female cable that I'd like to wrap around the XLR cable and make a last-minute duplex boom cable. Any ideas on how to cover/assemble this once it's wrapped together? Heat-shrink and zip ties? Thanks Max
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I use mine to primarily record rehearsals and other moments of musical spur of the moment genius. It was knock off the bass amp last night and one of the mics snapped off. Any advice on upgrading these capsules or is this much more complicated than I think it is?
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Dear group, a sound-buddy of mine suggested to me to investigate the possibilities of remoting my di-pole antenna's to the shoulders on my audio-harness by creating a system that simplifies connecting and disconnecting the antennas using Tip-Sleeve jack-plugs.. This way I could leave the antennas attached to the harness while putting down the sound-bag when needed.. The system would comprise of two cables with Tip-Sleeve 6.35mm Female-jack plugs, attached to the antennas.. the cables attached to the harness in a smart fashion (hence, mainly invisible, so non-obstructive).. This way the short jumper-antenna-cables with the Male Tip-Sleeve 6.35mm jacks can stay conne…
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Hello group, I did a search that came up with nothing, so I'd like to post this question. I found this company online selling EMF/RF shielding fabrics. http://www.lessemf.com/fabric.html What I would like to make is a pouch for my 788t to minimize it's RF-emissions into my Audio Ltd. 2040 receivers.. I allready took all other precautions like recorder on different power-source than receivers, connect receivers to the 788t's mini-xlrs instead of the standard xlr's.., increased the distance between the recorder and the receivers by screwing the CL8 on top leaving the 788t direct to the body and placing the receivers in the outer-front receiver-pouch in my soundbag…
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I imagine this topic has come up before, but I have not been able to find any information on it. I'm considering swapping one of my lectro bodypack tx units for a HM tx. That way with the dual receiver, I can have one lav and one boom feeding straight to camera for a bare-bones in-camera mix. I know, not ideal. But here's the question: Can the HM also sport a lav mic? It will feed 5v phantom, will receive mic level from an analog xlr... I know the box is large and heavy for body-mounting, but this trick might give me more flexibility as both a boom tx and optional second lav. Thanks for any insights.
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There's a lot of "dead air" inside the Venue Field. I also brought antenna bnc out to the faceplate + added power distro to power other equip. pete verrando http://www.txsound.com
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Here's a technique I invented years ago for hanging a sound blanket. You need one C-stand with an arm plus 1 more arm and head. This set-up lets you stretch the blanket out tight and you don't have to deal with the No2 grip clips loosening up or popping off.
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I finally figured an effective way to strip the tiny wires that Sanken uses on their COS-11 and CUB-1. Fire. A lit match will burn everything but the copper. With a bit of care, the fire will quickly burn about 1/2 " of wire, revealing nice, shiny copper. It only takes a split second, so be careful!
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Hello, sorry if this has been covered, but I have been tasked with making a microphone cable at work. I have a micro xlr-5 that I need to put to an xlr-3. The xlr-5 is wired 1 white/black (I think this combines into a single wire somewhere) 2 yellow 3 red 4 white 5 blue I can solder, but I have no knowledge of sound wiring, and help would be great.
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Will a 3.5mm TRS to 3.5mm TRS work to feed guide track audio to a 5D from a Comtek PR-216? (The same cable you may use to feed your car stereo music from your iPod?) If not, would someone be so kind as to enlighten me to the proper cable needed? I should also mention that making my own cables is something I'm new at, but I would like to give a try.
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Is there a resource that shows diagrams/etc. for wiring up various cables we use on a daily basis? I tried Googling a few times but couldn't find any pics. I have some starquad cable and a few connectors to make a TA5 to female XLR cable and sure would like some sort of visual reference if possible. Any info is appreciated.
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is there anyone who can help me, I bought the sennheiser sk 2000 with 3pin lemo connector, I would make the cable 3 pin lemo to xlr. I bought the connectors lemo but I can not figure out how to do a good job, for example, the cable is not anchored to anything? is there a way to disassemble it without the tool for sale by lemo Picture are welcome !! Thanks
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I run a bag with an SD302 and an Edriol R-09 as a backup recorder. I have been going from the headphone out to a G2 and sending that to the director. I would like go be able to chose between L or R channel and figure with a Y cable I could do this. Could I just keep the stero mini jack in the G2 and run the Y cable to the Edriol? Then switch channels by changing mini jacks. Could I just wire one jack tip and ground and the other jack ring and ground? Of am I missing some wiring issue? Thanks, Bob
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Can anyone recommend a shop in Los Angeles open on weekends that would have TA5F and other specialty sound connectors? Thanks.
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THANKS ERIC, et al for the advice on the REAN TA3F and TA5F! I spent Sunday making 18 custom cables for my new mixer and all seems to be OK...they worked when I checked them. Real world use starts tomorrow. : : : cleve
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Whenever my Loon pole gets wet, I take it apart and dry it. But I've never paid much attention to the wing until it crapped out on me last week. Turns out the MXLR was quite corroded. Now that I think about it, it does make sense; pointed up as it is, it's much more susceptible to the elements than other poles. Other than having to Dremel off one of the two protruding guides along the circumference to match the original XLR, it's an easy repair. An ounce of prevention...
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does anyone know where to buy the threaded 1/8" mono connector that are used for the lectro MM's? trying to make an adaptor to go from Ta5 to the threaded cable for an MM200 that will work with a standard mc30/40 for hops as well as standard lectro ta5 lav connector. The adaptors I have now don't work with any mc30/40/41s I've tried.
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I'm looking to get a decent soldering iron that will last me quite some time. With so many choices on the net it is hard to determine which is a good brand and which is a knock-off. I'd like to stay under $100 so if you know of one that is rock solid for around this price then please advise. Thanks
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Yeah, I've been seeing this camera enough to warrant building dedicated cables from my usual receiver units. Sometimes I feed using a Zaxcom TRX900s and sometimes from a Lectro R1a. Depends on the camera assistant. I prefer using the Zax for the higher quality but can't always sell it to the 1st AC. Either way here are my new cables for the Epic... If you're wiring up some of these yourself and are confused with the specs, don't worry you're not dumb it's just confusing. Basically consider the 1/8" mini jack a miniaturized XLR connector. It is balanced. There are two, one for left and one for right. Tip is +HOT Ring is -COLD Sleeve is GROUND Happy s…
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Just saw this on boing boing. a clever and ire way to store your rasta cables.
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