Do It Yourself
for those who are brave enough to go it alone... with a little help from your friends
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It worked beyond all my expectations http://babynetslate....code-generator/ One comment was
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So i have two of these EW100 receivers with the same condition. tried to open one of them , but antenna is somehow sealed into a plastic box. Is there any way i can fix this by myself ? or do you know anyone who can do this? i've contacted sennheiser here in dubai , but they just said " Buy a new one " Thanks
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Hi! I want to record some foley footsteps in different surfaces, I know that footsteps in sand, grass and stones (and others) use to be simulated with kinda trays like this and i know that the best way to have a good sound for footsteps in thick and solid surfaces like cement or concrete, tiles, marble etc... is to have it built in the very ground like this unfortunately I can´t have it... so I want to make a few DIY transportable surfaces (around 1m square) and I would like to know how to avoid unwanted resonances in surfaces like concrete or tiles. I appreciate any advice and every experience about how to record foley footsteps properly…
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Pimp my H2n 1 2 3 4
by Tom Visser- 1 follower
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I get insomnia sometimes... most people take Nyquil or a shot of whiskey or something. I tend to take things apart. Here is a shot of the front housing. A top mounted mode selector with 5pin (CN701), loudspeaker wired to daughterboard with 4pin (CN703), mic gain potentiometer on 3pin (CN601), and what looks to be a ground reference using the H2n's front grill screen.
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Hello all, I just picked up a used 8 channel AD-146. Unfortunately, the previous owner had not opted to perform the factory direct-out mod. I have priced out the boards from AD (at £85 ea.). I am entirely willing to go that route, but first wanted to check to see if anyone here had personal experience taping an unbuffered, high Z output from the channel strips as they are. One thing that I am apprehensive about with the AD mod boards, is that Ill be sacrificing my line ins, which I would prefer to keep for interfacing with a Lectro venue. Anyway, I'm just putting out feelers. I havent seen a schematic yet and dont know how the internal/panel real estate looks. Th…
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Hi everybody, I started a new DIY project. Since I really enjoy this forum and the wisdom shared I´d like to give something back. Here I´ll share the progress of this project with you. The situation I have a matched pair of Oktava MK-012 with cardioid capsules and use them for AB / ORTF stereo field recordings. I´d like to have good wind protection for them. Because I own a 3D printer and like to design functional parts I chose to give this approach a try before buying Rycote Baby Ball Gags or something similar. If everything works out I plan on buying just the fur from Rycote. For software I used Fusion 360 and Cura which both are free f…
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Hi all, This is the working prototype for my homemade bloop slate. It has 9 superbright LED's (very bright), a momentary push button that triggers the light AND sends a 400Hz tone to the mini-jack (line level-ish) that you see next to the trigger button. It works well when feeding the Mix-in on my SD302. It all runs on a 9V battery and I believe it draws about 100ma. I hope to add either an LCD display/counter to show take# or just keep it simple and add a layer of white dry erase board and handwrite take#'s. Some other possible tweaks are- trimpots to adjust brightness and frequency and a small amp to drive long audio lines if necessary. Let me know wha…
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I am making 2 Y cables for Epic from ERX1tcd. Lemo 4 pin tc goes to the Tip. I want to send the Ring to the Epic 3.5 Left or right audio input at line level. There is a lot of conflicting information and plenty of troublesome reports from the field. Some people say you need the A-BOX from woodencamera.com or the epic will not record sound. What would be the correct wiring for the 3.5 red audio input? And also will the TC bleed in to the audio when they both share ground? Senator's hat not an option since my shoot is early morning on Monday. I insisted on a test run on Sunday which might happen but still would like to have the cables ready. Thanks
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So long story short, I purchased a really cool little mixer last year, a Studer / Revox 6 channel jobbie that is supposed to have super sweet preamps and all types of direct outputs, slate ability, etc... For some reason that is beyond the scope of this conversation, it is stuck on the mainland and not sure that it will ever get to me. The purpose of this mixer was to handle cart based work, like if I ever did a feature. Needless to say, I'm starting my very first feature in less than a month. So being the broke sound mixer I am, I looked around to see what I could do with little $. I found the Behringer 1002B and the Peavy RQ200 (which is apparently the design that …
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So here is my new kortwich bag for my 664 rig. It took a long time ( close to 5 months ) to get it and costed around 900$cdn. But it is well worth it. I have absolutly no back pain at all even after 3 days of shooting 12-16 hours days running. I made a flap in the back ( against the body ) to open and insert a CL6, held in place by velcro. Works like a charm. At the end you can see the bag in cart mode. CL6 SPACE WITH OPENING CART MODE MY ROLLER STAND CART KIT Pascal
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Cart building day!!! 1 2 3
by thope- 11 followers
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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'm using some XLR's to make some custom cables for my 788t. I can't seem to find anything on soldering these 2 connections. Any help would be great.
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I welded some handles to my rt 10 cart. They make a huge difference in the manuverability of the thing. The top deck when bolted tight makes the cart a lot more rigid. I used scraps I had lying around so it didn't cost much. I used water pipe (mild steel) 1/2 inch inner diameter for the handles because the outer diameter fit BMX grips perfectly. The deck is made of plywood with square steel bars that hold the whole thing togther. Undo the 4 bolts that hold the shelf to the cart and it folds down, and even with the handles sticking up, fits in the trunk of my tiny Hyundai. Rakesh
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Hey guys, When we ordered the sanken cos 11 for Lectrosonics, something went wrong, and they came with XLR connectors. So we had to wire them ourselves to the TA5F connector. On sanken.com there are two diagrams, one includes a 1K resistor in the circuit (normal version), and the other does not (red mark version) . We used the method without the 1K resistor (red mark version). The process was very delicate but it worked just fine. The problem is that i'm feeling that there's too much gain, even when the gain level on the transmitter is just somewhere between the first and the second dash. The normal speaking level is good but it gets risky on sudden shouts (not s…
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Hi all! I got myself a micron sda 214-1 splitter/amplifier and wanted an external antennae to get rid of the RF noise I was getting from my bag (mostly tascam dr-680's fault) I also use a Sennheiser G3 transmitter as a mono hop/scratch/ifb. Which is surprisingly strong at that task Previously i had to hang the receivers on my harness but as i recently bought more channels of wireless, this task was too cumbersome to continue - a lot of cables and mess on the harness. So i thought about lifting only the antennas up. I bought some RG58 cable, and (after a lot of reading) tried to make a simple coax dipole - with stripped cable, but it didn't seem to work. My kit works…
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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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So today I had a shoot with 3 Red Epics and I took my lemo 5 TC cable and BNC-lemo 5. But then there was the horror: TC on the Epic body without breakout, seems to be lemo 4 . Aside from Red pissing me off all day, I don't want this to happen again. So I'm trying to find out to make a cable like Devendra did in this thread: But I can't seem to find the schematics for some connectors. I found this: http://www.sounddevices.com/notes/recorders/xl-lb2-wiring/ and http://www.sounddevices.com/notes/recorders/time-code/xl-lx-wiring/ but I can't seem to find the schematics for lemo 4, XLR and different jack-connectors. Any ideas? Did I forgot a common connector?
Last reply by Philip Perkins, -
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The xlr jack on my sennheiser 416 is looser than I would like.. I think in conjunction with female xlr jack on my boom pole, they are creating some noise I would like to eliminate. I am planning on opening the mic up to work on it, but not sure on how to tighten or shim the connector once the mic is open. Does anyone have experience with this? My schoeps MK41 is not as bad but could probably use help eventually if all goes well. I've done searched the forum for this topic, but have not found any info.. Thanks..
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I wrote an ultra long blog post that includes multiple tutorials on different mods and upgrades you can do to the folding Olympia Tools Service Cart. I’ve done a few of these on my cart and I’ve included some mods that others have also done. https://wavreport.com/2018/03/06/tutorial-uber-diy-olympia-cart-pimping/
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Anyone know of a schematic for a portable 9v battery operated 48v phantom power supply. Would this be easy to make? Stephane
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I know there is no way this is an original idea, but working with all these side input cameras, i was thinking about right angle XLR adapters as an option, vs making complete custom cables and pigtails in all the various configurations i have on hand. Has anyone come across anything like this or ventured to fabricate, similar to the DIY XLR connector thread? i am envisioning a hybrid combo of neutrik right angle male XLR connectors combined with standard straight female connectors. trying to keep them a solid piece, as small and low profile as possible but also maintaining the ability to change angle in the field for different XLR input positions. Has anyone come acro…
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Putting together a DIY battery eliminator for a G2 TX I use in the bag for IFB. Core of it is a Swadj3 regulator, it can bring down up to 35v to the required 3v. The G2 uses les than a watt, and this device can give you up to 25 watt max, so you can use one of these things to power multiple sennheiser RX/TX, thus ruling out buying a couple of official Sennheiser eliminators ($69). The thingy goes for about $25. It's small enough to fit in the battery compartment of the G3/G2 by the way.
Last reply by sisal, -
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You know my stance on the current bags available so I have no other option then make my own “like my OneUnit bag” or to modify others. here is my Condor mod. so far I have removed the zipper and opened the bag top. Next I will sew closed cel foam on the back and bottom and will insert second zipper on all tree pockets. I am using blue tread for the Mock up so you see the mod. It will go black when I go to the sewing machine. Condor Deployment Bag (Black, 12 x 6 x 5.5-Inch) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003W96GG8/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_rWOMDb7DN6JX7
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Hello Friends, I'm looking to make some DC power cables for bag use (I've finally decided I'm sick of spending the time rewiring my BDS every time i switch my wireless from my Fusion bag to my 552 bag, and vice versa, but the thought of buying all those cables again makes me woozy). However, i can't find any definitive information about the specs of various connectors used on all my various gear. Specifically I'd like to find out what is the connector type/brand is for: Remote Audio BDS outputs (locking DC connector, straight and right angle) Lectrosonics SRa/SM Battery Eliminator/T1 power inputs. (locking DC connector, straight and right angle) Hirose 4-…
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