John Steigerwald

Hi Carl, Always nice to have another industry pro among us. Love your helicals but, THANK YOU FOR IAS! That is all.

Very interesting setup, though it seems that anything more than a couple days will surely turn into a data nightmare.

Hey Jeff, have a look at this.

Full title is "The Beast of War"

Phil, I've been using them for area coverage on some reality installs and they've performed wonderfully. In a house on a show last season, I placed one upstairs and one downstairs, both in a central location, and had spotless reception. -Steigs

The scary thing is 21% bought one! Denon should go into business with Monster....

"You will know your mixer.." Unfortunately little things like signal flow, gain structure and troubleshooting will not be discussed.

The RED's acceptance of a +4dBu nominal signal referenced to 0dBv, or -20dBFS, would be great. How's that?

Courtney, Can you name, or recommend any of those TC utilities for FCP?

+4 line in, set to hit -20dBfs on the RED, would be great.

Assuming you can jam these cameras from external timecode, I would. Doesn't really matter, but you might as well be the master. Chances are you have the more accurate clock anyways. Only if you needed rec-run, at which point you'd (likely) be hardwired. Really depends on the drift of that camera. You could always jam lockit boxes and velcro them to the cams. Again, that depends on how they handle ext sync. See #1 /$.02 EDIT: Just looked up that cam, it does have BNC TC in. Jam them all to your recorder and off you go. Only issue is drift. Worst case, they all get lockit boxes. Nice to see proper TC finally showing up on the dinkycams...

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Now there's a name from the past. I had one of their memory cards in my Apple ][+ back in '85. It took the stock memory from 48 to a whopping 64K, and added a clock. All for around $200 or so I think. BTW, Did anyone else make their own double-sided 5 1/4 floppies with the paper punch trick back then? 10 For lolcat=1 to 10 20 Print "I can haz Hello Wurld?" 30 Next lolcat

Three seasons of it. That rig sucked. We eventually ended up with 10 Rx in it as well. We just left the cable hanging on the side and swapped back and forth between the boom and the 10th receiver. The only good thing I can say about that setup was that we basically had everyone on a knob. No channel hopping required. We only really needed that horsepower for 2 days of the 11 day shoot when we dealt with cast and family all together. Most times I had a straight 4 Rx/boom rig that I used for the rest of the week. I tried several times to introduce them to the wonderful world of Metacorder, but was always shot down by the 'budget'. They just couldn't get their head around how sending 3 mixers and 18 receivers back would offset the multitrack rental. Good stuff. Chas, which episode did you work on? Your second day would have been interviews, shoulda skipped after that one.

I use a 4" soft bristled paint brush for keeping the general dust off. About once a month, or after a particularly dirty gig, I blow everything off with compressed air and hit the faders with a good contact cleaner.

Congress is taking an interest: http://broadcastengineering.com/hdtv/dingell-white-space-answers20081028/

Hey Richard, Fusion doesn't require any kind of partitioning. Using drive space and installing windows is, as far as I know, unavoidable if you need/want to run a windows-based app.

Been running mine using XP on Fusion. No issues to report.

Jeff, next time you're logged in to FB, hit the 'home' button in the top menu bar. The page it takes you too should have a 'friend requests' link in a box on the top right.

Congratulations Grandpa!

5.1 surround recording?

Posting this for a friend. If ya happen to see it, please call. Please be on the lookout for a Ziggy's bus (#7991) that was stolen. It was last seen in Los Angeles. If you have any information, please call Ziggy at: (615) 347-3561

Hobbit, he's asking what he should pay a mixer, not what he should charge as one. Drewman, in my market (Vegas, non union) the going rate for something like that would be about $500/10 or $600/12 for labor only. It's not an absolute number, but if that's what you're budgeted for, you probably won't go over. The gear charge you'd have to work out with the mixer, depending on your needs. HTH

Actually, that's where I did it.

I just took a basic cheap white hardhat and took a jigsaw to the sides. Cut out a couple ovals notches in the sides, pulled out the interior and attached it to the headphone headband with 2" velcro. Not pretty, but it works. I'll post a pic if I can find it.