John Steigerwald

My name is John Steigerwald and I'm an audioholic, gadget freak and obsessive Jeeper. I spent 15 years in music as a studio engineer, a live mixer, a production manager and a tour manager. I switched fields when I moved to Vegas and the opportunity came up to try something different. I'm still young in the production sound business (been doing it for about 2 1/2 years now) but I've found my background in live audio has definitely helped me establish myself faster. I've only been working in the broadcast market so far, mostly reality and truck shoots, but I'm hoping to get my feet wet on a film sometime in the near fuirture. I am currently the Bravo Team Audio Supervisor for Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. The biggest challenge I've found since trading my Midas XL4 for a Wendt X5 is familiarizing myself with a whole new set of microphones (Not like I ever put shotguns or COS-11s on guitar amps or drums..) and how to conceal them, and keeping track of all the various timecode scenarios for any given shoot. Mostly stuff I didn't deal with much when I simply handed a singer a 58 and walked away. I'm by no means any kind of expert, but I like to think I've done pretty well getting myself up to speed. Both Jeff's forum here and RAMPS have been an invaluble service in helping me make informed decisions with respect to techniques and gear and I look forward to continually learning and growing as a result of their existence. Thanks to those of you who take the time to help us 'little guys' along the way. -Steigs

X2 on PAID Been using it for a couple years now. No complaints.

You may find interest in this: http://www.macvroom.com/node/36/

We're not going to support it or sell it, but if you want to run it, here's the software. Gotta love Apple.

I've been watching this issue for a while and it looks like someone cracked it. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1939061,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594 It is also rumored that '07 versions of MS Vista will support EFI. EDIT: Just saw this covered a few threads down. Sorry for the repost.

Greetings Mr. Wexler. Great forum! With the Xenarc on your cart, have you been able to run it in it's native 800x480 with the mac? I'm looking into building a mini-based Metacorder rig and in my research it seems that this resolution is not attainable on a Mac without some serious tweaking. If not, what resolution do you use and how does it look?