Allen Rowand

Did someone from Rode hurt this guy when he was a child?

If your TX is small enough you can put it under a wig. Could also use a chest strap or pouch attached to her bra if the costume allows.

In the Netflix movie Gray Man, Ryan Gosling's character has an Ambisonic mic attached to his rifle for… reasons. Like listening to a conversation through two glass floors in a hotel.

Great work! Looks like your nozzle is a little close to the print bed, which is giving that flare on your first layers. Might want to check your Z offset.

Done! Thank you and everyone here for making a great community.

On 4/21/2022 at 1:57 PM, Samuel Dilworth said:

Second thing: why a 512P, say, over a 112P?

 

The former has an MKE 2 rather than an ME 2, but I’m not sure how valuable that is to me. A YouTube comparison I saw didn’t persuade me that the MKE 2 sounded significantly better. Are the MKE 2 advantages all in the small size, sweat resistance, etc.?

The 500 series have wider frequency ranges than the 100, so you have a little more flexibility. The 500 series plug-on TX also has 48v phantom for full sized condenser mics.

I wouldn't judge mics by Youtube audio, and lavs are practically a consumable anyway. The MKE-2 is a much better mic in terms of quality and durability in my experience.

Just need K-Tek to come up with a bag holder to go where the gas tank would be:

https://sondorsx.com/pages/metacycle

1 hour ago, Izen Ears said:

Going OT:

 

I ask because I’ve been wanting an AC voltage regulator at home to keep my guitar amps running at a constant voltage (120 volts) but no one seems to make that.  My wall voltage dances between 116 volts and 123 volt, and is never constant.  Folks on the guitar forums tell me I need to build it.

Perhaps this, depending on your amp's current draw? https://www.apc.com/shop/us/en/products/Line-R-1200VA-Automatic-Voltage-Regulator/P-LE1200

1 hour ago, Rick Reineke said:

A long time ago I had some heat shrink electrical tape,  I cannot remember much about it or what I used it for.

There's stuff like this, bit I think it'd be too thick for a lav:

https://www.cabletiesandmore.com/heat-shrink-adhesive-wrap

8 hours ago, Izen Ears said:

What is B format?

It's for recording surround.

Yeah, it's almost like they can't get the F8n A/D converters anymore so they spun a new revision with the F6 converters and slapped "Pro" on the label. Hopefully they're working on a real successor to the F8n. I'd love to see them take the eq and dynamics from their other products and move them into the F series for live use, as well as more modern features (record to SSD, USB-C, etc).

Makes me sad that my F8n most likely won't get any more updates, but at least I'm not tempted to upgrade!

Thanks for the heads up! Never know when something like this can save your bacon…

If it doesn't have to be Lundahl… https://rdlnet.com/product.php?page=166

18 minutes ago, Jim Feeley said:

Allen, the metal pipes work well with my portable echo chamber (notice the wheels).

Yeah, but rock is so organic sounding…

I'm sorry, I'll stop with the audiophile jokes.

Metal pipes? Dude, stone is so much warmer and more natural sounding.

10 hours ago, mradlauer said:

The fact that it's a paid plug in tells me that it was probably not initially designed for 12 ISO's and took some R&D to make happen...Otherwise it might have been free.

Or the engineers designed in a DSP overhead to allow plugins to expand the box's capabilities, enabling another revenue stream. At the end of the day these recorders are a niche product and many folks hold on to their boxes for years. While the push into the prosumer market with the MixPre line has probably done well for the bottom line, getting pros to pay for upgrades to hardware will also put more money in the bank. I don't mean this as a criticism of SD, I think it's just the reality of trying to make money in between major product releases.

1 hour ago, Jim Feeley said:

 

The PSC/Garfield Headphone Softies came in two sizes. Perhaps they still do. I use the "regular" softies on all my 7506 cans. I think the smaller size was designed for Sennheiser HD25 and HD26. A good location-audio dealer should still be able to get them.

Confirmed, they are smalls.

Nice work! Looking forward to seeing the finished mod.

Check out the horn solo starting around 47:30…

3 hours ago, BPBaker said:

Hello! I'm looking to do something similar but making a short, flexible extension cable for isolation/relief when using the NT-FS1 with a blimp. Do you happen to know if you can combine the ground pins 9 and 10 so all mics are using the same ground? Would that cause problems for some reason? If not, I'm thinking I might be able to find a lower gauge, more flexible cable. (I've also been thinking about the idea of using shielded CAT6 turnarounds which might allow using shielded ethernet cables as an extension, but that also depends on the question of sharing a common ground on all mics. (Obviously that'd be less heavy duty than what you've made here!)

I don't know, but I recommend reaching out to Rode support. They're extremely helpful.

Glad you like the new machine, @borjam! I ordered the same spec in 14", should arrive Wednesday.

10 hours ago, James Louis said:

Would that RX work to an iOS device?

You can use the Go II RX with iOS with one of Rode's SC-15 or SC-19 cables; you can also use a Lightning to camera adapter and a USB A to USB C cable.

I cohost a podcast with someone that's not comfortable being in close quarters unmasked, as he has a daughter that's too young to be vaccinated. So he calls in over Facetime, and that used to mean setting up a mix minus and headphone distro.

If this was a paying gig I'd bring the mics, mixer, etc. But for a passion project (a podcast about my neighborhood) I'm going for speed and convenience.

1 hour ago, DanieldH said:

Nice project. I have a similar construction on my first cart. The thing with these pipe solutions is, that they they are sometimes a bit annoying in low ceilings. I use them now just as a small cup for the bottom end of the boom. The perfect clamp upwards is yet to be found.

I used these:

https://quickfist.com/quick-fist-clamp.html

I really wanted the Instamics to work for recording podcasts on location, especially when they started adding time of day TC (I use UltraSyncs and don't want to buy a Tentacle just for this). The timestamping is never accurate enough, and I got burned when a mic shut down during an interview. So now I use Rode Wireless Go IIs when I don't want to haul the bag, mics, stands, etc.

It's even more convenient now that the Go IIs work with the Connect computer app; I can easily bring someone in remotely and record in person. The software records the audio as individual ISO files. Before I'd have to use an iPad into a JK Audio box for the remote, set up a mix minus in the recorder, etc. Now I can use my laptop with the GO II RX as an audio device.