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3 hours ago, CBroholm said:

I'm left thinking there is some kind of interaction between the MKH 50 and the TRX 

 

But you said you use a short jumper cable normally. So it seems to be pointing more to the TRX, although you don't hear the problem with the 641/TRX. 

I'd say the the 'not-solid-lock' of XLRs is the issue. Even though XLRs lock, if there is any sort of jostling, the pins can get jostled and cause noise. I think Documentary Sound Guy has it. The connection probably needs to be secured better.   How do you mount the TRX to the boom?

Isolate the problem by eliminating one element at a time.

- Both microphones exhibit the issue. On the odd chance that both are the problem, try reproducing the problem with another microphone.

- Eliminate the cable as the problem by connecting the TRX directly to the microphone.

- Eliminate the TRX as the problem by connecting the cable to an extension cable and directly into the mixer.

Ignoring your questions and moving on to get information about you is a flag. He could be a bad communicator, which also is a flag, but it wouldn't hurt to ask him another question to see how he responds. 

Get out there! I'm 70; medical conditions. I had Covid. No biggie. Like a mild cold. By now, I think 99% of us have had Covid and probably don't even know it. 

5/8" rod does not fit.

Half inch fits. But I have some 5/8" all thread that fits also  with a snug fit. The minimum diameter on 5/8 thread is supposed to be .617" but the stuff I have measures .602". I'll see if I can get a piece of 5/8 rod in there. 

Atomos does not seem like a candidate. They reported a loss of $61 million on a revenue of $42 million with a loss of $10 million the previous year. Their stock stopped trading a year ago @$.065. 

Thanks.

Can I load the app on more than one device and then use it on one device at a time? I want to try it out on my phone, but I will likely use it on a tablet.

Correction.   The item I talked about is not a patent, but an application for a patent. Zaxcom filed an application for a new patent and the text was published this month. The patent has not been awarded yet. That can take a couple of years.

The patent was filed in 2010 and may expire in 2030. I say 'may' because the patent office does not publish expiration dates and the whole expiration date thing can be quite muddled.

Mr. Sanders and Mr. Stark were awarded new patents last year that are related inventions that could allow them to continue to defend local recording in a wireless device for another 20 years.

Zaxcom is still defending it's patents according to Newsshooter. https://www.newsshooter.com/2023/11/09/zaxcom-sues-rode-for-patent-infringement-with-wireless-pro/

I tried a 12V to 3V adapter. It took 12V from an NP-F battery plate which runs my mixer in the bag. While the 7.4 to 12V booster in the plate is dead silent, the 12V to 3V converter adds a whine with the G3s.

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Nothing like documenting fraud.

I think it may depend on the people at T-Mobile, who I believe, bought most of the 600Mhz space. Depending on how it goes for them, they may have a powerful lobby to make a case for more of the sub-600Mhz spectrum for mobile service. Some wireless mic consortium (is there such a thing?) would have to speak up.

 I don't know what datasheet I was looking at to get the 2500mah, but I looked again and indeed, it's 3500 mah. Ok, no mystery there.

Most interesting. They are both rated by their respective manufacturers @ 2500mah.  But the Energizer lasts 60% longer. That's huge. Nice test Louis.

49 minutes ago, Johnny Karlsson said:

I feel some things still don’t add up. For example; how can it be that they are spending more than they make in 2023? It has been slow since January. Many Productions already came to a halt in the beginning of the year- before the WGA strike even started.

If spending was down in the first quarter, then that may indicate that they are in worse shape than the financials reported. That is, had they spent as much as normal, then the losses would have been worse.  Slowing down production and reduction in spending would make sense with or without the anticipation of strikes as they have to get expenses down.

It may be an indicator of just how difficult their finances are. Not knowing just how bad things are from their point of view makes it difficult to predict how long the strike will go on. One thing the streamers have reported is how much they are 'saving' due to the production halt. So while revenue continues to come in and production expenses halt, it's all the better for them in the short term. At least for a while, they will continue to get subscribers monthly fees while union members sit idle.

1 hour ago, Johnny Karlsson said:

"The “streaming wars” between the media giants Netflix, Apple, Amazon, and Hulu have pushed the media industry’s content cash spending to record highs. Over the past five years, media companies splashed out close to $445 billion on video content in five years, all in a race to grow their viewership."

Source: https://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2023/06/06/research-streaming-revenue-to-hit-95-3bn-in-2023/
 

This is exactly the problem. The race to grow viewership and hopefully, put competitors out of business. It's a typical scenario of a new business that is trying to take over with a new model.

The streamers are approaching the day of reckoning. They can't keep posting losses. Something has to happen. Then the strikes come along and pile onto their problems. In their minds, with huge loses, spending more for writers and actors ..... well something is going to give.

The numbers you are quoting are revenue; the dollars that come in from subscriptions. But the problem is the profit, which doesn't exist. They are losing money.

They are spending more than what's coming in.  So while those billions in streaming revenue look impressive, they are spending a few billion more than that. It's not a viable business. They can't keep spending more than they are taking in. So here comes the strikes in which writers and actors are saying "We want more". The problem is that the subscription fees are not covering what the streamers are already spending.

To end the strikes, the companies will have to spend more money. That's not good for their financial health. They have to get back to profitability. So spending more on actors and writers just makes the situation worse. What will have to happen is that productions will have to be reduced. Lavish spending on stars and production value will have to be curtailed. Something has to give.

17 hours ago, Johnny Karlsson said:

Right, but someone pointed out that 10% of one CEO's salary could pay for everything that all of the writers were asking for... Now if that is true or not, I can't verify.

It would seem so, but that's not really the case. The disconnect is that the vast majority of a CEO's income is not salary. The money they get is stock or stock options. That's money that doesn't exist. It's like printing money. They print stock options. The stockholders end up paying for that in the form of diluted stock. So there is no actual money to spend and spread around.

The reality is their financial statements. When they look at the the losses they are currently experiencing, something has to be done. Reducing a CEOs stock options does nothing to help the situation. With them losing piles of money, the prospect of spending more on writers and actors makes their sphincters tighten up. Here's what it looks like:

Warners/Discovery - lost $217 million last quarter

Disney streaming - $1 billion lost last quarter

Peacock - $2.2billion lost in 2022

Paramount streaming - $511 million first quarter 2023

That is a financial sheet that doesn't work. Reducing executives compensation won't change that. Take Disney's Bob Iger. His paycheck is $1 million. The rest of the money  ($26 million) is stock. So cutting Iger's salary in half will only provide $500,000 on a loss of $4 billion (annually).

1 hour ago, The Documentary Sound Guy said:

Much as I like a good villain, the reality is that streaming services have been spending far more than they've been making for quite some time now, and that would be true even if the CEOs were working for free.  The streamers have been competing to build their libraries and market share, but most of those war chests are empty now.  There's a shakeout coming, and that would be true even without the strike.

 

Our industry has always been boom and bust, and we've had a hell of a boom since 2015.  I'm not surprised there's some belt-tightening to be done.  I wish it wasn't so...

This is not to be ignored. For years the streaming industry has spent with abandon and the volume of production has increased several fold due to them. Now that the reckoning has come for financial reports, spending more money for writers and actors would seem from their perspective a non-starter. It could break some of them. Perhaps that is the reason for the 'we have to break them' attitude.

Correction - The Sennheiser Consumer division was sold to Sonova. The article I read had a headline that read like the entire company was sold to Sonova.

Sennheiser was sold to holding company, Sonova, last year. Closing departments, reducing costs, laying people off are the typical sorts of things holding companies do when they take over a company. It's a sad state of affairs. When you hear about these sorts of acquisitions, things never, ever improve. They only go downhill.

As a person that evaluated two companies for acquisition, the first question my executive asked me was how many heads we could chop and which departments we could get rid of. Awful really.

Oh, this is interesting - There is now a 6Ghz wi-fi band (old news to you?) that will achieve 1ms latency and 2Gbs speed. Chips came out two years ago. So where are the wireless audio guys with this? Is 6Ghz too short a wavelength to be practical for distance and wall penetration?

I suspect wireless microphone manufacturers  that offer 2.4G products don't develop their own modulation techniques. Wifi and Bluetooth live in the 2.4 and 5G bands and soon 6G. They have worked very hard for all these years improving the technology in competition and as a consortium. I just can't imagine that a wireless mic company has the where-with-all to do any better than the people that are making billions off the wifi and bluetooth market, which includes audio products such as earbuds, headphones, etc; companies like Broadcom. I suspect wireless microphone companies buy the chips from vendors like Broadcom. The latest release of wifi offers 12ms latency.

That's what they don't make clear. I've seen 2 stories about different black mass prototype plants. Are they funding these because they think they can reach profitability or are they funded by government research? I don't know. 

"Sand made from crushed glass"..... Well Fort Bragg California is way ahead on this one. In 1906 they just dumped their garbage on the beach. Now, a century later, it is a tourist attraction. https://www.californiabeaches.com/beach/glass-beach/