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Angelo Waldron

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  1. Here we go into the future. Very exciting! The Tesla will drive itself to an Apple Service Center. You are in waiting room and they contact you via free app on iphone that you car is ready....$2500...... just click the 'Like' button to pay for it. If you get hungry while waiting, go to vending machine.. use iphone app to get a bag of chips and a candy bar. What was the $2500 problem?,,,,,, ECU need to be restarted. Or... right front tire had low PSI, sent the computer haywire... car thought it was too dangerous to drive.
  2. Consider that one of the mics is a 415T and has a replacement 416T interference tube instead.
  3. $11.99 http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=&sku=760571&gclid=CP6DjMrW2cMCFRFafgodAKMAow&Q=&is=REG&A=details
  4. I had that too, until i checked in: http://www.avalonmalibu.com/mental-health-disorders/obsessive-compulsive-disorder/
  5. I had Neil Stone do about 3 of those TC-4.2 conversions about 1995 I think. I worked at a college and the instructor was Stu Fox. I Iearned a lot from Stu. It was a good conversion, and if I set up the GR-1 to Generate and Read 30fps, usually a student could plug it in and there would at least be code. But... had problems with that mod. Some really "smarter-than-I" student would decide on set...."we don't need no TC".... and make the decision to NOT plug in the GR-1. Yep.... a couple of projects with sound running wild, as there wasn't any other kind of sync after that mode was done. And then there were the times I would get phone calls in the evening from students.....saying something like..."The GR-1 is saying 30FPS" and I would go "ok.. that's good".. and then the I'd get the, "ya, but we are shooting at 24fps".. and I would say "good to go" and student would say, YA, BUT WE ARE SHOOTING AT 24! And my response was, "So, you learned nothing from Stu Fox's class, right?" And then there was a time I checked a Nagra after a weekend shoot, and noticed some marks on the record head. I asked student who used it where the marks came from, and their reply was "I wasn't getting anything on tape, and I knew it was a bad connection to the record head, so I was tapping on it with a screwdriver"....back to that alley off Riverside drive to have Neil look at it and shake head . Neil was my go to guy. And how about the time I went on set to check up on sound, and they would say...."everything sounding great... you can go"...and pushed me away......except for that bright-eyed sound mixer had closed the gate over the erase head, threaded the tape over it and pulled it away from the record head. Sound mixer listening on Direct only! 3 days worth. And they complained to me something was wrong with the machine. Took a look and there was a nice polished 1/4 inch area on the outside of the gate. And now, my final Nagra story.. never told in print before, and I have been told to never repeat it. I am third party to this info, happened before my time. A student director had a Nagra in the back seat of their car. Car broken into. Student files police report. College gets huffy and tells student this was negligent, left Nagra in plain view, thus the theft, and would have to pay for the Nagra. They go round and round. Finally student, in a meeting with the administration says, OK, I WILL PAY FOR IT. BUT ONE DAY I WILL BE FAMOUS AND YOU WILL REGRET THIS!... all while pointing finger. And I think Nagra was about $10,000 then. Turns out student director hit big. Never mentions this college that they went to. Sort of a Bad Boy.
  6. So, everything is so clean sounding now that we have to dirty it up. If i use those chips, and one goes bad, will there be a chip tester down at the local drugstore with replacement chips?
  7. Best way to record this is get a new director that can direct, and then get new actors that know how to speak.
  8. No more mixing with two hands. (uh...that's a joke, for those born with no sense of humor or the unfortunate souls that had to undergo a humorectomy.)
  9. I ran into Senator this afternoon at Art's Deli in Sherman Oaks, CA. He explained that he was in an auto accident, and his jaw is wired shut. I sort of thought something was wrong when all I saw him eating was chicken soup. Apparently there will be some permanent disfigurement. Said something about really wanting a pastrami rueben sandwich, but the soup would have to do. Maybe some of you could take him out, cheer him up and "Stake a fellow American to a meal"
  10. Pretty easy to spot the fake. I believe the tip on the fake is flat, while the real 416 is concave.
  11. You need to check yourself. Since when is a clock TC? Could you point me in the direction of TC in the specs please?
  12. Says nothing about a new TC clock. Where do you get your info from? maybe I missed something..... probably not. Says nothing about TC at all. But Hey!........New High Definition Mic Preamps.....WooHoo! "" Each HDDA mic preamp is built with a differential amplification circuit that employs discrete architecture, and made with parts selected for their audio quality.""
  13. Thanks for the time to do this. 6 seconds faster to unmount/mount microphone? Let's do better! One thing I have a problem with... and it's just me.. I know.... but I have a problem with magnets near a microphone...I don't know why.. just bugs me.
  14. NO. RTFM, study it and know it. Don't make others read it for you. Tourtelot is confused, don't know why he is referencing the 788t. The Digital Output Bus appears solely on the AES3id BNC output connector. You owe me $50. I take paypal.
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