Philip Perkins

RIP KMR81. Great mic...

90 days is "invoice aging". There is no reason to wait that long no matter how they pay you.

It's not the ACH process that is making you wait 90 days for your money. I get my money from my regular ACH payers within a few days. The 90 day thing is just old-fashioned "invoice-aging". You are right to be suspicious.

Yes--we fired We Transfer when we found this out.

My regular folks pay me this way with no issues. Has not worked (for my credit union) on overseas xfers though.

Thanks for all your work on the 788 app--heroic, you are! Before you go, please tell us what the full system requirements are for the final version? And does the app allow the computer to enter track names etc and save and load configs to the 788? thanks! phil p

I'm very new to the 788T, having used 6xx and 744s forever. One thing that is very handy on the 6xx boxes is the ability to save what I'd call "scenes", ie the full user config of the machine including routing, track names and so on and then instantly recall them. In the 788 manual they say something about that info getting saved in the "sound devices" folder, but I have not been able to make that work yet. Any clues? I understand there are some 3rd party apps that do this, but I'd rather not have to have a laptop hooked up just to do this task. thx

Have you asked Sound Devices support about this? Does this sound continue when you turn P48 off? If you switch the input to line level?

I actually had 2 of those MXLs, bought about a year apart. The joke was that while they looked the same the first one was about twice as heavy as the 2nd, and they sounded noticeably different. No surprise, I guess.

It's a cardioid, so if that's all you've got then ok. The MXLs I had that looked like that (green bodies) sounded ok, but were very sensitive to handling and stand-transmitted noise. That said, the famous Oscar-winning mixer Nigel Noble used to make his boom ops work with U87s on long poles for dialog. Heavy, sensitive but sounded quite good. Better than a dinky Schoeps MK41 or one of the newer, even smaller hypercards? Um....no. But big exercise for the boomies!

How old is that machine? It's really odd that a circuit board that was flow-soldered via automation would work fine and then have joints become "cold". Is it possible that the machine has had some post-factory field repairs?

Having the TC be off by 12 fr per hour makes that TC unusable in any setting where the recording has to be matched with another timecoded recording (like from a camera). I'd be curious to know if this machine's sample clock is accurate, like regardless of what the TC generator is doing is it really running at a solid 48k? If the sample clock is as inaccurate as the TC system then the machine's sync is really no better than that of a mid-level PA console or USB interface running without external clock.

Another Beh caveat--longevity. We got lucky with a Flow8 mixer for use in show rehearsals on the road: rental dance rehearsal studios often have little or sometimes no audio equipment in them, and the Flow8 was -preprogrammable for our somewhat complex show, could travel as a carryon and this one worked well out of the box. But Beh has already stopped updating the OS to work with later computer OS, Mac and Win, and removed the drivers from their website. Gotcha! What I'd advise is that if you can get one that works well out of the box, use it now and soon, but don't think that you can build a career or business on it as you could with something like a 788 etc.. Get in and get out...

Hi from a post-audio person! Please do not "clean up" your location recordings before sending them to post! Or if you do, make sure you also supply all that audio unaffected and very well documented!! The truth is that even if you are very expert at noise reduction etc on the app you choose, as a production recordist you have no idea how your audio will be used in the eventual cut, and how much and what sort of clean up is appropriate for that scene (if any). I understand that you might see a competitive advantage re: your clients perception of your skills in having your dailies have less BG noise, but I can tell you that when I get audio to mix that's been worked over this way it almost always has been overdone and important subtleties of the original sound lost.

My recent experience with sleazes similar to the Co being discussed here is that they don't have a real brick-and-mortar office--they work on their kitchen table and use co-working spaces for their mailing address.