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Uh-oh.. I discharged the Citytek battery and now it won't charge on the IDX-charger... My question is answered..

Hey thanks Jason.. It probably would be to much to ask to try charging the Swits on the IDX-charger...but, I think it's not necessary because I found a second-hand City-tek battery and the first thing I tried is charging it with the JL2-plus.. Charging didn't give any problems so I have good hopes.. I still don't know if it's a risk to do this cause I'm not familiar with 'battery-intelligence' (overcharge-protection etc. ) .. for me it's a gamble because I'm a trial and error-kinda guy...

Hello group, I don't know if this topic has been covered, but I have a quick question. Is a IDX-JL2plus charger capable of charging other brands Li-Ion NP1 batts? I try to figure out, online, what pin-configurations different brands NP1's are using for charging/discharging etc. without much success... IDX-np1s are hard to come by at the moment, and different brands like Swit, GlobalmediaPro and Citytek (I think the last two are the same but relabelled) offer the batteries I need for a good price, when compared to what I payed for the IDX batteries.. Thanks in advance, Diego

Yeah, wow, I experienced the on camera whining-lcd monitor on all Red shoots.. it's indeed the brightness setting.

As much as I like to experiment, it's something I have to do in my own shop. Allthough some might find this technology obsolete, I'm fascinated by it: the idea of an inductive loop in a car, powered by a car-stereo-amp is fantastic.. Give all the talent in the car an earpiece and rock 'n roll.. so cool, but not before trying it at home offcourse ;-) instead of using IFB-receivers for each talent, only one is needed to feed the amp, that's great. In the meantime I'm ordering neckloop/earpiece-combo.. have to start somewhere. Thanks for all the great info. Diego

.. in general? or the Sensorcoms..? thanks for the insight. Diego

Wow! I'm just a noob when it comes to inductive 'transmission'.. that's pretty helpful! thanks.

Thanks for the replies gentlemen, that's what I value so much in this forum, the immediate feedback, what a great place! The Sensorcom-inductive earpiece-neckloop-set is pretty lowpriced (around 190 euro's), it's just that I never heard of the brand. For that kind of money it's worth the try, and I assume that the soundquality will not be much worse than the Comtek/Phonak route.. I've used the phonak-invisity for the same reasons, and aside from being a very expensive option, I have had some interference problems with them, and that's no fun at all for the actors.. I agree that the off the shelf earpieces can poke out one's ear a bit so close-up shots are a concern, but the director and DP are more than willing to work around that, so it doesn't have to be a problem. The earpiece will probably only be used a few times during the whole shoot (long feature), and to me it's the only way to playback music on set where only the actor has to hear the music... I agree that for tv-series where such devices are used frequently on the same actors, a custom-molded earpiece is a better solution. I have two latex custom-mold plugs to protect my hearing at concerts, and they are nearly invisible..

Could that be this one:

At one time I had to place the transmitter on the inside of the left upperleg of an actress, I used an elastic band with a pouch. While I placed the band the actress asked me if the antenna would show up from under her skirt, while I was attaching the transmitter, antenna down. So I asked her:"would you rather have the antenna facing up?", I think my remark made her blush..

Hi, I was wondering if any of you have experience with the ICM20 inductive earpiece? they're made by a UK company called sensorcom. How do they perform? I would like to use them for cueing and playback purposes where the actor has to sing a long with a song and have his dialog in the same take.. Thanks all, Diego

I downloaded the latest standalone-drivers, Pro Tools is not needed on the machine to use the MBox.. I suspect it is indeed a driver issue, but the mbox drivers do show up in Reaper just not in VTSrecorder.. I'll send Bauke, the founding father of videotoolshed, an email..

Well, I hooked up my Mbox2Mini to my netbook and VTS doesn't recocnize the audio interface. But VTS does work with the onboard netbook microphone.. I wonder if VTS looks for a more serious audio interface than the MboxMini..

a little off topic perhaps, but.. a director/editor friend of mine is raving about FCP auxTC reader. We're shooting a doc right now on a Sony EX1, audioreferencetrack on ch 1, timecode from 788t to ch 2 on camera.. He imports my poly BWF's in FCP (which doesn't have a function to read TC from an audiotrack like AVID) and FCPauxTC does the rest... It works like a charm. I like the idea of having a small netbook with an application like VTS-recorder running as a backup recorder daisychained to my 788t when working of a cart. Boomrecorder is still MacOS only. I just downloaded the trial version, it looks promising.

I like your cart very much! How is that CL9 working out for you? It's probably going to be my next purchase for cart-based work.. Diego