Bartek

get it writting (email) and have your finger on the reply button 'cause you might have to remind them later. Cover your ass!

Hello, I have a problem with one of mu Lectros UM 400. For some reason out of the blue this TX has beed consuming batteries at an incredible rate. It got to a point that even a lithium 9V lasts no more than a few hrs whille the same type of battery in the other recievers lasts all day. Has any one experianced this? Bartek

I'll be in Alaska in late August, doing a doc the MS comes along too. Remember bears dont run well down steap hills, neither do mixers with a ENG bag on their belly

Hello, I have recently come across several projects that had a theatre play in it (big theatre, sound reinforcement is assumed). Just wanted to know from those of you who have live theatre sound experiance, and whoever else wishes to share what the most common default hardwire microphone setup was. I've seen all sorts of things long and short shotguns from above, from below (just off the front of the stage), PZM's (bad idea), etc. thanx, Bartek

philip, to clarify: One TC line for primary Recorder and the second to the backup bothe send via the TC distro fed by the master sb2a This was requested by sony. Does a loop through have any flaws?

Hello, I just wrapped a show for sony, and I had a question with regard to the propper procedure for TC distribution. The requested setup: Jam a master Denecke sb2a from the Deva (free run) connect the Master sb2a to a passive distribution box (mult) send TC back to the deva (cont jam all) send TC to backup recorder (744T) jam the slate from the distro. jam consecutive sb2a's from the distro, attach them to cameras and send TC to an audio channel. As far as I understand it (please correct me if Im wrong here) so long as I use the same sb2a (master) to jam the slate and any other sb2a's I should be fine, right. What exactly does te distro achieve?? Could I also use a lemo to XLR M and XLR F wired for tc in and out, to loop out of the master sb2a and into my primary recorder and into backup, or is there a very specific reason why sony likes to send two separate but identical TC lines to the recorders? Bartek

Hello, Does enyone have any ideas on how to deal with these noisy incects. This year happens to be an exeptionally bad year as far as cicadas go in the Chicago area. I have heard of people using high frequency radios (the kind you use to confine your dog to your back yard "invissible fence"). Any other suggestions?? Best, Bartek

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just wandering! I sopose that this mainly applies to the feature / comercial guys. anyhow, I m very curious. regards.

The mk 41 is your best bet. Shotguns fall apart in reverberant spaces. Bartek

The question of reffrence tone in NL is a good one. I deliver a 1K refference file to post on my "Audio Settings" disc that I provide to post prior to principal photography, its just me talking for a few minutes describing the settings, microphones, timecode, and any special scenarions that I can forsee, recorded at the specified settings. A test dics of sorts. Now unless otherwise specified I do not repeat the 1k file on every roll. Should I? Bartek

Hello, I was just looking at Oleg's pictures and the fact that the boom op had no headphones jolted my memory. About two years ago I boomed on a film where the mixer asked me not to wear headphones. We were doing dialog scenes, and whille I always respect and value the approach of the sound mixers I work for, I couldint help to think that this was a strange way of doing it. As a mixer I always have my boom ops "on the air" not only for the fact that they can critticly judge their work but also for communication reasons. Also I have ran into the no boom op headphone issue whille going through the behind the scenes of various films. I was just wondering how people out there tackle this, what would be the advantage of no headphones other than no duplex? Anyone out there who could share? Thanx, Bartek

Jeff, Its wonderfull that information such as this can be shared freely. Thank You! Bartek

When it comes cars I definitivley think less is more. As discribed above they always are stupid setups, and NOW, NOW, NOW, is all you hear! I opt for a single MK41 to cover the front (driver and passanger) it makes a life a lot easer with regard to phase coherency. But it all depends off course, If I work in a big 'ol american car I'll perhaps wip out two 41's if the 3 to 1 rule permitts it. And I always try to go hardline into the car. If you plan your cable run carefully and coordinate it with the boys in electric you should have no problems. but again nothing is written in stone in this line of work. Cheers, Bartek

Hello, I am using the officialy recomended DVD RAMs that are sold by trew and coffey (x5) I am using a SD burner. Actually both the burners are SD. I'm using the "dump method" I ussually burn a chunk at lunck and finnish off the disk at film break. It seams that I'll have to switch to DVD-R's hope this helps. PS with regard the slate issue, the 744 and the slate are good Sergio, I was just reffering to an erlier issue that was resolved once post asked me to switch to 30nd 48048 a setting that I initially suggested. Cheers.

Hello, I've been working on this film for 12 days now and it seams like every day I have a new complaint from post, actually its the same complaints over and over and I really getting frustrated. Here is the set up. I'm using the 744T v2.10. At film break I burn a DVD RAM verify the content Vs the logs I hand it over for shipping. Every other day I get a message from post "Logs missing" or scene 7F-3 missing, etc. I of course have a carbon copy of the logs, and have been able to confirm that the "missing files" do infact exist on my 744 as well as on the backup drives. So I burn a Missing takes roll redo a copy of the logs and off we go. But what really blew my mind is the fact that on two or three ocasions I got a message thet a certain take was stepped on. Meaning that half way through a take the audio just stops and the file ends. I have been able to verify that the takes in question exist in their entirety on my recorder and the backup. How can you erase a half a file in the digital domain, eccept for edditing it??? I do a firewire transfer from the 744 to the SD burner, It is my understanding that a digital transfer is non linear and that a failure in the transfer would result in the file not opening at all, or the audio would be compromised right off the start, I cant wrap my head around the fact that half of the file is A OK. How can I track down where the problem occurs? Post is fairly hostile to me at this point, but these are the same guys that asked me to run my audio at 29.97nd 48048 while shooting on 35 and suggested that my slate was 20 sec out of sync. HELP! Bartek

Yes Noah. That and the fact that the folks at the other end are not talking wih each other. I've not heard anything from them ever since I got the call to go to 30nd, thus I presume that the issue was resolved. Best, Bartek

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hi, I got the call from post today... we need to switch to 30nd 48048. Well, that was in my suggested settings email. Yes, they were trying to "compensate" for the fostex 1% swithch. that being said their approach still makes little sense. And the fact that those folks cant communicate some of the basic information with each other is worriesome. But what makes mae a bit uneasy is the fact that the finger was automatically pointed at me. With a different set of producers, and another zero behind the budget I would have been fired on the spot. This happened to me early in my career when it turned out that the edditors assistant forgot to plug in audio into the beta machine after running some tests, and the 1st weeks daylies came back "MOS" I guess it comes with the territory. Cheers, thanx for the input. B

hey Fellas, soooooo as I was about to do this show I that Im on now I send the post production supervisor an email confirming the required settings they wanted me to use and well the title says it all. Fine. In he middle of day two I get a panicked call from the 2nd Ad "Call the post house ASAP, major sync problems" so I did The nice man at the other end of the line told me that I set my slate to 3nd and the tc is off. I double checked and hmmm NO, I DID NOT! xxxxx Email 1: We are having MAJOR problems syncing dailies this will increases the time it takes to sync and our budget goes out the door. We are in Telecine 1 @ Westwind 818 525 2781 Bartek should call ASAP the Chief Engineer Westwind, Bryan Bailey, 818 525 2756 It appears The smart is set wrong or with a different frame rate xxxxxx Email 2 Hi Bartek It started out at 10 sec off and keep increasing. I am sure that some of the dailies on Thursday will have the same problem because I didn't get to you until 12 PM your time. I will see if the later dailies have solved this problem and I will e-mail you either way xxxxx Soooooo, day three i wipped out smart slate # 2 and rolled. Just for shi# and giggles I jammed slate #1 (the slate I used for the previous 2 days, and recently recieved back from denecke from a tune up) and put it in the truck. At lunch I checked, and well the 2 slates and the recorder are in perfect sync. 10 hrs later... same thing. So its not the slate, I say to myself. I promptly demonstrated my "experiment" to my producers, made a few phone calls to the post circus, and one thing caught my attention. "Well bartek we went for the 48048 to get the 1% pull down since you were using the fostex, and a deva.....Stop. Im using the 744. I send all that info in an email to the post house. These knuckleheads arend even talking to each other! So my question is, does the fact that I am non linear affect any of the reasons why they would chouse 48048? Does the TC behaiviour: off by 10 sec tk 1 of the day (speed up), up to 19 sec tk 2, down to 17sec tk 3 etc. make any sense. Is there anything I could have screwed up to even make this possible? Any ideas how to find where the problem lies?? Bartek

Hi, I was wondering what you guys were doing to minnimise floor creeks from say a wooden floor. I know of things like drenching the floor in order for the wood to expand (ruining th floor), however think location sound, locations that are peoples houses. I've tried baby powder, sand bags, dance floor, etc. Any tricks that i'm missing?? Thanx Bartek

hello, My St-s has a routing matrix that has post fader sends. I cant afford to let go of the mixer for a few weeks to have sent in. Does anyone know If modifying this to pre fade mode is a major "surgery" or a simple job?

RVD Could I ask you what the price per unit would be for the neck loops? and does that include the earpiece? B

Phillip, Could you explain to me what exactly an induction loop is and more importantly how you have used it in film production. i do understand the phisics of induction, but however I've never heard of this tool in the film apllication. Also I do understand that we all have "OUR" own way of doing things, and there is always more than one way of achieving just about anything on set. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Would the Comtek AP 230 (earpiece reciever) be impractical for use on a child of 7 or there about? Will it fit? RVD also mentioned a comtek product that includes the base station and an earpiece reciever, but no neck loops. What is that product?? AP230 works with neckloops, have I overlooked something? I would like to thank everyone who respondent for their input, It really did help, and is a testament to the worth of this forum if anything else as an educational tool. Thanx Jeff.

Hello, How would you guys handle a scene where 3 actors in a moving car are soposed to sing along to a well known song? I thaught of recording a reference trk during playback, as well as trying to do a version where the music is reletivley soft and finnaly a complete wild (with the actors recieving music via headphones), and letting post deal with the rest. Is there a better way of handeling this kind of situation?? as always your opinions are very appreciated. Bartek