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I was helping a friend with his shure wireless system at an installed location. UA844 antenna distribution with 4x SLX4 receivers. He was having some reception issues using stock antennas and i gathered it was the location of the receivers. i offered to let him try my zaxcom bluefins on short bnc cables for better reception. If it will work he could invest in ua874 active fins. It hit me though will there be any issues with passive blue fins on a 12v active antenna cable line or should they work for testing purposes and bypass any power on the line?

I personally think lectro did beat it with the ssm. The sm was awesome at the time but the aa lithiums were expensive and the heat was a little too warm on people at times. But in a sea of large packs the introduction of the sm was incredible for the times, and they improved on it well thru the years. After a while, The rechargeable options were great, but didnt last long - half the time at best and caused more heat it seemed. I thought the ssm was a great upgrade. But that zmt4…it is serving my needs perfect. this world of micro transmitters as a whole is the place to be. They all keep getting better with time. I think this A20 will find its place. Seems like a cool piece!

Me too - just got the wipes and salvaged a bunch of sankens that all became gummy in the cables. Glad i saw this thread. It really works and they are back in rotation

Just curious if there is a small size product available or better yet if anyone has done a DIY project for sequencing power to devices from battery distribution. I am finding in a particular situation now that if I could flip the switch and then program power to a specific device to turn on 15 seconds later, it would work wonders. I have a furman M8S At home that sort of triggered the idea of it.

Bingo i think that was it - thanks jack. Its the power sequence that i had changed recently and you remind me I had sorted this out once before. Appreciate it!

I was restoring a file from my camera link micro SD card today. time code was time of day solid all day long, but some of the files have an accurate stamped time code and some do not. Somewhat random. I understand from time to time I may power up the mixer and turn it off quickly and it hasn’t had a chance to jam to time code. But this file in particular is three separate interviews with a total length of one hour and 18 minutes but the time code starts at 00. Not a deal breaker for this particular project, but potentially might be in the future if i dont fix it now. I will call the shop in the morning but was just curious if anybody here has run into files not grabbing timecode stamps? Wideband cam link v2-86 and sanDisk ultra +16 GB microSD

My bad, unfortunately my transmitter was on talent at the time. V4-05 is what i show

I seem to have a hangup with putting my zmt4 to sleep and unable to wake or back to on. When i send the signal from the nova to make the transmitter off, setting it to "wake" and switching to "on" brings the transmitter back but it's almost as if there is no voltage for the mic. I see green as if the transmitter is back on but no audio. My only fix is to go back to the transmitter, power off and back up again and all is back to normal operation. Anyone else have this happen? my zmt-x comes back to full operation with "wake" and my zmt3's comes back to full operation with "on".

This came up in another discussion thread and i was curious to know if any nova operators are using built in noise reduction. This is new to me, and It seems like something plausible for camera tracks for clients who edit straight from camera with unaffected tracks as backup, etc. does anyone here do something similar? What might be your workflow?

Can you post a photo of the charger you have? Not sure i can help but i can try - i have 2x single chargers that are dif types and i can take a look

Checking to see if anyone here might know if it is possible to turn off the audible beep alarm on a sony f5 at the headphone jack. I see system menu settings for alarm trigger parameters but not for audio level of alarm specifically as i rtfm

...followup - bingo - WAKE from nova did it for the zmtx, whereas ON works for my older zmt3’s (as well as WAKE Now that i had time to test). I’ve used ON so much out of habit with all my previous transmitters I forgot WAKE was even an option. Thanks John!

Just checked - version 3-19 on the zmtx and will try wake today this transmitter in question was purchased new recently so 3-19 was from the factory and from what i see 3-17d is most current? I will check in with howy monday morn but thanks John for reply

Wondering if there might be a known issue as i just ran into this today. I have 1x zmtx and 2x zmt3’s on talent and TRX OFF-ON set to LOW (OFF) works perfect at the transmitters but when bringing back to ON, i cant seem to get the zmtx to come back on without going to the unit and powering off and back on physically. Zmt3’s come back as normal. All settings same across all trx’s. Will have to check on fw revs after shoot but curious if anyone else ran into this or might have suggestions i may be overlooking?

Mode 3 or 6 on lectro transmitters to taste as i believe ifb mode does not work transmitting to sennheiser receivers. off topic from the original post but i do use in the reverse sennheiser plugon transmitters with stick mics and get satisfactory results with 411 receivers in the same modes above. Not feature film quality for sure but beats some lower grade alternatives with live and eng stuff

Thank you this i did not know! I always thought I was lacking that by not being all sennheiser

This is the only hangup on using lectro transmitters vs paired sennheisers- the loss of pilot tone and no squelch. there is a risk of listeners getting blasted with stray rf if a battery fails

I use an smqv in mode 6 for exactly this purpose and i have found this to be the most robust and range reliable setup for sennheiser iems with a compact transmitter

I have been battling touch faders on a control surface showing erratic behavior, dropping in and out during recording automation, fighting me during movements etc. I had been dealing with this off and on for months. Finally got around last couple days to hardcore troubleshoot. Got online with tech support, resinstalled supporting software, hardware tests, network troubleshooting...until late last night when i thought all hope was lost and ready to send these in for repair, i finally discovered the problem: I have had this since the 80's via my grandma as a gift. I have always kept it in the studio for maintaining contact with spiritual realms as well as a lighted indicator linked to the power conditioner powering studio speakers to indicate if they are on or off. It had never occurred to me that this thing was creating problems until running tests last night with speakers off and suddenly everything was working as it should. This plasma ball was spilling electrical energy all over the faders causing touch automation mayhem.

Ah! Great key word suggestion thanks a ton

Helping a client come up with a solution, curious if anyone here might have suggestions. I see mini boxes where HDMI in can be split to separate video and audio out. Looking to do the opposite and combine HDMI video and separate audio into combined HDMI out.

Sorry if this has been posted here already but I believe this is fairly new. I wanted to share a photo of this new spring clip that is a modification of the previous plastic clips for ZMT and ZMT – X transmitters. fingers crossed i hope its durable long term. I believe much more comfortable on talent versus the previous zmt3 metal spring clips. I really dig it, nice work SGS

This h6 is spot on for this particular setup - multicam live switching live dj etc. seems like the perfect pro level solution. thank you!

Curious to know if anyone these days has a recommendation on current headsets for fitness instructors. I am helping out a friend who put together a kit for live streaming fitness instruction. I am aiming for the more professional recommendation for them versus the Google search $100 janky looking headsets with all sorts of failure points. My gut tells me DPA or countryman headsets with double ears. Trying to help him find a solution best for sweaty human contact. Unfortunately I don’t have any experience with these but so far I am recommending to them based on my experience with DPA and countryman Lavalier mics.

That is some thing I’m looking into right now honestly. Originally I had A pre-formatted message with the invoice stating Credit card payments were an option to contact me for details. Personally I might just raise my rate a bit to cover fees now that I know how this works. I never expected payment like that to happen so quick. Hard to gauge how many of my clients might prefer this credit card option. That all makes sense that is good to know.