Christopher Mills

We use this a vehicle plant mic with a lectro tx unit a lot. We also have CUBs and an Omnigoose. The cool thing about the DPA is that we can play the pattern in a car with an open window, and still get great results. The omnigoose is noticeably higher noise floor, and the DPA is of course not a BLM... The DPA is the one we like the sound of the best, but if we have to cover a pair of speakers in real process, then the CUB pattern works better for us. RE: extra wind protection.. so far, we've tried foot foam and moleskin... and liked neither..

Test listened at last year's Atlanta Sound Mixer meet up. It sounded fine, but I could not see how to hide it under most of the male costumes I run across. Could have worked under some ladies costumes, but not often enough to be a primary tool for me in the shows I am working at present.

I was lucky enough to run across him and Chet Atkins at an Atlanta guitar show decades ago.. they were going from booth to booth trying out playing duets on guitars they liked at the booths... a magical afternoon in the early 1990s (at site of current Screen Gems Atlanta stages)

Not mentioned in the article was the huge campaign from major label records to recruit salespeople at retail to encourage the customers to shift to purchasing CDs I worked as manager of a small chain of stores (Wuxtry Records) from the early to late 1980s, and the pressure was relentless. I was curious why, and as many of my college classmates had gone to work at major labels in marketing, I asked them, and their bosses. I was told by the field reps that the labels had discovered that they had a much higher profit margin on a CD than on a vinyl LP, but that they had discovered that the public did not like the 'experience' of using CDs. A large proportion of the public liked handling LPs, and had a love of the artifact of the LP. The brief, at least in the SE USA at major labels was to use the arguments of superior sound quality, durability, and 'convenience' (in storing smaller media) to convince people that they really didn't need to be that attached to the artifact that contained the experience they loved. Ultimately, by the time MP3s became a useable way of carrying the music listening experience to the public, the labels were in a huge danger because they did not provide a perceived value to the public. In the wake of the successful marketing of the MP3 player, was a collapse in traditional revenue at record labels, since customers did not really care if they bought or copied their files. I see we have traveled a similar path with home video, with similar effects on the revenue streams for catalog content.

c'mon... somebody apply for the job, and record at least the audio of the interview!!

I suspect he'd be a great (freak) sur-reality show all by himself.

Substantial penalty for failure.

On further reflection, I think that being asked to police this opens the rate question again. As in, I will do this and provide gear IF producition will pay for it. I still feel that our lockits and slates are there to remedy camera deficiencies, and should be billed to camera account.

A friend just built his own network for a low budget feature using tc buddy, movieslate, and sennheiser g2s interlocking his metacorder cart, ipad, 2 Alexas. the DIT and editors were involved in planning and testing and everyone went away happy.. they even quit slating the b-camera, as it was getting a continuous feed of TC from a master clock on the cart. I think we soon will see a built in wifi tc receiver in the cameras, as well.

I work for/tag team jobs with/along side of several women in the Atlanta market. We have at least 4 excellent studio project and television series sound mixers, lots of female reality tv staffers, and several utilities. We dont have many female boom operators in this market (JOB OPENING!).

Those were a lot harder to order in 1968 than they are now. And it was just a working tool at the time

Since Radio Shack/Realistic no longer exists.... Fanon... get it insured...

while seeing plentiful rain this month in GA, I do have to remember that we have almost no natural springs in this state, and no mountain snowpack... all our water is rainwater. we are just lucky enough to *usually* have enough of it to avoid serious rationing. I have not watered my yards in the entire 25 years I have owned houses. I suspect there have been times the neighbors wished I would, but I have gone to all native plant groundcover. And, yeah.. population growth anywhere on the planet can outstrip locally available water in a huge hurry.

i call them high noise ear plugs

DPA SC4098 either with hardwire adapter between the seats, or on a tx unit... compact, sounds great... OR.. Sanken Cubs in headliner.. pre rig tx and cub on thin sheets of plexi, wedge them or joe's sticky stuff them to headliner... or near sunvisors. Bag in car for free driving... wiring harness to car when its on a trailer.. use jumpers to go through door openings... usually seatbelts on cast interfere with body worn lavs.. I have also gotten good results with AKG 417 lavs hidden in ceiling of car... or on visors.

+1 Currently obsessing on what the minimum envelope possible cart can be, while not being a bag rig on a magliner.. think perhaps some items can be turned 90 degrees from usual rack.. sort of a "Jenga" stack idea forming in my mind at present.

tried it without success

I asked him for more info, and he told me they were mk4 capsules. I bet he bought out a storage unit.. he did offer to take more pictures if I wanted to see them in more detail

Showed this to our cast and on set costumer last night... they are even more appreciative of sanken COS11 mics and modern miniature transmitters than they were before

John has done a great job for our sound team. Completely legit.

Our other wise grandfather

warning, Delta now has a smaller size luggage template at gates for carry on size for non first class passengers. Also, they are very arbitrary on who gets to bring a carry on at all. If you are an economy class passenger, and are not early, they can and do refuse a lot of carry ons that are small enough to comply with their template.. This also occurs if you are in the over the wing rows, because those bins are the ones the cabin crew uses.

The sound spec that scared me is 20db! as in, the sound that the camera creates!

My Aunt Margaret Mills, an anthropologist and folklorist travelled the mid east in the 1960s and 1970s with a Nagra 3, collecting oral history, folk tales, and conversations for her work. She has donated her III to the kind person who helped her transfer all her reels to digital formats for deposit to archives around the world. I will ask her for some specific stories.

oh, and make sure not to store a coiled cable with its ends plugged together, the trapped electricity running in circles can diminish the copper's ability to carry signal.