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JonG

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  1. I’m installing a Mac Mini into my cart, and am now faced with the question of monitors. I have dual 7” Marshall video monitors for my camera feeds, but now I need something for the Mac. Currently I am pondering which kind of monitor to be using, how to mount it, and if possible, leave it hooked up but maybe foldable, so that I don’t have to install it every time I want to use it. My current setup has all the “guts” of my cart in a rack mount case. Please share photos, links, and useful information. Thank you!
  2. I’d like to revive this thread. Sadly, nearly all the links above no longer work, and I’d imagine that there are more options available today. I think that having computers on sound carts is becoming ever more frequent, so we may as well get used to the idea of this being a continual hunt!
  3. I will mirror what @Dalton Patterson said. You should really get a mentor before jumping the gun. I’ve seen a lot of people join the union in the past few years that really had a long way to go before they should have joined. And joining the union doesn’t guarantee that you’ll ever work a day on a union set, so know that you will still likely be mostly doing the same sort of work that you are if you do join.
  4. Don’t get into Dept. Do market research in your area. Talk to local mixers. Don’t under cut them. You are entering an industry that has rules and rates. Learn those before you worry about gear. Rent from other mixers in the beginning, you’ll make better friends and connections, and you’ll get to know the different pieces of equipment. And don’t be afraid to say no to low ball jobs or jobs that may be dangerous, or above your skillset.
  5. I would definitely be interested in a step by step walk trough on this. I own a lot of Nagras, and use them, but my tape stock varies a lot and the Nagras are set up differently.
  6. No this guy had it upside down half the time, and was twirling it around. You could tell someone just handed it to him as a prop and didn’t explain what to do with it. Plus he’s not plugged into anything, no cable coming off the boom. This would be from 1996, unlikely that he’d be wireless.
  7. Here's a good one from the show DCI Banks
  8. @SonicBoomPole you can find manuals online just by googling, and parts are mainly available on eBay.
  9. I didn’t take pictures but I just watched a couple of movies where mics were totally positioned wrong and it really made me laugh. One was the Dalton Trumbo biopic and the other was the Chess records film. Both show side address mics repeatedly being pointed at the source as if they were top address mics. Not to mention that some of the mics pictured had not been invented yet in some cases. I thought it would be funny to start a thread for people to post a screen shot whenever they see something like that!
  10. This can be a good tool or a loaded gun like it’s been said. Just remember that if you opt to use it, probably best to only use it on your mix track and leave those ISOs alone. Certainly useful in live scenarios, to check to see what can be done in post, and also WHEN the need for a clean mix track/camera scratch track, or clearer IFBs are necessary (although for the latter, I feel like allowing the director/client to hear exactly how noisy their location or camera might be, can actually help your case for going about production WITH should in mind and with less of a “fix it in post” attitude). And also remember that we are in this for the business, not to give things away. I know many non scrupulous folks out there will throw this in like they’ve already been doing for so many things without charging appropriately, thinking that this will give them another leg up. But really you’ll just be giving away the goat and giving production another thing to start expecting from everybody for free. So so let’s just try to remember that how you run your business will affect the industry for everyone else.
  11. Very well. It truly does sound great. On the last film I did, our DIT actually wanted his photo taken with it, he was really geeking out! I think they sound great. A well maintained Nagra will have a very low noise floor, and if it were a problem, it could be easily batch cleaned. Being in the same room as a RED camera is a lot noisier than working with a Nagra. I actually did a film a couple of years ago that wanted me to roll on a Nagra and I couldn’t hear any perceptible noise floor. I recorded the ISO’s and mix track to my 788T like I normally would, and ran the mix track out of the Nagra and into the 788T so I could do a side by side comparison of the mix track from my board directly to the 788T and the same board mix to the Nagra then to the 788T. Aside from the delay from the playback head, the main difference was that certain mojo you get from tape. Someone mentioned warmth earlier. Warmth is usually associated with harmonic distortion. Given that tools in our trade are designed to be as clean as possible, I’d say you’d be experiencing very little harmonic distortion on a Nagra unless it was poorly calibrated and over modulating tremendously.
  12. You really think the CL-9 is your least coolest piece of gear? As far as control surfaces go, it’s pretty great. I like it a lot better than the CL-12, and even the new one doesn’t have some of the features of the 9.
  13. It’s a 5422 eight channel mixer, modded with direct outs, phantom power switches on every channel, cleaner S/N ratio, higher dynamic range, and a boom op comms section, among other additions. Dugan, Denecke, and other greats all had a pass on supping this up from stock.
  14. My Neve mixer that was used by a veteran Sound Mixer on a bunch of great shows! I also have his Dan Dugan hot rodded Nagras 4.2 and STC!
  15. I used to run a Dorrough meter on my cart. I made a cable to connect it to my DC distro in place of the AC adapter and it worked fine.
  16. This is why I have never been a fan of the rigid bags that have been popular the past few years, and have stuck with the simple PortaBrace bag that initially came with the 633, or moved to a Condor bag for a smaller footprint.
  17. Rebuilding/wiring my cart, watching a ton of documentaries, FaceTiming with friends. I got my guitar out of the closet, we’ll see if I go for it! Cooking of course, and trying to avoid Facebook Lets keep good conversations going here!
  18. If they’re getting dropouts from being a little removed from the teradeks, they could also be fighting with each other in the frequency realm. Unfortunately most camera people don’t understand anything about wireless technology, and will continue to bring more and more wireless devices on set that will keep stepping on your gear. It’s a losing battle for us I’m afraid. You can try to educate them, maybe talk to someone above them about the issue, but you yourself need to be well informed beforehand. It sounds like maybe you need to do a little more homework before bringing it up. What I would do: A: set up my wireless with sharkfins remoted closer to the talent and pointed away from the cameras. B: try to convince any stationary cameras to go hardwired.
  19. Condor Deployment Bag (Black, 12 x 6 x 5.5-Inch) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003W96GG8/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_6DGtEbXFM9QNF
  20. +1 Ive done this too and it works perfectly fine.
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