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  1. 8 hours ago, Philip Perkins said:

    All that may be true but if the cam dept decides to use RF-profligate devices all over the camera then you can be hosed no matter what RX you have. 

    👏👏👏 this is the one of the big issues. Sound must maintain rf priority (remember that we are supposed to be in charge of all wireless on set!) before one can expect perfect broadcast audio to camera in a wireless environment. Number two is that anybody expected to provide two channels of 100% useable audio should not only be considered in charge of wireless on set, but they should also be compensated for it. 

  2. Those numbers are correct for non union non commercial rates but I’d say you should look at bumping either category by at least $50 each by the new year. There has been a lot of discussion on this in private groups, but if you search for peoples web sites, their rate cards should reflect these numbers and terms. 
     

    oh and the term kit has been abolished since we provide an equipment package rental, and invoice for that. Not a kit that goes through payroll. 

  3. 1: we don’t have kits. The term kit has been used to make our equipment seem small and insignificant compared to other departments. We provide an equipment package rental. You shouldn’t use the term kit or let others describe your package as such. 
     

    2: keep reading this forum before spending money or making career decisions. I know it seems like the best thing to do is to go and get into debt buying a bunch of gear and jumping into mixing right away, but that is actually the long hard road. If you try the road where you train under someone established, working as an utility or boom op, or in post at first, you can learn the way things really work, make connections without spending money on gear, and move up to mixing when you have connections and can afford better gear. But please be patient and read read read. All your questions are in this forum and with much more information than quick responses on this thread. 

  4. 10 hours ago, Nate C said:

    Jon. Great to see a non Nova user using the Condor bag. I made up mine as a stop gap until something better came on the market. Almost 3 years later and I'm still perfectly happy with it.

     

    Yeah I put this rig together initially in 2019, and still using it. Until the bag manufacturers get on board with this style of bag and stop only catering to people with a death wish for their back, I’ll be sticking with it!

  5. I find that the popular bags today with rigid frames are a big culprit in bag weight. Which is why for a long time I chose to use the PortaBrace bag that came with my 633. However, it was really annoying because the left side of the mixer would always sag down into the bag, making mixing difficult with the small faders. Then I saw another mixer using a Condor bag that he had modified, and that ended up being my preferred bag until this day. Its weighs virtually nothing and is less than $30:

     

    Condor Deployment Bag (Black, 12... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003W96GG8?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

     

    You’ll have to cut off the top zipper, and cut through the main compartment to the side compartments but it works out quite nicely. I keep a comtek tx on one side, a Lectro tx on the other, and an eSmart battery in the front. I used a 633 with two rx and an Audioroot power distro in a dashboard in the main area which fit quite snug. 
     

    Moving to the 833, I have the same setup but with two rx in the SL-2, and the power distro has been moved to the front pouch with the battery. The whole thing is light and compact, and I don’t need to struggle with a harness anymore, a strap is just fine. 
     

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  6. 7 hours ago, Fred Salles said:

    You mean one block adapter like this one: https://www.mouser.fr/ProductDetail/Vitelec-Cinch-Connectivity-Solutions/VA506?qs=HAjLtCtd%2BdacAwHFvLvH9A%3D%3D

     

    I really wonder how it can fit and if it does allow for connection with the male BNC as that must be very close to the MCR54.

    Sorry I had to look up for the word "snug up" and it can mean "comfortable". Do you mean it is tight but still comfortable?

    Thanks

     

    These:

    https://www.ebay.com/itm/313668751367?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=ZHWa-dQQQYO&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=s37LeSG4Szi&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

  7. I haven’t listened to the new remixes yet, but I bought the box set mostly for everything else. A good new copy of the album in mono, the bonus material, and the book. I’ll probably only listen to the actual remix a handful of times since it probably won’t sound “right” to me, like the other albums, because I’ve spent my whole life listening to the original mixes. 
     

    kind of like when I could finally afford CDs, the first ones I bought were the Beatles. But to my surprise, they were the UK versions, so all the albums up until Sgt. Pepper had a different track lineup. This was mainly a good thing (especially in the cases of A Hard Days Night and Help!) but I really liked the US version of Rubber Soul over the UK version. 

  8. Having either of these would have been the exception to the rule back then. All our house phones were cabled (one in the kitchen, one in our parents room), and it was fairly ritzy to have more than one phone in a house. We still had a rotary phone in the kitchen up until about 2002!

     

    Either way there shouldn’t be any reason why taking the guts out of either of these pones and replacing them with a lav and tv should be challenging. They’re designed to unscrew for repairs. 

  9. If you use a case with a clip you could easily just clip it to the board. When I used ERXs, I’d keep them in the Orca cases designed for them, and they came with belt clips on the back. Setwear also makes something that fits them well and has a belt clip. I’ve seen plenty of Script Sups clip them to their boards and use them as IFB as well as TC readouts for note taking. 

  10. 2 hours ago, jawharp said:

    At what point did I give attitude to anyone

    Pretty much the whole time. The title of your initial rant for one, then the nature at which you were ungrateful that the members here aren’t specifically here to serve you. 
     

    You are being paid to know your equipment as a technician and expert in your field. If you do not agree with this statement, then bow out and retire. But since you take money for this service, you should have at the very least read the documentation that it came with. Because you didn’t do that, you were the “victim” of basically the very reason why one should read said manual. Instead of contacting the manufacturer for clarification, you came to a forum and slung mud about in a fury. Then became upset when people called you out. 
     

    I will admit that I don’t have every frequency block completely memorized, but I do have a general idea of where they start and stop. With that general knowledge, I knew that there was an overlap in blocks 470 and 19. So when I purchased my first A1 product, I was curious about how Lectro handled that overlap, and learned about it right away. Anybody that does this basic level of research about their equipment would have likely followed a similar path. What you have shown all of us is that you do not. I feel sorry for anybody that hires someone this ill prepared. 

  11. I’ve done essentially the same with an older Lectrosonics multicoupler (that housed old non scanning receivers) and it worked just fine. Overloading the front end would likely only happen if you were amplifying your antennae too much. 

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