Chris McCallum

I now have my XY mic rigged up in a blimp ready to roll on atmos whenever I have the chance. As someone who spends half his time in post it is great to get some "real" sound to match in rather than relying on the same old "atmos CD" tracks you hear over and over. I am sure we are the only ones who notice but I think it makes the end product so much more believable Chris

Glenn called me in Australia prior to me placing an order for my Nomad 8 to clarify issues which at that stage of production would have required me to send the unit back to the States for upgrades. He wisely advised me to hold off for a month until Zax had rectified the issues. All of that based on some posts I made her at JW late last year

I will be at Lemac from 10-11 tomorrow for their EOFY sale with my Zaxcom kit if anyone wants to say hi and have a coffee

Rode NT1-A sell for around $300 look like a U87ish mic and sound great

Don't forget to come visit me tomorrow at Lemac Sydney

Listing your gear on your site will help it and you be found if someone is googling gear hire for a region. If your intent is to hire out extra gear for shoots you want to come up well in a search. I often lust new equipment in a blog page on my site with links to my equipment page and it works well as a draw card from Google

I just spent 3 days on a shoot recording nothing but atmos tracks. The script calls for no dialogue but the director wanted ambiences to cut into each shot. I used my rode NT4 XY stereo mic to capture the ambience of each location so I am hoping for their sake that the files make it through to post!

Why are you offloading your Deva Michael?

I think that will be happening as well Michael

I'll swap you Jason

Lemac Sydney are having a Zaxcom day, Wednesday June 20. I will be demoing my Zaxcom gear including my Nomad 8 and Ross promises some great prices on the day Details ross@lemac.com.au

"Plastic mini-clip, 0.85" long, possibly designed to clip a small hands-free microphone to one's shirt or pocket" Possibly designed?

yes it is definitely a firmware issue. Will email Howy today

I think it was 7.28 ish

I have 2x TRX900LTH but my variable power options have disappeared. I am currently running 730H I was able to switch between power outputs but this screen became "Invalid Screen"

It is definitely vintage. It is in the Raul Malo video for Sinners and Saints

I would love to have one as a prop or even better a working version

Robert talk to Ross at Lemac Sydney he had bothe the Ambient and the Debecke in stock when I was there on Friday. I have the Ambient and it works beautifully with my Nomad rig but everything they say about teaming the Denecke with the ErX is true as well. Lemac are planning an end of fin year sale where you might save some $$ as well

Seeing more flat offers of $xxx dollars for 12 hour days from some of the bigger production companies here and I decline. I counter with my standard rate for 10 and often I am told the job is unlikely to go for more than 10. My response to that is to quote my OT rate after 10 and stick to it. 12 hour days are not a healthy thing to be agreeing to in my opinion

I have just had a Rode lav fail on me with zero warning. Used it successfully one day, packed it neatly and carefully in its little peli case, unpacked it and plugged it in the next day and zero output! Unscrewed the head and reseated it, plugged it into a different transmitter but nothing. Not even a crackle! I have them hard wired to lemo so it should be nice and secure at that end. Can claim under warrantee but just wondering if anyone else has experienced this happening? Chris

Have had very good success with this outdoors http://www.ricsonix.com/videoReturnKit.html

I like it a lot

FCP recognised the code ok?

Nice shirt Senator!