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  1. 3 minutes ago, Philip Perkins said:

    We'll see about this.  In the doco-corporate worlds especially there are going to be changes to how we work with lavs on non-actors for definite sure.

     

    Possibly.  I'm just not a guy that is inclined to worry about a problem that doesn't exist at the moment. I usually have a plan 'B' in my head but I don't see this imagined paranoia as a thing when we come out of this pandemic. Eventually we have to return to operating as humans again.  

  2.  A lot to do about nothing if you ask me. The problem doesn't exist so why worry about it? 

     

     

    25 minutes ago, Wandering Ear said:

    Personally I think a lot of the implementations I saw were as much about making people feel comfortable and that production was acting responsibly more than scientific practices to stop the spread. Better safe than sorry.

    I definitely saw a lot of emphasis on having less crew on set and having more off set space for people to spread out when not needed on set.

    Also no fresh crafty :(. Only pre packaged.

    I have a client who wants to see temperature logs to ensure no one going on set has a fever or has had one recently.

     

     

    You're still working?

  3. WTF??  Are you guys shoving your lavs up your ass and then trying to put them on actors? Just put them on normally or give them to the wardrobe person to help.  Are you thinking in the future that no one can be near anyone when you make films? Love scenes are going to be weird to shoot.

     

     

  4. 55 minutes ago, Philip Perkins said:

    Comteks are cheaper and more commonly rentable, and the 216 systems most folks are using have several freq choices built in.  I prefer the Lectro IFBs for people like directors since I feel they sound better than Comtek 216s.  But they are much more expensive, and it is harder to find extras to rent in all freq blocks if you need more than you have for a job.  I ended up with a mix of the 2, with the Comteks onhand for extras and for when I need to quickly rent extra RX.    There are still a lot of old fixed-band M72 type Comteks in circulation.  They work fine, if at an even lower fidelity than the 216s, but there are no more crystals available for these and the only service available is through private techs. 

     

    The Lectro IFB do sound much better than Comteks, however, another downside is that the battery will only last until lunch. Re-batterying them at lunch is a huge PITA. Hunting them down is the worst part. Comteks last all day on the same 9v.

  5. On 10/31/2019 at 8:06 AM, Fred Salles said:

    I hear you. So why name files at all then? As long as they are in the right day folder you could name them wtf-T03 to T120 it won’t bother the editors is that what you mean?

     

    Let me answer your question with a question.  In a shoot, how many scene 32 take 3's are there?

  6. What's the big hub-bub? If camera wants to call it something different, that's on them. Just call it what the script sup. calls it.  Step away from the drama.

     

    On a side note:  I never slate or note that it's a pick up. There is only one scene4 take6. The editors have the note from script and camera. The timecode will marry the sound to pic and my voice slate is in the garbage at that point.  There won't be less sound than picture for them to wonder about.  It's pointless for sound to make the effort to note pick ups.  Old days of mag stripe, yes, note it.  Nowadays, useless.

  7. 10 hours ago, Philip Perkins said:

    Yet another bad memory of DAT use for location sound: tape prep and delivery.  To get a DAT ready for use on a fast-moving shoot I needed to sit down with a stack of them and:

    -pull them out of the 10-count box

    -shuck each one of its cello wrapper

    -pull out the contents of the tape box

    -reverse the Jcard

    -paste a label I'd already printed out with job info onto the cassette

    -do same to J-card

    -number the cassette and J-card

    -put the labelled cassette back into the 10-count box for transport.

     

    (This was at least 7 more steps than 1/4" with my pre-printed box labels.)

     

    These cassettes got delivered in 2-well white plastic boxes, with, yes, it's own pre-printed label

    and the written sound reports.

     

    The real pisser in this for me would come when I'd visit a telecine bay, where I would find a plastic bin with all the DAT cassettes, small boxes, large boxes and reports in a loose jumble, unorganized.  Which is of course why everything had to be obsessively labelled.  Thanks guys--good effort!

     

     

     

    Wait, you didn't have to fast forward them and then rewind to put a fresh wrap on the spools?  Holy crap, I could have saved myself a lot of time knowing that wasn't a necessary step.  Now I feel like an idiot!

  8. Talked to the SD guys at Trewapalooza this weekend and asked them about the discontinuation of the CL-12.  They said that they had to drop something to concentrate on the new scorpio control surface.  They said they will still service the CL-12 just not make them anymore.  I asked if the new control panel would be backwards compatable with the 6 series.  The said likely not.

     

    I think its a bad idea for them to drop this product.  Makes me wish I had never bought a SD 688 last year.  Maybe I'll look into Cantar.

  9. 15 hours ago, chrismedr said:

     

    well, strictly speaking all equipment will fail at some point, even if you keep it locked up in perfect storage conditions and never use it.

    the question is will it do so before it has payed itself off through rental? rather tricky to estimate I guess, but it has most likely lost more value then through normal wear and tear.

     

     

    The real question is, "Did it die because of water damage in the past".  Water damage is not normal wear and tear.

    I've even had production buy me a new transmitter because the sets were so hot causing the actress to sweat so profusely that her sweat permeated the control touch pads and corroded the circuit board of the SMA.  Lectrosonics confirmed that was the cause of death and that those blister button control pads are susceptible to sweat. She wore it on her bra strap antenna down which put the SMA control pad next to her skin.

  10. Anytime a tx or rx of mine gets wet, ie; dropped in toilet or pool, production is buying me a new one.  I don't want it repaired, I want a new one.  If it still works now, it will fail on another show.  There is no negotiation on this.  That equipment is compromised and will fail.

  11. I grew up playing pinball and owned one until a year ago. One from the '70's called Flash (no, not from the movie Flash Gordon).  It was the first pinball machine to have electronic sounds instead of bells, or so I'm told. Bought it for $600.  The first weekend we got it we must have put 200 games on it in 2 days.  Sold it because I needed the room.  Wish I had a basement.  Oh, I was always amazed that they never hired better artist for the art work.  As to Richard's remark about sex in the art work,  Check out the nut covering the nip on the bumper near the flipper.  Didn't take much to entice a young teenage boys mind.

     

    Image result for flash pinball machine

  12. 2 hours ago, sonyslave said:

    FOR THE LOVE OF GOD 

    UPDATE THE SCREEN pleeeeze

    My nightmare realized: It looks like exactly the same low res, dark in sunlight, tiny, scratch prone, crap screen that I've been using on the Nomad for the last 7 years.  It SUCKS. (The rest of the Nomad is brilliant imo)How hell are you going to monitor 8 wireless RX and as many tracks on this microscopic Tandy era technology?  ...and don't get me started on the Windows based Touch.

     

    It needs to be bigger, ultrabright (like SmallHD monitors) higher res, bigger(oh, did I say that already?),  scratch resistant, bigger, maybe OLED, and bigger.

    Glenn, +50% of your Nova customers are old and getting older and slowly going blind.

     

    Also, 6 pots should be minimum. 

    -With love,

     

    Careful, Zaxcom criticism is not tolerated here in the slightest.   :mellow:

  13. 2 minutes ago, Constantin said:

     

    Getting colder is not a humidity thing, humidity drops as it gets colder. 

    Have you got another mic for a double check? Try it when the CMIT starts crackling again. 

     

    Not true.  Look up how dew point works. Ever work into the night and moisture starts collecting on your cases and gear - that's moisture in the air coming out.  It can affect mics that are prone to moisture, like Schoeps.

  14. Schoeps are great mics and it's hard to beat the sound.  With that said,  if you are one man banding it you should choose something along the lines of a Sennheiser mkh50.  The Schoeps can have quite a bit of handling noise if not in the hands of a really skilled operator.  Sure, you can lessen it with a cut 1 filter but by then you're going to have around $3000 into it.  Buy a new 50 for $1300.  Handling noise is less and it sounds great.  A lot of pros use 50's.

  15. This is a total scam.  I referred a guy to this and they asked him what gear he had.  My guy then asked what are your needs for the job.  They said to list all of his gear and they would pick what they needed.  A few more weird back and forths and this is their last text to him.  Sounds like a variation of the Nigerian scam.

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