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Timlin

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  1. I've used this material on the exterior of small aircraft and helicopters for mini camera mounts etc - never had a failure yet. The adhesive is so strong and resilient that its a bitch to remove after you're done. Its takes quite a bit of "Goo-Off", maybe a scraper and some considerable elbow grease to remove the adhesive. Plus, as mentioned above, its can be screwed and/or riveted to a base. Great stuff! Rgd's AT
  2. This stuff is truly amazing, we'd always called it "industrial velcro" as I had no other name for it. It's quite hard to find, the last and only place that I've seen it available at was Officeworks, but now that I know it's official name and who makes it ill chase them up for a retail outlet. It really is the most incredible stuff. It sticks like poo to blanket and has an amazing load capacity, I would bet that a 6" square would support an average mans body weight with ease. I'd put money on it to stop your mixer from sliding around! Rgds AT
  3. Vincent For fear of hijacking this topic, I have a "cable guy" in another city here in Australia. He's brilliant at making cables and devices such as what you see above. I made a rough sketch and told him what I wanted etc and he built it for me. Cost about AU$1k. You can get him here: http://www.weterminate.com.au/ Take care... Andrew
  4. Eren This is a no-brainer. I've been running my sound kit on V-Lock batteries since they became standard issue for ENG/EFP crews. And these days with the demand of my kit as it is, the old NP1's just wouldn't cut it. Plus as David says above, it makes perfect sense to run your sound kit on the same batts as most of the other battery using equipment on most sets. I've often borrowed a battery from the camera department to get me out of trouble, and visa versa... Right now I'm running a 788T with a CL8 and an external 500Gb FW800 drive, 2 x Lectro SR RX units, a Zaxcom STA/TRX900 camera link, a Betso TCD1 time code display unit, a Zaxcom IFB100 and a Hirose to USB2 cable for emergency iPhone charging too! With all of this on I get about 4 hr's continuous with 8 x channels armed from a small 70w/hour V-Lock batt. I prefer to have more smaller capacity batts than fewer large capacity versions - weight is a back killer and mine is complaining at every extra gram of weight these days! I bought a cheapo V-Lock plate and screwed it into the side pocket of my Porta-Brace bag and have a 4-pin XLR out of it running into a custom made power distribution box. It has three circuits so I can turn on/off the mixer/radio mics/TC Display as I need. Make the change, you'll love it! The pic is of my batt distribution set up just before my cable guy sent it to me - it too is fantastic, he's in Melbourne and if you need his details lemme know and I'll hook you up. Take care... Andrew
  5. Couldn't agree more! Bang for buck, these products cannot be overlooked - simply amazing value. AT
  6. Thanks Jack and Mr Boom, great advice! I'll let you know how I go! AT
  7. Thanks guys! I'll check the pin config. AT
  8. Jack I got a cable that identifies itself as Zaxcom IFB TC In/Out, but it doesn't work either. I selected TC on left, right and both but still nothing. I think I'll have to make a triple output cable from the 788, maybe that'll work? Zaxcom sure is consistent in being inconsistent in their wiring configurations! Rgd's AT
  9. Hi all I've just taken delivery of a Betso TCD-1 unit (http://www.betso.eu/en/products/17-tcd-1-small-self-powered-compact-time-code-display-with-advanced-functions/) and I have a couple of issues that I can't seem to get satisfying answers for from their instruction information, nor from the Zaxcom IFB100 instruction menu. I presently have a "Y" cable that sends TC from my 788 to a TRX900 and a IFB100 and it all works as advertised - great! Now, I need to send TC to the Betso unit as well, and as you'll all know the 788 only has 1 x TC out connector. So I thought I'd be able to "loop through" the IFB100 to get the TC signal to the Betso... Well, it don't work... It could be a wiring pin assignment matter or maybe an IFB100 menu setting (I've looked pretty deep in the IFB100 menus and I can't find anything relevant). Or maybe what I'm asking it to do is just not possible. The other matter is tat the Betso instructions state quite categorically that the user must not power the unit with more than 16v or damage may occur. I power my kit from V-Lock batteries, and they sometimes, when fresh off the charger, will provide up to 16.8v... so my questions are: 1. Is it possible to have TC looped through an IFB100, or will I have to get another cable made with 3 x tails (2 x 3.5mm mini-jacks & 1 x 5-pin Lemo)? 2. Should I be nervous about sending 0.8v more than the factory says is safe, or is it such a small amount of extra voltage that it'd probably be within the safe borderlines? Thanks for your time!! Rgd's AT
  10. All Thanks guys, all good answers! I've just been up in North Queensland for the past 3 days shooting all full sun exteriors in very hot, and humid conditions with zero issues... go figure! These things are just like a PC with XLR inputs - when it wants to fail, it will! Rgd's AT
  11. Pete No it wasn't on that shoot! It's amazing how hot they get, it can't be good for all the internals surely? I'll try rig some sort of fan thing I think, I'll let you know how I go! Take care... AT
  12. Hi all I was on a shoot a few days ago when my SD 788T died due to my V-Lock battery running flat. It was also a very hot day and we were shooting exteriors in full sun. The 788T was incredibly hot, as was everything else in my Porta-Brace bag (2 x Lectro SR's, 1 x IFB100 & 1 x TRX900). I then changed batteries and the 788T wouldn't play nice anymore - trim pots 1 & 2 simply just flashed yellow and no matter what I did, I'd lost control of most functions. The headphone indicator showed "USER10" or "L,R" only, it couldn't be changed. It had also reset the TC to 29.97 (from 25), and it had changed the sampling rate to 96Hz too. The factory reset option in the menu wasn't visible either, and many other menu items were also not available. Luckily for me we'd finished shooting all of the sound requirements for that day, so I was able to leave early to try and get the machine back online. I took it to the local SD dealer and he said that he'd never seen such a thing before. He took it out the back and reappeared about 30 mins later with it back to normal - a most welcome sight I assure you! He said he did some sort of "master reset" that is deep, deep in some secret menu somewhere. He then suggested that it had perhaps overheated and when combined with the sudden loss of power and given how hot it was, it just had a meltdown. This is now of major concern to me... The 788T does run incredibly hot - way too hot for my liking, but how does one get some decent air-flow when its all in a bag? I was thinking of getting one of those under-laptop cooling fan systems and customizing it all to fit inside the bag and to run off my power source whenever I turned the 788 on. But given the amount of heat in the bag it may be a waste of time as all the fans would do is to blow more hot air on it. Any ideas/suggestions? Has anyone else had their 788 have a meltdown like this before? Rgd's Andrew
  13. Mr Harber Because he is a sad, pathetic, infantile, small minded person desperately searching for attention - any attention at all, the quality of the attention doesn't matter, just as long as someone is paying attention. Reminds me of a 3 year old child, or perhaps you remember the great Warner Brothers cartoons of the big, tough bulldog patrolling the streets with a much smaller yappy little dog bouncing all over the place trying to impress him, trying anything to get his attention? The little yappy dog does anything at all, whatever it takes, just so long as he can get even just a few seconds of attention? Mostly the bigger dog just says "Nah..." and belts him away, but, just like the Senator, he must continue to try and impress, he craves the attention so much that he's prepared to sacrifice anything to get it - his dignity, his self-respect, anything at all, no price is too high. So long as he gets even just a tiny amount of attention the craving is satisfied for that brief moment... but then soon after, he quickly needs another shot and so on it goes. Same same... Mostly I used to feel just sad for him. Sad for what state he must be in to deprave himself so much and so often... Now though, I just look/read in the face of complete, utter ignorance and just smile... 99% of the time his reply's/comments are just so banal and just scream of a deep insecurity, though on that rare occasion, at about the same frequency of total solar eclipses, he can actually contribute something worthwhile - but the moments are rare, very, very rare. Rgd's Timlin
  14. I know one group who will definitely win this case and all the others like it - the lawyers... they'll get paid, win, lose or settle. The lawyers never lose... AT
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    JoeCo Recorder

    Jay I sure could've used this last week! 14 x radio mics, 2 x boom mics, 4 x live-to-tape locations all in the one house, all recording simultaneously - with NO video monitoring and very poor coms rules... and a kinda ordinary 1st AD... My brain still hurts. I had the 14 x RX units going into a very tired, old, hired Mackie desk that no-one has ever loved with only 8 x direct outs and dodgy aux sends. Going into 2 x 788T's that were also much unloved and liked to crash as often as possible - plus VERY particular IFB requirements - all wanting different sources, and changing these sources every 20 minutes. I think one of these units could've made my life soooo much easier! Next time! If these really perform as you say they do, and I'm sure they do - surely that makes 1 - 2 of these units on a cart as a no-brainer? I'm sure gonna find space on my cart for 2 x of these rigs when I build it! AT
  16. HAHA!! Touche! Delicious! I use block 26 for my RX units and I know many sound recordists in Melbourne use 26, 24, 22 and quite a few others - you'll be fine with 24. You'll enjoy Melbourne, its a very cool city - great cafe's, restaurants and things to see/do - enjoy! AT
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    JoeCo Recorder

    Jay And thats a very cool setup you're running there too! Looks to be very intuitive and user-friendly - most impressive! Rgd's Andrew
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    JoeCo Recorder

    Jay Intriguing! From what you report these really are a great solution to mega-track recordings. Thanks! Rgd's Andrew
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    JoeCo Recorder

    Jeff Thanks for your reply! On a bang-for-buck platform, I can't see how it could be overlooked. I wonder how the post-production people feel about it? Does it add/remove any extra/fewer steps for them? I can see how it would be an amazing tool for live concerts and performances, but I'm curious how it'd go on a cart as a principle recorder for drama/feature film work. Its an amazing time we live in now isn't it? The developments are impossible to keep up with, and all the while the end-user price of a lot of these products seems to be dropping too - lets hope not too many UPM's have their collective noses too close to the ground here - they might wanna reduce our fees! Take care... Rgd's Andrew
  20. Hi all I'm curious to know if anyone has ever used any of the JoeCo products as a principle recorder on set? They seem to offer great value and many interesting features. Could/would you consider one of these products instead of the usual suspects? (788T, Deva, Fusion etc) For those moments when 8, 12 or 16 iso tracks isn't enough, these products appear to "tick-all-the-boxes". http://www.joeco.co.uk/main/BBR_introduction.html I'd be interested in knowing peoples thoughts on this... Rgd's Andrew
  21. Zozo I'll tell you what, reverse the situation here. Lets say production wants to send a sound recordist out to shoot pictures and record sound, because, really, it's just a camera, how hard can it be right? I mean, you just point in in the right direction and push the button right? We don't have any money for a cameraman, but the sound guy, he can do it all right? I mean he doesnt really do that much anyways... Sure doesn't look like he does much. He just sits there with his headphones on, probably listening to music anyways... Hell, it's all auto focus and auto iris these days anyway isn't it? It's just pictures, it's not really THAT important is it... lets just attach a camera to the boom, yeah! That's a great idea! That'll work! What could possibly go wrong? And how would you and your chosen career feel about that exactly? Rgds Andrew
  22. Zozo My immediate advice would be to hire a sound recordist... You can fix bad pictures most of the time, but bad sound, well, you're in a world of pain there. Rule 1: Bad sound cannot be fixed. Its easy to watch a great show with crappy pictures and good sound. But if you try to watch a show that you interested in with crappy sound and good pictures, most people will turn it off. Rule 2: Don't compromise on getting the highest quality sound possible. Bad sound can turn a great program into a great steaming pile of you-know-what in seconds... Just my 2 cents worth... Rgd's Andrew
  23. Hobo I'm using 1 x QRX100 being fed 2 channels of sound via the TRX900 with the Zaxcom antenna filter. I've never used it without the filter so I don't know how much it does affect performance. Its effect on performance could be quite low, I'm on Block 31 with the IFB option board and I get around 30 meters line-of-sight range from it before I'd start to get nervous, but only about 1/2 that from the 2.4GHz IFB signal. I don't know if this is good/bad/average, I do know that RF in general is dark magic that works as it sees fit to. Maybe I should do a test without the antenna filter on and see what happens. Regarding Senator, he's just a, well, you know... Rgd's Andrew
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