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    @AmbientRec I just took a swift snapshot of the first ACM-204 Lockit Mount before I disassembled it again, to ship it to Redding Audio USA. The ACM-204 can be screwed to your aluminum Lockit within seconds (4screws). For anybody not owning one of the new anniversary edition Lockits, don't be disappointed, The ACM-TL will be shipped soon, too. It will be delivered with screws for the Tiny Lockit and an adhere tape to be fixed to all your other Clockit devices. Why not screwing, too? That's because we are using self-cutting screws for our plastic bodies. Thus, unscrewing them would decrease their load capacity. This way we couldn't be sure that the backplate will withstand the roughest conditions. But durability is one of the main things Ambient products stand for. The adhere tape we deliver is incredibly strong and combined with the self-cutting screws the ACM-TL just won't break.
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    Hi Nick, I'm sorry but there won't. The reasons are that it would add about 5cm to the handheld which is not quite handy and difficult to construct (and ugly as hell). Additionally the 5000 series will be discontinued, soon... So again I'm sorry Timo
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    See the HHA adaptors in action, dealing with the toughest conditions. This is a Lectrosonics HH with a Neumann KK105 and a Sennheiser 2000 with a Heil microphone head...
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    Dear Ambient customers in the United States and Canada, We are happy to announce that from now on Redding Audio will be our exclusive distributor for the USA and Canada. This is a big step forward for our North American business and will bring a lot of advantages to you as customers. Since Redding will keep our products in stock, availability of Ambient products at your local dealer will be improved drastically and shipping costs will be significantly reduced compared to now. Thanks to that, even small products like our boompole accessories, our power supply, EMP adaptors and microphone power supply will be attractive add-ons for our US portfolio. Furthermore we will be setting up a much more convenient service structure in the USA. We are proud of our high quality standard. In the event that an Ambient product breaks, you can feel confident that the turnaround time will be as short as possible. And now we would like to take the chance to particularly thank Scott Boland for his personal devotion and commitment. Thank you for your trust in our company, we hope that by this move we will be closer to you and your needs. Your Ambient Recording team
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    Happy birthday to you! 20 years Lockit!! We celebrate this event with an extraordinary limited aluminum special edition and new accessories... A good 20 years ago Guenter Knon worked for the German candid camera TV show. After countless episodes he was getting tired of lining up the Nagras and cameras in the morning each and every day. So he and Chris Price sat down together and after one year and several prototypes the first ACL Lockit was born. In the following 20 years this fellow became more and more famous and reproductive. Thus it rapidly became the head of the well-known Clockit family. This clan was so powerful that they were able to take over the leadership of the international portable sync and time code market. Their strength was based on their internal accuracy, their ability to be tuned to match all situations, and most importantly, on a network of good friends and supporters worldwide. We want to celebrate this with an extraordinary Special Edition of our recent ACL 204: THE ACL 204 anniversary edition… …is a limited run of 200 units with a “full metal jacket”, a machined, pearl blasted and anodized aluminum body. Thanks to the more robust material we could reduce the wall thickness and therefore exactly maintain the weight and price. Together with the anniversary Lockit we are proud to publish a brand new Lockit accessory. The ACL Mount… …is a quick release mount with a fixable 3/8” male thread. This makes the use of Velcro to attach your Clockit device to the camera a relic of the past. The ACM 204 was especially designed for the new aluminum body for older versions there will be a different model: The ACM-TL is a mount with adhere plate for ACN-TL or older ACls I hope you like the new products! Best Regards Timo
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    Awesome!!
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    I just saw this picture and I grinned for days! This is funny, smart, and true and very familiar to all who work in teams like we all do! I hope you like it as much as I do! Cheers Timo
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    Ryan is right! Communicator was our working title but during the development our new baby became more and more powerful and thus became the Tiny Lockit. The picture below is how it's really gonna look like when shipping in January! Machined aluminum, pearl blasted, and anodized, body, ...
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    No Brenda, you looked great!!
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    For anybody who is interested in seeing our new product: Scott Boland will have a Tiny Lockit prototype at the AES Schoeps booth... Timo
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    Hi Pierre, right now only the ACL204 and the Tiny Lockit are ACN ready but there will be a lot more coming up, soon. ACN ready is a nice term... Since the HD ready was a fake seal we could better think of Full ACN,.. oh whatever... No, it doesn't work like that. Right now we are collecting the serial protocols of companies who want to be integrated in the ACN, so the ACN tools can read out their data. A direct implementation of our wireless system in the devices of other manufacturers and additional protocols are in discussion but nothing is nailed down, yet. We collected protocols of a lot renowned companies and integrated them already but I would like to hold back the information (not least because we signed some NDAs which I don't want to harm) until we bring out the ACN Master and the firmware update which will unlock the metadata functionality. So, I'm sorry but I have to leave you uninformed like that. Timo
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    P.S. Along with the Tiny Lockit shipping start there will be an ACL204 firmware update which enables the ACL204 to be a TC transceiver, too. So with that every owner of an ACL204 will get a generator buffered Timecode transceiver, too. Of course it is compatible with all other ACN devices like the Tiny Lockit...
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    Hey Vin, No sync out at all... So no trilevel, genlock, blackaudio, wordclock,... The Tiny Lockit is a powerful Timecode Generator, TC transceiver and ACN communicator... If you need sync you still need a Lockit Timo
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    Thanks for the commendation, If you know James we won't bother if you'd give him a call... There's always a need for additional seed investments... Timo
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    Thanks Marc! The ACL204 has a list price of 860€, so there still is a noticeable step between the ACL and the ACN-TL.That of course was on purpose, since we wanted to invite more people to join the ACN with an economic powerful and small device.
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    As promised the precise size of the ACN-TL:71,5mm x 56mm x 20mm About AES, I will keep you up to date since we have not sorted out who will get the demo units, yet.
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    I was a little bit afraid that Brenda now thinks worse about us Germans but when she came the next day to the show with a silly Bavarian hat on, she told me with a huge grinning expression on her face that she now likes us more than ever...that even scared me a bit more...
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    @twade no, no words, yet @boomboom thanks a lot.we keep on developing really hard on both, software and hardware. So there will be a lot coming up to make your ACN devices an even more powerful and sophisticated tool. Yes 660€ is the official list price. Official shipping start will be January though demo units might appear in shops earlier... About the size I do have to let you wait until Thursday since tomorrow is the reunion day in Germany and I just am forced to take a day off by law ... But its quite the same size like the ALL. I'll be more precise on Thursday... P.s. There will be demo units at the AES...
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    Thanks Eric, That's good to hear but quite sad, too! Timo
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    Please let me introduce yout to the newest member of the Ambient Clockit Network family: First of all, it has Clockit Time Code generator of course and is made out of machined aluminum. Except for the sync signal output, it comprises the full functionality of its big brother, including ACN (Ambient Clockit Network) support, metadata transfer and logging. This network capabilities also allow the Tiny Lockit to be a fully functional Timecode Transceiver. Therefor it is combining the stability of an Ambient Clockit Generator with the flexibility of a wireless TC system but without the fear of dropouts. In addition it also has most features of the ALL601, such as variable time code output level for recording TC on audio track and time code conversion between LTC / MTC (via USB) The user interface is just as easy to use as the ACL 204's. Due to its smaller form factor it is especially suitable for applications on small cameras, but also on cameras or in setups where a sync signal is not required, it is a handy solution. The Tiny Lockit will be available from January 2013 Have a look at the Tiny Lockit in our IBC video review: [ We apologize for the bad sound quality,... it was spontanious and shot on a 7D and I think we all know about the brilliant sound capabilities of a DSLR... I hope you still can enjoy it...
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    Hi Simon, yes we do provide the small straight and rectangular aerials which can be seen on our product pictures. So you can just ask your local dealer. Best wishes and have fun with the new wireless features Timo
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    We are happy to announce that from 27th of July at 12 a.m. UMT+2 the new firmware update 2.0 can be downloaded from our homepage. It features the first part of the Ambient Clockit Network functionality. Attention: The ACL204 is already equipped with an internal antenna. Therefore no additional accessory is needed to get full access to all features. With the “ACN Basic” integrated in this firmware the user is able to jam sync all ACN compatible devices within the network. To gain the best possible range 16 network channels are available as well as variable output power. One ACL204 is used to jam the others by broadcasting a sync command. Afterwards it will display how many devices have been jammed and how many couldn’t be jammed because of mismatching user settings (e.g. not integer frame rates). In the ACN menu the external antenna can be activated and the antenna gain can be modified. To comply with FCC rules, these functions are PIN protected. Please contact your local dealer. Watch a short demo video
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    The bottle of whiskey you gave me last IBC made something like a non-linear time to me... ... I like non-linear time!
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