Jim Feeley

Here's a 5:35 explainer video from the Imperial War Museum. And here's a 2018 blog from Coda to Coda, the sound design firm, with some info, some pix, and a reference to Laurie Anderson. Making a New World: Armistice Soundwave

From HowSound on Transom.org (a great podcast and site, that describes itself as, "A Showcase and Workshop for New Public Radio"). A Sonic Conjuring (Rerun) by Rob Rosenthal | 11.09.21 Take a look at the photo above, the two strips of film from the collection at the Imperial War Museum in London. They document the sound of Armistice Day, the end of World War I, and the silencing of artillery. On the left, the war at full tilt a minute before the end of the war. On the right, peace — a minute after the end of the war. The juxtaposition is startling. Part of the film is missing, though. A full two minutes documenting the actual end of the war at 11 am on the 11th day of the 11th month, 1918. In 2018, for the hundredth anniversary of the war’s end, the museum reached out to a sound design company, Coda to Coda, and asked if they could produce an audio file of those missing minutes — to fill the gap between war and peace, sonically. They said yes, but the task was not easy. Those waveforms on the film aren’t actual sound. They’re just shadows depicting the sound captured on film. In other words, the staff at Coda to Coda couldn’t just take a listen to a recording, then reconstruct what might be missing. They had to learn to “read” the waveforms without hearing them. The story of what those waveforms are, and how Will Worsley and Sam Britton at Coda to Coda conjured the war in sound, on this archive episode of HowSound. You can listen to the 12:10 audio story and download a transcript here: https://transom.org/2021/a-sonic-conjuring-rerun

“I Don’t Come Onstage To Pose and Play Some Pyrotechnic Scales. It’s To Kick Some Serious Ass”: Dick Dale Talks Gigs and Gear By Elliot Stephen Cohen 3 days ago In this priceless 2017 interview the King of Surf Guitar reveals how he helped develop the sound of electric guitar music alongside the legendary Leo Fender. From Guitar Player: https://www.guitarplayer.com/players/i-dont-come-onstage-to-pose-and-play-some-pyrotechnic-scales-its-to-kick-some-serious-ass-dick-dale-talks-gigs-and-gear

The road to hell(ish shoots) is paved with good intentions. Someone wise once told me that the worst gigs are the ones where the client is spending their own money. (As opposed to their company's, their funders/investors, etc). OK, that's not universally true, but it's served me well. Hope your next shoot is cake...

I've only worn aviation headphones as a passenger in small planes. The ones I wore seemed to boost the high mids, perhaps to cut through... But I'm no authority on aviation headphones. However.... Remote Audio modifies aviation headphones with a Sony 7506 driver. Here's their short blurb: HN-7506 – HIGH NOISE HEADSET These surprisingly comfortable phones have been a big hit for professionals who want to protect their ears while monitoring the quality of their recordings. Sealing off outside ambience by as much as 45dB, the HN-7506 is designed to sound like the industry standard Sony MDR-7506, and allows the switch from one to another without loss of monitoring standard and reliability. More details here: https://remoteaudio.com/products/hearing/high-noise-headset/ About $340 without a boom, more with. Available at most of the usual suspect dealers.

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — The howling gale forces winds, whipped up by a potent atmospheric river, whistled through the railing grates of the Golden Gate Bridge, creating an eerie sound track for the storm as it ripped through the San Francisco Bay Area. [snip] Is it a hum? A ghostly wail? A Brian Eno-style soundtrack for the world’s most beautiful bridge? The noise is not easy to describe. Howell had been chasing the source since April. Rest of the story: https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2021/10/24/video-howling-atmospheric-river-winds-making-golden-gate-bridge-sing/ And from yesterday's storm:

Same. Not much more expensive, IIRC, than the 1900 versions...

You might find more Rode wireless users on DVXUSER. And I mean Rode wireless users who know what's up. https://www.dvxuser.com/forum/filmmaking/location-sound-post-audio

Thanks. My main/only interaction with A&H has been with their mixers. I'm on their Qu-series boards fairly regularly... for small FOH, they sound decent and are fairly workable (and no more quirky than similar mid/low-level boards).

My sense is that this could be really good. Especially for parts and financing. If SD doesn't need to spend time on that sort of thing, they can spend more time developing products and supporting gear (or more darkly, just returning more profits to their new owners). And as SD continues to reach into music-industry retailers such as Sweetwater rather than "just" their original location-sound dealers such as Trew, Gotham, and Pinknoise, being a part of Audiotronix could help. Here's something from the press release attributed to Matt Anderson of SD: "In a way, it will be ‘business as usual’ at Sound Devices, as we will carry on doing the same thing we’ve been doing for the past 23 years: focusing intensely on making the best sound products we can. However, the Audiotonix group brings us more strength in terms of access to capital, depth in manufacturing, knowledge in engineering, sourcing of parts, and expanding our sales and marketing expertise." Audiotronix recently bought Austrian Audio. [That's wrong. Audiotronix distributes Austrian Audio, but doesn't own them. So the rest of this paragraph is less relevant, but perhaps not completely irrelevant. --jim] After AKG got bought by Harman, they dropped lots/all of AKG's Austrian employees. So those people started Austrian Audio. Their mics and headphones are supposed to be cool. And AFAIK, the original engineering and other core team members are still running that. I think they're now smaller than SD, I think, but the apparent "carry on" appoach it's a good sign. And Allen & Heath had their ill-fated reach into headphones a few years ago. I don't know if that was before or after Audiotronix bought them, but it's an experience in the company about the downside of stretching brands too far. That too will be a good lesson for SD. Also the way Audiotronix's SSL has reached into the home/project studio is pretty cool, imo. And Allen & Heath has experience with the low and midrange boards (I regularly work on their Qu-series mixers and like them)... So maybe we'll see some more-affordable control surfaces for SD's 8-series and MixPre recorders. That'd be cool. Also, not much we can do about it but wait and see. And hope for the best.

Great rundown Dave. Ya, Atomos stuff seems to break down even more than BMD stuff. But, as Fred just mentioned, Smallrig makes US$100 (or so) cages for the several Atomos and BMD monitors. Some/all also add HDMI clamps and 1/4-20 & 3/8 holes, so some strain relief possibilities. https://www.smallrig.com/products/monitor.html

Larry, you're terrible at this retirement stuff. Which is pretty inspiring. 😀 ❤️ All my best, Jim

I found this on the press release: IFBlue Introduces Value-Priced IFB Receiver & Dock Charging System New brand of products is designed to reach a broader range of customers in production, film, broadcast, videography, live event, and houses of worship https://www.lectrosonics.com/press-releases/1302-ifblue-introduces-value-priced-ifb-receiver-dock-charging-system.html ===== About IFBlue IFBlue is a new professional audio technology brand designed, distributed, supported, and warranted by Lectrosonics, Inc. and manufactured by a Korean firm in ISO9001 certified factories in South Korea and China to the highest standards. The IFBlue value-priced line of products are designed to reach an even broader range of customers in the production, film, broadcast, videography, live event, and house of worship applications. www.ifblue.com ===== Seems like a smart move by Lectro...

Thanks everyone. I ordered a Sennheiser CA2... If it doesn't work out of the box, it looks like I can mod it. If I come up with anything both clever and useful, I'll post a picture here...

For the few who don't know, Bouke does know what he's talking about. Sometimes he gets a little feisty/cranky (like all of us), but he's more than clever and more than generous (like just the best of us). Check out all the great software he's built: https://www.videotoolshed.com

Thanks. Excuse my denseness, so with the CA2, you can stick a 3/8 bolt through the bottom of the plate or use it's built-in 3/8 bolt and get a fairly sleek mount onto a 3/8 socket? That'd be groovy! Jim PS- I have few shoe-mount things, but I'm finding the shoes less available these days. Is that just me?

I'm looking for a small plate or holder that will help me mount a TC box (I have Denecke JB-1s and Tentacles) or perhaps a G3-sized RX to camera cages/plates 1/4-inch and/or 3/8-inch mounts. There is a bracket made for Tentacle Sync Es, but Denecke didn't have any recommendations. So I turn to all of you: What do you use to mount TC boxes (especially) to cameras besides velcro and such? There's this bracket made by Lanparte for Tentacle Sync E. Sizing is a smidge different from JB-1 sizing. But does anyone have first-hand knowledge on if you can wedge a JB-1 into this? https://shop.tentaclesync.com/product/sync-e-bracket-by-lanparte/ There's this SSD holder from SmallRig. It might maybe sorta fit a JB-1 Again, any first-hand experiences with it? https://www.smallrig.com/smallrig-universal-holder-for-external-ssd-bsh2343.html And there's this small-device holder from Vocas, though it's a bigger platform than I need for TC (though might be a good size for RX. https://www.vocas.com/vocas-small-device-holder.html I have a hazy memory of something similar from K-Tek or someone. But what am I forgetting? Note: I'm not looking for cold shoe mounts. Any warnings or recommendations? Esp with things you've used that didn't or did work?

There were a couple people associated with Deity around here, IIRC. @Vincent R.and @Andrew From Deity , any thoughts?

I wasn't thinking you powered off incorrectly, but rather that maybe the tx/recorder somehow dropped power for short period. Like there's a faulty switch or something. No real idea. Total drag. For me, once I get an error on a card, I ditch it. I don't try to resurrect it or have bad sectors (or whatever) mapped out. The things are comparatively cheap, and the aggravation a bad card causes...well, you know. Again, total bummer. Hang in there!

Glad that you have audio files again! Bummer that it's going to take some work to get everything TC'd and sync'd. But still... Maybe drop Deity a note and asked them what might have caused the issue. My guess is power lost or turned off before the files finished writing. But Deity might have some better thoughts...and perhaps a way to avoid or minimize the problem in the future. No idea if there is a solution, but worth at least asking. https://deitymic.com/support/

Ya, I've used Audacity to "uncorrupt" audio files that got corrupted when the recorder was turned off or lost power before the file header was written as it would be if the file was closed/saved normally (I wonder if something like that happened with your transmitter/recorder). Audacity is free and straightforward; it's available here: https://www.audacityteam.org But if you're feeling wiped and don't want to send the files to Olle (awesome offer of help Olle!), you could try VLC since you already have and are familiar with it. I just googled up this YouTube tutorial. It's from a few years ago, but turns out it's done by a friend who owns a software company. Anyway, he shows some WAV files with zero duration, so perhaps it's a similar issue to what you're facing. And the video has almost 50,000 views; this is a common problem... If nothing else, a quick try with VLC might put your mind at ease before you try Audacity + Wave Agent as Olle suggests. Good luck.

Thanks osa and Pete! Any other thoughts on good mounts for the CS-M1? (And when is Cinela's website coming back? https://www.cinela.fr OK, I'll be patient...)

OK all you CS-M1 aficionados... What mounts are you using with it? Rycote INV-6? Rycote KSM1? Cinela OSIX 1? (or whatever's the correct mount; their website is "coming back soon.") Other?

The built-in search engine here was/is OKish, but not great. But, as you may know, you can narrow a search on Google to only dig through this site. For example, use these search terms: 688 site:jwsoundgroup.net IOW: https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=688+site:jwsoundgroup.net&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 Add a couple terms to narrow the results. And then like Rick suggests, ask SD 🙂 Good luck!

This morning, NAB put out this statement: "As we have always kept the best interest and safety of the industry as our priority, it has become apparent in the face of these challenges that we can no longer effectively host NAB Show or our co-located events, the Radio Show and Sales and Management Television Exchange, in person." Rest of the announcement: https://nabshow.com/2021/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2021/09/2021-NAB-Show-Announcement-1.pdf With luck, we can hold a JWS/RAMPS party next spring.