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    Doing sound on set since 2001
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  1. Great work! Thank you for sharing.
  2. I suppose, this would have an influence on the 788t used market. Though I do not operate a 788t, but did many years, I would prefer to see a cabled android device, RaspberryPi with touchscreen or similar.
  3. Bavaria is not in France.
  4. The DYH re-tractor is far from ideal. It has a power spring, but a constant force/torque spring would be far more feasible. Also, it comes with a locking mechanism that is useless and leaves behind some dead air in the enclosure. The whole thing is not very service friendly and for the full 3m expansion slightly smaller than one would wish. I have not found a material / construction platform to develop something optimised for our needs from scratch. In the end, it would most likely be some router/mill processed aluminum alloy, like camera cages or cheeseplates. But prototyping with it is very expensive and resins as tough as they are advertised have viscose properties under permanent tension. I might end up with plywood or end up working with what is there. The last image shows the smallest of the "washers" in the upper segment of the Quickpole.
  5. The black holder is the current version, the blue greyish a previous version on my 2nd / fallback boom.
  6. I use a modded DYH-1816 cable retractor populated with Mogami 3031. That just about fits the max 3m for an Ambient Quickpole 5100. It is attached to the 5100 by an 3d resin printed clamping holder. The latest version of the holder also accomodates 10oz worth of tungsten weights from the archery industry as Hodges weight. The lower ends of the booms pipes are fitted with "washers" that guide the cable and prevent it from flapping around during operation. In the latest Version the "washers" do not have to be glued any more. I do mainly wireless booming on fictional shows with it, but also use it on 1 man show style bag jobs. As a DIY solution it helps me a lot, but it is far from a commercial product. I'd really like to make a more custom system that allows for more cable/boom length.
  7. I have a 4minX. I hardly use it, but good to have. At some point I will sell or barter it inside EU, so, I am not advertising mine to you. I cannot confirm the slight tone at (was it 8?)kHz. Maybe my unit is not affected or I just don't hear it. It can be notched out later anyway. 2. The menu and overall firmware design did not reach adulthood and things like metadata, monitoring matrix, menu ergonomics and some other foo are a complete pain in film workflows. Probably much less so in music room recording, if you can prepare in advance. It has 4 analog inputs, yes, all with 48V, but they come in two pairs with diffent dynamic ranges! Dig the specs, and compare with other brands/models mentioned in this thread. You can add more channels with an old MixPreD or Sonosax M2D2 via 2 AES pairs that also offer AES42/SRC btw. The unit is quite big, but it is still light as they enclosed a lot of air. The main reason why you probably won't buy a 4minX is, there is virtually no market! At least last time, I checked.
  8. Did you consult https://www.lectrosonics.com/phocadownload/SMWB_man.pdf Page 17, line level signals?
  9. Ask your dealer oder try it out with ENC/ENR. All I can tell you is, it worked and sounded good.
  10. I've worked with EK 300 receiving the signal from an MTP40 (in proper compander mode). Subjectively this had less noise floor than the variouse SK units and being able to tweak the transmission power improoves range slightly, e.g. compared to an SK100. The price is obviously much higher, but if you have a spare Wisy TX around anyway, it is an improovement.
  11. Is it? For now, the Nano is advertised on rycote.com and listed on common dealers sites. (not doubting this info, just curious for the source)
  12. I do have a few cabled adapters from Hixman. On one, the molded female threaded TRS failed. I have not used any microdot adapters from them. I did use the "cheap" Shure MD40 Lemo witch is of much lower quality compared to the DPA equivalent and I don't recommend buying the MD40.
  13. Consider URSA shorties (basically underwear) and if at all possible an attendance to a training session where the athletes can try out the different options.
  14. Before you buy an internally coiled cabled system e.g. Ambient 5130, try it out, especially with the particular length in question. Coiled cables (and also straight ones) in the inside of the boom produce cable noise, some more some less at different length and depending on the cable used. Coiled cables, on top of that produce a slight center of gravity shift that annoys me. I've been using an modding a straight cable system for some years now (QX5100). These also include issues, including cable management and cable noise with mods and concepts to be implemented. It is a lot less complex to run the cable on the outside or have the TX on top. I can't say much about K-tek, as they are not very, common over here. The units I came across where worn down to an extend but "okayish", not great. Panamic is "heavy" and stiff. Good for operation heavy TX on top / big windscreen configs. Also, they are rather easy to service and care for. There is no internal cable option, mods may not be impossible impossible though. Ambient is lighter and my operation and development platform of choice, since customer support is excellent and rather close by in my part of the world compared to K-Tek. However Ambient BPs need a bit more caring time after rain or sand/dust exposure.
  15. I've mic'd up harness race horces for wild tracks (with medium results). Production wanted the sound of their breaths as someone from the client company used to be a driver himself.
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