Sandor Gyurkovics

yeah, haven't seen that rig.  nice option for when adhesive may not do the job.  sometimes more adhesive just means more noise as it slowly rips loose.  

my go-to for reality shoots with little time and unknown action is cos-11 in an RM-11 with winscreen on, prerigged with snot tape on the back, and an overcover stuck to the other side.  mounted to clothing with overcover against the body it works in many situations.  Learned that one through the grapevine from Rylan Kerbes in vancouver. 

On 4/19/2015 at 8:48 AM, afewmoreyears said:

Yeah, it's funny, different paths...lol

 

 

 If your shooting ext., then i could see having a few mics already in zeppelins, making mic changes really fast...  with the gadgets or without...  You can throw money at this stuff till the cows come home, but in reality, you can easily do with simply looking at the schedule, looking at your scene or shot and making a mic choice and doing your shot... I seldom change mics while already shooting... I try to take a listen and arrive at a mic before hand... most of the time just knowing what should work best... if I have a feeling something else may be better suited, ... I will listen to two I think are best..... at the most...

works for scripted content, sure.  I'd love to move to cinela for my doc kit, but the inside/outside thing is tricky.  there is no schedule.  you just go outside when you need to go outside.  and short shotgun often gets used in both situations.   i have no idea how these blimps come apart...i take it the mount is integral and the shell doens't just come off.  still learning.  they seem like more complicated beasts than rycote blimpls. 

I run into the situation a fair bit. I use the betso bowties on my bag with the same RF distro that you are looking at. And then I put my shark fins wherever they need to go and cable them to my bag (unplug the bownties). If I need to pick up my bag and run and just unplug my shark fins And flip over to the bowties in 20 seconds. I’m good to harness up and get going.   So basically, I just have the pigtail BNC cables hanging out of my bag that would typically attach to the bowties plugged into 50 or 100 foot cables with couplers on them. So I am literally just plugging My pigtail cables into two cables that are sitting on the cart/desk/table/Whatever. Super easy to switch. I have seen Lectrosonics Larry write in this forums that the loss  is less than 1db using couplers. So you can join cables as needed and not worry about it.

On 5/14/2022 at 10:04 AM, osa said:

I personally have had the most success with the invision lite 19 mm But it’s a combination of the pole and mount that I think might help with my handling noise. I’m using a loon boom pole which unfortunately they don’t make any more. When it comes to Zeppelin‘s I had to go back to older ring style and a con box to find the right mix of rycote bits to help with handling noise and that seems to work well for me. 
 

 

Hey, does this mount actually have room for the foam?  looks super tight.  thought about this one but wasn't sure i could make it go.  i'm leaning more and more towards cinela after using my INV6 for the last year. still pretty rough for handling noise. older carbon k-tek pole. 

On 1/6/2022 at 5:05 AM, DanieldH said:

1. The Hixman CA701 might work for you, though it is not a cable. You can buy it directly from hixman.com or from aliexpress.

https://www.hixman.com/hixman-ca701-convert-adapter-for-lectrosonics-ta5f-to-sennheiser-audio2000s-3-5mm-plug-wireless-bodypack-transmitter

2. Then there is micronic from the UK. They also sell on ebay. I am not sure if I dislike them for some of their other products though, but that's only me. 

https://micronic.co.uk/collections/microphone-adapter/products/lectrosonics-ta5m-ta5f-5-pin-mini-xlr-microphone-adapter-for-body-pack-transmitters

Hey, have you actually used the hixman adapters by the way?  I was looking at a few of them....lectro to 3.5 for track E as you stated, plus microdot to TA5 for dpa goosenecks and lectro TX.   1/3 the price of the dpa adapters, so wondering about actual field use an track record.  

Sounds like i should move to the US. i don’t know any producers that would pay 500 for a 2 wire kit in vancouver, no matter how hard i try. But we push as hard as we can

Client dependent….350 down to about 150 for the mentioned kit in vancouver. Bottom end being a favour or a no budget thing you just really want to do.  Average closer to 250-300 id say. I like to put all the  gear as a line item on the invoice when possible, amd then show discounts if any. Teaching moment for producers. I would include one sync box and charge beyond that. If 2 or 3 were rolled into the cost i would aim for the high end of rates…or higher if i can get it, as that also means more hops amd comteks. 

same question....3 years later.  they are still out there but thinking they aren't for sale new. 

I second the microframe as an economical timecode slate.  doesn't clap, but displays timecode in all lighting conditions and has space for labels/IDs.   it's the bomb for gopro work.  give one to all ACs.  good in a pinch if you end up with DSLR's too.  if you want a clap, velcro one to a dumb slate....$300 vs $1200.  maybe not pretty, but ofr bag mixers that get asked for a slate on the day and didn't have time to rent, and only need one for 4 days a year, works well enough.  

On 9/20/2021 at 7:20 AM, osa said:

I know its a matter of personal taste - but i have 2x mkh50’s and 2x cs-m1’s in my kit among various others. The 50’s have collected a lot of dust. The sankens have become my go-to for almost everything. I love the sound of them, the gain and the reach - the sanken checks all the boxes mentioned for me. 

ha!  same with me.  have 2 of each.  liking the sankens way more.  really like them for wide/tight/slider 3 cam interviews.  there's enough reach to get it done for the wide and not rely on the wire or a longer shotgun that would be less forgiving with subject movement in the chair.  The 50 doesn't cut it in that situation.  it's a lovely sounding mic in lots of situations.  I use it indoor and out.  not loving my mount though.  I still put it in my old senny blimp that I use for the 50.  It's fine, but not ideal.  Like the look of the Medium cosi perhaps.  I have the INV mount with the black lyres (the light ones) and a bubblebee for interiors.  super light.  love it.    

I think loads of us have probably used 4 receivers in a bag with acceptable performance.  bags change shape with job needs.  I've used 3 with whips many times, 4 less often, but often enough.  Unless you need max performance on everything you'll be fine (i.e. if you're near the scene/subjects and they aren't 150m away).    I also us an RF distro, but keep my whips in the bag if everything gets overloaded...usually if everyone is in close proximity. I wouldn't worry too much about it.  You said it was short term, right?  go for it.  

I just bought two of these mics finally. I’m using the rycote INV mount with black lyres in cold weather with a bubblebee windkiller indoors and outdoors. will have to put a grey/hard lyre on the front in the summer i suspect. the black ones get mushy in the sun.  haven’t bought a blimp yet, but may try and use my mkh50 blimp.

 i bought these for a show that needs good/small camera mics, and plan and ditching my 50’s after the show and moving to these. only boomed on day with them just to test them

out, but they were pretty nice to swing. light!  handling noise with a ktek classic pole and the tiny inv-6 mount was not an issue at all. 

that’s some good backlash (with no offence… of course ) about someone doing what they’ve got to do to get the job done.  As someone who mixes with a bag strapped to my body every day

 while booming at the same time, I totally get why someone  would do this. I’ve done it many times to make mixer adjustments that needed to be done, and I don’t exactly have the wrists  of  steel required to one arm boom  for more than three seconds.  it’s totally risky move, but practice makes perfect!  Reality TV can be very unforgiving.

nice! sounds like a very useful tool. i can see a lot of value in that. 

love it.  looks like a great tiny mixer, and having 7/8 on faders is fantastic.  the new firmware to access 7/8 on the recorder's programmable toggles was a big help, but this is better. 

same. +5. max. 

thanks for the hide a mic tip.  hadn't seen that product yet.  Like the idea of what he's trying to streamline, and everything is worth a go since every single outfit/situation is different.  Saving 30 seconds of prep on a lav is always a bonus.  I certainly like the tie option, and it would keep the snot tape of the mic capsule.   As mentioned, I'm sure a little square of mole skin or snot tape would secure the holder to the capsule just fine.   

the only obvious thing I can think of is going on the clothes instead, but that's not always going to fly depending on what they are wearing.  I'm sure you've considered that option already.   I find the bra strap is typically too low in the front to sound good.  Tough one.  Other than that I sometimes get a hand from makeup or wardrobe (if there are any of those folks on set), as they are often women.  You can train them up and the talent might be happier with a woman doing the job.  

 Yep. I agree with all of the above and none of it  is news to me,  hence my considered post.  

Hi folks, 

looking to make a purchase from a forum member and could use a reference check from the group.  Jordan Bodhaine out of New Mexico.  Any comments?  On IMDB he seems to be a real life guy.  Just being diligent.  

feel free to either post here or PM me, whatever your all comfortable with.  

thanks all. 

ps.  assuming it's all good jordan, stoked to add the mixer to my arsenal.  

sandor

Also  interested to see how this turned out. My screen gave up a couple of days ago so I borrowed another mixers 664 and when I fired it up the screen turned red just as above. 

If it's not a bum cable then I second the motion to look at physical connection issues. I've had it happen before too.


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Nice little story. Sounds like riding that train back and forth would yield some good entertainment.  Love the beat box / singing combo. There's a guy from my town called CR Avery. Something else for y'all to check out.  

I timed the beachteks in my UH TXs and seemed to get me an extra hour to hour 20 over ipower. So worth it for me.

Sandor - Vancouver sound guy

Tough room. Have a Heart people. Anyone ever get deliriously tired and stupid? I have. How does it help to have a dump on someone's misfortune. Perhaps you could also post him a lemon, have him paper cut himself good and deep with the envelope, then squeeze lemon juice on it. Maybe that would also help.

Sandor - Vancouver sound guy