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  1. Not only do they exist but they interface and interact with the "regular" 20 - 20 range. The majority of left vs right localization happens through time. The majority of hight localization happens through frequency and the shape of your ears. In digital audio these high frequencies are sampled less, and sometimes creates aliasing. (depending on a lot of factors) Higher sample rates help you to better capture high frequencies both audible and inaudible. the more true representation of transients, harmonics, etc you can capture, the more interesting things you can do. I can get pretty deep into this stuff, but it will quickly turn into a discussion about the ear, physics, and other smartie pants kind of stuff I don't feel the internet would benefit from.
  2. As technology changes so do jobs, necessary qualifications, and techniques. Unions have typically tried to fight these changes. In order for progress to be made, changes need to be made. Fighting changing and evolving jobs and classifications is and will always be a losing battle. Change and evolution are good. Thats all I have to say.
  3. I just wrote a whole big thing and then safari crashed and it was gone... It was well thought out, written, and better before. Thanks Safari... In short - subsonic and supersonic frequencies interact with the audible range of frequencies. being able to capture and manipulate these frequencies creates a natural more realistic product. The majority of perceived spatial relationship is created within high and supersonic frequency ranges.
  4. Then make that part of your day rate, not your rental rate. It has everything to do with workload, not with gear. I guess I might not have been clear enough that I was talking specifically about rental rates.
  5. I do not believe that you should be charging based on what you are doing, but based on the hardware you are using. if you hit the record button or not, you are still using the same machine. That machine goes through the same wear and tear regardless. Providing production a complementary service that only required you to remember to press ONE BUTTON once in a while adds to your value to the production and has to cost impact on you. I find this idea of charging / track / function asinine. A Tascam DR680 cost much less than a SD788. Are you going to charge the same rate with both machines? No, probably not. Rental rates should be based on the cost of the machine, and the cost to maintain that machine, NOT the amount of buttons you have to push in a day. That is what your day rate is for. If you go rent a device from Trew, do they ask you how many tracks you will be using and what buttons you are going to be pushing on your rental gear? NO.
  6. I know there to be a lot of good timecode discussion, explanation, and scenarios on this site. I know this because I wrote or contributed to most of them. A few hours of searching and reading should prove to be very enlightening, or very confusing - depending on your skill and knowledge.
  7. Higher sample rates create a more analogous digital capture. I'm an advocate of 96 (at least) because - Why not. Processing power is there, HDD space is there.
  8. One of the things I run into a lot is people who buy top notch mics, top notch pre's, then run them through sub par converters and interconnects. Your signal is only as good as your weakest link. You can have a mic pre that covers 5hz to 40k, but if your mic only covers 50 to 15k, that's all that's going to get recorded. You can't just looked the specs of a single device. You have to look at the specs of all devices.
  9. You have not acknowledged any of the information that has been given to you. The wireless system does and performs as advertised. If all these people are asking you for advice, do not advise them on equipment and tech specs you are not knowledgeable of. That is unprofessional. Everything has been explained to you, and you have chosen to ignore those explanations and continued your rant. It's good you are done, because after all of this, I don't think anybody is going to take the time to discuss the issue with you any further. I know I certainly won't. Good luck to you.
  10. If you are getting a music feed, why are you using a wireless system? I answered the question pretty thoroughly about wired booms vs wireless booms I even referenced and linked to an article you clearly did not read or understand. The statement is not incorrect. It's variable. For the distances commonly required for a cable run, it could go either way.
  11. ccsnd

    like Dante?

    Newer live sound systems include high channel effect loops (madi or otherwise) to connect to host systems (daw or standalone) to allow you to use your plugin's in a live environment. It's a quickly evolving part of the audio industry, and there are a lot of interesting things happening.
  12. It depends on what you are doing. Are you running a cabled boom? How far do you need to go? How are you going to put a mic pre near the mic? There are a lot of variables. a balanced mic level signal will probably go a few hundred feet before you get a noticeable loss. We have done that in live sound since live sound existed. An unbalanced signal, like a guitar, is going to degrade signal a lot sooner. It also depends on the mic, cable, mic pre, etc. The point is, is the zaxcom wireless system better, the same, or worse than a cable? There isn't really one straight answer to that question.
  13. http://audiosystemsgroup.com/CableCapacitance.pdf
  14. I have edited my above response to include a story
  15. My personal preference is a cable. But also keep in mind that a cable has a lot of negative qualities over distance. With a long enough cable, wireless is actually a better transmission format. I used to be a FOH mixer for a well known guitarist. For his entire career this performer used a extremely long 1/4 for his guitar. When trying to get him to join the rest of the world in wireless world, he absolutely HATED the sound of his guitar through the wireless system. He had been playing through this several hundred foot cable for so long, that he was used to the signal loss in the cable. He HATED the increased frequency range of the wireless opposed to that cable. Eventually we created a cable for him to the TX that simulated the long cable length he was used to. A lot of wireless systems actually have these cable length emulators built in now. All they really do is lower frequency response.
  16. Let's make an analogy to refrigerators. GE has made the same fridge for the last 5 years, a good, competent, always cold unit. I buy that fridge today. Next week they unveil a refrigerator that uses lasers to keep things cold. I want that fridge. Do I demand they create an update path for my current week old fridge, or demand a firmware update to a fridge that doesn't even have the same hardware as the new one? No. I suck it up. Businesses depend on sales to generate income. Income is required for capital, which is required for R&D. If I tell you 3 months ahead of time that I'm working on laser cooling technology, you are going to not buy a new fridge - waiting for laser cooling technology Which stops income. The point is that everything has a definite life cycle, especially when it comes to technology. If you decide you need a piece of hardware to solve your issue, it's up to you to decide to invest in current technology, or wait for new technology. Whatever your decision, it's your problem, not someone else's.
  17. LOL he uses the raven in his demo. This is actually a pretty awesome system though.
  18. I'd rather have a good 16 than a bad 24. If your 24 bit recording has 16 bits that make up the noise floor..............
  19. I (among others) covered this in great detail on this forum. Here is the link most information about calibrating a room can be found there.
  20. Here's a quick answer as to why do both (sticks and timecode) timecode is technology, and technology can, and often does fail. physical sticks clapping together is physics, and physics do not fail.
  21. select all the clips you want to change, the audio suite will add the changes to all selected files and clips.
  22. It depends on who you talk to and weather or not they like you. They can be lenient with working between classifications if they like you, or they can be strict if they don't. It's a cumbersome, idiotic, and very annoying process.
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