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  1. I had a pair of HD26 once, but they sound rather different imho... about the same grade of isolation, OK comfort, but less fidelity. Their sound is too different to switch back and forth with HD25. Too much brain power needed to calculate "it would sound like such on a HD25, lets say it was OK"... I've been working with HD25 for 12 years now. The thin dotted OK/not OK line between my ears is based on the listening experience they provide.
  2. There has been a new generation of HD-25 headphones out since the early months of 2016. - Has anyone been using them so far? - Does the problem of intermittent connection loss (cable to earcup) still persist with the new generation? From the pics the connection to the earcups has not been changed, but one could maybe think they they've been clever enough to improve the female part of the plugs inside the earcups... The new generation is named only "HD-25" without any suffix, there is a "plus" edition with the same headphones but a coiled cable and velour pads added. see this old thread:
  3. one more thought into the equation: Are you OK with visible Lavs? If yes, imho it might be an option to do it all by youself, because then the problems are "reduced" to operating your gear with max 10% of your attention (the other 90% will go into keeping your talent happy, organizing your next couple of shooting hours, doing the camera work and actual directing. If the Lavs have to be hidden, as a newbe to miking your chances to get decent audio per take per mike are around or under 50%, depending on the clothing of your talent. So simply forget about the one man option then.
  4. axel

    Orca OrCart

    thanks for these super comprehensive videos. I like your real life approach
  5. Derek, this was exactly what I did for the last projects. But rental houses here offer standard Teradek packages with 1Tx/2Rx, of which one usually goes for Video and one for 1st AC and /or directors handheld. Always big drama to convince Cam dept. to argue with Rental to tear up one of their packages for another Rx and then ask production to pay for it. All of them are negotiating with each other and the one who is least envolved (me) gets blamed from all sides for rising costs. For the last movie I skipped the rental house option and asked a befriended DOP if he would borrow me his Teradek and production to pay for it. At the end I got it for free and production stepped in with a decent bottle of wine, but imho this is not the way to go on long terms.
  6. Bolt sidekicks: I have been using two Teradek Bolt sidekick Rx on my new TV movie project for the first couple of days. Those have been developed for AC and director's monitors, but why not jump on the train? Range wise they behave like the Bolt pro 300 Rx, which are used by video village. Everything within decent range, but reception in the next room is usually still good. Within line of sight the range is likely what is indicated in the manual (300ft/100m). This solution is costly, but now I am enjoying wireless HD video reception in next room distance to the cameras. I can move freely with my cart, not being tied to cables. It helps with mixing if I can watch the boom(s) in real 3D view and I can be exactly where I want to. If I have to hide far away I choose a place near to video village and ask for a short BNC cable, but this is likely to happen once every second day or so. Pairing with Tx is notably easy, yesterday it took less than one minute to pair with an additional unit camera Tx; must be any version of 2nd generation bolt pro. The units have no ON/OFF button, so I power switched each unit together with a cheap Lilliput HDSDI monitor and they take about the same 8-10 seconds to boot, so when the monitor is ready the video signal is also there.
  7. hi Fabian, I recorded on the Cantar. No issues with 8011 self noise, but I just went for divers bubbles in the pool and the crackling noise in the coral reef, after that I stopped using it. It was a reality show and there was no time to really go into underwater soundscapes. To my opinion, the 8011 was way too expensive for what it could add to the programme.
  8. I was using a DPA 8011 once for a project in the pool and the tropical sea for a programme with divers and freedivers. I was rather dissapointed of the sound, as it did not resemble my own underwater listening experience: with the 8011 only high-mid to very high freq spectrum was audible, in the sea the crackling of the coral was just the same everywhere and masked everything else. The 8011 looks very much like the 8010, I cannot tell if there is a major difference between them. there are other, cheaper underwater mics with a wider sound spectrum offered on the internet http://hydrophones.blogspot.co.at/2011/05/c-series-pro-hydrophones-new-addition.htm I am freediving and use a gopro for my own amateur videos, it is remarkable how much sound the gopro records, although it sits sealed in its watertight plastic housing. And pretty much of it are strange body sounds. So better not dive down yourself, but let the mic hang down on the cable. I'd be curious for an A/B test of a gopro against the DPA Ambient boasts to have a big underwater ball mic, that can be used as a stereo or even as a surround array and covers more frequ spectrum. There are some demo videos on utube. But I guess it would be quite expensive to get such a kit to Uruguay lo mejor para tu proyecto, Axel
  9. one more suggestion, referring to LR combined with HMa: I use my new HMA with black eneloops and found it's runtime is slightly shorter than with the regular HM I had borrowed previously for this project. This is OK, but I am not on the safe side any more to get through with one battery change at lunch. At the moment HMa is paired with an LR Rx. As LR has its display to the front, the battery status is not that easily monitored inside the bag. But it has got a nice green/red battery indicator which is easily seen also inside the bag, but only used for Rx batt warning. Using the LRBattelim I dont really need to monitor my mains cart power on the LR. Suggestion: maybe it is possible to add an option to the LR battery monitoring menu to select for the batt warning LED to represent either the Rx or the Tx status. In a perfect world I could also chose a treshold voltage. I'd set it to 1,2 V for the HMa and I'd be on the safe side, because I'd always see the red LED blinking out of the bag and still had a reserve of 20 mins to tell my boom op he is running short of power.
  10. Hi Constantin, even the onboard faders of the X3 are a "wow" upgrade compared to the CL9 I was using before. Although they might look like a mickey mouse piano, those faders behave like direct extensions of your fingertips. The most subtle moves go directly into your mix, they are very responsive.
  11. I like this Tx. Only issue: The manual says, the unit will reboot on insertion of new batteries if it was running when batterys were pulled. Mine does not. Is there a way to get it to boot on power restore?
  12. hi Ao, I guess/hope the sidekicks shouldn't be too difficult to match with the Tx. I did the pairing of the Bolt pro 300 during prep time with the camera guys (they had refused to do it) and they were impressed it took only 10 min (2 attempts) If you know about the settings of the Tx it is done easily. If you dont, you have to find out by try and error and this is the time consuming part of it. The computer interface lets you change the settings, but does not show you the current config. I would also like to adopt them for my next project, which will start 4 weeks from now. So I'd appreciate if you kept me posted with some first results. best from Vienna btw X3 is running smooth, love it. Do you have one? rereading you post: with our actual configuration there is no time wasted with "handshaking" the Bolt Tx/Rx. It works in the instant. When there is more than one wall in between, they lose connection, but gain it back the instant I enter reception zone. Same when the Tx is powered down and up again.
  13. hi there, Teradek Bolt has become something like a standard in video transmission from camera to video village here, so I am looking to get some receivers for video monitoring on the sound cart. The idea is to grab the same signal from the camera(s) that is transmitted to video assist anyway. For the ongoing production I could borough a Bolt Pro 300 Rx which is performing quite well if I can stay at a reasonable distance from camera (eg like in the next room). I also found no RF spill from the receiver or HDSDI cable runs into my wireless Lectro Rx, the system is neat and allows me to move freely with my small footprint soundcart. So I think of buying two bolt sidekick receivers, which are a little smaller and compatible to all Bolt transmittters of the newer generation. Anyone who could gain some experience with those?
  14. this looks good, man! I like the wood approach
  15. I am exactly doing your kind of work and switched to Cantar X3 (which I am happy with, real big upgrade and much smaller form factor compared to the 788/CL9). If there had been an option for a 688/CL12 18 months ago, I'd have looked at this first, though.
  16. I use an app called "good reader". You can have more pdf's open at a time, view in single or two page-mode, do annotations and highlightings... files can be saved locally, with basic file management. just a decent pdf reader, a bit better than iBooks
  17. and now for the real question (if not posted & answered elsewhere here): will there be an upgrade available for existing SRa or SRb units? - or does the grey color mean "sorry guys, but this is different..."
  18. Got some Copic markers and tried on the B6 Kevlar cable: Removable with alcohol (takes the most colour, but residue is left) - acetone/nail polish remover (takes the colour residue) - alcohol again to remove the remover. I doubt the nail polish remover would do good to the cable in the long run. Ah, and it works, but colors turn out lighter on the Kevlar cable. so stick to the darker colours to get more than just very sublte results. did not try yet, but interesting question. With just the markers it would take probably very long to colour one Overcover. I tried it on a bunch of them with textile dye once which absolutely did not work. But you can buy refill liquid for the Copics and this might be an option.
  19. how do you remove the copic colour?
  20. hi David, we only went to the basecamp (south/Nepali side). Easy hike, take some time to adapt to the altitude though. I also spent two weeks in Bhutan, on a different project. Liked it very much, although I did not see much else than Thimpu. We filmed the administration of the "gross national happiness" project. I was much better equipped in Bhutan, after all. Could do some nice wild tracks.
  21. axel

    Recording puppeteers

    thanks for sharing! this was a cool thread
  22. on project in mid May, but otherwise this could have been a go! I've been to Nepal/Everest BC for 4 weeks in 2006 to record a doc with insufficient gear straight to cam. Pity what we did NOT record by then best for your Journey Axel
  23. do you soak the capsules in distilled water while doing the ultrasonic clean? - I didn't dare to do it with DPAs yet, but I did successfully with VT500 several times. They can get wet and work flawless if dried again.
  24. G3 with decent mics go very well with normal talking, imho. With a little bit of luck also their transmission range can be impressive. The Lectros enter the game when people start to yell, stir in the porcelain cup, clap their hands and then whisper, play with their keys or run away shouting. It's the extreme ends, where those high end Tx still can deliver usable sound.
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