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Sennheiser mkh8060 w/skp2000 I guess it doesnt go well with wireless boom ;( Seeing the comments, I guess I’ll have to use my cables to avoid this. But every cine gear is going wireless and wireless... Now each dept are even using iphones to monitor. So... I’m not sure I can catch up the production speed if I go back using cables alone. haha. Thanks for all the reply tho! This might be one way to try. Thank you.

Hi all. I’m working on a set where the camera crew prefers to use Arri UDM Sensor unit. Which uses ultrasonic pulses to measure distance. There are some moments when my mic captures the pulse and records a continuous beeps. Especially when it goes CU. It doesnt happen always but it does happen often, so I’m keep asking the camera crew if they could take the UDM off. And they do, for the day. But put it back on on the next day until I ask them the same thing again. So.... I was wondering if this is going to be my life till the end of the show? or are there any tips and advices I can get to work around it? possibly making both, me and the camera crew, happy? Thanks, Eugene Kim

Hi. My name is Eugene. I'm working under a Production Sound team based in Korea. Our team recently switched our Recorder from Fostex PD6 to Zaxcom's Fusion12. As you can see the huge years gap between the two recorder, and also our lack of English to properly navigate through the manual or google searches etc. we are facing many difficulties to make this new fancy gear work properly. So if anyone can kindly help us out, it will be a great help. 1. File naming issue. we are wondering if Fusion12 has an option to save the recorded files name as "Scene_Take" instead of the default "segnamez000.zax(/wav)" we came to an answer to use WaveAgent to rename the files, after copying to our PC but if we can save it as "Scene_Take.zax(/wav)" from the beginning that will save huge time for us. 2. Zaxconvert, MacOSX freeze we were testing the Zaxconvert, works as it suppose to on our PC. but when we tried it on our Macbook pro(we did downloaded the newest 'for Mac' from Zaxcom) we faced an issue. The program itself runs. But when we click the Translate Files after setting options and output folder, another pop-up window showes up with a progress bar saying "Translating Files". but the progress bar never shows any progress being done, and freezes. (Can't even force quit) Our MacOSX version is 10.9.3, we bought it brand new just for the purpose to work with Fusion. Only other program on the Macbook is Protools, WavAgent and BWFmanager. Anyone had simlar issue? Solutions? 3. Testing Sample rate 192 & no sound on Headphone as the Fusion manual recommended, we did Factory Reset to make sure turning off all the effects and also changed the Rate step by step from 48>96>192. we test recorded 1 files each used 4 channel on all the sample rates. It was lagging a bit on 192 but was ok. But after recording 192, when we tried to go back to 96, Fusion12 Freezed. we had to turn off the recorder and turn it back on. And suddenly from that point, our headphone stopped. (which is the main reason we decided to post this topic for help) Headphone works fine on other devices. the Recorder is still getting levels from the mics. It's just something wrong between the recorder and our headphone and we can't find what it could be. More surprisingly, we lost the way to go to 'headphone volume' screen. We thought maybe somehow the Volume is off and wanted to check it, we all saw it before when we were testing other things. And no one of our team is able to reach that screen again. On the Manual it says press 'HPH' button and it will go to Headphone Options and if we press it again it will go to Headphone Volume. But now we only have Headphone Options and Home Screen. Also going through pressing 'Menu > Headphone options setting' way is lost as well. We tried Factory Reset, Changed Sample Rate to 48k still Headphone not working.

I already printed out and went through the Lectro manuals some time ago, but didn't know there were also 'wireless-guide' from them and all the other links!! Thanks a lot again. Now it's time to study. PS, Babelfish worked perfectly!! Thank you. (or Thank you) ....

Thank you, Jon and Brian. I think there were some misunderstanding because of my English. I said 'borrow' which I was actually meant 'rent' from my friend. He owns a small local production company and I'm not taking out his gear for free. He gives me a discount, but I still pay for it. And it's not my first time using sound gear and lav sets I still need a lot of experience and study, but my friend doesn't have to teach me. I realized my post itself was a stupid question when Brian mentioned about the microphone. That shows how inexperienced I am. I know it in my head but totally lost it when I was writing this post. To be honest, I was more excited that I was writing something here. (I think I have some kind of fantasy on this site..) In my short experience, of course I prefer the Lectro. It might be because of the mic, but Sony sounded heavier(?) when I once used it. I didn't hated the Sony's, but felt Sony's had really short distance(?) of how far I can go from the subject. And... I think this might be because of the difference of the antenna on the transmitter/receiver set.... right? Besides the microphone and antenna... then what makes the difference between different models and brands? It's more a curiosity question. I'll also try to search through the old posts. Thanks again.

Hello. I'm a newbie soundguy from Korea, started working in Vancouver recently. This is my first time posting a topic here so before I start, I want to thank everyone, how helpfull, just reading all the posts in this site is. Really, really. Thank you for sharing all the discussions and experience. So here is my story, I will be helping on a short interview type pilot show in a few week. They wanted to use wireless lav mics which I don't have any, so I told the person who contact me (...producer? not sure) that we can rent out Lectrosonics lav mic (UM400/UCR411) or I can borrow my friends Sony lav mic. (cant remember the model, according to my google image search, think it's UWPV1/3032) And the person sends me an email back "I don't know anything about sound or mic's so I'm not sure what the quality difference would be between the Lectrosonics and the sony? Is one preferable over the other?" In my short experience, I think Lectrosonics lav sounds a bit more sharp than Sony, but I don't know the exact difference between the two and I don't know the "words" to use when I want to explain it to someone else. Could anyone give me a clue what and how I should explain? And what kind of "keyword" I should search to dig in and study about these? Thank you so much again.