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Mungo

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  1. MixPre 10 II with Musician Plugin will serve you well. You get 8 inputs, good audio quality, timecode, mobile design, nice user interface for a fair price. You can even use it as a high quality audio interface for your laptop if you like. I remember recording a symphony orchestra at different locations around 2010, only with Schoeps ORTF setup directly into a 744T. The quality surprised not only me, it was blasting. I would say still better than MixPre, but nowadays I would like to be ready for more tracks.
  2. Just to understand? That noise is on the processed output and ALSO the unprocessed one?
  3. It's so popular that there seem to be many fake devices around with less functions or less accurate measuring. I was told to be aware and buy only from trusted import dealers.
  4. He (the guy from the lav company) also told me that they usually provide a new lav instead of repairing one that's been sent in. They don't charge the full price, give a quite high discount then
  5. A lav manufacturer recently told me that such musical theatres interpret their lavs as consumables (not the transmitters but the mikes). Sweat and movement, unintentionally taut cables, are so challenging that they have them sent to to service very very often. So having a redundancy during the show makes a lot of sense imho.
  6. Before experimenting, be sure that your transmitter will switch on when the batteries are put in again. All Sennheiser devices I know (I don't know EW-D SK) remember if they had been switched on or off when the power supply was cut. I hope it's the same with the new digital series, I'm curious - please let us know here. If so, don't get frustrated by experimenting too much and order an isolated converter, make a battery dummy and it will work. It's quite easy. The electrical circuits in the converters are ready-to-use, so you just need to solder the connections. The specifications of the EW-D SK and EW-DX SK are the same: Input voltage 2.0 - 4.35 V / Input current < 300 mA I guess this one will do: TIM 2-1210 | Traco Power
  7. Thank you. I forgot that. Over here in Europe I've neither ever seen this system in operation nor met anyone who has ever used it.
  8. It still seems impossible to build a digital IEM system with stereo transmission with zero delay, long running time and within the specification (50mW max, 200kHz bandwith max). I guess the MiPro 909 is the only digital stereo IEM system in the UHF band, released nearly a decade ago, but with a latency of 5.8ms which may be too much for musicians and presenters. There are also IEMs in the 2,4 and 5,8 GHz band (mostly not aimed at professionals).
  9. Sorry, no experience with DIY, sent it to repair. When the issue appears on the 833 I switch it off and perform quick fading from zero to full for half a minute or so. I imagine that blows away the dust inside. But that's unfortunately no solution for eternity.
  10. It's no potentiometer but a digital signal switch which seems to be the problem. Many manufacturers have ones making trouble over the time built in their products: Multi dials on cameras (like FS7-2 or FX9) or on big mixing desks for foh or broadcast. Had that issue on an 833 too. It developed its "own life", fading rapidly, sounding like digital wireless dropouts.
  11. Guess so. GND/minus is connected, so there are just 3 pins: in, out, GND. Isolated ones have at least 4 pins: in+ in- out+ out-
  12. Happens with many battery eliminators from any brands, as long as different components are supplied by one power source. You're quite lucky not having this issue with G3 as I had (Sennheiser DC2 converter). You can get rid of this by isolating. Meaning on the one hand with a balanced audio connection (not always possible and not always working) or on the other hand using a DC/DC converter with galvanic isolation. DC/DC converters in a chain, meaning first isolating with one converter and after that converting voltage with another device unfortunately may also not work. For me, I ended up making my "own" battery eliminators by soldering in parts from Traco Power THB series. That always works with any audio device, even with the cheapest consumer Bluetooth dongle.
  13. I would get a system that copes with each and every resolution and framerate, SDI and HDMI - for the future. The Hollyland Mars 4k is not as pricey as Teradek, but definitely works fine too. The only downside is that there isn't a video thru, so hopefully the video villagers provide a seperate video signal output available for you.
  14. Rare but known issue. Occurs on some units after some time, similar problem with some 833. Unfortunately having the knob changed by SD is the only option that helped in the cases I know.
  15. The legend says that Dr. Fritz Sennheiser, the founder, had a last wish: having a perfect uncompressed digital system under his name. His crew achieved that goal and I guess he could experience the success shortly before his death in 2010 at the age of 98. In fact no one who has got a 9000 system ever uses the HD mode, at least I didn't meet anyone. Everybody is more than satisfied with the compressed, but still extremely good, LR mode (long range), but that HD mode truly exists!
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