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BTW - I've heard nothing but great things about the Dan Dugan as well. You can get his number from his site and call and speak to him direct. Lectro has new auto-mixers coming out too and I think (not positive though) that they're based on the Dan Dugan technology... http://www.lectrosonics.com/_aspen/aspen.htm

I've done these types of jobs quite a few times. Mostly table reads. I did a table read for Desperate Housewives with 16 mics in one room and 9 mics in another. I learned by fire... it's really difficult to find 25 CUBs in a day or two so I supplemented COS11s for some and they sounded almost exactly the same. The CUBs have a tiny bit more reach than the COS11s but for all intense purposes there was no noticeable difference. To record I used a Mackie Onyx 1640 with a Firewire card and MetaCorder as my main deck and a 788T as my safety. And the 3 cameras got their desired mixes as well. this has become my weapon of choice for all the table reads I've done since and I stopped worrying about finding all CUBs. I own two CUBs and put those on the big-wigs (one mic per big-wig) then I put a COS11 between each pair of speakers on the "back" of the table (top side furtherest from their heads so there's room for their hands, scripts, etc). To mount them I put a strip of Molefoam on the table and tape the COS11 in their RM11s on top. Using white tape on white tables they almost don't read on the cameras. If you have enough wirelesses use them - this saves a couple hours of running cables! Otherwise get a stagebox/snake and run everything to the box and then just one cable back to your cart. You'll need Ambient Eumel (or similar) for all the lavs if you go "wired". I hope this helps. Good luck. Tim

Hey Bob, What kind of drawers? I want to go to rackmount drawers but none of them are big enough for a long Rycote. I'd love to see pix of your cart/follow cart. Thanks, Tim

Hi Guys, I'm trying to figure out a better solution for storing my zeppelins on my support cart. I have 5 zeps - 1 long, 3 mediums and 1 small and I keep my indoor mounts and mics in the same case. I've been keeping them all in a Pelican 1650 which has been great. It's not too heavy and everything is very well protected. But on my reconfigured support cart I don't have room for the 1650. I would love to hear what's working for you guys... Thanks, Tim Hays