The Immoral Mr Teas

... "designed for long days on set" so you can factor in all the overtime pay before shelling out the extra 49 bucks

Cheers Jim, Olle, Bouke and LD - I certainly wasn't criticising anyone's choices, loyalties and avoidances - heaven knows I avoid more and more these days. I wasn't aware Uli was such a xxxx in his business. I tend also to avoid the rainbow cycle billionaires but I should look into the Devilfish etc. Sadly I'm no longer particularly invested in the industry let alone the gear - I sometimes admire the Schoeps and the Sennheisers on my shelf for which I generate the same income as my Nagras, miles of cable and the box of Calrec console bits. I've liked talking to or with Deity and Zoom salespeople at the occasional trade fair - I own bits and pieces by both. I hope they have nice bosses! Jez

If this is 'our business' the sad truth is that the business, and the world around it, has changed (and I'm no great summer blockbuster fan but I'll still say certainly for the worse). But Behringer is a music/creative business and produces affordable products for DIY / bedroom-production - whatever you want to call it - and now they've done the same for this self-creation digital culture in (the audio side of) picture. In 2009 (?) they bought Midas and Klark-Tecnik ... bringing mid range products (many probably discussed here for their usefulness in 'mid range' AV production) as well as keeping up the top end products for musical theatre etc etc. I don't see any real difference in Behringer making a product than Tascam (who once used the Teac name for their budget stuff), Zoom, Deity, whatever. This may look tackier, but it's even cheaper than the above offerings. Or Sound Devices producing the MixPre series. Is Avid Protools considered 'our industry' or another DIY tool? For a long time it has been both, one side feeding off the other, but our industry is definitely the weaker partner. We're a long way from the battles between RCA, Western Electric, Tobis-Klangfilm and the like. Maybe one day an old crotchety git will be looking fondly at their Mark 1 Flow4VIO the same way I look at my Nagra III. So it goes ... Jez

Liked the early expletive and the dig at the director/producer Thanks for pointing it out Jim - I'd not have seen it for months I expect! Jez

https://www.sqn.co.uk/ might start answering questions on cabling etc. Can't -quite- see what model you have from the view you've posted but if you click on 'PRODUCTS' it has details of the two still current Series 5 and Series 4 mini plus most of the earlier products (including the earlier Series 5). It is also WELL worth having a good read of the history (and chronology) ... hidden away in 'CONTACT' it seems. The original mono mixer was designed specifically to host the small Nagra SN for news gathering and documentary. Specifically I do think I once had a cable to connect the older mono mixer to a Nagra III, and the SQN, ubiquitous in the UK, was designed very much with the Nagra recorders in mind before / as well as connecting to video cameras, so a message to the SQN team would surely answer any questions you might still have if you can't work it out from the manuals. They also make their own cables up (virtually necessary for some of the multi-out / direct out sockets) and would create something to order I imagine if the need was vintage and the cable wasn't on the list. I grew up with the SQN 4-S as much as the Nagra 3 and 4s, as did many here; they are beautifully built and sound great. Jez

Thank you Jeff and rest in peace. Dear Vanessa and David, my condolences also to you and your family for the passing of Jeff and Carol before him. As everyone here will say Jeff was a great support and host to this community and to film in general. Both your father and grandfather were legends in the industry but the Wexlers felt and feel like family to ourselves here. I am sorry that Jeff was one of the friends, out of a handful from his own site and from RAMPS which inspired it, that I did not manage to meet in the States in person - yet my feeling of friendship was no less for it. Here was - and is - one of the friendly, helpful, intelligent and worthwhile examples of the internet and the Wexler family are examples of what is best in Hollywood and filmmaking. Jez Adamson

Thanks (slightly belated) so much for posting these, Mr D. Fortunately I'm not on the face book but unfortunately it means I cannot do the same detective work you've done. Angos Winke truly looks like an interesting fellow - musician, possibly composer and with considerable gadgetry skill to boot. And what a great 60's image (I hope he wouldn't be offended if I said it reminded me of the Wendy Carlos covers). Everybody please scroll up to the earlier posts for a further image plus those of the heavily modified Nagra III itself. Whomever now has that Nagra is the owner not only of a great object but of a fascinating piece of history. Mr Winke has meanwhile entered into my note book in the hope we come across more clues and eventually, I dearly hope, some compositions and recordings. In my Mind Palace he is already discussing the arpeggio and fugue with Carlos, Daphne Oram, David Tudor and Glenn Gould. Cheers, Jez Adamson

I've been looking for some cables which might handle the method extremes we have to handle on the modern set - from the quietest mumbley blur to the sudden shriek of outraged glee. My current cables have managed everything from an evening Himalayan wisp of wind to the turbojets of an interceptor, and with room to spare, but today's talent have ultimately shown up their shortcomings. But really, most of us here operate on the principle, "but will it help the movie?" - and as such one is preaching to the unconvertable. JWS is many fine things but an audiophile forum it is not. At 234 bucks for two (very) short cable lengths "compromise" would be the last word on my needs list. J

I would probably buy one Tascam Portacapture X8 if it does what you want it to do. I've only seen pictures of it but build quality - or looks - seems pretty similar to the DR-100 which has apparently lasted you years. Keep an eye out on other recorders and firmware updates so if SD finally decide to implement what you're looking for you might have a shopping choice ... or keep asking them and maybe they'll get round to adding it. For years I kept an eye out for the lower (mid) cost recorders - SD Mixpre, Zoom, etc - to come out with a digital, AES-3 or even S-PDIF in/out - which the much lower cost Tascam DR680 had years earlier - to no avail. So it goes. J

Please post when/if you do. Looks like it's sold now (and not surprised). The owner - who sounded like he knew the Nagra III - also had no idea of much of the modifications ... so whilst we might figure out the 'what' we'll probably never know the 'why' ... Cheers, J

Mr D, I missed this a couple of days ago but it indeed looks like a very interesting modification. Pictures of the top (in case any differences in head arrangement and/or extras) and ESPECIALLY the sides (in case any other ins/outs from normal) would be nice to see. Curious what changes or additions, besides an 'echo head' (is this different from the playback/confidence head??) that there might be ... and who might have gone to such trouble ... and why!? Thank you! Jez PS I tried every combination of its serial number on the Nagra website too and no results ... an NPH model originally however - pilot tone (with loudspeaker) which suggests it had a previous life as a film (sync) recorder before the mods.

filmsoundsweden Cheers Dela, what a fascinating site to browse through and I've already found some interesting vintage stuff there in English: NAGRA RECORDER

+1 to everything Philip has to say, but happy to quote just this last bit. Rather than (potentially useful) tools to allow a craftsperson to do their craft this will indeed just be yet another one-stop-shop for 'fixing' that dialog - - bad location? bad recordist? bad performance? not any more! - - and 'helping' (bad) productions and (bad) producers achieve a whole new set of self- congratulatory aims. As for adobe, I'm reading an awful lot of pdfs at the moment and having used 'acrobat' for as long as I can remember for the last few days I've started opening them in an all-new-song-n-dance version which tells me everything I read looks long and complicated and would I like it to guess the important bits for me? I guess I can probably turn all these pop-up crap things off if I stopped to work out how but I've taken the easier route for now and just try to remember to open them in another less irritating program. Fingers crossed though our more 'professional' software doesn't all go down the 'sit back I'll do that for you' route too. J

I'll wager, with one post and an abstract question, that F may not be 'one of us', but I'll be irresponsible anyway and offer, 'more meths' J

Canford also have been making electret mic adapters for decades - I had one years back for a Bayer lav. https://www.canford.co.uk/CANFORD-ELECTRET-MICROPHONE-ADAPTERS Jez