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hmmmm. perhaps zaxcom then.

i was looking at the zaxcom stuff for the external antenna. it seems more reliable to me for some reason, but that's not based at all on any practical testing. don't really want to justify a 200% pricepoint compared to the lectro one just for an antenna, though.

just thought it was funny. sheesh

did someone seriously change the topic to "plug on?"

Hey guys, Buying a new wireless system soon. Going to be a Lectro venue system probably. Has anyone heard what the Lectro butt plug sounds like with a boom attached? I've gotten used to my Audio Ltd. transmitters which sound pretty darn close to a hard wired microphone. Will there be any big noticeable difference between the two different systems I should be wary about? Thanks guys, joe

Hey guys, I looked into the possibility of making an internally coiled rf mast for my cart a couple years back. After a couple months of researching, I decided it's more trouble and more expensive than i thought. Here's why: 1. all rf cable types we use have a minimum bend radius that is larger than the diameter of most masts. if you were to coil or wind an rf cable around in smaller loops than it was meant for, you risk breaking the shielding inside the cable, rendering it more likely to receive interference. you'd need a mast that was like 3 inches in diameter to house the cable, and that would be just a tad clunky on a cart i think. that said, there are some unsheilded or less shielded varieties that would be able to coil that small safely, but it would be more prone to interference. this lead to a very short lived idea of turning each section of the mast into a faraday cage to keep other rf out of the mast. 2. if you were to not wind or coil the cable, you'd have to feed is straight down to the bottom and collect the excess there and tie it up. that could work, but i'm not sure it'd be any less work than just extending a regular mast and recoiling with the cable on the outside. this lead to me considering a fishing rod approach using slip rings rated for rf. it would allow a self retracting spool of rf cable to rotate, but maintain a non moving contact to run to your receivers. basically, i would re spool one of these with 50 ohm bnc: ttp://almarkenterprises.com/audio/video-retractable-cable-reels/d201081-bnc-retractable-cable-reel then swap out the slip ring in that for one of these rf rated slip rings: ttp://productfinder.spinner-group.com/web/DOCUMENTS/153146-DS.pdf i abandoned this idea once i got a quote for those slip rings. they were the only rf rated ones i could find, and they are very expensive. hopefully you guys have better luck than i did. the quest for a cleaner sound cart never ends. joe

Hey, On a movie using ALOT of hazers indoors. A couple times we've had our cm it's start making the schoeps humidity whining noise. We can't find any other reason. the stage is not humid at all and these two mics just got back from a tune up at schoeps not even a week ago. Can hazers cause this to happen? I know the haze starts as a liquid so I assume it to be the culprit. Anyone have this problem before? thanks, joe

Hey, Helping someone get ready for a job overseas. Trying to figure out if np-1's are a good idea for him for his deva since he'll be away from power alot. Anyone know what kind of battery life you can expect from 1 lithium np-1 battery like this one? http://www.trewaudio...on-Battery.html It's a Deva 16 if that helps. Couldn't find anything in the manual about battery life... Thanks, joe

that's one tiny microphone. thanks for the pictures joe

Hi, I was recently checking out the 8000 series modular sennheiser mics online. The product descriptions all say that the mic is only 75mm with the included xlr module attached, yet I can't find any pictures of the XLR module, or one of these mics on a pole. Does anyone have any pictures of one of these mics built on the end of a pole with windscreen and everything on it? I'm curious how big it is and can't seem to find anything. Thanks, joe

i'm glad to see so many people working on psc's design. at 53 inches, the newer version of mine is coming in a few inches shorter than my old version. it looks very misleading in my pictures. i'm starting to think cause of the small psc wheels. i really wanted mine to be even shorter but the audio ltd quadbox led me to make it a bit taller. thanks for all the responses. i'll post again soon, joe

hey everyone, i've spent the passed few years doing and redoing my psc cart to make it more usable. i just finished up a job and started by saying "maybe i'll add a usb keyboard to my setup," which led me to taking apart my entire cart and taking a saw to it. i figured i'd try to document the process in case anyone else was using a psc cart and needed some ideas for redoing it. the way i see it there's 2 kinds of sound carts: the tall ones and the short ones. the psc cart is a tall one the way people usually have it set up. i wanted everything lower and a smaller size all around. i unfortunately dont have a picture of the original cart all assembled, but here's what i started with: that's the old base with the handle and top section and all hooks removed. the mixer usually sat on top of the shelf that's on top in this picture, with the 2 recorders on the top shelves on the handle. here's the cart with the top shelf lowered. i flipped the handle around and rested my old psc cart top on it. i decided the mixer would go on a slider on the top big shelf, and i would replace my old cart top with a starcase aluminum rack bolted onto the old handle. I flipped the wheel wells around so they were on the inside of the back vertical piece, saving an inch of clearance on the back of the cart. I added diagonal support from the old supports from the psc cart. i eventually cut off that excess that you see on top. since the cart was now missing a handle, i designed a new one and cut some aluminum pieces for it. i had to cut it all by hand in my apartment. it worked, but i think i'll be picking aluminum burrs out of my feet for the next year or 2. here's the handle assembled. there's still excess pipe in this picture. i still need to get it to a friend of mine so he can weld it all together for me into one piece. here's the starcase rack assembled and resting on top for sizing. the one i ordered turned out to be 2 spaces taller than i needed so i later cut it down so the cart was shorter. sizing up the gear. i used my old brackets from the psc cart that i made to bolt it all down on this cart. here's the mixer with the rackman slider in place. for the rear mounts for the slider i had to make little right angles with 1RU screw holes on them mounted to the top shelf. when it came time to finally mount the rack to the cart, to my dismay, i had to grind more aluminum in my apartment. here are the mounting plates for the rack in place. i also used the extra piece from the old PSC diagonal support to add additional support for the rack. here's everything assembled with the rack shortened. i haven't cabled anything yet or figured out what i'm doing for antennas, hooks, sides, etc, but this is pretty much it for the frame. all in all it stands at 53 inches tall. it's by far the most i've changed the original psc layout. hopefully this helps anyone who has a psc cart and wants to change it, but not break the bank doing it. ill update again soon. joe

Recording. I just got one because I just came off a job where the director requested a Nagra every day in addition to the other 2 machines we were rolling. I guess 7 weeks of loading the damn thing made me love it. I'd just stare at it next to the Sound Devices machine and the SD machine just looked like a toy. 100% Stockholm Syndrome. Anyway, I like it alot. Joe

Hey hey, Anyone know the thread count for the reel tie down nuts on a Nagra 4.2? I can't figure out if it's metric or not. Looks like it could be. Anyway, if you know it let me know. I'd like to find an alternative to finding actual nagra replacement ones. Thanks, joe

hey guys, quick update: since this is a grad student film and there is no locations dept i took it upon myself to resolve this issue. today i went into the attic with the permission of the owner and located the source of the problem: a small inline fan in the vent system, on the same circuit as the oil heater. suffice it to say, it was turned off. thanks for all your replies, joe

hey, please excuse iphone typing. im in the middle of nowhere. on location today and will be in the same bar tomorrow. ive turned everything off and now hear the oil burner in the attic resonating through the ceiling right over the bar area (where we're shooting of course). ive located the breaker and am able to kill it but the owner is not here. no more dialogue today so its staying on, but tomorrow big dialog scene. i have not been able to get in touch with the owner to see if turning it off would damage anything. heaters already turned off, will i damage the burner system if i kill it for the day? anyone dealt with killing oil heaters before? this is a first for me. thanks, joe

not rude at all. the main reason why i was excited when it came out was because the meters on the front of the 788 while helpful, are very small and low resolution. this picture might give you a better idea of what i'm talking about: http://www.sounddevi...8t-fp-720px.jpg the meters are there on the right. each one is about an inch long and made up of about 14 leds which work great for quick reference. but for things like setting tone at -20, the meters are not labeled with db values and the changes of something like 3-4 db are not reflected on the front meters, especially on the lower half. this makes setting tone and levels on those meters a bit frustrating sometimes. i also might add that i'm colorblind and the top level of the meter are red, bottom half green. in certain lighting i can't tell the difference with green and red leds. i honestly have no idea when my np-1's are charged, but that's a whole other story... i'm just looking for a nicer metering option. the meters on the cl-wifi software are hi-res and labeled properly, but lag. good idea with the sd user group. i think i'll try there. thanks, joe

Hey all, not sure how many people are using the cl-wifi but i thought i'd start a thread about this cause i haven't heard anything otherwise. I purchased a CL-Wifi to use with an old iphone 3gs i have to be used as a more detailed metering option and to be able to arm/disarm/rename tracks quickly on my cart setup. I haven't been able to fully utilize it as a permanent part of my setup for the following two reasons: 1. the meters have a pretty noticable lag to them. so much so that checking them while mixing is not very reliable. 2. the software seems to get lost alot. reconnecting alot, even when the phone is right next to the cl-wifi (i've tested this in different areas with different phones with different results, but it seems to be a pretty consistent problem) does anyone know if sound devices is planning on updating the software any time soon? do they know about these issues? i'd really like to have the bigger meters and the more centralized easy to read display the software provides. i honestly wouldnt mind these features in an accessory that had to be hardwired to the machine either. thanks for reading, joe

I knew i wasn't crazy! thanks, joe

Hey, A while ago I thought I saw a post on this forum for a new wireless company. I think they were from England. They stuff looked alot like audioltd in shape and design. I can't for the life of me find the post where I saw this. Does anyone know what I'm talking about? Thanks, joe

Producers and assistant editors sure don't think so.

better meters better display since the viewing angle on the current screen is horrible because it's recessed. slate mic without cl-9 fw-800/usb host ability to modify flags/copy/delete multiple files by selecting them as a group.

hey guys, so i bought a cl-wifi when it first came out with the hopes of running it as an eternal metering system and information view for my machine. the wi-fi lag is proving to be kind of annoying and since i don't have or want an ipad, i'm stuck using my cellphone as my meter. does anyone know if sound devices plans on just making an external meter/screen for the 788 that would just plug right into the machine, no idevice required? maybe some bindable buttons on the side? you know, like this thing: http://www.sounddevices.com/products/pix.htm thanks, joe

Hello, I use Audio Ltd. Wireless in the US. I remember a while ago I stumbled across a couple Film/TV sound equipment websites based in England. In their used section they had alot of Audio Ltd. stuff. I've since lost the link. Anyone know any sites based in England that would have what I'm looking for? Thanks

Hey Guys, I've been using the 416 as my goto shotgun for as long as I've been doing sound. I've tried others, and the closest I've found to something I might like better is the blue Schoeps. Since I'm not able to buy new mics for a while, I'm still stickin with my 2 416's. Even if i could afford it, I'm not sure I'd replace the 416's. I've always had issues with shockmounts for it, though. The 416 is very front heavy and sits crooked in many shockmounts that hold other mics just fine. The area that the shockmount's bands can cover is also very small compared to other mics. My goto mounts have always been the PSC ones with the orange bands. They're small, light weight, and simple. The smallest PSC shockmount is still a bit too large for the 416 though. Either front band is really close to/on the mic's grill, or the back band is on the XLR connector it seems. It's just a bit too wide. I tried out the Audio Technica 4 band mounts and while they're the right length for the back end of the mic, the wide hard bands on it sometimes give a little "squeaky squeaky" sound when the mic moves a little bit. The rotating joint on the audio technica mount is also large and doesn't lock very well. I'm tempted to make something myself to just solve this problem but I was wondering if anyone else who uses the 416 had any mount they prefer for it. Thanks, Joe