Hugh Holesome

Charles, Battery was swapped in troubleshooting process, neither lit the LED. I'll send it in today. Thanks Hugh

I have a PS-1 from Denecke that works great. Last weekend, I was going to have 2 booms on a run n gun rig so I hooked up the rarely needed PS-2 box. The NTG-3 sounded great but my NTG-1 was giving me what I would describe as white noise. I changed inputs, cables, battery to no avail. Same noise whether 1 or both mics were connected. Hooked up to phantom through mixer and sounds fine, just looking to conserve mixer battery power. Does anyone know if its the NTG-1 being picky about phantom or if there any ways to check the PS-2 box? It happened before but just got to really troubleshoot this weekend. Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated. Hugh

Obviously that begs the question... What Would Jesus Boom?

This past fall Bill Moyers interviewed the creators on PBS Video is online here: http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/10242008/watch3.html

I was brought in local for a few episodes of a forthcoming wedding reality show and some of the production office had come from EMHE. I am thankful we didn't have to carry those BEAST rigs! Each of the 4 or 5 audio crew wore an X5, 4 Lextro RX, 2 hops, 1 IFB and a wired boom. During an intimate moment around the cake table with 3 handhelds buzzing around the couple and a jib cam up and to my left I just had to chuckle when they were motioning from the sidelines for me to "get my boom in there"!

Is it just me but it says the video is private and would not let me view it?

I was of the understanding that frequencies generally in the 700MHz band would be unusable. That makes be think Sennheiser "C" group and Lectrosonics above Block 26 are in question. IMHO if you buy new tuneable units, use channel scanning function and avoid those higher freq's you should be ok. Unless you consider how many more users will have to migrate their WL devices to the safe blocks...crap FROM THE FCC WEBSITE http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-08-260A1.pdf "Wireless microphones will be protected in a variety of ways. The locations where wireless microphones are used, such as entertainment venues and for sporting events, can be registered in the database and will be protected as for other services. In addition, channels from 2 – 20 will be restricted to fixed devices, and we anticipate that many of these channels will remain available for wireless microphones that operate on an itinerant basis. In addition, in 13 major markets where certain channels between 14 and 20 are used for land mobile operations, we will leave 2 channels between 21 and 51 free of new unlicensed devices and therefore available for wireless microphones. Finally, as noted above, we have required that devices also include the ability to listen to the airwaves to sense wireless microphones as an additional measure of protection for these devices."

HAHA - I just found the email from "the site" I told you that we are a realnames-only site and that we take that very seriously. I also told you that names like "Hugh Holesome" and "Mike Onastick" are not going to fly. What part of this is more than you are able to understand??? You don't have to like it or do it but we reserve the right to blow you out of the site -- and have. Keep it up and I will ban you at the IP level. Bye. In any event, I read YOUR posts and evaluate if it makes sense in my career or situation...anonymous or not, the truth is out there.

Since some breath has been blown into this thread, I'll chime in, I think it predates my signing up for this board anyway. I am very pleased with this group and the years of experience that regularly vent, question or answer as the case may be. I initially found the group while searching for answers to one of my many questions. Very rarely do I run into a problem that hasn't been addressed somewhere on the internet before and again I appreciate your collective wisdom. Another site that often has great answers from great pro's refused my participation for the afore mentioned reasoning...REAL NAMES ONLY. Not to fight the system I explained my case that the name I have worked under and am best known for is not my birth name. I admit I may have frustrated the webmaster by thinking I was cleverly trying to outwit a computer library of known aliases, not a real person! But to think that Hugh Holesome was a malicious or sexual handle I found absurd. Hugh Holesome MOAS=Mic On A Stick www.miconastick.com Detroit, MI (for now!)

I worked a Reality Show last week that used a "Field Mixer" for each of the camera crews. Being local I was asked to refer names for an "A2" which I had never heard of. They said it was an "Audio 2nd" which for the work they wanted, would have been Utility; cable and gear chores from the sound cart for the reveal day. This thread just made me realize a possibility for the term...the Exec Producer is British. Seems like a stretch but who knows.

Hugh Holesome Michigan and beyond... 313-363-2196 miconastick.com

Hi Guys, If you or someone you know is heading to Michigan I am there to help! Just wrapping my 3rd $500K feature as a mixer with numerous short/festival experiences, I would really like to work utility/boom/coffee runner* with some long timers. "Ye Olde Times" is one of many shooting soon and think it will offer some interesting long/wide exteriors... but any/all work on bigger budget projects is wanted. I know there are many discussions about MI not being staffed so I'm sure any number of you could be approached about work out here soon. Help me help you while helping me and MI sound as great as it looks! *I roast my own coffee and people I work with are treated to some of the freshest coffee varieties from around the world!! Thanks in advance, Hugh Holesome MicOnAStick email Hugh at above

Thanks guys, Yes basically corrupt path. I go to 2 drives, 1 for me and 1 for production. Their USB cable was flaky and was replaced and no error since!

Yes, I cc:d him but thought I'd check with the group also.

If I close the program and or eject the hard drives I am unable to successfully relaunch BR without creating new directories? The program worked flawlessly during the 30 day trial but since purchase this has happened repeatedly...at least 4 times this past week. Restarting Macbook pro does not factor. The only workaround is starting BR with drives undocked then creating new folders after the drives are reinstalled. Not optimal to do for just a lunch break Genie shutdown, etc I'm mirroring using 1 FW500GB and 1 USB250GB with BR 7.22 / 2G RAM Again, for a 18 day shoot during trial period seamless on/off cycling Any other experiences or fixes? Please advise

I have CC through paypal setup and have only had it used 1 time. If I remember correctly it was a corporate CC that she used, not a personal one. It did take a little chunk of change off the top, not sure what percentage, but they def make it worth their while for the convenience. All told though, for having a CC pay option it is better than paying for a monthly processing service.

I read about Take's work on Mirage recorder but was wondering about just getting a video monitor feed in BR and not worry about recording it. The PSC Miranda prototype http://www.professionalsound.com/Catalog/miranda%20cart%20closeup.htm has a cool screen layout, is there a way to incorporate video monitoring in BR without hogging resources? And/or are there any progs being used to monitor on the mac? Just trying to shrink the cart whenever possible

Quick question regarding Boom Recorders sound log. Am I missing a setting or menu that would allow the most recent recording to be topmost on the log? And/or make that window resizable? I also track a paper log for easier note taking and after so long I have to scroll to the bottom after every take to rectify notes... Thanks in advance Hugh

Quick question. I'm not fully up to speed on how all these settings "talk" to each other but I set my Boom Recorder to 16/48k 30 NDF per the transfer labs specs. I'm recording day 13 and the editor just called with questions about Day 4 saying all the tracks load into AVID on track 1, not the track they were recorded on. This thread talked about 48048 for AVID, would that be making a difference in import? Unfortunately the editor and I are 300 miles apart so a sit down is not possible. I set the files so 1 is a poly file then each track also becomes a file. I guess the poly loads but again, single tracks all go to 1. I dread making a drastic change with 4 shooting days left. Any ideas or experience with BR and Avid? Thanks Hugh

My Mac and BR handle the TC. The Mackie board is strictly an audio input for the TC coming from in our case, the slate. Balanced (TRS) input that is.

Sorry for the nomenclature if I even spelled that correctly. I was merely pointing out that Deneke's understanding however limited of Boom Recorder was that, once jammed, BR held code pretty solidly and a constant TC track was not necessary to keep sync.

Help me clear up a math question then. If I have 3 tracks recording; Boom Lav Lav; and BR adds a virtual track for TC...would an edit app consider that 3 (odd) or 4(even)? I'm enjoying all the file/folder and other patching options but I'm starting to get the 15yr old with the Corvette feeling. The bulk of my prior work has been 2 channel camera mixing. BR so far has been able to let me handle the extra variables this project brings.

With regards to TC using Mackie 1220 FW and Boom Recorder...Cam Dept had misunderstood and set Deneke to 30Drop which was why I had to keep re-jamming. A quick call to Deneke HQ verified the proper way to set for 30ND to match my internal settings and all seems to be 'better' to say the least. They actually had good things to say about BR's internal clock and said constant feed should not be necessary, just the occasional jam. TC coming from SLATE btw not camera. I just set the track numbers 1 higher as BR uses 1 track for TC so a 4input recording is actually set as a 5 track file. TC comes in on a balanced audio in so it has to be at least Input 3 on the mackie and some are Mono ins -track 5- so to "5 track" you need to jam on 3 first, then record your source after jamming.

I'm using it with a 1220 right now. Successfully? Well that depends on if the transfer house likes the dailies...first shot with this set-up. Otherwise runs like a champ. <Deep Breath> Does anyone out there have a preference of jamming T/C or running it on a track? Camera Dept doesn't like the cable hanging off the Deneke full time? Ideas?