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bilagaana

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  1. I've used the Rainman in hurricanes and it fills up with water fast.  The only way to get it out was to take it off and just sling the water out of it.  Maybe a combination of hog's hair and the Rainman could do the trick or a roof with hog's hair.  Experimentation is the order of the day.  The 416 or 816 would be a good choice as I have seen a 416 that went under water work great the next day.  Fresh water of course.  

  2. I have 4x4 foam core with Auralux glued to them.  They were originally made to make a box around a ballast so it could get air and stay cool, as opposed to the old sound blanket on the ballast trick that made them hot.  These 4 bys became useful on a c stand to help with echo.  Sometimes just above the talent at an angle made all the difference.  They were just all around a good investment.

  3. I spoke to the IDX folks a few years ago and they discouraged me from trying to charge via DC.  I think it had something to do with circuitry.  I own a Goal Zero Yeti1000 and it is really good; however, it's too heavy for any real back country or lightweight traveling as it weighs about 60 pounds.  The search goes on.

  4. I've had jobs where they said they would give me a PA to boom.  I always said it would be better to have the PA sit at my cart and me boom it.  If the mic ain't in the right place you are spinning your wheels. That doesn't work either.  There seems to be a lot of producers that forgot that just ten, or so, years ago that they learned that bad sound was costly.  A producer friend of mine always wants me to work for free and I always say, 'Put me in the budget!'  Maybe some day.  

  5. Several years ago I tried to buy a new set of DT48s and was told they quit making them.  I had used nothing but them for decades and was not a happy camper.  I bought DT250s and was satisfied but miss my 48s.  What's a DT48E?  A 48 on steroids?   

  6. I devised what I call 'sound suckers' out of Sonex in 4x4 sheets glued to foam core of the same size initially to cover ballasts that were not my friends.  Better than throwing a sound blanket over an already hot transformer, the sound suckers could cover two or three sides and placing one on top leave plenty of ventilation.  The ballast would virtually disappear when the opening was faced away from mics.  The only problem was grips that would get to them before you.  They are not gentle.  I found these to be good for many things for many years.  In a hollow studio I hung one above, but out of lightings way, over talent with remarkable results.  The room got smaller.  I thought about making them to sell but had a very limited consumer.

  7. I've spent 40 years with Beyer DT48s with a coiled cable and just take care of them.  Never wind them around the phones.  My phones get the cable dropped into a drawer or compartment in my bag like I was doing the anchor line on a boat.  Then the phones nest on the coiled cable.  I've shipped them half-way-around the World like that and it seems to work out.  I never have buggered coiled cables.

  8. I've run the gamut.  Years ago, doing an HSN shoot, I walked into a room to wire a lady wearing a mumu.  She sees me with the transmitter and mic and proceeds to rip the mumu off and is standing there in her bra and panties.  I was taken aback and she said 'don't worry, I'm from the theater'.  Well, so was I and let her know I wasn't used to women stripping in front of me.  

     

    I'm a professional.  I've had two women the last few years that wanted to charge me with sexual harassment and I didn't know why.  One was a call from a producer that said the talent was not happy with me.  I didn't know why.  The second one, as far as I could tell, was because she had to change complicated wardrobe fourteen times.  Luckily for me the MU and wardrobe ladies were in the same room with me and were as perplexed as me why this 'actress' wanted to charge me with sexual harassment.  The next year she came back with the ad campaign and I refused the job when I found that she was the 'talent'.

     

    I've done this for a long time and have always been a gentle man and a gentleman.  I do my job and that's it.  

     

    Mike

     

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