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  1. PMC

    What is this?

    Thanks, Jez. I'm going to look into that.
  2. It is called LTC. Used to use it frequently in the olden days. Before I had access to machines with VITC (Google it). Of course you have to have an NLE that accepts LTC.
  3. PMC

    What is this?

    Interrogative, What is this thing in front of the mic? Does it reduce room echo? Show credit lists Stuart Waring as Sound Mixer.
  4. I feel your pain. We have to account for deadbeat producers. When the production requires that I rent additional gear (CL-12, more comteks, more wireless) I negotiate a rental contract with the rental house and give that contract invoice to the UPM so THEY sign the contract and pay the invoice for that gear at or before the time of pickup. Expendables that I buy for the production are reimbursed before we begin shooting or I have them buy them. I require labor payment each week. I live in a state where we had some of the best film tax incentives in North America until out of state producers took advantage of us, over charged for rental, offered defired labor payments at twice normal rate which they never followed through with and stole taxpayer money. The program was shut down due to mismanagement/incompetence. This also reminds me of some producers asking PAs to pay for craft service items with their own credit card! Be red flag. Always, only use a production company credit card. I have mentioned this to more than a couple newbies.
  5. Line level input at the mixer is good for wireless mic receivers set to line level output. All of my Lectro SRb receivers feed my SD664 with line level (+6). As do my old Senn G3 receivers (+12) when I need 12 wireless. The only thing I need mic level input is for booms, plants, multbox. Amplification cable? Yeah, no.
  6. You may have read it already but the B&H purchasers seem to really like the mic and rate it highly. https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/602082-REG/Audio_Technica_BP4025_BP4025_X_Y_Stereo_Field.html?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIwOXA_77__AIV2f_jBx3L8gLsEAAYAyAAEgJcr_D_BwE
  7. On commercials and narratives I always ask the talent to tell me that when they want a private moment TELL ME. If I see them walk off set I kill it automatically. Especially, since I am often feeding a zoom call these days. I did this on my first reality show many years ago and was raked over the coals by the AD. He wanted to hear and record EVERYTHING. Yeah but modesty… NO BUTS.
  8. I like the $200 price point but how is the functionality?
  9. Humbuk, I have had 2 Dell and 4 HP laptops over the past 10 to 12 years. They ALL have developed fan noise. Either ticks or bearing whir. Very annoying. The only laptop I have owned that is still very very quiet, after 6 years, is an Asus except when I am exporting a GPU accelerated video timelime. Then the GPU dedicated fan spins up. Everything about the Asus is superior in my view. If silent running is extremely important to you you can get a windows laptop without high end graphics and no GPU or CPU fan at all. My wife has a thin profile Asus that emits no operating sound at all. No fans. Hope this helps.
  10. I stopped buying sound cables for camera interface several years ago when Red and Arri decided to use different cables for their different iterations of cameras. They couldn't be bothered with standardization. Now I request contact info for the AC prepping the camera package and tell them to add a timecode cable and in A-box for each camera. Kent
  11. Continue to use your Tentacles and mount or hold your phone on or next to your dumb slate while running Tentacles free Timebar app. I have a smart slate but in run and gun situations I use Tmebar. Kent
  12. Hurricane reporter defends use of condom on the air. My question is, “Why the reservoir?"
  13. Tech scout for the sound department? Blahahahaha. Mine are rare for industrials, commercials, docos. Then the AD gets upset with ME when I can't treat the environment to mask the sound from commercial rooftop aircon, elevator, computer server fans, restaurant exhaust fans, etc. Only on movies do i get any respect in this regard. Then it is my labor day rate. I really liked, "Check if they're actually planning a silent film."
  14. Sound Devices WaveAgent can read/edit/export bEXT and iXML data from BWF very easily. ('Gotta ask, people are still using Final Cut?)
  15. Hi Steve, I don't live in any of those cities listed but I have worked for elm many times in the Midwest and can say my experience is that they are a good company to work for. Cheers, Kent Pope
  16. Two-way radios (Motorola) generally operate in the 46x.xxx and 151.xxx bands. I think you would have to build a bridge, ie. send a feed to a dedicated two-way from an output of your mixer. Of course you will need to latch the transmit mode to always on.
  17. I know a friend who when encountering overly cluttered 19/20 will bring out her 26 to reveal a very clean scan. However,on occasion, she says she gets an electronic high pitch fluttering noise but only in certain geographic locations. Some areas are rural. No where near a city. But hey, 5G telco is even screwing up rf relient altimeters in current aircraft. Way to go FCC brainiacs.
  18. By saying "pan pot" i am assuming you are talking about the L-R pan control. Dies that cintrol push in and pop out normally? Have you tried holding the mixer upside down and spraying an aerosol called Tuner Cleaner up into the pot in an effort to wash the wee grains of sand out? Have you tried sneaking up on it and scaring it?
  19. If i interpret your issue correctly, it sounds like both tx were tuned to the same freq until you repaired. From the start, turn on one tx and pair it to the reciever. Leave it turned on. Then turn on the second tx and pair that. It will automatically tune past the tx1 freq. Choosing a clean/unoccupied freq. The reason the receiver showed strong signal from both tx before you retuned is both channels of rx were probably seeing the same one freq.
  20. I have used a unit just like the Swit double charger & DC out unit for almost eight years with two Comer 190wh gold mount batts. V mount also available. It works well with two issues. 1) quick charge mode turns on a cooling fan which is not quiet. 2) you can't charge batts whilst using the DC out. it's either or. Unlike the Anton Bauer camera-back thingy.
  21. They have a reasonable loaner program but I only live 200 miles away from the factory so did a drop-off and pick-up.
  22. Last year my SD664 screen stopped displaying anything. The rest of the unit worked but of course unusable in the field. I sent it in to SD. They said the ribbon cable from the circuit board to the display was dislodged. Yes, my unit has had some rough handling over the past 10 to 12 years in the field. Maybe you can lift the lid, so to speak, and check out the ribnon cable.
  23. I am B camera on a house hunting show. I use a Sony FS7 without the expansion adapter back. Which is the only way to get the camera to take ext. timecide (very dumb, Sony). I have been using Tentacle's Time Bar for a long time to slate my camera. I lock one of my Tentacle SyncE units to the sound guy, or use one of his, and carry it around in my pocket. My phone, running Time Bar, reads the tc and displays it for me when I resume after a cut. I remain in tc sync with sound and A-cam all day. It beats carrying my TS3 Denecke slate around.
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