Abe Dolinger

Copy that. Thanks guys.

I've used a 11'4" uncabled Gitzo for the last 5 years. I use sticky velcro on the locks for my cable. It's extremely light and I like the way it fits in my hand. It's also very fast (though not silent) to extend/collapse. The cabled poles I've tried (K-Tek) have needed some babying to collapse, maybe from age, I don't know. I prefer to manage my own cables.

Hi Jason, this is the first I've heard of this - it's possible to wire a capacitor into the Stereoline tx supply so it doesn't get that high-pitched whine? That's good news, I've been using lithiums. I won't need to split my Hirose cable. If you find a cap value that works can you post it? Thanks very much, Abe

I'm hooked on vampire clips. (Usually this is literally true. My fingers are getting tougher) As Bernie says, there are ways to clip safely into moleskin or other material so that they don't come into play as far as talent is concerned. Sometimes I will Topstick the clips directly to a button-down between buttons, or to hairless skin/undershirt. This takes 20-30 seconds on average. I work a lot with non-actors, and something quick seems to help our relationship a good deal (not to mention my relation to production).

I agree, I'd send mine back for a brighter LCD if they come out with one. Fortunately I've been 90% indoors with mine thus far.

I want SD to make a Nomad 6.

Here's pics of my blk 22 scans. A little worse than I remembered. Plus the odd spike caused by my 195D. order - before Nomad, after Nomad, after Nomad & 195D

just posted in the other thread, my block 22 411 was affected but not badly at all . I'm not worried. I also had it directly next to the Nomad in the bag for my test.

Block 22 411a scan was slightly dirtier w/Nomad on but not bad. I can post pictures if anyone's interested. The weird thing was I noticed that one of my blk22 195D receivers puts a spike in the scan when it's on. Not at the freq it's receiving on either. Odd.

I took the Senn hotshoe mount and cutout a piece of female velcro to sit on top. Still fits in the Sennheiser and works for my stereoline receiver as well.

+1

My metadata defaults to editing the last take that was recorded, and it won't seem to let me pre-set for the next take. Am I doing something wrong? (v2.46)

yeah, I think the mirror folder should always match the primary. It would be uncommon for me to ever want them to be different folders.

Just before Thurs I finished up a week of pretty intense doc shooting w/the Nomad. Altogether I was impressed & happy. I'm still getting used to it, obviously; things that exasperated me at first are becoming faster. As of now, I would prefer to use it on jobs where I can set it up in the morning and leave it, but it served me well in a constantly changing environment. The limiters were great out of the box. The pots are pretty sensitive, had to be careful not to bump them. Autotrim, bus routing, and mirroring were easy. Autotrim was cool with the boom on ch 1 because I could adjust levels with either hand while running around. I think the LCD is bright enough for direct sun but the coating is reflective which makes it hard to read in direct light. Haven't put any brainpower into a solution for this yet. Maybe a cute little hood. Worked several nights in cold rain. Didn't get it wet as far as I know but it performed fine. Changed headphone routing on the fly often before I settled into something comfortable (stayed mostly in (1,23), (2,34), and mono). Enjoyed flexibility of outputs. Mostly used mono out/headph 2 as mono mixes. Was jealous of hemmerlinj's battery capacity, I always used 2 switronix NPs per day. The rear-mounted inputs are good but tough to get to in a bag. I used short cables for inputs that changed often. Have to call them about weird performance on one channel, this is likely a hardware thing. And yes, it's hard to clip the inputs. Never hath I recorded so much chanting. Long live Occupy's endless drum circles & long live the Nomad. Except for the lost file I mentioned above it was a real success. Tried not to address software issues above as I haven't installed the new firmware. Looking forward to it though. Happy Thanksgiving Abe

I respectfully disagree on the last point, but I'm glad this will not be a possibility in the new firmware.

Right, exactly. Although I must not be making myself clear that it looks like I can arm and disarm tracks while rolling. Without stopping. I can make their Xs appear/disappear in the record enable menu, and they go from lined to unlined on the card meter view. I went from 1 to 3 tracks and as soon as I enabled the 2nd the sound was as described. The resulting file was 1 track only. Thanks for gathering more info.

Thanks. In my case, the tracks look enabled on the card view (the one with the purple meters), the file sounds something like timecode from that point on.

re: Jack, yes.

My Nomad lets me do this, unfortunately for me.

Can anyone confirm unusable files when you enable more tracks while already rolling? I'm on a Nomad 6 v2.36. Everything sounded fine & went to the outputs fine. I was able to duplicate this on my machine.

nice, thanks Jack! Abe

Glenn was helpful on the phone last night when I couldn't figure out how to turn phantom on. (must be mic level, duh.) One more suggestion: on the bus routing screen, make phase inversion a "long-hold". AFAIK it wouldn't be common and I would like to not click 4 times to turn a selection off. Also, E and O for prE and pOst instead of X and P.

I see that the TC display is selectable between the card and the generator. Possible to have the card TC on playback and the generator in record/standby?

I'm excited about it, but as a doc guy, I'm also changing trims and pans during the roll. On my 302 I can change 2 trims at once with one hand; with the Nomad it looks like this would be a 2-hand (or tedious 1-hand) operation. That said, I can't wait to try one out and see how much it bothers me, because everything else about it looks great.