Derek H

This is a good topic. I know FB is the way many people are buying and selling these days but I can’t stand it and anyway I deleted my account so I can’t use it anyway. I tried making a FB account just for using marketplace but somehow it knew it was me and the only option it would allow would be to reinstate my old account. No thanks! I’ve been using eBay more and more lately. If you know what you’re looking for and look out for red flags I think it’s just as good as anything else. I often find good deals there especially on stuff like Comteks where the sellers don’t seem to really know what they’re selling and just want to move it. With Comteks specifically you have to really look closely because often all the details will not be in the description. Such as PR216s that are actually TV5/6 versions or units with corrosion on the battery terminals. But I’ve also found some great deals on units that were listed as “for parts” only because the seller did not have time or the gear to test them and just wanted to sell it as-is. There are fees of course when you sell on eBay but the advantage is you have many more people looking for items there vs here which is reliable but subject to the luck of the draw if you’ll find someone who wants to buy what you want to sell in any reasonable amount of time.

The 2017 is a very clear and nice sounding mic. The price also fits well with a mix pre/ zoom based rig. It’s also small and, supposedly, very rugged.

Try the silver paste. It’s a high purity conductive silver paste that Lectrosonics provides, free of charge usually, to put on the screw that connects the battery door to the case to lower resistance and improve battery life.

Disagree. 633 is fine. Just don’t push the line inputs those will crack up.

I use HD25s on set daily and used to deal with the same issue but a friend told me a great fix… take some of the silver paste that Lectrosonics provides to treat SM battery doors and give those prongs on the HD25 cable a little coating. Has completely solved the problem for me.

I’d use a basic power strip with some level of surge protection from a reputable brand like Tripplite or APC. Couldn’t hurt and a power strip is useful on a cart for more than just surge protection. Many of the “cheap” surge protectors that use consumable protective circuits do have lights on them to let you know that protection is still functioning.

Yeah that’s exactly why I did mine. To be able to use an SNA600 up on a mast to transmit.

I only did my transmitter. Never really understood why bother with the IEM receivers unless you’re nuts about storing them in a certain case or something.

what is the hook and loop tape junk?

One of our ACs was brave enough to try off and it’s been running that way a few weeks now with no issues. Temp display hasn’t even changed. The other two are in Low mode now which is acceptable.

Yes! This looks great and finally some completely new technology in our space. Spectera seems focused on the large event/show $$$ market but if they can build out the system just a little more it could be a good option for location sound. The pricing seems pretty competitive to the other current state of the art options. A Spectera system would be significantly cheaper than a SD Nexus system for example and potentially could do a lot more work. To really work for us I think Sennheiser needs to scale it down a bit and add a few more transmitter offerings. I'd like to see... - Half rack sized base station so you're not limited to rack builds and you could stuff a Spectera system in a bag if need be.. Could probably sacrifice some features to scale down. Dual channel for example or less antenna connections. - DC power input on the base station - Smaller transmitter for use under costume - A 48V capable transmitter of some sort. Not necessarily a plug-on but that would do. and that's kind of it for my wishlist.. I gotta say that getting rid of coaxial cable entirely seems like a great direction to be going. Also, I'd like to know how the system works when you don't have a completely clean 6MHz channel to work with? Let's say you can only find 4MHz really clean and the other 2MHz is strong DTV signal.. does it totally fall apart? Do you just get less channels to work with? I see that it can notch out up to two narrowband transmitters within the channel but this is a different situation. In Chicago I'm not sure there's a clean 6MHz chunk to be had from 470-608! Maybe in the duplex gap but then you're power limited on the transmitter side. Lots of questions! I'm also rooting for Lectrosonics to roll-out a good location-friendly WMAS system at some point that would be more clued in to our specific needs. I'm optimistically hoping that they've been quietly focusing on this and that's why their latest products still have no wireless remote control etc..

Izen, you need a buddy with a 3D printer! It’s a serious hobby and has a pretty high learning curve from what I can tell. Talk to Gotham, pretty sure they do some 3D printing in house. I have some low profile XLR cables from them that use their own printed caps

Are you implying that you think the 2017 is using some sort of factory reject 4017 capsule?

I bought a 2017. Will report back as I get to know it. Also a RAD mount for it.

When’s the big reveal?

The ACs won’t go for that but LOW mode is a big improvement.

How does it compare?

That’s too bad

Thanks! The VDB mix panel looks great. Hopefully the faders are nice quality. I do wish it had LED input meters above each fader at least and also an output bus meter… that’s the only missed opportunity I really see. Maybe a few extra knobs to control miscellaneous outputs but otherwise looks like a nice option if you don’t like the price or size of the CL16. There’s a lot of people, myself included, that still really like the functionality and size of the CL12 and this looks like a nice alternative to that. Finger 12 though… not sure about that name but whatever. Must be lost in translation.

Any video link for the VDB mixer panel? I can’t find anything.

Nevermind, we figured it out. It’s much more quiet in low mode than auto. If it helps anyone in the future on the Storm 3000 transmitter you hold the left button for 4 seconds to get into the menu.

Is anyone covering sound at IBC? Haven’t seen much posted. Is it all on Facebook?

Thanks Luis, would you mind asking your AC friend how to do that exactly? Our ACs have no idea. Storm 3000s on our set

Reality issues? Reliability?

This is really cool. I don’t own a 788 but the design is great. SD should hire you to redo SD remote..