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    Sound mixer from Philadelphia.
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  1. *just a guess* but Sound Devices probably never brought the wireless division (Audio Limited) in to the USA. So they're probably still made at the same place, outside the USA. Maybe on some legal level, that's is why it's ok, but they can't import recording versions into the USA.
  2. I guess you sorted this out but responding for anyone else. mine lapsed and I tried to renew after it had expired and they denied the renewal, and kept the money. They don’t give you notice it’s expiring, so you need to remind yourself. I had to reapply from scratch.
  3. I will add that there’s a bunch of jobs a year that I send the rate card to and they respond with “that works for us”. So, it’s numbers they see elsewhere and what they have planned for. When I was in Philadelphia, I’d have 40-50 clients a year. Lots of those were people passing through for a day, or a few days. So, it might be different if you primarily have local repeat clients. That said, remember that the government cost of living adjustment for 2023 is 8.7%. That’s the highest in about 40 years. So we all need to bump rates January 1 or we’re falling behind.
  4. I also have some really old iPowers skill kicking from maybe 2010? The purple text ones. I finally retired the older light blue ones. I’ve gotten some Tenergy ones more recently and they seem to work well, but they’re mostly for Comteks. I don’t have any transmitters left that use 9v. I do occasionally use them in a 411 paired to a HM for a handheld, and no complaints.
  5. it’s tricky. If you’re capturing dialog, then you have different needs than if you’re recording music or ambience. That goes for inputs and for what you want to hear via the headphones. i also factor in that I usually use a Zaxcom mixer and my Zaxcom wireless is connected via AES. No pres except the boom, if the boom isn’t wireless. If I’m setting up a Sound Devices mixer with Lectrosonics wireless, I’m making the wireless send to mixer inputs a line level signal because that’s what Lectrosonics recommends. I was working as a 3rd for a mixer this last week and we were talking about how much of it is mics we grow accustomed to, and how anything different sounds.... different. I think that’s why some people have reactions to DPA mics. They don’t color the sound like some common mics in our world. The same would go for hooking up your wireless inputs to the mixer through mic-level preamps versus a digital connection.
  6. 2x the RF stuff, but not the audio parts. I never looked inside one, so I don’t know what they look like. If it’s doable, I’m sure we will see them one day. Why wouldn’t they? It’ll make that machine that much more amazing.
  7. I'm sure it would already exist if it was insignificant engineering. That would require double the RF receiver parts packed inside the same size package. If the components *can* be packed in, there’s also a heat consideration. Not saying it’ll never be possible, but that’s a big leap because the module size is already set. It’s not like they can even make a new housing that’s 50% bigger or something, because that’s already defined. That said, I owned a Fusion 10 and soon will have a Nova. The difference in size is amazing, even if they’re 10 years apart.
  8. I know this thread is old, but I find the Etymotics way more flat than many others. When I used to play bass in a band, I liked the rubber foam ones you roll and shove in your ear because they cut the higher end disproportionately. I could really hear drums and my bass more. That was terrible if I was playing guitar, and that was when I started using the Etymotic ones. I had a set of the Eargasm ones and they weren’t bad. I eventually lost them, and may get more to try them again.
  9. There was also a high speed car accident a few years ago. The officer was racing to a call and I guess another car didn’t yield to them? I don’t remember the exact details. The camera op and sound mixer were hurt pretty badly. Just know what you’re signing up for if you choose to work on a show like that.
  10. When I sold my last block 28 stuff, it sold to people in the USA. I posted it to Ebay with international shipping. I don’t know if it was travel kit, or they were buying for a friend, but it was US buyers. I held onto it for a while in case I went somewhere it was still legal, but that never happened.
  11. what a transitional time period to be working in a studio.... wow. I wish I'd gotten to see the studio while it was still there.
  12. I’m going to guess there being a pair of tumbleweeds is a hint.
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