The new Comtek BST 75-216 is a 12-volt DC powered mini-base station transmitter that’s roughly half the size of the Comtek BST 25-216. It’s small and rugged enough for bag use and is capable of a much higher RF output than the 10mW belt pack M-216 transmitter. At 100mW, the [...]

There are several good reasons to have a powered speaker system on a production sound cart. For me the most compelling reason is to reduce hearing fatigue caused by continuous hours of listening with headphones. Taking off the headphones between takes and during lighting setups is a relief, but still [...]

How can you tell if someone is a Rode lav owner? They are the ones who don’t run frantically toward the mic when the actor starts to pull it off themselves. We didn’t need another lavalier microphone. The lavs we’ve been using for years sound amazingly natural and are very [...]

One box. Many uses. We’re going to see the MixPre-D with just about everyone who works in professional field production audio because with a single, compact, affordable, high quality box, the MixPre-D combines the utility that previously required three separate devices. It’s a two-channel mic pre and analog mixer. It’s [...]

We recently received a new Zaxcom Deva accessory called the HD2USB Hard Drive Caddy to USB adapter. It allows for direct access of Deva hard drives, from PC or Mac computers. The adapter works with both the Zaxcom drive box and the Remote Audio Drive Mounter system. The drive will [...]