Category: Miscellaneous

K-Tek products for NAB 2009

K-Tek’s Brenda Parker demonstrates and explains several items from the K-Tek and Reinhardt Windscreen lines. The Klassic Traveler Boom Pole – “The one pound pole” K-Mount & K-MTS Quick Sock fuzzy Camera Clamp Adapter Kit Shoe Bridge K-Cam SM Shoe Step Reinhardt Windscreens Reinhardt Soft Zep Stage Poles with Quick Connect

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Lectrosonics’ new products for NAB 2009

Lectrosonic’s Gordon Moore describes and displays the new Octo Pack 8 Channel Wireless Receiver distribution unit, the HM plug-on transmitter and the SRBATTSLED for use with the SRa and SRa-5P ENG Receivers.

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Sound Devices CL-8 Demystified

When Sound Devices released information on the CL-8, the most common question customers asked was “How?” “How does it add recording tracks?” “How do you route to the new auxes and where do they output?” Sadly, my answers were usually, “I’m not sure, but Sound Devices rarely disappoints.” Now that I’ve had a CL-8 to play with I […]

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Different Economy, Same Response

Like most in this business, I started with desire, gradually adding clients and then equipment. After renting everything at first, I eventually bought my first pieces in 1980: a microphone (Sony ECM-50) and a mixer (the “new” Shure M-267). I’m better off because of the investment, so it was money well spent. And I still […]

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JK welcomes the BluePack

JK Audio, makers of professional grade and industry standard telephone audio interfaces, recently released a line of Bluetooth enabled audio products. For our industry, the BluePack Wireless Interview Tool seems to fit well. The BluePack is about the same size as a production intercom style belt pack. The bottom panel has a XLR mic input […]

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A Tale of Two Productions, Part 2

Public transportation… I love it. Partly due to my roots in a small town, part gas prices, and part Nashville barely has any. So on a recent trip to Chicago to see the sights from the Sears tower, and visit some of my wife’s family in the suburbs, we used the L, city buses, and […]

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Are we there yet?

By now you may know that Apple’s newest laptop, the MacBook Air, does not use a traditional hard drive, but solid state flash memory. USB memory drives, compact flash, Secure Digital (SD), SD mini, SD micro, and Memory stick are a mixture of brand names, buzz words, and nicknames, but they all use flash memory […]

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Are you REDy?

Updated March 12, 2008 For almost three years the industry has been anticipating the RED ONE DIGITAL CINEMA CAMERA. As with many aspects of our industry the visual seems to push the market and the audio is left to keep up. Until February 08, the actual audio I/O connections have been theoretical. We know it […]

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The impossible dreams.

This isn’t going to be a tech savvy post, but I thought it would be nice to discuss my (and hopefully your) dreams for the next year. For the last several years our business has been dominated by new gear. Let’s face it, post houses are finally coming about and non-linear is here for the […]

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