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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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Rycote Video Mount for NAB 2009

Simon Davies demonstrates the new Rycote InVision Video mount.

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Ron Meyer shows the Solice Mixer at NAB 2009

Professional Sound Corporation’s Ron Meyer shows off sleek and stylish Solice Mixer.

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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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Zoom Zoom Zoom

When we began carrying the Samson Zoom H4 nearly 2 years ago, it was one of an emerging style of recorders.  Today nearly everywhere you look from consumer audio, to camera companies, to professional audio has a small format mp3/wave recorder with built in stereo mics.  The market is flooded. In our industry, timecode transcription […]

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Noise in the 788T headphone output when used for return monitoring, demystified.

There have be many reports, recently, of mysterious and unacceptably high noise levels when using the Sound Devices 788T headphone output as a send for return monitoring with a mixer. The reports went something like this:  “When using the headphone output of the SD-788T as a send for “tape return” monitoring, there is considerable hiss, […]

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Glen Trew reviews the new PSC Solice mixer

  SEPT. 2009 NOTE: After reading this review, please read about the important refinements that PSC applied to the Solice mixer after this review. SOLICE REFINEMENTS, Sept. 2009   APRIL 8, 2009 It sounds great. When listening to a Sennheiser 8040 through the Solice for the first time, I was betting this mixer had transformerless inputs. A quick […]

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Perspectives of a Bollywood Sound Mixer

Amala Popuri is one of a number of women working successfully in Bollywood film production. She shares with us the challenges and blessings of her chosen career. Developing an interest and a career Amala Popuri ‘mans’ her mixing console on a recent shoot. “I have always been an avid film enthusiast since I was a […]

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Lectro line level input cable recommendation

While wireless microphone transmitters are normally thought of as being used with microphones, we often use them for line-level signals, such as when tapping into mixing board feeds or when using them as wireless “camera hops” to a camcorder. It has been determined that the previously recommended line input cable sometimes forced the transmitter limiters to work too soon and

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