Just for Jim. Show I am stuck doing the next couple days. Real sleeper for me, set and forget. But at least they have internet here, so get to hang out on the forums .

Rig? come you knew i was gonna ask. haha

Just a baby show. Four 26 degree S4 Lekos, two 19 degree S4 Lekos, two wide S4 pars, 6 Coemar ParLite LEDs, ETC 1248 Smartfade.

Audio is 20 UHF-R Lavs, Soundcraft GB4, 4 JBL SRX 715s, 4 JBL SRX 712s, the IR is seen in the shot.

Video is 2 Panasonic 7700 DLP projectors doing 720P, 2 11'x6' screens (or whatever 16:9 is for that size, think it might be 6.5')4 60" NEC Plasma's, 2 Sony 42" LCDs, Screen Pro II with 2 units, Sony HD EAX with Cannon EJ14x10b lens.

So nothing special, just the normal corporate meeting stuff.

I'm finding myself needing something like the IR. A friend of mine has/had access to one.... too much money for as often as I would need it though.

20 UHF lavs. That's a lot of wireless throwing around. What do you use for spectrum analysis?

The UHF-R's search for themselves, down the whole rack if it is networked, basically as many as you want. It can run out of frequencies though. Makes life very easy. 10, 16, and 20 is really common for stuff that we do. Processing is an Ashly Protea (love those things), a couple of DBX 166Xls and Marantz Flash Recorder.

Yeah, the networked wireless thing is outside my budget. I need to carry a paper chart so I know what UFH channels SHOULD be available to me. What would be nice is if in the future, all vendors would just agree upon a common networking protocol for these wireless units so they can all work together better. Whatever is higher in the cabling order(or addressing) gets priority and then go on down. Thanks to new technologies that you're also using, I like the idea of sticking the transmitter next to unit to associate it with and to program it as well. Mega time saver! With 20 channels, that adds up fast in time savings.

I like my dbx 166XL, but I prefer the 1066XL. Still got a soft spot for the older 166A units, they just sound smoother than the 166XL.

I'll be heading to the local MI store this week to discuss some alternative ideas for an IR-type solution, be it PC based or hardware/MIDI based. Just has to run and MyDMX has to be in the foreground if it's PC based.

The 160XT is the best compressor that they have made besides the 160SL and 162SL. Even the current 160A isn't as nice as the XT. They fetch a hefty price too. I am a much bigger fan of Drawmer though, but you pay through the teeth for those.

As for the networking, it is built into the Shure UHF-R series. You pay for it big time however with a signal channel with a Beta 58 listing for about 4 grand. The ULX-P, the step below the R, has a scan feature like the R series but isn't net-workable. They also don't have as wide a frequency range, as fine of a frequency range (goes down to the thousandth Mhz), and don't go as high either (you can get R series in the X band which is 944-952 Mhz, insanely high). There are a few other things nicer about the R series as well, but those are the major.

Both Shure and Sienhessier have really good charts online that tell you what frequencies are in use and about how many units you can safely use in every area around the country.


Edit: I lied, you can get the ULX-P in X Band as well. The R's however can use 11 channels on X band, the ULX-P's can only use 9. Another interesting fact, you can use about 150 channels of R series covering the frequency range: G1, H4, J5, L3, X1. This is why we have no issues doing 20 channels all the time, even in major cities. Most we ever did was 46 in Jersey City none the less right on the river.

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All this audio talk is not just for jingles I'll tell you that much. ha ha jingles doesn't understand any of it.
Sincerely,

Lol, sorry Jim. I am a gear head big time, along with a computer guy and a car guy. I like my toys . And you know what they say about the difference between men and boys is only the cost of their toys .

However, I will have a different picture for you tomorrow, we reset the room tonight for finally in the morning.

Definately give a wider angle shot. I'm stuck in Super8 transfer hell right now, so I am glued to a pair of monitors, and to top it off, this is SOUND Super8 with NO SOUND. I hope the client understands I can't get sound from clean mag!

Can't share the car thing with you. Definately on the audio and computer. My other life, outside of audio(OK, for me there is no life outside of audio) is media transfers and data comm/computer/networking.

And yup, I look at my 3-year-old's Lego blocks, and then I look to getting the new iLive T112.... Sometimes I miss Legos, life was so much more simpler then. But I seem to remember making stages, a full band with instruments(build my own guys), trusses and speaker hangs with my Lego blocks. Technic rocks!

I'm also anxious to see what snaps my crew took from my last few shows.

Missed a posting:

I made my own UHF charts. Ain't much, but it lets me figure out where my overlaps are and what is or isn't in use, at least around here. What it does do is since it does line up to what the channels are(theoretically, thanks to the new DTV change-over cluster-f...), I can easily adapt it to any local market.

It's stupid. Channels were assigned new UHF frequencies here for digital switch-over, and some went back to their VHF. Some channels, like local Channel 3, well, instead of adopting their call letters to their new frequency and channel, nope, they are still channel 3, where-ever the hell they are now in UHF space.

I'm sure my market isn't unique. I'm sure other places are just as messed up over the June 17th change-up.

But, because of this "DTV" stupidity of channel numbers not matching proper channel ID's, this is where having some gear that can actively scan and find open space can really help. Of course, we also have to keep in mind that the FCC now allows non-TV devices to use that same unused space as well, making it even harder for wireless gear to work, especially in major metropolitan areas. Areas such as New York, San Francisco, LA... any major city really. Sacramento doesn't count, we're strange out here. We want to be major, but we can't figure out how to do that right. We screwed up royally with the NBA team and where we shoved their stadium(like I care, I ain't a sports fan, the Kings and the Maloofs can get the hell out of here and over to Vegas for all I care) so we're effectively shut out of NBA All-Star events, which they've finally realized now that we have King Kevin Johnson as Mayor/Dictator for Term.

Back to Super8 Films. Break time over!

So that was what the final ended up as. It is a wide of the room. Only things you can't see are the light towers and the 60" plasma's. The first two are right next to the 715s you can see in the edges of the shot, the other two 3/4s of the way back next to the light towers.

Who can see the pattern?

Ohhhh no I looked at a thread that is "Just for Jingles".....My eyes are burning, My skin is burning, and even worse it burns when I pee. I should have headed the warning "Just For Jingles"

Might want to have that looked Stevie .

Ya that doesnt sound healthy at all. haha