So two weeks ago I received the Senal AWS-2000 and have been playing around with for a while. This past weekend I had to fly out for a gig in Memphis. While there the camera crew helped me out and we shot a review video on some down time. Continue reading Review: Senial AWS-2000 Wireless Microphone Kit
Last month I wrapped production on a feature film and while it was only a 16 days shoot we went through nearly 200 batteries. It honestly felt very sinful to be that wasteful. Now we did recycle every battery used on the production but still… that’s a big chunk of budget to spend on an expendable… And those my saga began, with the search for … Continue reading Review: EBL 9V Rechargable Li-Ion Battery
MozeGear has now upped the battery size of their Qbit. So what’s different in the XL model? They have redone the case to be bigger. It now features a 1/4 size hole for mounting the unit to a cameras cheese plate instead of just using velcro. This is a huge ergonomic boost to the Mozegear product lineup that we can hope to see more of … Continue reading Review: Mozegear QbitXL
How do you lav an actor? Professionally! No, that is it. It’s that simple. This article isn’t about how to HIDE a lavalier, its about the process we go about to do it. Surrounding the recent Weinstein scandal it was also announced that the co-creater of Broad City has fired a couple of men on the show because of sexual harassment. One of the men … Continue reading How Do You Lav An Actor?
Buying 20+ IKEA LADDA AA batteries is easy. Figuring out how to keep up with which ones are charged and which ones are dead is the hard part. Storacell fixes that! Continue reading Batteries: Part 2 – Storage
I was asked to help promote this amazing meet up. If you are in the Southern California area or even Las Vegas you should drive over to Wilcox Sound and enjoy this wonderful flea market. In the past I have attended several of the parties hosted the legendary Facebook group LA Sound Mixers and they always exceed expectations. LASM Is a wonderful group of IA695, … Continue reading The LA Sound Swapmeet!
This starts part 1 of a series we will be doing here on WavReport all about batteries. This past month I was on location mixing a feature film, I found myself using Lectrosonics UM400a, and one thing was becaming very apparent… we used a TON of akiline 9V batteries. It truly was sinful! It also didnt help that we had 7x Lectrosonics R1a on set. … Continue reading Batteries: Part 1 – Li-Ion 18650 Cells
So the other day I posted a pic of the kit setup I was using on a 16 day feature film. A lot of people wanted to know how I was running my boom. So here is a step by step video from the Mic used, to the preamp settings, to the F8 overall settings, to the digital limiter settings that are used on ever … Continue reading Zoom F8: Gain Staging and Getting the Most Out of the Digital Limiters
This week two of the most affordable Ambisonic recorders got updates to make them more practical for VR. ZOOM F8: The ZOOM F8 dropped Firmware 4.0 and the unit received a full Ambisonic B-Format upgrade. Here is a photo Zoom sent to me this past week to tease the release to some of us bloggers. As you can see the new update linked the channels … Continue reading This week in Firmware: Sound Devices MixPre6 & Zoom F8
This is some huge news. I have known about it for a while now and promised to hold my tongue. And if you were in some of the 360 Audio FB groups a 10 months ago, you may have spotted my post asking about what features you the users want to see in the F8 when it comes to dealing with Ambisonic microphones. Some of … Continue reading Zoom Partners with Sennheiser to make the F-Series AMBEO native
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