I was on a shoot this last week playing around with my new um200c and I wanted to track the battery life it was getting. Normally you could look in the manual to see the battery life chart but battery size has come along way since the um200c came out. That’s when I came across this awesome App called Watson! It lets you run multiple … Continue reading Review: Battery Tracking App
While attending the R.A.M.P.S./JWSOUND party at NAB this year, I found myself holding the winning raffle ticket for this beautiful Cinela Shockmount for a Sennheiser MKH-50 microphone. Now full disclosure, I did have two raffle tickets. Gerry Formicola from the amazing Second City Sound in Chicago gave me his (thanks Gerry!), but that one didn’t have the winning number on it. Scout’s honor. I want … Continue reading REVIEW: Cinela OSIX MKH-50 Shock Mount
We all know the Sound Devices MixPre-3 and MixPre-6 function as a USB interface, but there are some advanced things you can do when you fiddle with some settings on your Mac. After working through some things with Danny in tech support at Sound Devices, we got some cool things to happen. Continue reading Advanced USB features of the Mixpre-3 and Mixpre-6
I’m in my mid-thirties and like a lot of you my back gets sore after a long day of carrying around a bag. The Orca OR-37 Belt Harness has been out for a little while now and after purchasing one second hand from a fellow mixer I finally got a chance to field test it. The job i choose to test it on was a … Continue reading Review: Orca OR-37 Waist Harness
The Sound Devices Mixpre-3 and Mixpre-6 are capable recorders, but they are also very nice USB audio interfaces. You can record audio to your computer, from your computer, and other things. In this first part of a two part USB video series, I walk you through the basics of using the Mixpres as a USB audio interface. Continue reading Sound Devices MixPres USB functionality Part 1
This might be the most exciting thing to happen to elastic bands since underwear. On its face the Walkie Caddie is 2 bands of elastic that have been seen together to make loops… But it’s so much more then that. Continue reading Review: Walkie Caddie
Here is the world’s first unboxing of a Sennheiser Ambeo microphone in it’s retail packaging. Continue reading Sennheiser Ambeo Unboxing Video
Finding storage for small items can turn into a quest; searching big box stores for solutions that only “kind of” work. K-Tek has developed a line of bags called Gizmo bags to solve this issue, and I give a brief run down on these in this video: Continue reading K-Tek Gizmo Bags
Recently I’ve been doing a lot of soldering and the production company that contracts me from time to time to do it bought a new cable tester. PYLE is a trash audio company. Their knock SM58 cost $14 on Amazon and their SM57 style Mic is a mere $12. The only time I’ve ever seen a PYLE speaker used in the wild is when I’m … Continue reading Review: Pyle PCT60 Audio Cable Tester
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