Review: Battery Tracking App
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
REVIEW: Cinela OSIX MKH-50 Shock Mount
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
Tutorial: DIY RF Amplifier
About a year Emmanuel Ombilod, a sound mixer in Singapore, posted a video and a few photos of a “homemade” RF Amp he was plugging a G2 TX into…. and getting 1600ft range for car to car monitoring. The whole sound mixer world went crazy! But within a month the world stopped caring about his invention… I didn’t. I bugged the snot out of him … Continue reading Tutorial: DIY RF Amplifier
Review: Orca OR-37 Waist Harness
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
Tutorial: Sony 7506 Mod/Upgrade
The Sony 7506 is a legend in our industry. Considered by some as the best pair of headphones you can buy for on set audio they are not without their faults. So let’s mod them! Continue reading Tutorial: Sony 7506 Mod/Upgrade
Sound Devices MixPres USB functionality Part 1
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
Review: Walkie Caddie
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
Sennheiser Ambeo Unboxing Video
Here is the world’s first unboxing of a Sennheiser Ambeo microphone in it’s retail packaging. Continue reading Sennheiser Ambeo Unboxing Video
K-Tek Gizmo Bags
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
BWF.M vs BWF.P
People often get confused about the differences between BWF.M and BWF.P files. In this video I break it down and explain them. Continue reading BWF.M vs BWF.P