Sometimes it’s hard in our day and age to find new ways to innovate with location sound gear. “Reinventing the wheel” or “game changer” are phrases which get used far too often in my opinion. Much of time time, a lot of the advances that we actually see are “quality of life” changes which make our day to day work easier. There’s absolutely nothing wrong … Continue reading REVIEW: Coga Sound BPS System
Halter Technical is a company started by people who actually worked in the field, and who really experienced the types of troubleshooting, pitfalls, successes, and desires of sound professionals first hand. When it comes to IFB headphones, the demands are not as simple as our own. It greatly factors in how the client will feel wearing them. I say “wearing them” in a broad way, … Continue reading REVIEW: Halter Technical Scene Monitor ver. 2
So about a month ago Senal sent me their new SMH-1000 headphones to try out. How do you review headphones though? I’ll start by telling you the story of my first day with them, followed by the new 29 days… The first day I used them was on a new series of TV commercials for a national department store. What made it a tricky shoot … Continue reading Review: Senal SMH-1000 Headphones
So I’m going to be taking a look at K-Tek’s new product line, called Airo. As many of us have heard by now, Airo is a new brand from K-Tek which features low cost gear and accessories that they claim still maintains their high standards for durability and quality. Their initial line consists of 6 items. A mixer bag, a boom pole, a shock … Continue reading REVIEW: K-Tek Airo – A Professional Sound Mixer’s Perspective
So this morning Sennheiser revealed they are releasing a G4 to the evolution wireless series. MOST of the actual upgrades affect the rack mount receivers and rack mount transmitters. This includes the addition of tablet apps that manage whole systems and a PA system that rack mounts your receivers into for a small compact PA setup. A DANTE module that convert your analog signals to … Continue reading First Look: Sennheiser G4 Wireless Kit
The other day on Facebook several people were asking about the Viltrox DC-70EX HD-SDI monitor, also known as the cheapest HD-SDI screen on the Amazon market. So here is a video review of the screen. Here is an Amazon Link to the Viltrox DC-70EX – http://amzn.to/2zDN9uN Here are some closeup pics of a video signal from a ARRI-Alexa Mini on the screen. You can see … Continue reading Review: Viltrox DC-70EX 7″ HD-SDI Monitor
Outside of the Sennheiser G2/3 series most filmmakers have never worked with any of Sennheiser’s other wireless systems. That is why when a Sennheiser SK2000 fell into my lap I thought to myself… take it apart, snap photos, run a work bench test on the unit! The Sennheiser SK2000 has an odd place in the Sennheiser catalog. If you are a filmmaker Sennheiser tells you to … Continue reading Review: Sennheiser SK2000 Transmitter
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
It’s safe to say this year was the year for timecode boxes. Four new miniature timecode boxes where announced the Thursday before NAB. Now every timecode sync box company makes a sub-$500 miniature product. Here is a quick spec list refresher of whats on the market in this new category of timecode boxes. The buyers guide is below the refresher. Timecode Systems now offers the … Continue reading NAB 2017 Wrap: Miniature TC Box Buyers Guide
I’ve had the F-control in my possession for about two months now. I can say first impressions have worn off and I have really settled in to what the F-control really does for my day to day recordings. My first impresses were “neato, oh boy, and now I can build a cart.” But now after two months my thought process has changed to that of … Continue reading Review: Zoom FRC-8 F-Control
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