Category: Accessories

Let’s go to the hop, (oh baby)

I get asked more and more every day about camera hops –what’s available and what’s coming. It seems as though we have run around the circle in audio from double system Nagra to recording direct to camera and now back to double system on hard disk recorders (and with a lot more channels).  It still […]

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Lectrosonics D4. One transmitter, one receiver, four channels.

Lectrosonics has long owned a majority stake in the North American film and television audio market. Their Digital Hybrid wireless is massively successful. Using digital audio processing in the transmitter and receiver, they effectively removed the companding noise used in traditional analog wireless systems. Lectrosonics has finally answered the all digital call of their competitors […]

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Sound Devices CL-2 at NAB 2009

Paul Isaacs of Sound Devices shows off the new CL-2 Boom Fader Controller for use with the 788T Recorder.

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K-Tek products for NAB 2009

K-Tek’s Brenda Parker demonstrates and explains several items from the K-Tek and Reinhardt Windscreen lines. The Klassic Traveler Boom Pole – “The one pound pole” K-Mount & K-MTS Quick Sock fuzzy Camera Clamp Adapter Kit Shoe Bridge K-Cam SM Shoe Step Reinhardt Windscreens Reinhardt Soft Zep Stage Poles with Quick Connect

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Rycote Video Mount for NAB 2009

Simon Davies demonstrates the new Rycote InVision Video mount.

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Lectrosonics’ new products for NAB 2009

Lectrosonic’s Gordon Moore describes and displays the new Octo Pack 8 Channel Wireless Receiver distribution unit, the HM plug-on transmitter and the SRBATTSLED for use with the SRa and SRa-5P ENG Receivers.

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Noise in the 788T headphone output when used for return monitoring, demystified.

There have be many reports, recently, of mysterious and unacceptably high noise levels when using the Sound Devices 788T headphone output as a send for return monitoring with a mixer. The reports went something like this:  “When using the headphone output of the SD-788T as a send for “tape return” monitoring, there is considerable hiss, […]

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Lectro line level input cable recommendation

While wireless microphone transmitters are normally thought of as being used with microphones, we often use them for line-level signals, such as when tapping into mixing board feeds or when using them as wireless “camera hops” to a camcorder. It has been determined that the previously recommended line input cable sometimes forced the transmitter limiters to work too soon and

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