Dear Mike Working on your own with 6 Radio mics! This is not a practise we in AMPS should be advocating . Regards Ian Voigt AMPS Production Sound Mixer +44 (0)...
Dear Everyone The only headphones me poor old failing ears seem to cope with these days are the Sony MDR 7506 Folding ones, they are very comfortable ...
Hello, I am looking for tushel connectors for my Nagra 4.2 and my usual sourses are turning up empty. Does anyone know where I can buy these connectors? Thank...
Try CANFORD in the UK Mike Westgate www.mikewestgatesound.webnz.co.nz ... From: "pvanscherpe" <pvanscherpe@...> To: <amps-talk@yahoogroups.com> Sent:...
Nope Pat ... From: "Sandy MacRae" <sandymacrae@...> To: <amps-talk@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 5:56 PM Subject: Re: [amps-talk]...
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What's fob and UPM? Pat ... From: "Mike Westgate" <mikewest@...> To: <amps-talk@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2003 5:33 AM Subject:...
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I may have some spare. Which pin configuration do you require? Pat Heigham ... From: "pvanscherpe" <pvanscherpe@...> To: <amps-talk@yahoogroups.com> ...
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Nov 2, 2003 11:33 am
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Answering Mike's terminology Pat, I take a 'fob' as being a remote control, to you and me a 'zapper' as in a TV remote. A 'fob' is, I take it, a device that...
Judging from your email address, you are based in the USA, so this URL might not help, worth a try though! RS components here in the UK, but I'm sure they mail...
Hello everyone, I wanted to introduce myself to the group. I am the one who asked initially how to let the boom operator monitor what is being recorded, and...
E-mail message From: pvanscherpe@... (pvanscherpe) Date: Sun, Nov 2, 2003, 10:55pm (EST+5) To: amps-talk@yahoogroups.com Subject: [amps-talk] Poll and...
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Nov 3, 2003 12:09 am
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You can go from a mic level output on your mixer to the XLR on your Nagra, or (preferable) you can go line out, to line in on the Nagra using the banana...
Ray Collins
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Nov 3, 2003 2:31 am
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Quite right Ian. Remote control on a key ring. UPM is an American parlance for line producer. Regards Mike ... From: "Ian Richardson" <ian@...> ...
Well you have to look at the parameters of the task. Six experts not necessarily grouped together speaking ad-lib and at times all together, shot by two...
Mike I am not questioning your jugement on how to tackle any task,my concern as always is the crew level on sound.Boom operator is a must on any sync sound job...
... Dear Ian Hear Hear-I could'nt agree more with you. Especially getting assistants etc. into the sound department. We at AMPS should say a loud NO to any...
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Nov 3, 2003 9:24 am
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Thanks Roy and Peter, greetings, too far for a chat with G5RV and 100w..echo link perhaps! regards Robin G0GNE...
Ian I totally agree with you. During my years servicing episodic TV, I always had a boom operator and a trainee who I usually chose by them having completed a ...
Mike wrote: The problem with my current contract is that the local producers have little idea, and certainly no understanding of freelance workers or of the...
I get the impression that the industry in the UK is slowly returning to "staff" operation in order to keep tabs on technical skills (similar to the IT...
Richard Daniel
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Nov 4, 2003 10:34 pm
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Hi all I am working on a dv feature and there is no script and rarely actors, most of the dialogue is improvised and sometimes there are 2 to 3 cameras. More...
Michael Lemass
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Nov 5, 2003 1:48 am
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Try a thigh pack, get someone to make you up a pack that wraps around then upper thigh, pack is just below the crotch area. Wardrobe probably can help you....
Ray Collins
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Nov 5, 2003 4:02 am
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Go to a sporting shop and buy some small size elasticised knee guards. They go around the ankle and work well Regards, Steve Ravich Sound Recordist Sydney,...
Steve Ravich
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Nov 5, 2003 7:03 am
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A great post Sandy!!!! I totally agree with your eloquent summary. I was trained on a BBC sound recordist intake in the days when there were 40 crews based at...
... to ... to ... (boom ... Before anyone, myself included gets too irate could you expand on what you mean by "dumbing down" and how you equate boom operating...
Hello Steve What I read here was the Production perception of the job of Boom Operator, not Richard's! They seem to think ANYONE can stand there and hold a...
I agree with Ray Collins. A TV presenter I once worked with, preferred to wear the transmitter strapped to her inside thigh. She used an elastic tube bandage...