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Monthly Archives: October 2013
Sound guy xmas idea #2 – Drive-Loc Master Tech Set
Here is a great set of screw and nut drivers every tool kit should have. They are compact lightweight and consistent. I can carry 20 drivers for the same weight as 5 full sized drivers. I really like that they can also fit in a drill.
2 months until xmas… Sound guy xmas gift idea #1
Xmas is around the corner. My family has always complained about buying gifts for a sound guy. In an effort to simplify the search and beat the rush I will be posting some ideas that you may also share in hope you land what you want.
Sound guy xmas gift idea #1
What: New Mac Pro
why: Well this one is an obvious one just in time for the holidays. What is there to say… it comes with free shipping!
Where: http://store.apple.com/ca/buy-mac/mac-pro
How to properly wire in a dolby encoder / decoder
Spiromill – Engraving with a spirograph
Big K and the worlds Roundest Object
Making Yamaha to Digi crossover snakes
I had a call for some rush Yamaha digital to Digidesign Digital snakes.
ISOMETRICS
Munchy Crunchy and Intermittent
Thoughts?
Details are going in for some side cars
Schoeps at AES
This looks and probably sounds amazing!
from: http://www.schoeps.de/en/products/v4u
Studio Vocal Microphone V4 U
Studio Vocal Microphone
New small-diaphragm capsule architecture, with bevelled collar for controlling the polar response.
Warm, clear sonic character with smoothly rolled-off diffuse-field response.
Capsule head with adjustable tilt angle.
Optimal on-axis frequency response featuring a mild high-frequency lift.
Very smooth polar response; carefully-controlled narrowing of the pattern at high frequencies.
Diffuse-field response parallel to the 0 ° response, with a gentle roll-off at high frequencies.
Newly designed electronics offer a very high maximum sound pressure level.
V4 U Studio Vocal Microphone
The V4 U is the studio vocal microphone by SCHOEPS.
It unites the outstanding technical characteristics typical of SCHOEPS with a timeless, classic design.
The “look” of the V4 U is based on the SCHOEPS CM 51/3 from 1951. But the V4 U is a thoroughly modern studio microphone. Its capsule, circuitry and mechanical construction are the result of extensive new development.
1AM dead caliper battery – improvise
Making TT patch cables with Neutrik NP3TT-P-B crimp connectors
I was making some TT patch cables with Neutrik NP3TT-P-B crimp connectors and was told before buying them that the crimping tool to work with them was “too much”
Turns out there is a set of jaws for our Paladin tool that works perfectly.
What every studio needs
20131004 – Pedal board
While I was in Saskatoon I got the chance to build a pedal board for a friend. He had 8 pedals “floating” around in his life and it was time to tie them down and power them up. Without the Voodoo Labs Pedal power this project would have been a nightmare of power bars and wall warts.
Neumann cutting lathe acceleration limiter
Here are some before shots of the Neumann cutting lathe acceleration limiter BSB-74
It’s a really work of art in there, had to share.
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