Adapter of the day

Posted on 20130924 by Anthony P. Kuzub

I was doing a gig on the weekend and was Introduced to an adapter that saved the gig. We had an in ear monitor that was buzzing, the feed was coming from the truck line level from the output of the clear-com. Right from the truck, at the panel on the outside, there was noise in the cue box. So instead of feeding that line level from the truck I thought it would be nice to send an IFB (clear com) to a TR-50 then Sennheiser IEM transmitter at ‘somewhat line level’. The truck engineer said “Hey there is a clear-com to Line level adapter in the truck, a Drier” Lo-and-behold it saved the feed and delivered a perfect noise free signal to the talents IFB. If anyone knows what’s inside please let me know, kinda curious.

We added a transformer for added isolation.

It’s not to dis-similar to http://home.roadrunner.com/~jimirayo/drier.htm

Making snakes for a Patching system

Posted on 20130906 by Anthony P. Kuzub

We Built some 24 Channel snakes from some re-claimed Blenden Bundles. All the EDACs were de-pinned and re-inserted into a 90 pin housing. The other end has been cut to length and re-prepped into various configurations. Dave got some really good practice on this build and his chops have come a long way in a very short time.

To give you more of an idea of what’s going on in the patchbay here is the design preliminary that’s ever changing and evolving!

An EDAC panel with some fresh engraving

Posted on 20130824 by Anthony P. Kuzub

WBS POD 22A meters – house standard!

Posted on 20130813 by Anthony P. Kuzub

Dave did some nice tails for the WBS POD 22 meters.

Monster buzzword buzzword buzzword wire VS solder

Posted on 20130809 by Anthony P. Kuzub

We had a chunk on Monster Cable “Interlink Reference 2 High Resolution total bandwidth balance Audio Interconnect cable with Micro fiber” and a piece of solder in the shop… so we put them through the audio precision.

guess which one is the solder