I’ve never worked a gig in TV audio where a Q box hasn’t been used. I’ve used it to test lines, check mics, calibrate consoles, an intercom, an in ear monitor amplifier for a drummer who forgot his mackie power supply at home (drummers….)
Seriously valuable tool.
Should land you around $200 and that’s a steal
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/279655-REG/Whirlwind_QBOX_QBOX_Audio_Line.html
I take a LOT of notes, and I loose a LOT of notes. I find myself throwing away little bits of paper with random writing daily. Collect your thoughts in one classy place: a Moleskine notebook.
Prices vary and they are vailible in almost every bookstore in the world.
http://www.moleskine.com/en/collections/model/product/notebook-large-ruled-orange-yellow-hard
AND here is a great system to keep it organized:
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One of my favourite pieces of hardware on the market. Shocked that this product isn’t in every studio in the world.
Super accurate, easy to read, unique overlaid PPM/VU ballistics, correlation between channels is instantly evident, phase meter, tilts, small foot print, can be placed anywhere, impresses the girls (big knobs)
This is a precision scientific tool, how can you be engineering something if there’s not lab equipment around? You should have one.
http://ward-beck.com/products/metering_monitoring/slm1a
For special pricing, email Kevin@Ward-Beck.com and tell him APK sent you
You know you want one…
The Manley Massive Passive Stereo Tube EQ is a two-channel, four-band equalizer (with additional high pass and low pass filters) that can handle radical EQ sometimes needed for tracking as well as the most subtle shadings for vocals and mastering. It is designed to be a fundamentally different EQ but incorporates the best strengths of Pultecs, choice console EQs, parametrics and graphics. The difference is that the Massive allows twice as much EQ with half the coloration. It delivers huge HF boosts without sibilance problems and extreme fatness with impressive clarity.
Manley Massive Passive Features:
All-Passive tone sculpting circuitry
Unique Shelf curves use the “bandwidth” control
Overlapping and Interleaved Frequency choices
Every band switchable to shelf or bell
Vacuum tube make-up gain and line drivers
Parallel symmetrical topology
Premium components throughout
HP and LP Filters plus gain trims
Modular design allows future upgrades and special functions
“What’s it’s read now” “NO GO UP UP UP DOWN DOWN DOWN UP UP HOLD IT THERE… UP UP UP”
No more of that horse shit the Fluke Remote display meter.
They are around $300 (http://www.amazon.com/Fluke-233-Remote-Display-Multimeter/dp/B002X7ZX00 ) but I’m certain someones life will be saved by this innovation. 
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.
http://www.wihatools.com/200seri/281_Driveloc_Blades.htm
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.
My caliper battery died while working late. I looked in storage and swore there was one there, no success. Two AA cells later I was back in the game! 
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.
While visiting a friends studio (The Avenue Recording Company) I was happy to notice an old microphone cart I’d built for Tanda Recording. The cart was designed to keep clutter down and be able to slide between the room partitions. It was extremely well then and keeps working today. There are two side compartments that remove and a bottom one for larger items.
Compartments taken out. The compartments were great for keeping the mic clips and stere bars etc etc
The bottom case was great to stash round basses and goose necks
A word of advice if you want to build a cart like this: The real trick to this cart is its depth. We had a similar cart at a theatre I worked for; we were always breaking off adjustment knobs on the bottom of the stands. If the depth of the holes is too much putting the stands in can snap the adjustment screws right off.
When in doubt: fuck it, paint it black.
The Linear Traveling Potentiometer presented at AES Toronto meeting Sept 24, 2013
The Math Project that inspired the FivePointNone
I was going through my old wallet contents When I found and old rate card for my studio. Each of use carried the card so we knew exactly what discounts and perks were when talking about packages. The taxes were included in the package price, Perks were back line, Drum Kits, and Mastering discounts. It was nice to pull this card out and share it with prospective clients. Good old sales tricks.
All that time I spend on Reddit finally paid off with this life pro tips.
Thought I’d share how it saved me from pulling out the vacuum
Dave did some nice tails for the WBS POD 22 meters.
Dave got his hands a little dirty in the cleaning of a clients T1202A. Very good little task out of the way. While it was in I snapped a few pics for the archive :-) I would have named it a T1202C as it has C revision Modules…
Here is a link to the Ward-Beck Systems T1202A
I’m looking to invest in a mobile acoustic measurement software and am looking for opinions.
I’ve been playing with the Spectrafoo Demo and I must say it’s very impressive
http://mhsecure.com/metric_halo/products/software/spectrafoo.html and it’s very competitively priced. The Main thing appealing to me about foo is the “Transfer Function Measurement System” I became familiar with while using a SIM system… This to me is the most valuable feature.
There is nothing like this meter on the market. It’s nice to have on the bench, excited to get them installed!
