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    Away from theatre - Electronic & Electrical Engineer working at a local airport. In the theatre - Self employed Sound Designer. Also dabbles in prop building.
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    Fixer (and occasional breaker) of radars, instrument landing systems and radios.
    Builder of animatronic pigs, pigeons, ravens, roses and droids.
    Mixer of musicals.
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    Dad to a very unfortunate child!

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  1. If you're looking new then I really rate Thomann's Achat range. For the money they're very good.
  2. Thank you everybody. One of my trusty old crown amps worked a treat and we were able to locate all of the zones. Can confirm that my impedance meter also drove the circuits a-ok. A good result! CPC amp still hasn't turned up!!
  3. Paging all 100V line experts! I'm working a night tonight to try and locate some 100V line circuits that have been disconnected from a now removed amp rack. I have a marshalling box with several circuits arriving at it, but no idea which speakers each circuit drives. The aim is map them out and eventually to recommission some of them. Last week I ordered a cheap 100v line amp from CPC, with the aim of simply connecting it to the circuits in turn and playing some tone through them. The amp hasn't turned up (UPS tracking suggests it was attempted delivery on Friday after we'd closed, and has been stuck on "next day redelivery" since). I don't have another 100V amp available. I do have tonnes of regular ones though sat at home. Is there anything I can do to get sone audio through these speakers? I'd toyed with if using the transformer from a speaker backwards might work, as I'm only driving them at low level. Not sure if I'd be letting magic smoke come out though. I don't need much sound, just enough to walk around and hear which speaker is which. Any suggestions?? Or anybody in west Leeds with a spare 100v amp that I can easily get a signal in to? Thank you!!
  4. Not in that price bracket. I've been buying the Microphone Madness ones from the US now for a while, and they have a few different colour options. I opt for the colour-your-own method on cheaper headsets. Theatre Sound Group have sets of markers, which you can then lock in with clear nail varnish. Alternatively humbrol paints are an option too.
  5. cedd

    Adding to wired comms

    Your system is a bit non standard, so one of the off the shelf wireless solutions isn't maybe going to work for you. Given you already have mic and headphones separated, you could just look at radio mic and in ear monitor hardware. SM wears a radio mic in to the mic side of the system, and an in ear monitor receiver, which has its' transmitter connected to the headphones circuit. As long as the frequencies in question played ball, and weren't causing issues to any radio mics in the show, it's probably the easiest and cheapest method.
  6. I've been in contact with Voice Technologies. I was particularly interested in the differences in sensitivities across their range, and why they've opted for an additional VT Duplex Vocal model, with higher SPL handling. Seems that singing was proving a problem for the standard VT-Duplex - sounds to be more suited to speakers and presentation usage. The vocal one is a lot more money though, so I think probably out of my price range. The dual size headset frame is in one way a bonus, but for people like me who are constantly between different productions I think it'd become a faff, and I'd prefer something I can just bend to shape. To be honest I still haven't bettered the CPC frames in this respect. Have heard mixed things about the HSP Essentials. Reviews seem to suggest they're maybe prone to damage. Yet to hear one in real life, but at this stage any purchase to try something out is simply money wasted if they turn out not to be right. I think I'll go back to Microphone Madness. Would love someone in the UK to become a dealer for them! My usual recipe is to buy their single ear version and then straighten it out and Hellerman sleeve it to an old CPC frame. This gives by far the most flexible solution (I find their own headsets to be a bit too flexible - they're great for getting comfortable on a single performer, but need completely reshaping every single time). Going to grab one of their waterproof ones this time round to try too, and to have in the arsenal for those occasional very sweaty performers.
  7. It might pay to look at weight lifting gloves too. I have a pair from years ago and I often opt for them when I've lots of lifting and carrying to do - the increased padding on the palms really helps. Mine are a very open knit on the back of the hands, so great for airflow, and the fingers are open. I can't see the exact ones I've got for sale any more, but similar ones are definitely out there. Just depends on the kind of rigging and work you're doing.
  8. A friend had a Rode headset a few years ago with their Kevlar reinforced cable. It died on the first outing! May have been a one off, but it always put me off! I've just remembered the offerings from Voice Technologies, sold in the UK through Canford. They're very interesting pieces of kit; https://www.canford.co.uk/VOICE-TECHNOLOGIES-MICROPHONES-Headworn Not much in the way of reviews out there for them though.
  9. Never had issues in this band before. What antenna distribution are you using, and what aerials? Do these mics have pilot tone and is it enabled? Receiver desense might be an issue, but otherwise 5MHz is a fair old way away really. What individual frequencies are you using?
  10. There's been lots of discussion around cheap headsets recently, and of course we all know the likes of DPA at the other end of the spectrum. I've just lost a few DPA's on a show, and am looking for something to replace them with. I probably can't afford more DPA's but something around the £200-£300 mark would work well for me. I have plenty of CPC's and other cheap ones, but don't know heaps about the middle of the market. I'm aware of the Sennheiser HSP Essentials headset. I've previously bought and liked the Microphone Madness ones (and their new waterproof models look really interesting). These will probably be my route of choice if nothing else suitable gets suggested. I'm not completely against buying second hand if some good ones come along, but would prefer new. They'll get used as headsets eventually, but I'm happy making lavs up in to headsets if needs be. Any other suggestions gratefully received. If there's an absolute gem of a cheaper mic that I can buy more of then even better, but I'm not expecting miracles!
  11. Somewhere in the depths of the Blue Room there's a post from me saying how I managed to achieve just this. I can't find it now though. One thing to watch is that the different variants (S5.3, S5.5, ch38, ch70 etc.) all use different IR codes. It took me a while to find a learning remote that would learn the codes, and the one that I did find is no longer made. Since I documented how to do this, Blue Room member GraemeFTV seems to have started producing these commercially. Ultra Light and Sound is his company.
  12. If you can cope with one single switch, then I've used these in the past with great success; https://cpc.farnell.com/unbranded/sb302/data-switch-db25-2-way/dp/CS14327?mckv=s_dc|pcrid|426684131165|kword||match||plid||slid||product|CS14327|pgrid|100371159078|ptaid|pla-915870443908|&CMP=KNC-GUK-CPC-SHOPPING-9262013734-100371159078-CS14327&s_kwcid=AL!5616!3!426684131165!!!network}!915870443908!&gclid=CjwKCAjw15eqBhBZEiwAbDomEhjZP5gTa-lhqPiWJJh3HCHt2eXTYOARbZL0zaVO72eLCdUiOE7m9hoC51sQAvD_BwE Either use the switch only, and panel mount it (lots of soldering) or buy xlr-D sub cables and just plug them in to it. Both solutions work just fine. My QLAB rack has one on the front to switch the 8 xlr outputs between my main and standby machines.
  13. I also had a number of them fail in an identical way to how I'd seen the CPC ones fail - capsule suddenly started emitting loud rumbling/static. You could make it come and go by flicking the capsule. RE. the skin tone options on these, I completely agree. I've been looking for some reasonable but cheap ones in brown for a while. CPC sold off a tonne of them very cheap years ago when they switched to just beige, but I'm down to my last few. I know one argument is simply, colour them yourself (as is done in professional theatre) but I've yet to find a solution that still allows the headset to be adjusted to different people and that retains the colouring long enough. Factory painted in the correct colour really is the only way. Black isn't a solution, and is no better a skin tone match than beige on a lot of people. A brown option really is essential to any range. Still a big fan of the Microphone Madness headsets, which aren't in the same league price-wise, but aren't DPD prices either. They sound lovely.
  14. Hi all Just wrapping this one up. Orchid came back saying it should be possible to build one, but I never heard back from them with a price. However I've just discovered the Palmer PAN 04A DI box, which looks to do exactly what I need. Haven't bought any yet as I'm short if funds, but once I can afford some I'll be buying. Thanks for all the input.
  15. Wrapping up this topic, I decided to stick with my convention for my other equipment, and went with an interlocking lid plastic box, containing 4 euro tray plastic boxes (they just fit as a stack of you trim down the edges of the bottom one). Then used shadow foam to line 3 of them, leaving the bottom one for clips etc. Really pleased with the results; https://photos.app.goo.gl/iHYNEYugDpppd1Cv5 https://photos.app.goo.gl/ikU5XtVJdCPDguEH8 https://photos.app.goo.gl/Hn2U8juSu3NduVoe6
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