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  1. Over a short duration ie minutes to tens of minutes this might work and produce an acceptable result. However over a longer duration ie tens of minutes to hours then slight variations in the clock sources in the two recorders will mean that the two recordings are appreciably different lengths when played back leading to all sorts of weird effects. If at all possible stick to one multichannel recorder.
  2. There's a link to a version 1.5 in this thread there's a claim that a version 1.6 might exist a Google search shows up https://rkhdlighting.co.uk/?attachment_id=381 but obviously do treat all random internet links with suspicion and at least put anything you download through virustotal before you consider using it.
  3. I guess there is Countryman in this segment of the market a little above your price range but they are all modularised and if it breaks you just replace the mic or cable or frame.
  4. In general when doing anything involving multiple ranges you just ignore the banks entirely and input what frequency ranges you have available in to the WSM software and ask it to produce you a frequency plot. For older mics you'd then have to tune the user bank manually if you have G3 300 or better you can transfer from WSM via Ethernet.
  5. Unless they have changed them since I was last there FOH is Bose 402s and the subs are some passive RCFs. Given the salt they die anyway and have to be periodically replaced.
  6. You also have to be careful to not overload the input stage of he receiver. One venue I was involved with had terrible problems because they had installed boosters on medium length but high quality cable runs. This was providing so much signal it was saturating the receivers. Removed boosters everything worked perfectly.
  7. Yes they still do it. Normally what this failure mode is that the synthesiser has failed and it is not locking on to a specific frequency. The pack will be transmitting and wandering over its entire switching range while doing so. We even just sent a pack off for this exact repair. However it's slow turnaround I believe they shut the UK centre down and centralised all repairs in Germany.
  8. chelgrian

    QLab 5!

    So for completion a permanent license now gets you only two seats but those seats can be used for anything rather than the primary / backup / edit for QLab 4. Having upgraded my personal license having QLab 4 and QLab 5 on the same machine seems to only consume one license seat. The other models ie rent to own still exist. One unlicensed machine can remotely control a licensed machine additional unlicensed machines get read only access.
  9. A couple of other possibilities would be: - Martin Audio CDD - Nexo P+ As others have pointed out what you can hire locally if you need to add additional boxes for specific events may influence the decision of brand.
  10. chelgrian

    Lost my chips

    While it might succeed for point to point it appears to have the same issue that AVB does that it relies upon TSN extensions for Ethernet for switched networks. The cost of switches which support the required standards tend to be prohibitive and they tend to have limitations on how they can be used and maintain conformance. Where as Dante tends to run on almost any gigabit switch that supports diffserv. This is why Dante took off in a much bigger way than AVB. So the translation looks like. They were using Samsung to fab a custom chip and they failed to book production far enough in advance. They then must have made the decision that instead of ordering more of their current generation which currently might take 25 weeks or more just to come back from the fab and weeks more to package and test that they would wait for their next generation instead so they didn't have inventory of a product that had just been or was just about to be superseded which would then be difficult to shift. If they were going to launch that new generation in Q4 22 anyway then it would have gone to the fab in Q1 22 under current conditions. While awkward for everyone downstream who didn't have enough of their own inventory it sadly make sense from a business point of view for audinate as the least worst option.
  11. The faders banks can be replaced in banks of 8, Yamaha went through several designs of fader on the M7CL and at one point we replaced all the faders on ours and the new ones had much better dust sealing than the ones that were replaced. I can't remember how modular it is inside but a checksum error is indicative of the flash on main board not being happy. Again the board is replaceable although Yamaha may not be able to supply them anymore. We sold our M7 and moved to a CL3 a few years ago. It may still be worth trying to repair your M7 though as replacing it currently may be hard, Yamaha are prioritising parts to higher margin products so the lead times on CL3s are very long as they are sending common parts to make PM3s instead.
  12. chelgrian

    DIY IP show relay

    macOS has this functionality built in terms of the AUNetSend and AUNetReceive audio unit plugins. All you need is something capable of hosting them. You might be able to cook something up using the free version of QLab but I've never tried doing anything like this. Reaper can probably also do it but it's not free. Other ways of doing it that are not free would be buying Dante Virtual soundcard and doing the routing using a DAW like reaper again or can probably do it just with Dante Via. Words of warning though successful audio over Ethernet needs a relatively high quality network and Dante in particular has same QoS requirements. I would not trust my show to an unknown network. If you can it would be far better to just unplug the patch from the switches and use baluns to send balanced analogue audio down the cable instead. I appreciate the venue might not let you do this. I'm somewhat curious as to what this venue is now...
  13. The only thing I can think of is that you are inserting it in the wrong orientation. They are specified to work together so if they don't something is faulty...
  14. There aren't any battery type settings. The BA2015 should just work it's possible it's just faulty and failing to hold charge. I've never seen the point vs using Ansmann cells at 1/10th of the cost. The cost just to be able to charge the pack using the contacts on the bottom with the also stupidly expensive Sennheiser charger is just obscene.
  15. Or GridGirl if she's still in Sydney.
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