Recent content by corvid43

I also wanted to mention that all of our TR-800's are set to "push-to-transmit".

I have been silent because I thought I had solved it! I was slowly taking things out of the loop and I replaced a cable run on one of the wired packs (where I suspected the problem came from) and it went away. Only to return a few days later! I have a bit of time today and a helper so I think I...

I kind of did this on my own already...I would put the headset on of a pack that I was testing and wiggled stuff.I have heard the crackling when the system is in "neutral" or "standby": not during show run, no mics on, and no w/l packs on...so the system is essentially just powered on. I...

Haven't tried that yet...I will finally have some time on Wednesday to do some serious troubleshooting, and will try this out.The biggest hurdle is that the crackling can be so intermittent, that I can't tell if what I'm doing is making any effect at all.

That was my assumption, but how to find it in a party line, which is essentially a loop??I like it when things are routed through a console...so much easier! :doh:

Thanks for replying! Yes, it's a Clearcom SB-704...though I don't see a ribbon cable on it.I agree with your theory that it's something sending. Maybe it's worth it to power it all down and then exercise all of the knobs and connections, using contact cleaner where necessary...?

The last few weeks we have been getting very intermittent crackling on our show-run channel of com. When it really gets going, it seems to garble the sound of the calling SM. Lately it seems to be getting worse and more bothersome to the crew on headset during the show. But when I try to...