Recent content by LesWilson

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Just a followup. I got budget for a used wireless and was able to put together a 4 drop system for around $4k. Works better and quieter than the rental units we've always had. The ancient Clearcom MA-400 base station still handles the wired side just fine and level problems across the two...

Just to follow up, I was able to construct a 5' circle using two layers of 3/4" XPS with alternating spokes of cedar and 3/4" XPS. The wall is 2x2 covered with RAMboard. The scenic artists are still working on it but a 26 degree Leko with a snoot from an upstage pipe at around 8' away does the...

I'll take a look at removing the plug. Those wires are awfully small and my fingers aren't. LOL Thanks all.

This things have lasted a long time and been great for our musical theater program. This one lost some outside insulation but still works. I was going to try and clean the oxidation off with alchohol and then patch it somehow. I don't like tape as it inevitably comes off. I have a Hellerman tool...

I didn't think of an ellipsoidal. I think I have a 36 degree and an electric that might do the trick nicely with maybe 10' of throw.

Thanks for sharing this experience. The two layer diffusion is exactly how a softbox works. One layer halfway between the light source and outer layer. We are trying to go the incandescent route so we can have a long "sunrise" dim up effect controlled by our console.

So our set designer wants to use a starch and dye on muslin technique to create a 6' diameter round stained glass window for Sound of Music. Weight and size have to accomodate stage hands putting it on and off during performance. The trick is lighting it in a way that looks like it's a window to...

Just to add to what @NickVon said, that camera is so old that you could probably by something used with an HDMI connector for the money you would waste trying to connect the DVC30P camera. I had that camera back in the day. The only output for input to a switcher is the composite output. So...

We are a small private school and do a 4 showings of our musical once a year. We've rented a 4 drop HMEdx200 wireless intercom for many years at a discounted rate and used it with our wired system. We have found the wireless raises our production value. But post COVID, that rate has gone up and...

At our HS, I use a 4 person lighting crew. One person (ALD) follows the script and calls all lighting and SFX cues for the lighting operator and two followspot operators. The lighitng Op sits next to the ALD and can see/anticipate their own cues. This works well as long as egos are in check. I...

Yes I was hoping a Clear-com gray beard was hanging here. I ran into my TD and he said he was here when the unit was deployed in 1991. He remembered it as always having that hiss. To quote “It’s led a long noisy life” 😂 He added properly working modern ones won’t have the hiss. 😩

Thanks guys. No hum just hiss. Everything works great except for the hiss and scratchy pots in the beltpacks and MR-102A wall stations. LOL.I use newly refurbished Sennheiser HMD 281 Pro headsets (200 ohm mic, 64 ohm headphone) but the hiss has been there since I installed the surplussed unit...

We've been only using our Clearcom MS-400A base station once a year for our High School musical. I'd like to start using it more at our weekly assemblies but would like to address the hissing if possible. Below is a recording of the noise with an RTA visualization. The recording was taken from...

Small High School production of The Little Mermaid. We have very little room back stage which makes for a challenging set design each year. So the ship for this play was a challenge in that it needed to be large enough for a crew yet disassemble for other scenes. So our bow and masts stayed on...