Recent content by Lyle Williams

Pretty-well nobody implements variable-gain amplifiers. It's just not a practical approach to the electronics.What you see everywhere are fixed-gain amplifiers with an adjacent attenuator.So the knob or fader just controls an attenuator that limits how much signal makes it to the fixed-gain...

We bought Sydney Hamilton tickets for the whole family in the middle of last year. I can't wait!

"rather fine wood saws"... but how many carpenters and arborists have you seen working with that kind of saw?:)

My point is that a multitool brings together the very worst version of every tool.

If you went to a tool store and they sold a standalone version of a tool on your multitool, would you buy it?Me neither.

As an XR18 user, I do use an offboard wifi access point. I'd also point out that many "dropouts" have seemed to be traceable to the autodiscovery mechanism used between the XR18 and the app. Have the XR18 IP address handy at your tablet. (The network may be working fine, but the app is...

As many have said, this is one for an experienced electrician rather than the internet.But it would be interesting to see if the brownouts were on all phases. eg Undervoltage on one phase at the same time as overvoltage on another would imply a different kind of fault.

I have neoprene mic belts like this. A letter of the alphabet is written in 1.5" sharpie on each belt. Mic packs have numbers, belts have letters. FWIW, I haven't been doing this for long.

Pursuit of a heatshrunk solution might be creating a problem where one doesn't really exist.My power cables get marked with self-laminating test-n-tag labels. I get those pre-printed with my name.Mic cable gets a blue ring pained around the XLR connector with a POSCA paint marker.On a...

Just pick some unused channels and then you can overflow your 16 bits into 24, or 32, or ... whatever you want! :)Moving those low-order-bits faders is going to do diddly-squat. So you might as well just pretend you have the 32-bits of control.

Standardisation is about achieving adequacy at the required scale. It is a very different thing from excellence."The organisational machine" uses the term "quality" to mean something very different from "excellence"."Quality" means a well documented and followed set of procedures that can...

TimMc wins the internet today.

... can't have peanuts in schools!

Hi Rod, greetings from down under. I'm in Canberra, not far from your old stomping grounds.I'll try out some hair lavs, but for the moment I don't think they will fit with our reality. There is an expectation that a whole cast can don or doff their mics in about 2 minutes. The focus is on...

I've ordered a bunch of that double earworn style (in a much cheaper model...)Everyone has talked me out of cheaper wireless mic electronics. I've now got 6ch of ew100 g1/g3, and 8ch of line-6 hd-v55/v75.ew100 g1 is physically very solid, but lacks a pilot tone so turning off a transmitter...