Recent content by Marty ContraSound

My favorite for ethernet cables that are going to work in our rough mobile environment is the Elite Core PROCAT5E. It feels like a good mic line and lays like soft mic line, not loops to snag feet. Here is a link for their main store...

The part with the camlocks is Mole Richardson Red. Something filched from a film set.Marty the droid

I have done this gag with both powered speakers and LED lights. We use APC UPS units to power the devices. They ride on the wagon and provide AC for quite some time. For my LED lighting gag I only needed 20 min, but the 1500W APC UPS ran the lights for 3 hours in our tests. A powered speaker...

Also of note is that those 8 direct 1/4" TRS inputs are unbalanced stereo inputs and not balanced inputs. One side will be out of phase with the other. At least this is a better situation than when someone runs the stereo output into a balanced input.

One other tip... I have been putting my labels spaced down the cable from the end to show the loop size I prefer. Then when I have help wrapping I can tell people to put the connector by the label and make the loops that size.One friend got real anal and made the loop size marking on his...

If you are using P-Touch printing, get the "Flexible" tape instead of the standard laminated stuff. Dymo also has a version that is Nylon tape. Both adhere to the cable quite nicely. Here is a link for the p-touch tape http://www.brother-usa.com/supplies/tape-labels/cable-wire-id.aspx I have...

Wire and Cable is my special fetish. I use a lot of Clark Cable (clarkwire.com) but they changed their tactical cat5 and it is not as nice as it used to be. I did a search for stage friendly cat5e cable and found this...

When I got my M200i the X32 was still rather new. I chose the Roland because the REAC standard allows for use of standard ethernet hardware for fiber connections and connections to computers for recording. I used it for 2 years with an iPad 1 and found it reasonable to operate in a run and gun...