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The Sennheiser rechargeable pack does not receive its charge through the normal battery contacts in the mic pack. It has a third connection which contacts a little trident-shaped piece of metal in between the two negative battery terminals. This design is to prevent the drop-in charger from...

Considering the 700mhz band is now reserved for Public Safety, among other things, get in writing from your superiors their willingness to interfere with police, fire, or medical communications. Alternately, demand to see written permission from the FCC allowing the continued use of these mics...

No. The frequency range is determined by the internal hardware, not just the antennas. That being said, the Sennheiser C band is now illegal for use in the US, as the FCC changed regulations some years back to prohibit wireless microphones from operating in the 700mhz band. Your two best bets...

OSC is another great option, if you can get your QLab computer on your lighting network. There's a great guide here. I've done this before (with audio cues, but same difference), so feel free to PM me if you get stuck.

DaVinci Resolve by Blackmagic Design recently added some pretty good editing capabilities (it's mostly for color grading). It's actually to the point that it's my primary editing software right now. And it's free. You can't record VOs in Resolve, but you could use something like Audacity to...

Just as a note, instead of paying $50 for the iRFR or aRFR apps, with v2.3 or later on any of the Eos family, you can use OSC to control your board from a phone/tablet (or really anything, actually). TouchOSC, one of the best OSC apps for iOS, is only $5, which is incredibly reasonable for an...

Have you tried a different USB cable? I've had a few weird experiences with PreSonus products not liking certain cables. It probably won't change anything, but it's worth a shot.

Ah, so turns out it's a bit more invasive than what I had thought. From a thread over on the ETC forums a while back:"The OLE 'offline output' will flash all 'lights' in your rig to Full periodically (about every minute or so I think) as a protection to stop it being used as a live output...

I believe that Nomad can output to actual fixtures without a dongle, but it homes everything for a few seconds every 20 minutes or so. This was meant for visualizers, and to cripple its ability to actually run a show. For a teaching environment, this limitation would be completely acceptable.

Figure 53 (who make QLab), make a small utility called TimecodeDisplay that does exactly what you want. All you'd need is a display somewhere that the actors can see.

I've done the reverse of what you're trying to do, where I use a SK100 (beltpack transmitter) with an EK300 IEM (beltpack IEM receiver). Both systems use different pilot tone frequencies, so I had to disable the pilot tone on both devices.

If you don't have a specific reason to be using MSC, I'd highly recommend taking a look at OSC (Open Sound Control). It's a network based protocol which QLab and the Ion both support, so as long as you can get your QLab computer hooked up to your lighting network, you'd be fine. You can find a...

Slightly different perspective here. At my old high school there was a huge emphasis on learning not just how to operate systems, but also learning how they worked. Our tech director purposely never set up the systems himself. He would supervise, but by the start of tech, the board op understood...

We run ours off of a mechanical hard drive, and haven't had any issues with multiple sound files and simple projections being run simultaneously. Also, you always have the option of upgrading the hard drive to a SSD in the future, should you so desire. Right now you can get a good 500GB SSD for...

Sure. Here it is.