Anonymous067
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I'm in the middle of Into The Woods, showing this weekend and next weekend, and I have 21 rented microphones from the local shop. They give us a special "theatre rate" which isn't time dependent, and they give us plenty of spare capsules in case something breaks. Fine.
Here's my issue. I have 3 bandsplits of Senny 100 G3 units. They are all racked up nice and pretty in three cases, 8 A units, 8 G units, and 5 B units. Each rack has 2 (except the B band) Senny DAs inside it. For a total of 5 DAs. The 5th receiver in the B rack just has its own antennas which don't go through the DA. I have five sets of antennas.
I asked them very early on to please provide the specs for how many of each band splits they were providing so I could do a freq coordination.
I am irritated at the fact that they denied my request to add one more DA to the rig (or use Shure DAs (845s) which can handle 5 RX/a cascade) so that everything could drop down to ONE PAIR OF PADDLES. I stated my argument that I cannot put the RX on stage, it must be in the booth (cable restrictions), and that the antennas would not be able to be facing the stage in this setup, and that providing another DA, with two paddles, would significantly increase performance of the mics. What did they say? Nope, sorry. Not even, "we don't have any available" (which I also would have called BS on, because I reserved this order in November). They could have charged me. Nope. Just NO!
Tech week went fine, but last night, I was having dropout issues like CRAZY. I have the squelch set on the lowest settings, yet four of the receivers didn't once switch to the first antenna during our opening show last night, as they had no RF! I'm pissed.
!!!!!
AND furthermore, even if i call them on Monday and complain, half the shows are done! I kind of want a partial refund. If I were doing an install of 20 mics, I wouldn't use 5 pair with 1/4 wave antennas. They'd be down to one or two pairs of paddles. !!!!
Here's my issue. I have 3 bandsplits of Senny 100 G3 units. They are all racked up nice and pretty in three cases, 8 A units, 8 G units, and 5 B units. Each rack has 2 (except the B band) Senny DAs inside it. For a total of 5 DAs. The 5th receiver in the B rack just has its own antennas which don't go through the DA. I have five sets of antennas.
I asked them very early on to please provide the specs for how many of each band splits they were providing so I could do a freq coordination.
I am irritated at the fact that they denied my request to add one more DA to the rig (or use Shure DAs (845s) which can handle 5 RX/a cascade) so that everything could drop down to ONE PAIR OF PADDLES. I stated my argument that I cannot put the RX on stage, it must be in the booth (cable restrictions), and that the antennas would not be able to be facing the stage in this setup, and that providing another DA, with two paddles, would significantly increase performance of the mics. What did they say? Nope, sorry. Not even, "we don't have any available" (which I also would have called BS on, because I reserved this order in November). They could have charged me. Nope. Just NO!
Tech week went fine, but last night, I was having dropout issues like CRAZY. I have the squelch set on the lowest settings, yet four of the receivers didn't once switch to the first antenna during our opening show last night, as they had no RF! I'm pissed.
!!!!!
AND furthermore, even if i call them on Monday and complain, half the shows are done! I kind of want a partial refund. If I were doing an install of 20 mics, I wouldn't use 5 pair with 1/4 wave antennas. They'd be down to one or two pairs of paddles. !!!!
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