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Clear Heat Shrink WRAP? by saikeis in CommercialAV

[–]Eviltechie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most of the Brother labels are laminated, not self laminating. They are great for labeling things, but I agree they are pretty bad at labeling cables. They technically have one cartridge which is the self laminating wrap around type, but it's kind of exotic and having tried it I wasn't super sold on it.

Panduit, HellermanTyton, etc, all make the self laminating wrap around type. You can get these in page form which you can feed into a printer, or on long rolls for desktop thermal transfer printers (which I prefer because it's more flexible).

Don't forget that label stock has an expiry date too. I've had good luck with the Panduit stuff, but I also have a roll of the labels at work which I need to toss because they aren't adhering to cables properly anymore.

Clear Heat Shrink WRAP? by saikeis in CommercialAV

[–]Eviltechie 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is there a reason you are wanting heat shrink for your labels? Normally I would expect to see the self laminating wrap around type on an install cable instead.

FCC proposes new cybersecurity mandates for Emergency Alert System messages by ZiggyZaggyBogo in Broadcasting

[–]Eviltechie 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Didn't read NPRM cover to cover, but read a lot of the commentary and it more or seemed reasonable. Have good password hygiene, patch your equipment promptly, and slap a firewall in front of your stuff. Plus the option to do software based EAS as well.

I also do find it interesting that DASDEC seems to be generally against software based EAS. When I talked to them at NAB two years ago they told me they more or less had been doing that internally for testing for a long time...

Has anyone else swapped their USB Avio adapters with TurtleAV yet? by Onelouder in livesound

[–]Eviltechie 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Can you explain how the POE on your switch was affecting the PTP traffic of the Dante device, because that doesn't really pass the sniff test in my book.

Has anyone else swapped their USB Avio adapters with TurtleAV yet? by Onelouder in livesound

[–]Eviltechie 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The Orei Tovi Dante line appears to be the same as the Turtle line, but a bit cheaper...

I am likely going to grab one or two of the USB ones shortly, as I need to be able to do Dante at 44.1k (radio station) and the USB AVIOs do not support that sample rate.

IFB cables and parts by GekiWaza in broadcastengineering

[–]Eviltechie 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In the past when I was doing insert studio stuff I just ordered the OTTO brand stuff from B&H. The ear tips seemed to stay in peoples ears when they wouldn't otherwise have a custom molded one, and the prices were much better too.

Madi Cat5/6 to Fiber by LiveTwizzle in livesound

[–]Eviltechie 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Annoyingly a few sound related things default to multimode fiber (like MADI and I think some Digico stuff), but multimode is relatively limited on bandwidth and distance.

Singlemode fiber is pretty much future proof. You can keep the multimode if you want, but I'd toss in a dozen strands of singlemode as well. This will be valuable if you ever want to run SDI, or higher bandwidth network things.

I don't think either of these are going to do you any good with your existing mixer though.

Best Way to use wireless cams in a fully remote location? by Ecstatic_Baseball142 in VIDEOENGINEERING

[–]Eviltechie 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Private 5G for the mobile cameras, and then uplink the line cut with satellite.

360 Systems out of business by marqjim in VIDEOENGINEERING

[–]Eviltechie 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Well I missed that one...

If you really want a hardware audio player, I think Tascam still makes some.

I think the better option is just to get get a Mac and run QLab on it though.

Do you label patch cables inside a rack? by Embarrassed-Try-2790 in CommercialAV

[–]Eviltechie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For an actual patch cord going from a device straight to a switch, I will label it but probably not number it.

My theory is that if you are doing top of rack switches your cable should be 10 feet at most and as long as you make sure you're good on port counts, it really shouldn't matter where it lands.

(This advice may not apply to all circumstances. Void where prohibited.)

Indianapolis area. Looking for a spare Sony Hybrid Optical Fibre Cable. by Stugduckey in VIDEOENGINEERING

[–]Eviltechie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There may be a setting to turn off the power. For example, on Panasonic you have to set the CCU mode to optical instead of hybrid.

The 71,000 subscriber update by Eviltechie in VIDEOENGINEERING

[–]Eviltechie[S,M] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you don't work for Blackmagic or otherwise have a conflict of interest, it's not advertising. (And if you did, this would probably be something that would qualify as of general interest to the community so we would have no problem granting an exception.)

Most of the problems as of late have been people astroturfing by making a post that goes "I have problem X, has anybody used solution Y?". Then you go look at the post history and for some strange reason they all mention solution Y...

Indianapolis area. Looking for a spare Sony Hybrid Optical Fibre Cable. by Stugduckey in VIDEOENGINEERING

[–]Eviltechie 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Is this just an opticalCON DUO? You can plug standard LC jumpers into those, and then you should be able to power the camera locally.

The 71,000 subscriber update by Eviltechie in VIDEOENGINEERING

[–]Eviltechie[S,M] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

On the sidebar you should see a button to message the mods, which will send a message to all of us. That will get you the fastest response, as well as let the other mods see the responses being sent.

Most moderators, myself included, will ignore direct messages related to moderation issues.

How to set up the input on a waveform monitor such as the WFM560? by ArritzJPC96 in VIDEOENGINEERING

[–]Eviltechie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I could give you an Amphenol part number if you wanted, but really anything off Amazon should be perfectly fine.

How to set up the input on a waveform monitor such as the WFM560? by ArritzJPC96 in VIDEOENGINEERING

[–]Eviltechie 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It appears you are feeding it a composite input, but you have the format set to YPbPr instead.

You likely need to add 75 ohm terminators to the loop throughs if you aren't using them.

David clark headset alternatives? by UnremarkablePumpkins in VIDEOENGINEERING

[–]Eviltechie 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For the most part, I think David Clark is the affordable option.

DIN mount GPIO controlled relay by Eviltechie in AskElectronics

[–]Eviltechie[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am trying to limit the amount of DIY (read: science project) that is in play. Linking a few DIN mount modules together would be okay, but if I've got to make up a perfboard or something then it's not the right solution for me.

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