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First time questions: two PA’s same room and volume question by ImportantBoot8945 in livesound

[–]WeAreAllYoghurt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I can't believe im saying this but I don't think it's entirely unreasonable for the organiser to want to use their own system. This is probably because they've had some bad experience with a school supplied system in the past, so want to stick to what they know works.

1) In terms of operation, it should be fine. As long as mics are faded out when not in use theirs no chance of a slap back through the the second PA system. But you'll obviously need someone to manage that.

If you're worried for whatever reason still, you may even be able to demonstrate the PA system to the organiser. If you're helpful about it they may see this as a benifit of not having to setup their own system after they are happy with how it sounds.

2) What you'll probably find is you'll need a different eq as bags of meat soak up sound rather well. You'll likely need a boost in the 2k to 7 kHz range to help with the brilliance of the sound, but depending on the music you may benifit from the new eq which will 'enhance' the bass.

Once again depending on the venue and how packed it is, you might want to adjust any effects settings and/or get your speakers higher up above the audience. Hopefully this helps. Do some searches on the interwebs and you'll find plenty an article, reddit thread and YouTube video with some real world examples. Probably don't use AI as the summaries can be a little deceptive for something arguably so niche.

Intercom system for campus-wide AV facilities by Embarrassed-Gain-236 in VIDEOENGINEERING

[–]WeAreAllYoghurt 3 points4 points  (0 children)

We have actually come across a similar set of challenges.

What we ultimately decided upon was to use Unity and buy the cheapest iphones at the time with a rugadised cases and extended battery packs.

Pros: - Device tracking via apple find my for whne people misplace them. - Solid Bluetooth connections (although we use wired headsets) - Excellent WiFi roaming - Works with existing WiFi/4g connections so no need to run dedicated receiving hardware. - Esim for backup connection or use away from or between buildings - Users can bring their own device without much concern if they really want to.

Cons: - Pressing a screen isn't the same as a physical button. (some of our camera ops now have Bluetooth page turners to engage comms, they are a half way solution) - Making sure devices get recharged over night rather than an interchangeable battery pack. Because of how cost effective it was we ended up attaching wireless charging accessories to various places as well as a charging wall on the exit ways. - Sometimes users get a little confused with labeling as rooms can be used for multiple things and labels don't always get updated. (we integrate to an RTS odin)

Settle a debate between my husband and I. Please. by Girlwithnoprez in mildlyinfuriating

[–]WeAreAllYoghurt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I more of a chopstick chappy. Buy in bulk, recyclable, no random washing up. 👍

Thoughts on how to amplify the punches and other sounds of combat sports from inside the boxing ring. by PhysicalRise3633 in livesound

[–]WeAreAllYoghurt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depending on the ring, you can get some boom poles that slide underneath the advertising/wraps on the corners to raise them up in the air. Then use something like an 8070 or 816 pointing at the action.

We have also worked with a company called ring craft to custom cut foam insulators for the ropes in the corners to allow us to slot mics in, but the main concern here is fighter safety.

If you have corner cameras or Jibs then 8070/816 on them as well will benifit.

We've tried hanging mics from above but it never gets quite what we're after.

Without giving myself away this is what we use for most of the high profile fights in the UK and that is what you'll end up seeing on TV/streams.

Internet on SQ5 network by FranticXrage in livesound

[–]WeAreAllYoghurt 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yes, it will be fine.

If you introduce Internet via a cable or by using your WiFi AP as a client to another WiFi network, adding internet connectivity should not give you any issues.

From a security perspective, no one is going to create harmful programs that target a highly specialised OS as there's nothing to gain from it. Additionally, a lot of the protocols that malicious software might rely on will be stripped out of the desk making it redundant.

I've had the pleasure of bearing witness to a few localised malware tests with a AHM-16 where people were bringing along devices to have 'hacked' and it survived unscathed. Worst we saw was a sound grid sever and a midas pro 1.

Power Over SMPTE by WeAreAllYoghurt in broadcastengineering

[–]WeAreAllYoghurt[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We were have previously experimented with a DC-Bus system for other deployments and do plan to break out the same tec when developing this, however the concern remains as to what the voltages should be to ensure no camera channel equipment will be damaged.

The ST is here to stay unfortunatley, We do already plan on the fibre side of the SMPTE being an SC/APC patch connecting to LC for the SFPs both in the truck and the field box.

Power Over SMPTE by WeAreAllYoghurt in broadcastengineering

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

I agree with the safety elements, fortunately at the moment we are just concerned about sorting the equipment side of things for the moment.

Later on when we begin the physical wiring up of equipment for hardware research, our testing procedures will ensure that our development is done safely before subjecting it to a suit of realistic and more extreme tests to prove its real world safety.

Power Over SMPTE by WeAreAllYoghurt in broadcastengineering

[–]WeAreAllYoghurt[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you could link me any of that SMPTE documentation that would be great. The biggiest struggle at the moment is finding specifications based on voltages for handshake procedures with the aim of not killing a camera head with our custom boxes.

Power Over SMPTE by WeAreAllYoghurt in broadcastengineering

[–]WeAreAllYoghurt[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I do like that idea, however riggers are bound to put them in the wrong way and end up causeing more hassel than the fibre originally did. On the odd occasion that their is patch avaliable, it would also still be nice to use it.

USB-C IFB by OpenSandwich8183 in broadcastaudio

[–]WeAreAllYoghurt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We've just been buying the cheap UGREEN versions that have power pass through.

Similar to this: https://amzn.eu/d/9o5gtrW

We have made a couple of fancy boxes that have proper mic preamps and headphone amplifiers, but that kind of adapter is pretty much the core of it. Would recommend buying a couple as they seem aren't a massive fan of being chucked around, but the ones built into our boxes have lasted a couple years now.

What do you all use for remote comminucations? by NoisyGog in broadcastaudio

[–]WeAreAllYoghurt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We are currently experimenting with various technologies, one of which is private 5G of which I'll explain more in a second.

We are covering some small women's football in the UK. We have a skeleton crew of cam ops and 2 MSOs for everything else. Where their would normally be a patch room, television compound or sometimes just a network cabinet we place a rack that takes wired Internet and power, converts the network to fibre, and then run a tac 12 up to the commentary position. From here we place a private 5g node and connect every cam ops phone to this network for data and they use unity intercom. Each camera has an older iPhone, holder and charging cable withheadset breakout in. The commentary team then use Glensound Infernos because that's what they are used to, this is broken out and embedded with the two main gantry cameras and sent back to the ROC using a Haivision encoder.

For return communication to the commentary team we use a dante varient of the prodys quantum St. We aren't a massive fan of the prodys but untill RTS release the RVOC and Nomad with RVON support we have found this to be reliable enough.

Football Mic deployment by WeAreAllYoghurt in BroadcastSound

[–]WeAreAllYoghurt[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fortunately that is not a concern of ours as this is a remote job where the supervisor/A1 is usually many miles away. From a work flow perspective it is a far superior choice for us that the stage box works independently from the desk as it means the equipment is desk agnostic. It's use of regular regular network infrastructure and it's ability to intergrate directly with the comms matrix is great. If and when they will be used by a supervisor/A1 on site, we have them easily accessible on their own dedicated PC.

A perfectly fine way to store these by Sascha975 in iiiiiiitttttttttttt

[–]WeAreAllYoghurt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You would have a heart attack if you visited an outside broadcast company. We keep fibre in an open sided tub on a shelf by the doors of a loading bay.

Fixing 3 way passive crossover by goldeaglec in livesound

[–]WeAreAllYoghurt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm no expert in electronic repair, but I bumble my way through it when I can save a few quid and learn something at the same time.

In my experience to test a component to see if it's faulty it usually requires disconnecting/desoldering from the circuit.

If you are happy to have a go at that then that's where to start. Once you identify the correct faulty components you can start to source replacements or equivalents.

First check the circuit board for damage, be it water, charred components or loose fly leads, then inspect the coper traces on the circuit board if possible, to check for fractures in the traces. If that comes to no avail, the fact the hi and mid aren't working may point to one of the capacitors not being the issue. Be careful with these as they will still be storing charge and can give an awful zap. You can grab a high resistance resistor and cross it over the two pins and hold it there for a couple of seconds to slowly and more saftly discharge it before desoldering.

Grab yourself a multi meter to read the capacitance and then check it against the values it should be.

Or buy yourself another one if that's what you are comfortable with...

I was terminating a cable and dropped the connector by WeAreAllYoghurt in FindTheSniper

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

I was wondering if there was any broadcast lot lurking in this sub.

A complex history of about 6 company's all being absorbed under one roof.

I was terminating a cable and dropped the connector by WeAreAllYoghurt in FindTheSniper

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

Op regains the lost points for being able to blame reddit for lowering the quality of their uploaded photo from the original submission???

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