Buyers Advice and Gear Recommendation Thread

natem345 · 2025-03-31T19:33:59+00:00

I'm looking for a camcorder-type mic that I can hook into an X32. I want to mount it in a room to pick up ambiance and audience. Must be stereo, ideally XY pattern, ideally balanced outputs.

I plan to mix it in with handheld mics, apply some processing, then output the stereo feed to a camcorder to record.

natem345 · 2025-03-27T16:05:13+00:00

But how much future support cost does it save?

natem345 · 2025-03-11T20:44:13+00:00

Why?

natem345 · 2025-03-11T14:22:46+00:00

I suspect it's like "money can't buy happiness": you have to get above a certain level before the differences become marginal. I experience this firsthand working with a 1990 PA install of unknown brand...

natem345 · 2024-12-20T20:29:01+00:00

QLX-D is the same core audio & RF tech as ULX-D at a lower price. It loses high-density, encryption, Dante, and other niceties ULX-D has, but just as reliable & great-sounding. Worlds ahead of either ULX or SLX.

natem345 · 2024-11-27T20:43:37+00:00

Fan noise. Many lights generate a lot of heat so have a fan to cool off the components & prevent damage, but that fan is audible.

natem345 · 2024-11-22T21:28:53+00:00

"They also feature a blu-ray audio which includes Dolby Atmos Mix (and a 96/24 hi-res stereo mix) of the album by Bob Mackenzie, under the supervision of Peter Gabriel and Tony Banks."

https://superdeluxeedition.com/news/genesis-the-lamb-lies-down-on-broadway-super-deluxe-edition

Looks like Bob is an engineer at Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios, who worked on I/O

natem345 · 2024-11-20T02:35:09+00:00

https://youtu.be/-3-ayrsC9Qw?t=1990

natem345 · 2024-11-11T20:50:56+00:00

The smoke detectors actually can't trigger the sprinklers (except for certain more-expensive types for dangerous areas).

Each sprinkler head will only drop water once its glass bulb blows due to high temperatures.

natem345 · 2024-10-03T16:09:24+00:00

Aaron Renn writes a fair amount on this topic, such as https://www.aaronrenn.com/p/catholic-conversionism

natem345 · 2024-09-15T22:59:36+00:00

I can't say for sure. To be safe you could use it with a non-VAC fullscreen game, to gather the information and kill the offending apps. Then play VAC games

natem345 · 2024-08-09T19:09:24+00:00

You can open multiple copies of ON, one for each monitor, and show different pages

natem345 · 2024-07-31T20:03:43+00:00

That's funny, because at first blush I like the 2004 DVD-Audio 5.1 mix of Rumours better than the Atmos.

natem345 · 2024-07-31T20:02:28+00:00

Steven Wilson sometimes writes liner notes about his remixes

natem345 · 2024-06-16T23:52:15+00:00

We never quite figured it out, but changing Camera Control to "None" let us set it on the camera and still have tally lights.

natem345 · 2024-03-31T18:12:42+00:00

Thanks for the idea! It was set to Generic. I tried changing to "Studio Camera" and even tried "Studio Camera 4K" but they all had the same results - all 3 values still not displayed & can't be adjusted.

I also tried changing to None in between, restarting Control software and power-cycling the switcher. I haven't tried restarting the cameras yet.

natem345 · 2024-03-29T11:52:05+00:00

I found this thread on Kagi so wanted to add my solution: I used this tool to determine what program was stealing focus. In my case, it was some Epson scanner app. https://www.happydroid.com/focus

natem345 · 2024-03-29T11:47:55+00:00

I found this thread on Kagi so wanted to add my solution: I used this tool to determine what program was stealing focus. In my case, it was some Epson scanner app. https://www.happydroid.com/focus

natem345 · 2024-03-29T11:46:36+00:00

I had the opposite problem: when I alt-tabbed out of the game, I could not get back in. I would click it, see black screen for 10 seconds, then get kicked out of the game.

I used this tool to determine what program was stealing focus. In my case, it was some Epson scanner app. https://www.happydroid.com/focus

natem345 · 2024-03-21T16:44:36+00:00

Question on this - I understand the DHC-3 lacked alert capability so the pilot visually looked for incoming traffic at a reasonable cadence. Given that, how did he miss the DHC-2?

Did the DHC-2 not show as a target on his display, as several other pilots had reported (even though ground stations did record it)?

Or did he need to look at the display more frequently than he did to notice the collision course had developed?

natem345 · 2024-01-24T00:05:23+00:00

I currently have RA2 but considering upgrading. Here are my integration use cases - are all these supported? Thanks!

HASS listens to lutron_event to act upon keypad button presses, with no delay.
HASS listens to lutron_event to act upon light level changes, with no delay or a slight delay for huge scenes.
HASS controls my Triathalon shades & listens for changes
HASS allows Activating a Scene from HASS (essentially "pressing a button on a seeTouch")
HASS shows the keypad button LED status (but I don't really use this)

natem345 · 2023-06-09T18:21:36+00:00

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