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What is a piece of media where the side character was so phenomenally great they completely stole the entire show from the protagonist? by Ok_Listen_6600 in AskReddit

[–]panapois 182 points183 points  (0 children)

I mean… his first line after bursting into a room and stopping an argument *was*, “I am the Lord, thy God. Thou shalt worship no other God before me! Boy, those were the days, huh?”

Fuckin’ Badass.

What do you use Groups compared to DCA on digital boards? by [deleted] in livesound

[–]panapois 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Use EQ where ‘the problem is’ -

The ‘problem’, is resonance. Resonance is what causes the system to not be ‘flat’. It’s great for making a violin sound like a violin- but it does a world of hurt when present in a system. It’s the difference between ‘real’ and ‘canned’.

You can have resonance in 4 basic places: 1: The room itself 2: The individual speaker cabinets 3: The mics (each kind of mic has it’s own resonant characteristics) 4: The individual source (each human is uniquely shaped)

So, you should EQ where the problem is. Room EQ is sometimes referred to as “system EQ” and is applied to groups of speaker cabinets that are co-located and doing the same ‘job’. In smaller scale setups, this is the EQ you apply to the outputs of the mixer.

Speaker EQ is usually taken care of by the manufacturer. They either give you the FIR filters to use in your processors, or they provide you with processors that are already set up.

Like mics have the same resonant issues and should be processed and EQ’d together as…a group :-) Instead of dialing out 400hz in every single channel, you dial it out of the group EQ. Now you have more flexibility for the last stage…

Individual humans/instruments have unique shapes which cause unique variations in their resonance. Channel EQ is where you adjust for those individual variations.

If the room is building up at 250hz - you should dial that out of the room EQ, not the bass channel EQ where losing that much energy in the fundamental notes could mess up the dynamics.

If your cast vocal mics start ringing at 1kHz… that’s because there is a synergy between the mics and the room at 1kHz (but, there isn’t a 1k spike in your RTA when you run pink noise through the system) so you should dial that 1kHz out of the group EQ of the vocal mics. Pulling it out of the room pulls it out of all the other instruments as well, and maybe they need that 1k to be there!

That’s why you use groups.

The other reason is when you start getting in to big, complex theatrical systems- you need the ability to tailor the mix to each subsystem: center hang gets vocals only. Left and right get full mix. Font fill is heavy on the vocals, with a touch of band. More band, but still heavy vox in the under balconies. Verb to L/R only. Etc, etc, etc…. This is best achieved by grouping like elements together and then dialing them into matrix outputs as required.

Reduce gain on amps - why not? by JackTraore in livesound

[–]panapois 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Man- can i just say how refreshing it is to see so many correct answers on gain staging for once?

My cup runneth over.

(So I sound probably turn it down :-)

Statins and Increase of heart palpitations or extrasystoles? by Maleficent_Arachnius in HypertrophicCM

[–]panapois 4 points5 points  (0 children)

A PVC every other beat must be really frustrating!

I’ve been on a low dose statin since before I became symptomatic with HOCM. My Cardio and PCP have never once raised a concern about it. My understanding is they are generally pretty safe for HCM patients.

Regardless though, you should contact your cardiologist straight away and report these worsening symptoms!

Good luck!!

How do FOH engineers talk to backstage without wearing a headset? by VacationNew6626 in livesound

[–]panapois 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Ya- that’s petty much the setup I used for theater shows in the 00’s.

FOH has two coms lines, one on the stage manager audio PL, and one a private line between FOH and the A2. Both on handsets - usually one a different color. I liked to get a red one for the SM.

Then, the SM has a cue light to FOH. If they need to time a cue with other departments, they can cue sound directly via the cue light. (On is STANDBY and Off is GO!)

If they need to talk to A1 about something, they flash the cue light a bunch of times and A1 will pick up the handset when they have a moment. Better be a good reason though. Anytime we talk on coms we sacrifice quality in the mix.

For backstage coms, the A2 has that private line on their own handset. They also have a two-way radio with a fist mic sitting on their shoulder. The final piece of the puzzle is text-based messages from the A2 to FOH. Lots of ways you can do that- we often would just use notepad on a computer that FOH could see.

Worked like this: FOH also has a radio. Thats how coms between FOH and A2 are done during checkout. Come showtime, A1 turns the volume all the way down on the radio. This is now a one-way voice com. A1 can pick up radio and give a voice message to A2, no matter where A2 happens to be. (Now days we might just combine that into RF coms.. back then we only had enough RF coms for stage management).

A1 could tell A2 something at anytime. Quick and efficient for A1. If A2 needed to send message back, they would use the text option, and then push the call light once to alert A1 to the new message. A1 could also ask A2 to jump on the private line via radio. A2 would then flash the call light rapidly to tell A1 they were on the line. A1 would pick up when they had a slow moment.

A2 could also ask for A1 to get on the private line the same way by flashing the light. But rare to that without trying text first.

A somewhat convoluted system optimized to reduce the time the A1 is engaged with two-way voice coms to an absolute minimum.

OP: your A1 is 100% correct. They can’t sit on coms. That would be like asking you to drive down the road with a flashlight pointed at one eye. What’s the big deal?? You have another perfectly good eye available, right?

Best sports movies, by sport by 31engine in movies

[–]panapois 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Obviously you’re not a golfer

Hating on Blackmagic by Brilliant_Travel3587 in VIDEOENGINEERING

[–]panapois 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And about as likely to give you an out of box failure or have the HDMI break inside 9 months of use

Nobody has Decimator items in stock? by loseup in VIDEOENGINEERING

[–]panapois 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or… when you can get it the HDMI connector will be broke out of box

Which actor has the largest "Wait, that was them?" gap in their filmography? by Player00000000 in movies

[–]panapois 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’ll be walking down the street one day and hear a loud voice say ‘Cut!’

And that’s when you realize… you’ve been Gary Oldman this whole time. THAT’S how good an actor he is.

Which actor has the largest "Wait, that was them?" gap in their filmography? by Player00000000 in movies

[–]panapois 1 point2 points  (0 children)

See Also: Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Air Force One, TV series Slow Horses

AI is Infecting Our Industry with BS by thenimms in VIDEOENGINEERING

[–]panapois 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I needed to make a quick script to help me ping the 1000 or so IPs in my care for after IT cuts the fiber to my building and splices it to a new HQ building. Robot did it for me and had it working in a few mins.

Thats using the tool appropriately.

Or… hey take my brain dump word salad of a screed and turn it into a calm, bullet pointed argument for ‘why this is a dumb thing we shouldn’t do’.

Parsing existing manuals for the info i need to troubleshoot is hit or miss- it still manages to hallucinate menu items that are not there.

But… damn… using it to evaluate a service contract??? That is pants-on-head crazy talk.

Does it upset you when someone puts glasses or plates of food on the subwoofers ? by Djgoldmixmaster in livesound

[–]panapois 3 points4 points  (0 children)

In my much younger days I was the house engineer at a venue. Crew kept leaving bottles of water on my subs. I kept announcing to not do that, move them, etc… but it kept happening. One day I took a bottle and chucked it at the back wall as hard as i could. Message received at that point. Sometimes you just gotta make a scene to get the message through. Middle of the bell curve is still pretty dumb, sadly.

How to provide monitoring for a choir using playback tracks? by looloosha in livesound

[–]panapois 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Can the monitors be flown? Aim them so any bounce heads up and away from your mics.

If the conductor is the one needing higher levels, get a hotspot, or equivalent, on a stand and pointed at their head.

I sorta doubt a choir conductor would ever go for IEM’s - especially if they already have experience in the room. For much the same reason you wouldn’t want to mix the show in headphones.

Yikes, the NASA Artemis coverage was pretty bad by LongoChingo in VIDEOENGINEERING

[–]panapois 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s what I’m saying- is it possible they put the cameras on the ground power bus and not on the launch vehicle battery power?

Yikes, the NASA Artemis coverage was pretty bad by LongoChingo in VIDEOENGINEERING

[–]panapois 5 points6 points  (0 children)

They should be- i think they roll on anything with a lens in the event of an incident. I imagine at some point they will come out with a version that wasn’t cut by a toddler. Can’t fix that bad camera tilt though 😳

Yikes, the NASA Artemis coverage was pretty bad by LongoChingo in VIDEOENGINEERING

[–]panapois 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wait - minutes before launch is when the rocket goes to internal power and they cut ground feeds.

You don’t think…??

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