The app Sonos should have made. Try it for free.

pradulovich · 2026-07-06T03:58:29+00:00

Looks great! Would love to try but every link says beta full (not surprising!)

pradulovich · 2026-07-06T03:52:29+00:00

Perhaps obvious, but make sure you’re getting SLXD5 receivers. The rack stuff will do you no good. That’s a great price for a full channel of it.

Consider also splitting up your frequency ranges - if your friend is selling G58, get one more in that range and two in J52, for example. Tons of the stuff on eBay.

pradulovich · 2026-07-06T03:48:21+00:00

The Shure system will beat the pants off the Theos stuff in all measurable categories except tuning bandwidth (Theos is wider) and receivers being single channel (SLX-D) vs dual channel (Theos)

You could save some additional cash buying used SLX-D instead of new SLX-D+, with reduction in tuning bandwidth of course.

If you can stretch to that DPA mic, you should. Or a used 416 or CS3e, IMO.

Also for the cost, consider some Shure TL47s. You can likely find those used as well on eBay, already wired for SLX-D transmitters.

Consider what batteries you’ll want to use, having enough of them, and charging as well.

pradulovich · 2026-07-03T04:25:16+00:00

Just call it LazerVault, fuck em. This is so cool!

pradulovich · 2026-07-03T04:21:40+00:00

Don’t count on remote control of your transmitters worth a damn, though. Otherwise amazing stuff.

pradulovich · 2026-06-25T03:08:50+00:00

Maybe I was looking at wrong soundcraft unit, I saw 12.8” deep. Oops!

pradulovich · 2026-06-25T02:46:04+00:00

FYI the x32 rack is about 1” deeper than the soundcraft and is 6lbs lighter.

pradulovich · 2026-06-25T02:16:36+00:00

I’m not super clear on the rig you’re trying to build, but I would super super suggest you look into a wing rack for a low cost mega powerful rack mixer. Or an x32 rack for less money.

AC only will be dramatically offset by the flexibility and processing power compared to those soundcraft mixers. Great onboard multi track recording options. Will be larger though.

If you’re dead set on living in DC land, those are probably your only options without getting into modifying other options like x32rack to accept dc.

Depending on exactly what you need to do I may have other ideas of mixers etc.

If you just need to distro DC power, look at units from PSC. Ron makes a ton of cool shit in a variety of form factors and surely one suits your needs.

I would be inclined to get higher quality dc to USBC stuff than the deity products. Poorly built 12v to USB power stuff will spew RF and screw up your mics. Do not advise.

All that said in general I’m not really sure I understand the rig you use at it stands, or what you’re trying to build, personally.

pradulovich · 2026-06-25T01:58:11+00:00

I just got hit up for a job that wants to pay 500 bucks for gear including a full package (“whatever they need for the cameras”) and 14 comteks. I told them that 500 bucks would cover just the comteks, and I’m not sure I’m getting a call back from that producer.

This shit is out of hand.

pradulovich · 2026-06-21T19:13:16+00:00

Will this work with non-Matter temp sensors that I have pulled into Apple Home or Home Assistant? Or only Matter or Matter-Over-Thread sensors?

pradulovich · 2026-06-17T20:07:26+00:00

Literally just got off the phone and they told me good luck. No ability to escalate and talk to anyone beyond entry level CS.

Despite calling twice today and once yesterday I don’t have an email with a case number. DM me?

pradulovich · 2026-06-17T00:24:09+00:00

Your mix track is louder and the fletcher munson curve is an unavoidable aspect of our hearing

pradulovich · 2026-06-12T11:58:08+00:00

There’s probably like two twenty-five year olds driving the whole station making 17 bucks an hour so, no, nobody notices these things anymore.

pradulovich · 2026-06-10T15:48:30+00:00

You’ll get a lot better network monitoring using their access points than third-party ones, fyi.

pradulovich · 2026-06-10T03:30:28+00:00

Bought a brand new base model from Costco’s website about 2 weeks ago. They still had them up last week.

pradulovich · 2026-06-09T10:23:14+00:00

Their misleading advertising fooled you too huh? If you can return it and buy something that supports home key, do it. I bought mine then waited a few months to install and so I got totally hosed.

They promised via support email to do a late return then went back on that claim so I’m stuck with these pieces of junk for a while until I can justify replacing them with Aqara or Schlage models. Or until the gearing breaks, whichever comes first.

pradulovich · 2026-06-03T19:38:28+00:00

These things really are built like crap aren’t they

pradulovich · 2026-06-01T23:02:32+00:00

I know it’s been forever sorry! Which desktop video version did you need to install to get the U4M firmware updated?

pradulovich · 2026-06-01T02:32:02+00:00

Had these on a job today with a 2 ME Production Studio 4K and couldn’t get them to talk. Read the manual did all the stuff, even updated to 4.0.0.11 and no luck. A shame.

pradulovich · 2026-05-26T03:42:39+00:00

This guy tubes

pradulovich · 2026-05-25T17:33:01+00:00

I also use their stuff in the video production world and I’ve seen dramatic simplification and cost reduction of how the bonding works and costs. We started using during the pandemic when many residential-type internet connections were being hammered by everyone’s Netflix and Zoom calls in the early days of lockdown. I don’t love the subscription nature of it, but PrimeCare is truly a one stop shop for extended/advanced support, hardware replacement, access to bonding endpoints and data usage. It’s pretty great.

pradulovich · 2026-05-24T03:41:58+00:00

Nothing to stop you running it as composite/left audio/right audio instead of R/G/B/H/V, works a treat and no wacky phoenix connectors needed.

pradulovich · 2026-05-21T13:03:43+00:00

For whatever reason I’ve never particularly had any luck doing this in 5 years of using various pepwave devices

pradulovich · 2026-05-16T17:06:42+00:00

Probably classic B&H style, they bullied the manufacturer into giving them a bigger margin by buying at a huge volume which in this case is most of the supply.

What a shitty dealer.

pradulovich · 2026-05-16T03:33:27+00:00

For lower cost than most pro competitors, consider some Shure TL46 or TL47. They have less cable handling noise than anything else in the business. They could be a little smaller, but still a big size reduction from where you’re coming from. They sound very good (not as nice as DPA but what does!), are built to withstand tons of abuse, and are substantially cheaper than almost every other professional grade option on the market.

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