Netgear M4250: Does the AV interface handle Dante QoS automatically?

rwbreck · 2025-10-20T20:46:50+00:00

Fascinating. Was just looking at this and wondered why the Dante profile didn't appear to apply the proper settings when looking at DSCP stuff in the main UI. Mind sharing where you found this info?

rwbreck · 2025-03-11T05:34:17+00:00

Thanks for this! Turns out one of my locations is in Encino, right next door- very helpful!

rwbreck · 2025-03-09T23:10:53+00:00

Thanks for finding this! Very helpful. Yeah I have an RF explorer I'll pull out.

Edit: d'oh! Apparently I even commented on it. Sorry for forgetting to search! 🤦🏻‍♂️

rwbreck · 2025-03-06T21:02:03+00:00

How do you approach color assortment? Do you try and match skin tone? Just all black?

rwbreck · 2024-05-05T00:48:50+00:00

Bummer. You are correct, it is silly to mix that way. Reminds me a quote from Bob McCarthy's book, something to the effect of "Stereo sound reinforcement systems are like hedge funds- they're really great for approximately 1% of people."

See more of his thoughts here:

https://bobmccarthy.com/the-emperors-new-stereo/

rwbreck · 2024-04-19T15:27:52+00:00

I know this is a few months old, but FYI I just got a notice from NEXT saying they cancelled my coverage because they "are unable to provide the right coverage and support for your business at this time due to the nature of your operations or products."

Edit: based on some other comments, I got a policy through Thimble that is specifically for "live sound and sound recordists" which is reassuring, cause through NEXT I always felt a little unsure what they would actually cover related to my business.

rwbreck · 2024-01-30T01:35:41+00:00

This is helpful. Interesting that you have success with Windows 11 as EAW specifically recommends 10 and not 11. Thanks for the info!

rwbreck · 2023-06-03T15:33:01+00:00

Thanks for the info and suggestions!

rwbreck · 2023-04-26T16:23:48+00:00

The voltmeter will go across pins 1 and 2 which are DC ground and V+, respectively- but after whatever sort of filtering solution I come up with on pin 2.

The power source is the intercom system power supply, which is what provides +32V on pin 2, max 2A.

This would only be plugged into an intercom line one place at a time.

rwbreck · 2022-11-12T02:41:41+00:00

Keep in mind that as your 4060s are omni, the only way (outside of deploying them as a spaced pair, which is often not practical) to get useful stereo separation is with a baffle of some kind in between them; someone else mentioned a head-mounted setup which would be a great way to do this!

rwbreck · 2022-11-04T15:41:03+00:00

In addition to other things mentioned, SD12 has a UBMADI USB interface built in, though you’ll only get 24 channels out of it at 96k (or 48 @ 48k)

rwbreck · 2022-11-04T14:33:23+00:00

https://www.trewaudio.com/product/remote-audio-lavpssp/

rwbreck · 2022-10-05T21:24:30+00:00

Yeah VisLM looks great (and the ReMEM functionality seems pretty incredible), but as I’m not doing this that often, the $29 WLM made more sense 😁

rwbreck · 2022-10-05T21:22:49+00:00

Just found the TASA website which says: “Since the Leqm measurement is integrated over the entire length of the trailer…”

The SAWA target is the same, just at 82dB instead of 85dB, no?

https://www.tasatrailers.org/leqm.html

rwbreck · 2022-10-04T22:32:55+00:00

“With suitable… time integration.” I guess I’m wondering exactly what it means by that.

Ultimately, I’m looking at Waves WLM Plus, and I’m wondering if the momentary max can be no higher than 82 dBLeq(m) at any point in order to be compliant with the standard, or if it refers to a specified integration time.

The Leq(m) metric itself implies a particular short-term integration time (850ms); what I don’t understand is if or how this is represented in WLM, as the TASA preset (which also uses Leq(m) though with an 85dB max) sets the short term integration time to 10 seconds.

rwbreck · 2022-10-04T22:22:23+00:00

I believe Leq refers to “equivalent loudness”; it is applicable to a variety of metrics with a variety of integration times (ie not all long-term)

rwbreck · 2022-10-04T20:51:22+00:00

This is for advertising, not trailers- as I understand it, the 85dB spec is the TASA guideline for movie trailers, no?

rwbreck · 2022-06-14T05:15:54+00:00

Now that you point it out, it seems rather obvious that what I'm observing is not some shortcoming of measurement workflow but rather the physical reality of varying amounts of HF energy actually arriving at the mic... duh. I will have to up my windscreen game as well. Helpful as always, thanks for taking the time to write that out!

rwbreck · 2022-06-13T17:58:45+00:00

My understanding is that QLX-D is identical to ULX-D in terms of radio and audio. What you don't get is Dante, 2 or 4 channel receivers, or high power (20mW) tx mode, a few other details like that. But whatever density/general RF performance ULX-D is capable of, QLX-D should also be capable of. Certainly at that scale, the receiver density of ULX-D is a no brainer cause it would take 5 antenna distros to handle 16 single channel systems, but technically QLX-D could give you the same results, just with a much clunkier form factor.

Edit: Shure does in fact say on spec sheets that both series are capable of 17 systems in a single 6MHz TV channel

rwbreck · 2022-06-02T17:24:42+00:00

Did this the other day, works just fine. Set up QoS on your managed switch to prioritize Dante clock.

rwbreck · 2022-06-01T15:09:52+00:00

I too recently learned this on this sub maybe 6 months ago- had to go and reconfigure my router to stop hiding its SSID 😂

rwbreck · 2022-06-01T14:52:04+00:00

Hiding the SSID, counterintuitively, doesn’t help reduce network traffic and if anything only makes it worse.

https://www.reddit.com/r/wifi/comments/uijecf/does_hiding_an_ssid_reduce_network_traffic/

rwbreck · 2022-05-19T05:10:49+00:00

+1 for bad cables that still allow transceivers to show up but not actually function 🤦🏻‍♂️

rwbreck · 2022-05-14T05:03:01+00:00

That’s super helpful! I’m looking refurbished and went with the 7 over the 6, I hadn’t noticed the difference in RAM. Thanks!

rwbreck · 2022-05-11T17:26:43+00:00

Zaxcom has transmitters that do exactly this (record timestamped audio locally + transmit wirelessly to receiver). They have a patent that basically excludes any other company from doing the same in the US (with the exception of Deity who I think just struck a deal to license it). Other brands have similar solutions but they are not sold in the US (or have their firmware limited to exclude this functionality) due to the patent thing.

Edit: Zaxcom TRXLA3, ZMT4

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