rec.arts.movies.production.sound

On Sep 15, 2:18 pm, alexsalm...@ wrote:
> Hi guys. I am shooting in downtown LA on Sunday night and I was
> wondering if anyone had much experience with UHF there? Is it a
> problem? Unfortunately by the time I found out I was going to have to
> go wireless it was too late for me to go and rent some nice Lectro's
> so I am going to have to use my Sennheiser G2's I am using the 518
> range (according to Lectro's chart it is somewhat free of TV stations
> in LA) and I plan on using 2 receivers with 1 plug on transmitter.
> This way I am sort of creating a sudo diversity system since the G2's
> do not over diversity in their small form factor. Is this going to
> work ok? I also have a pair of Lectro 187's but no plug on transmitter
> or else I would use those since VHF is way less crowded these days...
> Any advice would be good. Remember the shoot is tomorrow night and I
> have no access to anything else at the moment. Has anyone use G2s
> downtown? They have been pretty good to me so far but I'm guessing
> downtown is a tough environment.
>
> Alex

It would be good to know whether any of the good old VHF range is
actually freeing up now.

Can you obtain a Female 3-pin XLR to TA5F cable? Lectro calls it an
MC40 cable adaptor. Maybe you can borrow one from a very kind Los
Angeles sound guy who might be reading this, since the rental houses
are closed.

Then you could plug a boom mic. such as a Sennheiser MKH416 into your
bodypack-type VHF Lectrosonics transmitter. You would need a power
supply for you microphone. But all this can be rigged pretty nicely
with a boom pole -- all without an actual plug-on transmitter.

Rob Anderson, NYC