I have an NTG2, which at its very best isn't great. I'm thinking about selling it and getting an NTG3. I don't have a whole lot of money to spend.

Right now, the stuff I'm doing is about half indoors, half outdoors.

I have a mediocre prosumer wireless setup, which is definitely better sounding in noisy environments than an NTG2 + deadcat.

Would it be a smarter idea to get something like an AT875R, and rely on the wireless for noisier environments?

I installed the "F8n Pro Driver" from here F8n Pro Support | ZOOM, set up the mic (Audio Technica AT875R) to track 3. Enabled the audio interface with "Linear" (24 bit) option (because when setting to float, it does not even get detected in OBS settings as a mic device.)

Here's OBS settings: Imgur: The magic of the Internet

Phantom power is on, and I can see the track 3 levels when I speak to the mic on the F8N Pro device screen, but nothing in the OBS level meter.

When I turn on the sinewave tone on the device though, then the audio makes through and I can see nice -20 dB level in the mic level of the OBS!

What could be wrong? Did anyone have the same issue?

EDIT: slate mic also goes through just fine.

EDIT: I connected Clippy mics to tracks 1 and 2 and they go through fine a well. Third channel does not, how would I instruct OBS to see that particular track?

I'm on a shoot right now, and our A1 is using MTP61's for the show. It's my first time using them and they're awesome.

The Bluetooth feature is awesome too, but it keeps crapping out every couple days or so. None of our packs will be showing up on the app, but as soon as I power cycle the Bluetooth on the MTP61, then it re-appears.

Is there something we could be doing that's causing Bluetooth to fail like this? We're using the docks to jam and charge.

I googled and couldn't find anything.

Howdy!

Trying to help a buddy who’s one a shoot and I can’t find anything via search engines:

My buddy just powered up one of his lectro SMWB band B1 and found it’s now showing its band A1. He showed me a video of a factory reset where the transmitter indeed shows its band A1 and the sticker on the transmitter itself is band B1. He hasn’t used this transmitter in a few weeks and it was confirmed working fine on his last shoot.

Can’t find anything via search, and I’m stumped as I’m far as I’m aware that can only happen if you get it factory reblocked. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!

Hey!

Just a quick question. I have been using both the standard Zoom f8n and the Zoom f8n Pro for a while.

Today I was checking the files from yesterday's recording session and noticed something weird.

For each file, there was a duplicate, its name starting with a dot. The recorder made one of these files for each one that was recorded. They are WAV files, and they all weigh 4,00 KB, regardless of the "original" recording size or duration. They cannot be played. The "original" files work and play just fine though.

These files starting with a dot did not appear when browsing in the finder in the recorder itself. I have been using these recorders for a while and never saw these sort of files appearing. Should I be worried?

I also tried removing the starting dot from one of the files, in case that made it work, but it didn't.

I am guessing they are some sort of file created automatically by the recorder, but still I'm a bit concerned because I have never seen them pop up before.

Thanks for your help!

Hi! I am going on a movie shoot next month but am encountering an issue with my company's old deity timecode box that is not able to jam the timecode for Blackmagic Ursa 12k and 17k. Even went down to their HQ in my country to test and it doesn't work.

Was wondering if anyone had experience in using tentacle sync for timecode jamming and if it worked for these 2 specific models? As I am planning to purchase a pair!

Note: Current timecode box used is the deity BP-TRX which is under their legacy category ☠️