The New Home Of, Simon Says

I am convinced that my family could have their own tv show. Well over the Easter holiday I helped my dad to work on his VW Beetle, and what do you know, he ended up hosting his own How To video.

The weather is warming up in Georgia, and with the warmer weather comes a wave of production that will continue through the summer. While my NDA prevents me from saying much about this little movie, here is a glimpse of our backyard picnic location this past week.

Bit by bit all the pieces for mixer cart v.2 are coming together. When comparing the virtual drawing of this cart with how it is actually coming together, it is really quite staggering how well these pieces are fitting together.

I've become interested in recording the sound of rain here lately. My inspiration is mostly due to the timely discovery of this article [Sonic Fields Blog] describing the unique challenges involved with recording rain. it seems to be an abundant sound since the winter months in Georgia tend to come with lots of rainy days.

Here is a little impromptu Christmas caroling from one of this month's VineBranch performances. What you hear is a six piece group of Vine Branch's finest on stage earlier this week, recorded with a simple X/Y stereo pair.

I've been spending some time prepping my new O1V console for running Front of House at this month's Coffee House outreach event at Alpharetta's First United Methodist. With four full sets of covers, with a revolving door of musicians, it can be a bit of a handful to keep things moving and sounding top notch.

In an ongoing effort to reduce the amount of cables on set, and to add more functionality to my rig. I decided to try out using Cat5 cable as a means to distribute audio and video feeds while on location. MuxLab makes a series of passive boxes that take various combinations of composite video, component video, and analog audio and combines them into a single Cat5 cable. The setup pictured bellow transmits two video feeds and two audio feeds over cat5.

Guess who is going to the AES 131st in NYC this October! This guy! I'm looking forward to sitting in on some of the awesome panel discussions that are planned. I also plan to stop by the Zaxcom booth to speak with the reps about release of their new product, Nomad. Stay tuned for pictures and updates.

An impromptu saxophone performance from actor Victor Payano during production of the short film "Encuentrate".

With a little downtime this past week. I started a project I've been putting off for a long time. Building an integrated, light weight and functional cable/comm system for my boom ops.

Now, I won't pretend to be the first person to think of this. Remote Audio has produced a product identical to this for many years. In fact this project of mine is completely compatible with the old BoomBox v1. This "Boom Buddy" uses the same connections and pinout.