Recent content by Jay Ashworth

Honestly, it wasn't the reliability of the Rolands.It was that they were insufficiently orthogonal to suit me: they knew what I would want to do, they provided easy ways to do that, and I couldn't do *anything else*. What You See Is ALL You Get.For all the lack of reliability of BMD stuff...

Thank you, though the Firestudio we've used for 8 years hasn't been at all bad.Do you have any opinion on the Tascam US-4x4HR? I'm really looking for 4x4 with balanced line-level connections for all 8 ports, and that's apparently a little hard to come by; the Tascam hasn't got XLR outs, but I...

13 lavs. Piker. :)In general, though, follow spot is a psychomotor skill; you just gotta do it, a lot. Warn your director and LD, and then, during warmups, q2q, and whereever else they'll let you, just follow people. The more you do it, the easier walkon-pickups will be. And...

We have 6 SLBAR-660's top and bottom on our 22x42 cyc; neither makes it all the way to the center of the curtain, since we have to have them so close to it -- we have a pretty shallow stage. They're 18 pixel in pairs, though we only just went from addressing them as one long fixture to six...

Well, 7/16-20 is a fairly common bolt-screw designator, though whether that would default to UNC (like a 1/4-20) or UNF (like a 5/8-27 mic stand thread) I don't know off hand, and it should probably say -- though in most cases a given size is only *available* in one thread pitch, so it may not...

Run it this weekend. Cut open the wall.

We have 2 JBL boxes in the corners (edge of the pros opening), DSL and DSR, and 2-4 Yamaha wedges, standing on their ends, US flanking center. It's always louder than you'd like, and it will screw up your stereo imaging, unless you have more channels of monitor amp than I do. :)Expect it to...

Update: We did finally get the freight lift repaired, after 3 years, and our latest coat of paint, while not ToughPrime, is holding up better. It peels under normal conditions, but not just from rolling our piano around...

Ok, that's about what I expected. Presumably, 6-side priming the panels will avoid that being a problem (which should have precluded my asking the question, I suppose...)

I'll look them up, though on some reflection, at least in the main room, since I do *have* Dante, I can probably get by with a 4x4, which will keep me down in the reasonable price range. Thanks.

No kiddin?Since it doesn't have the (oil) tempered face Masonite does/did (as far as I can tell), I'd have expected worse...

[ looks ]Yup; MDF is what I think it is.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium-density_fibreboardHow does that stuff tolerate getting wet?

Probably the same way the Matrox adapters did: lie to the machine about the actual resolution of the secondary display.

Our desk is an LS9-32, and its dante -- on two 16 channel cards -- is generally tied up feeding direct outs to Reaper on our Even Older Mac Pro, though perhaps that'll change. I did find a Kensington TBolt dock that does 4 displays with DisplayLink (well, probably 3), and that might be...

Separately, anyone got a good TBolt 4 dock they like that works with an M2 Mini?