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Gear Fear #1: Wireless dropouts and backup recorders
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Gear Fear #1: Wireless dropouts and backup recorders

by Glen Trew Since it’s almost Halloween, here’s a scary thought for film/video sound professionals: On a 200-person film or video crew, only three may be in the sound department. Yet, if sound has a problem, all 200 hundred have to wait and all 200 hundred are annoyed, and some key people even start searching […]

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Cantar X3 Overview
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Cantar X3 Overview – A Journey to the Industry’s New Flagship

A couple of weeks ago I took a trip to Europe, and while there visited Aaton’s headquarters in beautiful Grenoble, France to better get to know the company that makes the new Cantar audio recorder.

By Glen Trew

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Zaxcom RX-12 and QRX212 Module
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Zaxcom RX-12 and QRX212 Module

Zaxcom’s new RX-12 is a one-stop digital wireless receiver solution for your bag or cart. The RX-12 contains a 35 MHz tracking front-end filter to eliminate interference from unwanted stray RF, an RF amplifier and antenna and power distribution for up to six QRX212 dual receiver modules, for

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Atlanta Audio Yard Sale
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Atlanta Audio Yard Sale

A great event this past weekend. We were thrilled to see everyone out at our new Atlanta store for the first Audio Yard Sale. We had a great time and hope everyone in attendance did, too.

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Atlanta Sound Mixer Mixer
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Atlanta Sound Mixer Mixer

A few photos from the 2nd annual Sound Mixer Mixer in Atlanta. Thanks to Chris Durfy and Whit Norris for putting such a wonderful event together!

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CAS Celebrates 50th Annual Awards
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CAS Celebrates 50th Annual Awards

On Saturday night, the Cinema Audio Society presented its 50th annual awards to this year’s top sound mixers at the historic Biltmore Hotel. The event was attended by a gathering of many of the film industry’s top sound and picture professionals

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New Product Tour Videos!
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New Product Tour Videos!

In these videos, we explore two basic, budget-friendly field recorders that can vastly improve the audio quality captured by DSLR shooters and aspiring videographers alike. The Zoom H6 and the Tascam DR-60D can both easily mount to your camera rig, providing high quality microphone preamps, Phantom power, and flexible

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Introducing the Zaxcom 200 Series
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Introducing the Zaxcom 200 Series

The new Zaxcom 200 Series Digital Wireless products promise one major advancement over previous models: distance! Their website recently released a video showcasing the TRXLA2 transmitter broadcasting clear across the Hudson River from New York City to a QRX235 receiver in Hoboken, New Jersey. As a recent transplant from NYC,

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Review: The Sennheiser MKE-600 Short Shotgun Microphone
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Review: The Sennheiser MKE-600 Short Shotgun Microphone

New microphones for film and video production come around as slowly as wrap on an 12-page day, but just last year it happened again.

The Sennheiser name gives the MKE-600 plenty of street-cred, and from my listening evaluation and field test, I believe this German-made mic delivers on the brand’s

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Introducing the Sound Devices 633

Trew Audio is proud to present a detailed look at the 633, Sound Devices’ latest field production mixer. Join Jesse Santoyo and Chris Frasco as they dive deep into this exciting new product, covering everything from its basic layout to some intricacies of the menu system. The Sound Devices 633 is currently in

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