Today, I write about how I built an 8 channel wireless IEM system in a 4U form factor. The Past A couple of years ago, I bought a Sennheiser ew IEM G4 to be used in my Sound Devices Scorpio; my microphone, MIC, rack. With this, I could either receive a single wireless stereo mixContinue reading “A Dante/AES50 enabled 4U mixer rack for 8 wireless IEM channels”
Author Archives: Ronald Rink
Latency Test with a Wireless Microphone, through a DP48 Personal Mixer and a Wireless IEM
Now that we built our IEM rack it was time to bring it to a real life test and measure its latency. Would it really be usable? The short answer is definitely yes! But it certinaly is not free of any latency. We measured a net latency of roughly 2062.500us. Read on if you wantContinue reading “Latency Test with a Wireless Microphone, through a DP48 Personal Mixer and a Wireless IEM”
Extending the Behringer Wing by 48×40 in a 4U rack
In this post I describe how we extended our Behringer Wing with an additional 48 inputs and 40 outputs via AES50 in a 4U rack case. The Summary The rack case consists of a Behringer SD16 that connects to a Behringer S32 via AES50. In addition, we connect a Midas DN4816-O via its Ultranet inputContinue reading “Extending the Behringer Wing by 48×40 in a 4U rack”
Using the CME WIDI Jack with a BOSS GT-1000core and an RC-5
Recently, I showed a pedal board with a BOSS GT-1000core and an RC-5 looper. One of the differences between the GT-1000core and the GT-1000 is the lack of bluetooth support. We still can connect to the GT-1000core via USB to use BTS – but only with a computer. When we want to use BTS forContinue reading “Using the CME WIDI Jack with a BOSS GT-1000core and an RC-5”
A battery powered mobile guitar rig in a BOSS BCB-30X case
Being most of the time in a caravan and my proper sound gear literally more than a 1000 miles away, I decided it was time for a mobile guitar rig aka pedal board. Not being able to carry my favourite 8×12″ cabinet with me I went looking for a DSP solution that could do itContinue reading “A battery powered mobile guitar rig in a BOSS BCB-30X case”
Circle of Fifths
On New Year’s Eve I treated myself to a new guitar. And when it arrived two weeks later, I somehow realised that I must have had forgotten a thing or two over the last 25+ years that I hadn’t played. What a surprise! Not even “stairway to heaven” – the one track one must playContinue reading “Circle of Fifths”
Vocals and the Roland MC-101
In this article I write about different options on how to use the Roland MC-101 groovebox in combination with vocals for a live performance.
The last microphone I ever buy?
In the last post I wrote about my recent purchase: The Neumann U 67. And it arrived today. I just unpacked and connected it to my Sound Devices 833. The high-pass low-cut filter on the microphone is enabled and the polar pattern is set to cardiod.The gain is set to 44dB on the recorder, withContinue reading “The last microphone I ever buy?”
Sound Device MixPre-3 II Timecode Issue
In this post I would like to talk about an irritating feature, not to say a flaw, in the Sound Devices MixPre-3 II. You can also listen to the whole post on YouTube. Let’s take it away. One of the features of the SoundDevices MixPre-3 is Timecode. However, as it turns out, there seems toContinue reading “Sound Device MixPre-3 II Timecode Issue”
Speech synthesis with the Neumann TLM 67
As a follow to my previous post, here is the first audio from the new Descript Overdub voice recorded via the Neumann TLM 67 along with a comparison to the previous overdub voices I recorded. Here is the uncompressed audio, in case you want to find out if you can hear a difference: In addition,Continue reading “Speech synthesis with the Neumann TLM 67”
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