Author: BallastMedia

Vocal Microphone Shootout – Live male vocals

Had a chance to test out 11 different vocal mics this week for our worship leader.  These aren’t your usual go-to mics so I thought people might want to hear what they sound like.  One video has the guitar mixed in with the vocal, and the other is just the vocal by itself.  (it was…
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Minimizing distortion in a digital board

The best way to minimize distortion in a digital board is to control the input. I’ve been using the Aphex 207D on vocal mics for a while now and love the MicLim circuitry that keeps the channel from distorting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUS5-WK_STk Here I’m running the vocals through a Heil PR35 capsule on a Shure SLX wireless…
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JustMacros, CasparCG, ATEM playlist scripts, version 4.0

scripts4 I’ve updated the scripts again to use the environment variables.  I’ve also created scripts that will let you use a keypad to set the playlist index. 001_PlaylistPlayback As before, this will begin playback of the video file in the playlist at the current index. 002_ReturnScreensToNormal As before, this will stop playback, and return outputs…
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Updated JustMacros scripts for Atem and CasparCG

I’ve extended/updated the scripts described in my previous post and video.  Here is a description of what the scripts do and how to use them. scripts3.zip 001_PlaylistPlayback Still works the same as described in the video, plays back the video listed in the casparplaylist.txt at the index that is found in the index.txt file after…
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