u/NoisyGog

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Minus fifty. Crikey.

I was a very keen cyclist for many years and have been lucky to have a great local bike shop.
However, the LBS clothing range has always been fairly limited, and so I used Wiggle, CRC, and Evans (I’d often pop into Evans near Chill Factore).
Now that Wiggle has gone, CRC and Evans are a shadow of their former self, what are the solid alternatives these days?
I was particularly fond of Wiggle’s DHB brand stuff, their cycling shorts were fantastic quality, no nonsense kit.
Does DHB still exist in some form separately of Wiggle?

There was an episode a little while ago where Michael said he'd met his opposite name at a party, and they were wondering what name would have been best for their imaginary child if they had one together.
I just wanted to say, the obvious answer should have been Stevie Micks.

Ahem. Sorry. That is all.

As you were.

I’m just watching the replay of the sprint race and it just struck me how much I miss having The Prodigy as the theme music.
For years in the UK that’s what we had, up until about about five or six years ago. One of the broadcaster transitions changed it out for the bland library music we’ve got today.
A small, but strange change.

I’m watching the ITV coverage, and it got me thinking about transatlantic crews working together, and what funny quirks and hiccups might happen.

A colleague of mine has told me that many years ago he was working rax on an American-led production. He was sat there ready to go, just eating his apple and listening to comms.
Shader, are you there? Got a quick question for you.
No answer.
Shader? Shader we’re live in a few minutes.

This went on for a brief while, as my colleague chuckled to himself, happily eating his apple and thinking “I don’t know who this shader is, but I bet he’s going to get shouted at when he gets to his station”

That’s when someone burst in and explained to him that shading is what they called rax. Cue red face and big apologies!

I’ve even done it myself, just with different British crews, hearing “cue bubble” and expecting to see graphical bubbles or some sort of bubbly wipe.
I didn’t know that they meant “grams”!

There’s a few different working practices, such as talkback/comms discipline, the states preferring party lines, Brits preferring to listen to PTB, that kind of thing.

What are your experiences/stories?

Is there any way of importing a while bunch of polywavs with timecode, at their correct timecode position, into reaper?

I just can't fine anything sensible, and I'm going round in circles. I've got dozens and dozens of recordings, I don't want them as individual tracks, and THEN move them, I want them imported on the same channels, at their correct timecodes.

Bonus points if they actually get placed on the corresponding channels from the field recorder, too.

I’m watching a tv drama, and the setting is a very hot uk police office.
They’ve got desk fans and floor standing fans *everywhere*. There seems to be at least two in every shot, and usually more.
Someone must have done something to at least reduce the noise they make on set, there’s lots of dialog just two or three feet from a fan.
Has anyone here ever done such a thing, or have any ideas how that could be achieved?
They’re clearly still oscillating, and they look as though the fan is turning, too.

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I was re-watching Fargo series 5 the other day (such a great series), and I noticed that there were a great deal of scenes like this, with varying heights.
What are your best methods of handling something like this when booming?
In the image here, I'm guessing the father is boomed normally, and there might be hidden booms or plant-mics to capture the mother and daughter.
The mother's mic hidden behind the husband, the daughter's hidden behind the mother, maybe. They do appear to be positioned one in front of the other to allow that.

Initially I thoguht they'd taken clean plates so they could easily mask out the boom later, but there's a push in towards the end of the scene that looks like it's hand-held, so I'm not sure how viable that is. I've only done boom masking (admittedly at a *SIGNIFICANTLY* lower budget compared to Fargo) with locked-off cameras. Is there any other way of hiding booms?