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Steve Klare
Film Guy

Posts: 7016
From: Long Island, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003

posted September 09, 2016 11:15 PM

So I got a nice British Railway film the other day, and celebrated Friday night by watching it for the first time.

I took it out of the box and saw clear leader and stripes ("Good! Commercially made sound film!") I set the knob on my mixer for the usual level, ran the transport and lit the lamp.

"No Sound!"

I thought it was kind of a shame: nice, sharp, colorful image, interesting action on screen, but it was silent!

-I could have sworn the E-bay page said "sound" too!

I cranked the knob past what should be ear-splitting levels and got nothing but a little low-level hum. Not even a whisper of recorded audio!

I got to the end of the reel, brought the lights up and reviewed my setup just as a sanity check.

Here's our thought for the day:

"When you have a film on projector #1, don't use the volume knob for projector #2!"

(Let's try that again!) [Smile]

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All I ask is a wide screen and a projector to light her by...

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Evan Samaras
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 513
From: Queens, NY, USA
Registered: Oct 2015

posted September 09, 2016 11:20 PM

Often, before a recording session I have to double check my inputs and outputs for similar errors [Big Grin]

Happens to the best of us!

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Steve Klare
Film Guy

Posts: 7016
From: Long Island, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003

posted September 09, 2016 11:33 PM

I've been running on #2 projector lately with #1 empty. Yesterday I put a machine in as #1 and I don't think this late in the day my brain could do the math!

Christmas Week I ran 3 machines, but then again I was on vacation and not so frazzled!

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Graham Ritchie
Film God

Posts: 4001
From: New Zealand
Registered: Feb 2006

posted September 10, 2016 01:09 AM

Glad I am not the only one that does this sort of thing [Big Grin]

it comes with age Steve you start to go ga ga [Smile]

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Brian Fretwell
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1785
From: London, UK
Registered: Jun 2014

posted September 10, 2016 02:32 AM

I've some the same thing with a projector that can switch from main to balance stripe playback. I had the switch to "mix" and the balance the wrong way, I thought I had erased the track at first.

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