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19 Clockwise from top: Cast of Modern Family on location (Photo: ABC/ Matt Klitscher); sound crew for "Connection Lost," day one; a scene from "Australia" with Eric Stonestreet and Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Photo: ABC/Matt Klitscher); mixing on the medium cart in Australia; Srdjan Popovic booming a scene. Last month on "Can't Elope," I recorded twenty-five tracks for several days. I had four boom operators, nineteen actors, and a playback track. I brought my other O1V96i and cascaded both consoles using ADAT and midi. I wire everybody all the time, just so I don't miss any comedy, and then we boom everything. I spent time early on really trying to get the wires to match the boom, and I have EQ settings for each actor. I have a mixture of Countryman B6's and Sennheiser MKE 1's. I use B6's just because they don't give me clothing rustle and I can place them through a buttonhole when we're on stage. When I'm outside or when a character will be yelling I use the Sennheiser MKE 1's. There are three Lectrosonics Venues on the cart; my boom operators get UM400s and a Denecke power supply. I have HM plug on transmitters for plants or some hard-to-reach places. We have a mixture of UM's, SM's, SMQ's, MM's, and SSM's for the actors. I have so many different transmitters