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Ronan Hill CAS checking in from Belfast, Northern Ireland. Ronan works mainly in movies and episodic TV, having won multiple Emmys and CAS Awards for his work on Game of Thrones. He is about to resume on Line of Duty Season 6 for BBC, which was suspended over the summer. His cart layout, from top to bottom is a Sennheiser 2050 four-channel transmitter for IEM or IFB, modified to run on 12V DC. The Sound Devices 788T was his main workhorse for years and now performs backup to his SD Scorpio. He uses baking racks to separate the machines for airflow. Below them are his Blackmagic Designs twin monitors. Ronan is very happy with his venerable Cooper 208D and says he would find it "very difficult to change away from it." Below the Cooper is an Audio Ltd A-10 rack with two receivers for four digital booms or plants. Next, an Audio Ltd RK6 rack with six plugin receivers. His power system consists of six lithium-ion golf trolley batteries. He powers everything separately for isolated DC grounds, and they run everything all day long without plugging in. He has a pair of Betso powered LPDA antennas on a short boom, which have adjustable amplifiers to compensate for long cable runs. For mics outdoors, there are MKH60's in Rycote or Cinela mounts as Ronan likes their reliability in any weather. He also adapted a bicycle phone case that clips onto handlebars for a quick-release boom-mounted transmitter pouch. Ronan has a couple of trolleys that are loaded with Pelican cases. They contain everything from a 788 bag kit to MKH50's, 8050's, and 8040's and the rest of his location gear. DAY TWO