Issue link: https://digital.copcomm.com/i/1469942
22 PRODUCTION SOUND & VIDEO – Summer 2022 and helmet design phase being done in Los Angeles by Legacy Effects. We hired Ed Novick for a day of test recordings in Los Angeles at Legacy with the helmets. From those recordings, we selected which lav mic we could use and where they had to play out of sight. The Shure Twinplex lav was selected for most of the helmets given the high max SPL and had some DPA 6060 for a couple of actors due to head versus helmet space and tonal differences. The stunt team used Sanken COS-11 with the Clear-Com FreeSpeak II packs. The Clear-Com FreeSpeak II package was the glue for our full system. The design had to be a full duplex comm system where everything needs to go through, and be fingertip-controlled on set by our AD, Benita Allen, along with our Director, Kyle Alvarez, and the Stunt Coordinator, Dave Macomber, and his stunt team. All of the leadership needs not only to hear all of the primary actors and stunt actors, but to be able to speak to them as a group and at times individually. All controlled from their own belt packs or base station. The WiSpy app showing Wi-Fi use in the 2.4 GHz range. Remote control of the Shure system occurs over 2.4 GHz. It's important to manage that spectrum, since it's shared with WiFi, as well as camera and lighting control. We freed up channels by asking the stage's IT Dept, to shut down any of their access points' use of 2.4 GHz. Helmets waiting for actors or stunt doubles.