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How do you keep track of mics at events?
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<blockquote data-quote="Rob Aylestone" data-source="post: 215994" data-attributes="member: 13871"><p>I've never put mics in foil containers, or needed to? I also never use rechargeable batteries. Not remotely a technical reason, but a practical one - you need a very good charging regime or you will ALWAYS end up with somebody with a short lifespan. So easy to take the late returned pack and stuff it on the charger and then somebody else not realising it has only just started charging, assumes it's been there overnight and grabs it in a panic. Almost impossible to prevent. At the end of this panto I'm on we will have over 1500 AA cells, half used in a box and the cast grab handfuls to take home for toys and other things. Rechargeable would be vastly cheaper, but just too risky.</p><p></p><p>On the missing mic point - you have two pathways. Accidental loss - they're put down in the wrong place and probably get thrown away or dropped into half empty trunks or get put in a lighting flight case. Best solution will be stickers with phone/email on for the honest people. For the dodgy people, they'll just nick them I'm afraid. Others are more honest, but would consider finding a radio mic in a lighting flight case fair game. I once got back a 'stolen' antenna distro. It still had my sticker on it, although with an old address - I was given it by a visiting music show tech person to wire up, and I pointed out my sticker - they got it from another band, who got it from a production company I'd never heard of. Not just mics - I took a picture of a music show and a guy emailed me to say he had painted the back cloth they were using 20 years before for a theatre on the west coast of the UK - we were on the east coast and had no idea where the cloth had come from.</p><p></p><p>If you lose something and can bill the client, do it. If you can't then unless you know who pinched it, suck it up and move on and treat the item as consumable in your accounts, and write it off.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rob Aylestone, post: 215994, member: 13871"] I've never put mics in foil containers, or needed to? I also never use rechargeable batteries. Not remotely a technical reason, but a practical one - you need a very good charging regime or you will ALWAYS end up with somebody with a short lifespan. So easy to take the late returned pack and stuff it on the charger and then somebody else not realising it has only just started charging, assumes it's been there overnight and grabs it in a panic. Almost impossible to prevent. At the end of this panto I'm on we will have over 1500 AA cells, half used in a box and the cast grab handfuls to take home for toys and other things. Rechargeable would be vastly cheaper, but just too risky. On the missing mic point - you have two pathways. Accidental loss - they're put down in the wrong place and probably get thrown away or dropped into half empty trunks or get put in a lighting flight case. Best solution will be stickers with phone/email on for the honest people. For the dodgy people, they'll just nick them I'm afraid. Others are more honest, but would consider finding a radio mic in a lighting flight case fair game. I once got back a 'stolen' antenna distro. It still had my sticker on it, although with an old address - I was given it by a visiting music show tech person to wire up, and I pointed out my sticker - they got it from another band, who got it from a production company I'd never heard of. Not just mics - I took a picture of a music show and a guy emailed me to say he had painted the back cloth they were using 20 years before for a theatre on the west coast of the UK - we were on the east coast and had no idea where the cloth had come from. If you lose something and can bill the client, do it. If you can't then unless you know who pinched it, suck it up and move on and treat the item as consumable in your accounts, and write it off. [/QUOTE]
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