Does anyone have experience with the Astral HH and a flag extension adapter? We tried the Ambien flag extension and the HH recognizes the capsule still, but it seems to be an internal wiring issue with the extension. Works fine on our Sennheisers.

45:26So you've got to look at the software. Let's go to the last question. All right. This is from Logan Gibson in Gadsden. What's AL? Is that Alabama? Yeah. Gadsden, Alabama. Yeah, welcome to the United States. Sorry, I apologize. I'm Canadian here. I don't know all the states. I believe AK is Alaska. Does anyone have experience with the Astral HH and a flag extension adapter?

45:49We tried the ambient flag extension and the HH recognizes the capsule still, but it seems to be an internal wiring issue with the extension. Works fine on our Sennheisers. Logan, I don't know that anybody here knows what you're talking about. And I apologize for that. I wish we knew. I'm going to say I see half a dozen words in there. I don't know what they mean.

46:15But thanks for asking. So they're talking about the sound devices RF handheld, the Astral HH. Ah. Okay, so HH means handheld. Yeah, I have two of them, but I've never had to use them with an extension adapter, so I can't comment. And the flag extension adapter is just an additional antenna to increase the range of it? No, no, no, no. No? Flag, flag, I send like a microphone flag, you know, the triangle or square piece that

46:42goes on a handheld microphone for reporters where it says, usually has the network name or whatever on it. Yeah, yeah. For most interview style ENG microphones, you usually want something with a longer handle so that you can more easily, you know, cue the mic back and forth. With the typical handheld mics that you use on stage, which includes, you know, the form factor of the actual HH,

47:10it's a little shorter. So some people on more stage-focused RF systems, RF handheld microphone transmitters, did add an extension, but they haven't had to use an extension on ours because we usually stick with the MD-486 for interview microphones for ENG work. So the flag extension adapter literally just makes the microphone longer so that you can put the flag on? So with a handheld, typical handheld RF mics,

47:42you have your transmitter, which is usually inside the handle, and then you have a capsule that you screw on top. the extension adapter. It's just contacts at the bottom, threads, contacts at the top, threads, so it just goes in between the transmitter and the capsule just to extend it. Yeah, it's interesting, though, Logan, you say it works fine with your Sennheisers, but sometimes with the other stuff,

48:07it doesn't. Who knows? We don't know. Sorry, we couldn't answer your question. That brings us to the end of this episode. I'm going to say if you want to help help put on Office Hours. And if you want to participate, because maybe you know exactly what Logan's problem was there, go to officehours.global.join. You can learn about the whole ecosystem of what we have going on here.

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