New toys!

So while this month has sucked for work purposes, it's been pretty bad-ass as far as me getting new taper toys. My latest purchase that I actually have in my hands is a Kangol VentAir Tropic hat, the hat of choice for stealth tapers everywhere. You've seen the type - the Samuel L. Jackson cabbie hat. He wears it backwards and looks cool. I wear it forwards and look like a Swiss Army knife (12 tools in one!). But the key is that it's black, it's got some room inside it (unlike a baseball cap), and it's got a brim on the inside that I can rest my mini-mics on for low-profile situations. I just got sick of clipping them to a baseball cap - this is much sleeker.

The latest latest purchase, however, is on its way to me as we speak - some custom-made microphone cables. A guy I know from the Blues Traveler list has a friend who's pretty good with a soldering iron (not to mention patient as hell) and he offered to build me some custom right-angle cables with parts I sent him from Markertek instead of the straight-angle BLUE Kiwi cables. I still wanted green cables, so here's what the new ones look like - one by itself, both of them together, and a close-up of the custom right-angle Neutrik black/gold connectors. HUGE thanks to Chuck Cage for putting these together for me - can't wait to use 'em in the field!

Edit and update: links to cable pictures are fixed for all both of you who actually want to see them.