Cut One, Find Two
Ringing out only removes the mode that got to unity first. The next one is already queued and it has been waiting patiently.
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59 designsOnly designs that have been approved on a real shirt and listed for sale appear here. Nothing is shown as available before it exists, which is why this list is shorter than the sketchbook.
House To Half
Two words that turn a room full of people into an audience. Everything before it is setup; everything after it is the show.
Take one · $29 — House To Half (opens in a new tab)Every Fixture Gets A Safety
The clamp holds it up. The safety catches it when the clamp doesn't. Around the tube and through the fixture — a bond onto the clamp is decoration.
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SIGNAL FLOWSDOWNHILL
Signal Flows Downhill
Gravity is undefeated and so is a well-planned signal path. Printed on soft, midweight cotton for people who route things for a living.
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GAFF FIXESEVERYTHING
Gaff Fixes Everything
A load-bearing roll of tape has saved more shows than any redundancy plan.
Take one · $29 — Gaff Fixes Everything (opens in a new tab)Forty Eight Volts
Phantom power: invisible, essential, and occasionally the reason nothing works.
Take one · $29 — Forty Eight Volts (opens in a new tab)Audio Transport
Five ways to move audio, four of which someone will tell you is the only correct one.
Take one · $29 — Audio Transport (opens in a new tab)Connectors
The five ends you can identify by feel, in the dark, at the back of a rack.
Take one · $29 — Connectors (opens in a new tab)Control
Everything that has ever told something else to do something, on one shirt.
Take one · $29 — Control (opens in a new tab)Network
The five words that turn an AV problem into an IT problem at two in the morning.
Take one · $29 — Network (opens in a new tab)Copper
Heavy, tangled, and still the reason the show happened.
Take one · $29 — Copper (opens in a new tab)The Day
The whole call sheet. Nobody outside the industry gets it.
Take one · $29 — The Day (opens in a new tab)Power
Ask the venue which one they have. Then check yourself.
Take one · $29 — Power (opens in a new tab)Fault Finding
The escalation path, honestly documented for the first time.
Take one · $29 — Fault Finding (opens in a new tab)Pin 1 Is Ground
The single most load-bearing fact in audio, stated plainly on a shirt.
Take one · $29 — Pin 1 Is Ground (opens in a new tab)Front Of House
The best seat in the building, and the only one with a job attached.
Take one · $29 — Front Of House (opens in a new tab)Mind Your Gain Structure
Free advice, permanently applied to a shirt so it can be pointed at silently.
Take one · $29 — Mind Your Gain Structure (opens in a new tab)No Signal
Two of the worst words in production, rendered calm and graphic so you can look at them without your stomach dropping.
Take one · $29 — No Signal (opens in a new tab)Lift The Ground
For the hum you chased for forty minutes before finding the one cable.
Take one · $29 — Lift The Ground (opens in a new tab)Standby, Go
Everything that happens in a show happens between these two calls.
Take one · $29 — Standby, Go (opens in a new tab)Doors At Eight
The deadline that does not move, no matter what is still in a road case.
Take one · $29 — Doors At Eight (opens in a new tab)Fiber
For the people who own a fusion splicer and are quietly proud of it.
Take one · $29 — Fiber (opens in a new tab)Video Formats
Every way a picture has ever left a camera, in the order you learned them the hard way.
Take one · $29 — Video Formats (opens in a new tab)Normalled
If you know, you know. A quiet tribute to the patch bay and to everyone who has ever had to explain what half-normalled means.
Take one · $29 — Normalled (opens in a new tab)It Fits In 2U
It does not fit in 2U. It has never fit in 2U. Wear it anyway.
Take one · $29 — It Fits In 2U (opens in a new tab)Over Under
Coil it right and it lasts a decade. Coil it wrong and everyone knows.
Take one · $29 — Over Under (opens in a new tab)Load In, Load Out
The whole job, honestly described. Cut for long days and longer nights.
Take one · $29 — Load In, Load Out (opens in a new tab)It's Polarity, Not Phase
Inverting polarity multiplies the whole signal by minus one at every frequency. A time offset is the thing that shifts with frequency, and they are not the same button.
Take one · $29 — It's Polarity, Not Phase (opens in a new tab)Three To One
Space two mics at least three times their working distance apart and the bleed lands far enough down that the sum still sounds like one source. Ignore it and you get the notches.
Take one · $29 — Three To One (opens in a new tab)Double It, Lose Six
Free field, point source, every doubling of distance costs you six decibels. The back row was never going to get there on wishful thinking.
Take one · $29 — Double It, Lose Six (opens in a new tab)Aim The Null
Rejection is a pointing exercise, and the deepest rejection a figure-of-eight has is off its sides. Turning the front away is the amateur move.
Take one · $29 — Aim The Null (opens in a new tab)Get Close, Get Low
Directional mics build low end as the source moves in, which is either your voicing tool or your problem. Omnis are immune, which is the part people forget.
Take one · $29 — Get Close, Get Low (opens in a new tab)One Foot Per Millisecond
Sound covers about a foot every millisecond, which is the entire arithmetic behind a delay tower. Measure the distance, do the sum, stop guessing.
Take one · $29 — One Foot Per Millisecond (opens in a new tab)Common Mode Rejected
Interference lands on both conductors alike, and a differential input keeps only the difference. That is the whole trick, and it is why the long run is balanced.
Take one · $29 — Common Mode Rejected (opens in a new tab)High Z In, Low Z Out
A passive box steps a high impedance unbalanced instrument down to a low impedance balanced feed, with no copper joining the two sides. Hundreds of feet of cable solved.
Take one · $29 — High Z In, Low Z Out (opens in a new tab)Nothing Above Zero
Full scale is a wall, not a suggestion, and the samples above it simply do not exist. Analogue lets you push; this does not.
Take one · $29 — Nothing Above Zero (opens in a new tab)Six dB Per Bit
One more bit doubles the number of steps and buys about six decibels of range. Everything below that is the noise you agreed to.
Take one · $29 — Six dB Per Bit (opens in a new tab)Lock To One Clock
One reference, everything else follows it. Two devices both convinced they are the reference is what those clicks were.
Take one · $29 — Lock To One Clock (opens in a new tab)Drop Frame
Drop-frame timecode skips frame numbers, not frames — two counts are discarded at the top of most minutes so the clock keeps up with 29.97. Nothing is ever removed from the picture.
Take one · $29 — Drop Frame (opens in a new tab)Genlock Or Glitch
One reference generator, one distribution amp, and every source in the building agrees on when a frame starts. Skip it and the switcher will show everyone what it thinks of your timing.
Take one · $29 — Genlock Or Glitch (opens in a new tab)It's Not Broken, It's Pulldown
Twenty-four frames do not divide evenly into sixty fields, so four frames get spread across ten in a three-two cadence. The judder is arithmetic, not a fault.
Take one · $29 — It's Not Broken, It's Pulldown (opens in a new tab)Black Is Sixteen
In eight-bit broadcast video, black sits at sixteen and peak white at two thirty-five — the room below and above is deliberate. Feed it to something expecting full range and watch your blacks get crushed.
Take one · $29 — Black Is Sixteen (opens in a new tab)Chroma Subsampling
Four two two keeps every brightness sample and half the colour ones, because your eyes are far worse at colour detail than you would like. It holds up right until someone puts a saturated red graphic on screen.
Take one · $29 — Chroma Subsampling (opens in a new tab)12G Doesn't Go That Far
Coax loses more as frequency climbs, so the same drum that happily carried HD will strangle a twelve gig signal at a fraction of the distance. The eye closes and someone blames the cable.
Take one · $29 — 12G Doesn't Go That Far (opens in a new tab)Every Box Adds A Frame
Anything that has to hold a whole picture before it can work on it owes you a frame of delay, and the chain adds them up. Four boxes deep and the presenter's lips are on their own schedule.
Take one · $29 — Every Box Adds A Frame (opens in a new tab)EDID Is A Promise
The display hands the source a little data block claiming everything it can do, and the source believes it completely. Whether the panel enjoys the mode it advertised is a separate conversation.
Take one · $29 — EDID Is A Promise (opens in a new tab)Every Port Gets Every Packet
Without IGMP snooping a switch cannot tell multicast from broadcast, so it hands every stream to every port whether anyone asked or not. Add a few uncompressed video flows and the network stops being one.
Take one · $29 — Every Port Gets Every Packet (opens in a new tab)Layer Two Has No TTL
An Ethernet frame carries no hop count, so a bridged loop keeps a frame circulating forever instead of quietly expiring. Spanning tree exists purely because somebody is always going to patch a port back into itself.
Take one · $29 — Layer Two Has No TTL (opens in a new tab)One Flow, One Link
Aggregating four links does not give one stream four times the pipe — the hash pins each flow to a single member so packets stay in order. Four cables of headroom and your one big stream rides a quarter of it.
Take one · $29 — One Flow, One Link (opens in a new tab)120 Apart
Three legs, evenly spaced, never quite agreeing. For anyone who has balanced a panel and a call sheet in the same afternoon.
Take one · $29 — 120 Apart (opens in a new tab)Long Run, Low Volts
The fixture isn't broken, the run is just long. Distance costs volts and the far end always pays.
Take one · $29 — Long Run, Low Volts (opens in a new tab)In Line Or Not At All
Load it through the middle or don't load it. The bow is where the work goes; everything else ends up in a report.
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The plot was final, and then it was final again. Somewhere in the world a truss is two feet from where it needs to be.
Take one · $29 — Move The Truss. Again. (opens in a new tab)A Little More Stage Left
Four words that add an hour to the focus call. Always said gently, from the house, by someone who is not on the ladder.
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CALL AT SIXTRUCK AT NINE
Call At Six, Truck At Nine
Called at six, standing on an empty dock with bad coffee. The truck arrives when the truck arrives.
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Every shop has one, everyone knows which one it is, and nobody has fixed it. It will be on the truck again tomorrow.
Take one · $29 — The Case With The Bad Wheel (opens in a new tab)Ground First, Ground Last
Connect it first, break it last, no exceptions and no shortcuts. The one part of a tie-in that was never up for discussion.
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It holds chain. That is the entire job description, and yet.
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LAST ONE OUTLEAVES THEGHOST LIGHT
Ghost Light
The oldest rule in the building and the only one nobody argues about. For every night you were the last one on the deck.
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