Superlux Pink Stick

If you work in live sound this is a toolbox essential. Most consoles these days have a pink noise facility on the console which can be sent to various outputs.
The pink stick though is more of a test tool. If you work as a stage patch on a festival or need to perform line checks this is the tool you need.

The pink stick has various modes apart from pink including pulse, and 1khz tone. In between each tone is a mute function which is more like power off as you can hear a nosie from a pa system or through headphones when this is switched to a position.

To make the pink stick easier to use and plug into stage boxes I have added a short xlr lead, by short i mean 30-50cm ish, I find It makes it easier to use.

I am very surprised at the low cost of the pink stick. The build quality seems good although the weakest part seems to be the switch knob on the end.

Overall I find the pink stick a great toolbox tool.

This is phantom powered tone generator in the shape of a long XLR plug. It produces tone, clicks, or white noise as selected by a rotary switch on the far end. I've found it works well and is ideal for setting up equipment in sound systems. I was once doing live sound at an event that was being filmed for TV and the cameraman (from a major broadcaster) needed some tone to line up his camera. I plugged this into a spare mic input on the mixer, problem solved, and the camerman was well impressed. It is solidly made with a metal body and has survived several years in a bag of adaptors and connectors. It's simple, effective, and very cheaply priced. I'd say that every sound engineer should have one!