Multi-band receiver and Mic

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stuart

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Ok odd question which I will try and summarise. I need a wireless mic and receiver:

- I have a budget of £300
- I work in the UK
- I would like very much for the receiver and mic to have selectable frequencies between 100 - about 870 MHz.

I know there are some very experienced audio guys and girls in hear and I would be grateful for any advice.

If you want to know why, I work in a lot of different lecture theatres in a University recording academics with only minutes to set-up. I would very much like to be able to tune my kit to match the lecture theatre, put just one mic on the speaker and have the audio go to both the loud speakers and my camera.

Thanks!

Stuart
 
stuart said:
Ok odd question which I will try and summarise. I need a wireless mic and receiver:

- I have a budget of £300
- I work in the UK
- I would like very much for the receiver and mic to have selectable frequencies between 100 - about 870 MHz.
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This is impossible - 100 MHz is VHF and 870 MHz is top end UHF.

Also, you can't really tune your system into the college system as it is likely to be a companded transmission and it won't work properly unless it's a matching receiver by the same manufacturer.

The best chance you will have is to get a Sennheiser G2 system on version E - with this you will stand the best chance of listening in (due to the very high number of systems about) and is the *only* frequency range yo can legally use in the UK if you are moving about.

Version E - memory bank 8 has the four (863 - 865 MHz) frequencies you can use all over the UK (and Europe) without a licence. Memory bank 6 has the frequencies you can use all over the UK *with* a licence - all the rest are either illegal or only usable on a site-specific licence.

You can pick up the ew 112 G2 or ew 112-p G2 (latter has the pocket receiver) for just under £350 on some sites - Less than £300 it would almost certainly be fake.

As an aside there is a special edition ew 112-p G2 just coming which has the professional MKE 2-ew mic. instead of the standard ME 2 - the MKE 2 is almost x5 the price of the ME2 normally, so this should be a bargain.
 
ah, well thanks for the advice, certainly saved me some wasted time. Just a quick follow-up question, will the companded transmission also mean that buying a cheap radio scanner is a no go? Just thought I would check.
 
stuart said:
ah, well thanks for the advice, certainly saved me some wasted time. Just a quick follow-up question, will the companded transmission also mean that buying a cheap radio scanner is a no go? Just thought I would check.
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A cheap radio scanner would likely pick up a signal, but only enough to understand the speech, not good enough to use for anything.

So if you want to understand speech for transcription purposes only - probably OK.
 
Just incase anyone every asks the same question and comes across this thread I did end up getting a Sennheiser ew 122 kit. So far the results have been great, I have tried 4 different lecture theatres and the receiver has worked every time. Considering the variety of wireless mics I have come across so far I think I have been very lucky and I am most pleased with the kit. Only one down side, because I mic directly into a laptop I need to watch the levels on the receiver, but it doesn't have a gain control that I can find, so I have to make the best guess with the input control in the laptop system settings.

Hope that helps someone one day!

Stuart
 
stuart said:
Just incase anyone every asks the same question and comes across this thread I did end up getting a Sennheiser ew 122 kit. So far the results have been great, I have tried 4 different lecture theatres and the receiver has worked every time. Considering the variety of wireless mics I have come across so far I think I have been very lucky and I am most pleased with the kit. Only one down side, because I mic directly into a laptop I need to watch the levels on the receiver, but it doesn't have a gain control that I can find, so I have to make the best guess with the input control in the laptop system settings.

Hope that helps someone one day!

Stuart
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Get a small mixer such as the Sound Devices MixPre or 302 to interpose between your receiver and the laptop or recording device in order to provide proper gain staging, level control, limiting, etc.
 
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