New Sanken Shorty Shotgun

Thanks for the replies - sounds (!) promising. Looking for a ergonomically smaller set-up than my previous (C300m2+18-80+mkh416), and hoping the CS-M1 might fit in - and maybe even sound better indoors than the 416...
Really like the sound, including the richness at the low-end, from the 416 - have been using it indoors as well even if you shouldnt - but I'm hoping the CS-M1 might be as workable indoors for run and gun doc...(sometimes people haven't been lav'ed yet or comes from the side.... then a good or great on camera mic is essential.)

Clear/workable dialogue and 70gram less weight seems like a win.
 
Vino said:
Thanks for the replies - sounds (!) promising. Looking for a ergonomically smaller set-up than my previous (C300m2+18-80+mkh416), and hoping the CS-M1 might fit in - and maybe even sound better indoors than the 416...
Really like the sound, including the richness at the low-end, from the 416 - have been using it indoors as well even if you shouldnt - but I'm hoping the CS-M1 might be as workable indoors for run and gun doc...(sometimes people haven't been lav'ed yet or comes from the side.... then a good or great on camera mic is essential.)

Clear/workable dialogue and 70gram less weight seems like a win.
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I've borrowed this mic. Like all Sankens, if it says Sanken on it, it's going to be great. I've yet to encounter an even mediocre sounding mic from them.

That said, I'm going to fall back to the standard, "Should you really be wasting $900.00 for a mic that is essentially going to be used to record what will likely be usable ambient
and anything else generally terrible sounding compared to putting a cheap mic on a boom pole and getting it where it should be, overhead of the talent?" Audio Technica AT-875r will sound
95% as good for most things an on camera mic will ever record that are usable at less than 1/4 of the price.

I'll never understand putting great mics on cameras, the value equation is all out of whack, it's like using your Lamborghini as a Grub Hub driver. You could, but why?
I've seen people putting $2,000.00 and $3,000.00 mics on camera, some users here even. If that's how you like to waste your money, more power to you. Now if you take the CS-M1
off of your camera and onto a boompole, hell yeah, get it and it will make your sound so great. But leaving it on a camera? Meh, why? Ask any sound mixer. Good mics can't even begin
to overcome the laws of physics. AT-875r on our Canons and it's cheap, impervious to shock and handling noise, great for ambient and usable if I put a camera in someone's face, but
generally I don't like to stick a camera a foot or two from someone's face.
 
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