On-camera wireless reciever.

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What is everyone's favorite on-camera wireless mic system? Are the Sennheiser evolution G2 100 Series any good? I'm wondering if any of you have used wireless (laviliers) in an indie filmmaking situation rather than a boom pole/ shotgun setup?

I was thinking of having my sound recordist use some wireless on an upcoming project. (Not recording audio to the DVX but to the location sound recorder.) Anyone have experience with this? Where am I going to find the pitfalls? Thanks in advance.
 
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Wireless mic's are a generally unreliable pain in the patootie. Good systems can work, but they'll never work as well as a good $30 XLR cable.

Lavaliere's are extremely annoying to work with due to clothing rustling noise. When they're visible (like on the news) they're fine, but when they're hidden, they become very high-maintenance.

A boom mic will sound more natural, more filmlike, have less problems, fewer hassles, better audio quality, etc...

Wireless mic's should only be used when there's no alternative. They should always be the mic choice of last resort. And lavalieres can work very well when you don't have to hide them, but if you're trying to hide a mic on someone you're asking for a world of pain and hurt and hassle.
 
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coming from an ENG background, i use wireless all the time. my current setup on the DVX is two sennheiser 100-series RX.

if you go to buy a wireless setup, play close attention to transmitter power. more=better.

frequency agility is also key.
 
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I'm using the G2 100... is great! Long battery life (using AA size batteries which are available everywhere) and have good range. Mount directly on the hot shoe... Very convenient to use for 1 man show.

I usually hide it with proper taping technique which reduces/eliminate the clothing rustling noise.

I guess for video, there's no point recording it on separate recorder other than making it as a backup. It is a waste of time to do audio sync.
 
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I use 2 G2 systems now, the first one I was so impressed I got another one for dual channels. you do need to get decent lav mics though as the M2s arnt the best.

I just came off a HD feature and they used lectros for the boom to the mixer/DAT, and the G2s to put sound back to camera for the sratch track. It was the first time a production used wireless all the time, but it seemed to make the sound guys alot happier not having cales running everywhere.
 
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Jarred, what mic do you use with your G2? I bought a G2 'combo kit' a few weeks ago that included an M2 mic. One thing that jumped out at me immeditely was that I had to crank the gain down on the receiver to something like -18dB before it started to sound good. Anything above that was a bit overdriven and distorted (even with proper audio level adjustments on the DVX's record dials).
 
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