Wired lav purchasing recomendations

[Jon Furtado]

I have the following gear:

Shure FP33 3 Channel Mixer
Rode NTG-2 boom mic
Rode Basic Boom Pole
Sennheiser G2 dual wireless system
Voice Technologies VT500 dual lav set

I have encountered some interference in all of the channels a few times on a job and have decided to buy some wired lavs for my kit. Does anyone have any recommendations on some reasonably priced lav's for my kit? I know I can pay thousands for a great lav, but I'd like to purchase something not to insanely pricy for the kit that I have.

 

[tumbleweed]

I use a countryman emw that is wired for the sennheisers BUT, also has an adapter so that I can plug it into to an xlr input. I bought it directly from coutryman (I think). I find it useful because wired is more dependable than wireless if you don't need to be wireless.

 

[Rick R]

Buying a new micrphone will do little if RF interference is the issue. The Sennheiser G3 is arguably the best system for a 'reasonable' price. The runner-ups would be the competitively priced Sony or AT models. There are many many reasons interference can occur. I see you already have a Sennheiser G2 ('dual wireless system', I assume you mean two systems) The G3 and Sony 'diversity' systems would mostly help in preventing multi-path interference. If the interference issue is based elsewhere, you'll be back where you started.. Minus $600-$700. No wireless is even close to being 100% reliable. Even a $3k system will be prone to interference and other issues if not properly set-up.

 

[Jon Furtado]

I'm looking for a wired system. Sorry, i re-edited the post to reflect that.

 

[drapeama]

Does anyone have any recommendations on some reasonably priced lav's for my kit? I know I can pay thousands for a great lav, but I'd like to purchase something not to insanely pricy for the kit that I have.

From the gear you already have, I guess you don't want to buy anything cheap, but one of our fellow user on another forum pointed out a good little one that performs quite well. I ordered one too. For the price, it gives good results. Here's the link to his post about it. Hope it'll help.

 

[connectivitygroup]

This is what we use for our wired lav and I really like it:

http://www.dpamicrophones.com/en/products.aspx?c=Item&category=130&item=24068

I think it was like $400-500 you can also buy another $50 adapter so you can use it with your wirelesses if needed.

The countrymans are nice too.

 

[Jon Furtado]

I'll probably end up going with the RODE Lavalier system:

You can apparently swap out the connectors for an XLR or a Sennheiser screw in connector. I'll def. have to sell off my Voice Technologies kit lavs though.