New from
Sennheiser at NAB is the EM 3732 receiver, a rugged piece of equipment with a
90 MHz switching bandwidth that makes finding available frequencies easier than
ever.
“The 3732
allows the customer to tune to pretty much any frequency within a 90 MHz band,
which allows you to tune to any one of 18,000 different frequencies,” explains
Joe Ciaudelli, consultant for Sennheiser’s professional products industry team.
“In
particular with sports applications, when you can be in a
High intermodulation
compression wards off potential interference from competing signals and
easy-to-spot warning lights allow for crisis aversion, even from across the
room.
“If your
transmitter battery gets too low, it will give you a warning light,” Ciaudelli
explains. “If you have a whole rack of these things, even from far away, you
can immediately tell which one of the microphones is having trouble.”
An organic
LED display allows for intuitive operation of the easy-to-use system and the
receiver’s optimum sensitivity requires just one tenth the signal of most
wireless microphones.
Also new
for NAB is the MKE 400, a small-scale microphone that fits perfectly with miniature
handycams. The shotgun microphone has a base roll-off switch, shock-mounted
shoe mounts and an available furry wind coat and XLR adapter.
The
multi-pattern MKH 800 twin is also new for the show. It can manipulate the
polar pattern both remotely during performance and after recording.
Also brand
new from Sennheiser’s Neumann division is the TLM 103 D, a microphone with a directly
digital output.
“This
allows you to do all of your effects within the digital domain, so you avoid the
latency delay in switching between analog and digital,” Ciaudelli says. “By
staying all digital, you get a very pure signal that’s easy to handle.”