For those on the cheaper end of the budget scale.
I had a bit of credit at the local music shop and they had the Rode Newsshooter at a ridiculous special - so I bought one - if it was terrible I could use it as an extra camera hop for guide tracks, so I had nothing to loose.
I plugged a Schoeps 641 into the Rode, set the gain to +30 on the transmitter and 0 on the receiver. The line level send was reasonably low and needed a fair amount of gain. I will look into using an "unbalanced" cable betweern receiver and recorder next to see if there was any issue there. But for the time being - here are two files recorded - one with the Rode and one with the Schoeps directly into the Sonosax. Some noise on the Rode - but not bad at all!
Obviosluy have not tested distance etc.
Cheers
Stef
EDIT - I changed the cable and it sorted the gain issue out - lot less noise!
Test_Schoeps_641_with_Rode_Newshooter_to_Sonosax.wav
Test_Schoeps_641_Straight_to_Sonosax.wav
Test_Schoeps_641_with_Rode_Newshooter_to_Sonosax_LESS_GAIN_WITH_UNBALANCED_CABLE.wav