jhharvest

Yep, it's indeed a possibility.

I've also been very pleased with mine. I especially love the light weight of it. That said, I have got some mystery RF pickup from a certain set light dimmer that the 416p I swapped it for didn't exhibit. It was fine for a day and a half and then just popped up during one shot when the boom op moved.

If you click on someone's profile and enter a message to their feed, it'll show up in all site activity, I think. If you send someone a private message, I doubt it would show up.

Sounds like there's something wrong with your mic, if the previous one worked fine? A normal balanced cabled connected to a normal balanced mic should not give you any RF noise issues.

Pretty much normal from an Australian?

I'm from Finland where almost everyone who works in media belongs to the media workers' union. We have a price list which cross references the length of the gig and the job title / required experience level. It makes negotiating salaries super easy and painless. The rates are a lot lower than in the US / England though, so there's that. For example: technician on a 2-10 day gig: 217,10 euro / day; on a 11-24 day gig: 185,56 euro / day engineer on a 2-10 day gig: 259,91 euro / day; on a 11-24 day gig: 197,96 euro / day designer on a 2-10 day gig: 305,00 euro / day; on a 11-24 day gig: 237,40 euro / day etc.