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Madam, please look at the road whilest steering a 2 ton metal death machine. Car interviews seem very irresponsible to me. I've recently heard this as well and it seems plausible to me. I wonder how Zaxcom will deal with the very strong competition once their patent runs out. IMO they need to refine their products much more to stay competitive.

I used the dedicated return out of this camera and not the headphone jack. Maybe I should try the headphone next time and use that as return (I have a cable for that). Then I could control the volume. yes, precisely. Oh no, I really hope it's not that... But to be fair, my Nova has always done that since I've had it, so I doubt/hope it's not that. Oh man. I'll do exactly that.

So the premise is as follows: once a year I have a shooting with an old school Sony PDW 700 tied to my Nova 2 with a coiled cable (2ch send and 2 return). Now the last two times I have not had success getting the return channel to not distort, but the audio was clear on the camera itself when listening directly with headphones. It distorted less when setting the Reference Out to "EBUL". But it never got completely clear and distorted at around -8 db very heavily. I don't have this cam on hand and once I shoot I also don't see myself having an hour to test every setting like the last few times. Does anybody have a hint how to fix this problem? The return on the nova is also on 0dB (can't decrease, only boost). Signal is line level.

I'd definitely go with radius if I were you. For one rycote really has dropped the ball. The nano shield is an atrocity in terms of handling noise and the support has ghosted me twice on issues so I just decided not to buy anything rycote anymore. Luckily radius picked up the ball that rycote dropped for sure. As for cinela, I haven't used much of their stuff, but I specifically remember being shocked how much handling noise the pianissimo caused when I boomed for a day for somebody else. But their stuff is solid. Still, radius would be my choice.

Mine attaches just fine, but handling noise is always bad with the Nano shield...

I'd use mini circuit splitters to split the antennas into both receivers. They aren't that expensive, I also bought some some time ago and it was totally worth it. I used two Mini Circuits ZFSC-2-2+ Just make sure you split the antennas correctly (left antenna into channel 1 of both receivers and right antenna into channel 2 for example). Don't split one antenna into both channels of the same receiver

I've burned myself on deity gear, causing a disaster in a shooting. Faulty microdot adapter, my replacement broke right after that one. And when it worked I caught phone interferences from the microphone, unless I used the crappy one that came with the duo rx. So I only used the Duo RX once, literally. Long story short, the last thing I would skimp on would be battery and power distro, because that could be an easy way to ruin your whole kit. Like buying a cheap PSU for a high-end PC.

That is the difficult part actually. But I did visit a friend today who has proper cables and we tested the CCM 41 with a ZMT4. One cable gave us noise, another didn't. The one that had RF noises was a Lemo to Lemo cable without RF any specific RF shielding. Turns out the RF shield is direly needed. Now I'm having a local dealer make me a cable from Lemo CCM to Lemo ZMT. The thing is, the RF shielding circuit is in the XLR, but my cable doesn't have XLR so they'll add a small knob on the cable to include the RF protector. That should do the trick. The noise floor wasn't nearly as bad as I would have thought, so I'm going to get a CMC1L and an MK41 as a solid choice

I've asked the same question in a Facebook group, so please forgive me if I copy and paste the text here I'm on the fence about what indoor mic to buy. I really want a Schoeps CCM 41 L, as all my other mics are also Schoeps (and I have accessories for CCMs), but I was told there is an issue with whine/noise/RF interference when paired with the ZMT4 as opposed to DPA small condenser mics for example (specifically the 4018). Now since it would be my indoor mic I don't plan on going wireless all the time, only when necessary, but it is still something that I would like to keep in consideration. Also for rigging cars, now that I think of it. So what are your experiences with Schoeps mics on ZMT4? How is the noise floor when pairing these? (if anyone has both and could do a quick recording that would be amazing)

I have both and don't use the SNA anymore. They are very clunky, get caught everywhere and have sharp edges. Also they fold all the time when you bump anything, no matter how hard you tighten the screws. The betsos have roundish corners and are a lot easier to manage. Didn't do range tests, but even if the range on the SNAs would be a bit better I'd still use the bowties.

Too bad the website isn't working anymore

I'm using a CMIT 5u in a NS4-DB nano shield - blue lyres. Got no photo on hand as I don't even use the nano shield because of this. I've also tried positioning the lyres differently, like further apart, closer together etc. Nothing changed, no matter what I do with the exception being removing the blimp.

Strangely your results are vastly different from my tests. Granted my tests were very rudimentary. I have a medium cyclone and a bank shield with upgrade, using the correct lyres od course. Test was slight fingerdrumming on the boom pole, once in the basketed cyclone and basketed nano shield. The difference for me was around 8db more noise on the bank shield though. Clearly a lot louder. From your pictures I gather that you mounted the mic very front heavy... Maybe i should try that as well. Otherwise I'm very intrigued as what the heck could be the difference between our Nano shields.

While I agree to some extent, it's easy to say when you work in a controlled and planned environment. Once you do hectic or spontaneous reports and docus you will be forced to switch positions and angles without warning and in such an environment the nano shield is just a complete failure. Even bought a Hide-a-mic re:pose to try to fix it (plus the 3d tex upgrade) and with years of experience the handling noise is still too much. A colleague of mine is selling his for this reason. (To be honest the re:pose didn't have an effect at all.) I would love to use my nano shield more, but if the audio quality suffers then I can't. Only use it for loud environments where I know handling noise won't be too much if an issue.

Cannot recommend the Nano Shield, even with their upgrade. Handling noise is a huge issue with that one.