OB1 Posted February 15, 2023 Report Share Posted February 15, 2023 Same experience with CMIT in high humid environments (Costa Rica, Panama). Noise which appeared to simply be a highly elevated noise floor. Moved to a DPA and clean signal. Bagged the CMIT for the rest of the doc and took it out of my bag rotation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valentine Posted February 15, 2023 Report Share Posted February 15, 2023 Happened to mine too. I sent it to get fixed and they said I could have it modified with a newer humidity resistant capsule for $$$. I didn't go for that, the mic was expensive enough, I wish it had just come with this capsule in the first place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Constantin Posted February 16, 2023 Report Share Posted February 16, 2023 16 hours ago, Valentine said: I wish it had just come with this capsule in the first place. Yeah, and it would have been great if my 788 had been a Scorpio right from the start, but things progress and that isn’t always possible. New Schoeps mic do come with this latest in capsule development and isn’t it kinda cool that you can retro-fit older mics? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadoStefanov Posted September 24, 2023 Report Share Posted September 24, 2023 On 2/15/2023 at 7:55 AM, OB1 said: Same experience with CMIT in high humid environments (Costa Rica, Panama). Noise which appeared to simply be a highly elevated noise floor. Moved to a DPA and clean signal. Bagged the CMIT for the rest of the doc and took it out of my bag rotation. I am dropping the mini cmit as well and getting a 4017. I love the sound but my schoeps have been very unreliable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuisT Posted September 24, 2023 Report Share Posted September 24, 2023 @RadoStefanov you can send it back to Schoeps for a humidity upgrade from now on. I got a Minicmit with this new mod. Been shooting in humid places and under strong rain. No problem in 1 year. I personnally prefer the sound of the Minicmit over the 4017. Wanted to go the Dpa route before Schoeps annouced they modded the Minicmit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Pullmer Posted September 25, 2023 Report Share Posted September 25, 2023 3 hours ago, RadoStefanov said: I am dropping the mini cmit as well and getting a 4017. I love the sound but my schoeps have been very unreliable. I love my 4017b - I’m up in Vancouver so we’ve got Pacific Northwest weather of rain, cold temps, snow etc and it has never failed me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Capulli Posted September 27, 2023 Report Share Posted September 27, 2023 I'll be sending my MiniCMIT in for a checkup and likely the upgrade. It has seen light use, is an earlier capsule and occasionally has some audible artifacts down in the noise floor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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