sennheiser wireless advice please

[Julian]

Hi I am just about ready to purchase some sennheisser wireless lav's but there seem to be several different models in the £300-£450 range is there a model in this range that whups the others or are they all pretty much the same?

 

Thanks in advance Jay.

[dunk_1984]

I assume you are looking at G2 300 series?

In which case the 322's seem pretty popular and will certainly be more than adequate to deal with most situations.

[Shez]

One of the G2 300 series lavs is omni, the other is cardioid. Which you should get rather depends on your application.

[paulears]

There are 100,300 and 500 series equipment in the range. Essentially you pay more for extra features. If you need them, the extra cost is worth it, if you don't intend to use them, then you can ignor them and still have a fine product.

[dunk_1984]

One of the G2 300 series lavs is omni, the other is cardioid.

 

The EW 312 G2 comes with Omni (ME 2)

The EW 322 G2 comes with Cardoid (ME 4)

[Julian]

Thanks guys I will be using them in various venues schools, village halls and medium size theatres as taped to the face or in the hair line.

 

I think it's the omni type I need?

 

I just want good sound quality and probably wouldn't have the experience for loads of features though.

[dunk_1984]

Well possibly buy either, whichever you'd prefer to use as a lapel mic, then buy the cheap CPC ones that are producing good results for a couple of pounds.

 

http://cpc.farnell.com/MP33750/audio-video...-SIGNAL-MP33750

[Julian]

Well possibly buy either, whichever you'd prefer to use as a lapel mic, then buy the cheap CPC ones that are producing good results for a couple of pounds.

 

http://cpc.farnell.com/MP33750/audio-video...-SIGNAL-MP33750

 

Dunk those prices are amazing you could buy loads of those and not sweat it. Do they jack straight into the pack or do you need to rewire them? and what is the main difference between the senny 100 series and 300 series?

 

Thanks for your patience

[dunk_1984]

Yep, the jack's are compatible with the Senn's.

 

As for differences, look at this also current thread:

 

http://www.blue-room.org.uk/index.php?show...c=25557&hl=

[Julian]

Yep, the jack's are compatible with the Senn's.

 

As for differences, look at this also current thread:

 

http://www.blue-room.org.uk/index.php?show...c=25557&hl=

 

 

Brilliant! What great advice and within an afternoon. Thanks guys can now buy with much more confidence. J :D

[dirkenstein]

Yep, the jack's are compatible with the Senn's.

 

As for differences, look at this also current thread:

 

http://www.blue-room.org.uk/index.php?show...c=25557&hl=

 

FWIW I'm personally of the opinion that the extra charged for the 300 Series is only worth it if you are running a lot of shows back-to-back and don't want to change batteries every show for reliability. The battery level display will allow you to safely 'sweat' your batteries more, and still catch those packs where somebody has either forgotten to change the batteries, accidentally swapped old for new, or put dud ones in.

 

Whether there really is a difference in the RF stages between the 100 and 300 series (vis-a-vis the number of simultaneous channels in use they're optimised for) is a matter of some debate.

 

I think the 300 series come pregprogrammed with larger frequency banks (8 preset frequencies instead of 4), but I'm not sure there's actually any difference to the intermodulation performance, sensitivity, discrimination, etc of the RF tuners.

 

We've certainly run up to 12 EW100s (a mix of G1 and G2) across the shared licensed frequencies in channel 69 and license-exempt frequencies in ch 70, which is probably pushing things a bit.

[boswell]

According to Senn, you can get 10 intermod free frequiencies in a single channel using E100G2 equipment, but they are not preprogrammed in the banks, you have to manually tune them.

 

We too have had 12 off of the G1 range spread over ch69/70 with no problems, using a mix of shared and free frequencies.

[Ynot]

We too have had 12 off of the G1 range spread over ch69/70 with no problems, using a mix of shared and free frequencies.

 

Don't like to play one-upmanship, but we have run all 14 of our EW100's on our shared licence frequencies with no problems with intermod at all.

It wasn't recommended, but we tried it, it worked, and it's done every year for the big panto. Was essential this year for Snow White - as we had 7 mics swallowed up of course by the vertically challenged brigade!

:D

[Shez]

From what I'd heard from Sennheiser, the RF and audio aspects of the 100, 300 and 500 series are all the same - it's only the extra facilities (multicolour display, number of banks, headphone sockets etc.) that differ. I bought in to the 300 series for the battery display and multicolour display - you can see from a mile off if any of the receivers are having problems by them going red.

[Rob_Beech]

To confirm. the RF is identical on the 100 300 and 500. Multicoloured display is fantastic. Even if you have your receivers on stage, you can't see the battery indicator, but you can see a red screen glaring at you.

 

Can't say enough good things about them. I've got a few 100's (3 HH's and 2 lavs) 8 365's and a pair of 545's. (and some shure and jts ones which are quite frankly nowhere near as good)