microphone scenarios

[Spiro]

Hi, I am in the market for a medium to high quality shotgun mic. I'm thinking Sennheiser MKE300. Any thoughts? Is it good for theater use? I need a good long range directional shotgun mic with low noise--preferably electret condenser (powered by AA batteries rather than 48v phantom power).

Any boom operators out there? Anyone ever used the Sennheiser Evolution Series wireless system?

Jason

[ben]

I bought an MKE300--attractive because of its low cost.

You live in New York. Check out

http://shop.store.yahoo.com/mvpav/senmke3shotw.html

They sell the MKE300 for 169 bux.

That's as low as I've seen.

It's very directional and sounds very nice.

It mounts right onto the shoe of my GL-1, and plugs into the mini mic jack. It has an internal [watch] battery that is supposed to last 200 hours. The battery is supposedly inexpensive and easy to replace.

I am working on a short film right now in Chicago (bencikanek.com), and I needed a low cost mic solution. I build a boom pole out of a painter's extension pole (Home Depot $12) and a 1/4" screw, and I bought a bunch of extra wire from Radio Shack to bring the sound back to my camera. Initial tests have proven successful, I will let you know how it works out after I shoot a few scenes (if you are interested).

The MKE300 is meant to be a shotgun mic mounted on your video camera--I am misusing it because I am poor.

If you have money, you should probably buy an ME66 with the K6 powering module, a real boom pole, shockmount, and if you are shooting DV, you need an XLR conversion box, etc. The ME66 has a better range--I think my MKE300 drops out at lower bass-ier sound levels.

Anyway, check out videosmith.com. Those dudes know what they are doing.

Ben