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Popping with Sennheiser Lav
I’ve been overseeing and leading production and audio stuff for my setup & teardown church for about 6 months now. We use a Sennheiser EW 100 G4 Lav system with a countryman associates lav mic. We had multiple weeks where everything worked great. A few weeks ago we had an issue with a loud popping sound coming through the Lav system during the sermon, so we switched to a handheld. during soundcheck it has been fine though. Anyone have this issue or have ideas on how to fix it? I’ll attach an audio file of the loud popping. The screen on the receiver also said soundcheck on it, and I’m not sure if that was part of the issue?
Thanks!
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3 Replies
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Hey Zeke,
That popping can be a lot of things.
The popping is quite loud, in comparison to the person speaking.
Could be that your levels are not high enough on the microphone itself, and that when you use gain on the mixing desk, any small pops, becomes large pops.Additionally:
I would investigate loose connections?
Also, check if the person wearing it has anything that microphone itself rubs up against (unlikely)?
It does not sound like mobile phone interference, but it could be something that interrupts the signal either by the microphone, or the mixing deck?
It sounds silly, could even be metallic item that is held up (my own fridge at home do from to time create interference with phone-calls).And, maybe program the microphone to use another frequency, to see if that resolves the problem?
As said, it can be many things, but most likely to be the simplest of all if the system work in pre-service tests.
Hope this helps?
Atb
Mads -
Hi Zeke,
Sounds like a broken or intermittent wire to me. Either the mic cable or the cable from the receiver to the mixer.
Regards,Ty Ford
Cow Audio Forum Leader -
Thank you! I’ll check the connections and try replacing wires and cables
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