UHF wireless lav noise floor

[Ty Ford]

Hello Clyde and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

The noise could be from a cheesy mic or bad input design. Here’s their contact info: https://www.kentfaith.com/contact

AT $349.00 USD, better mics like the Sennheiser MKE-2 (https://bhpho.to/2N7gTXL) cost more than twice as much as your entire $129.00 USD kit. That should tell you something. Maybe you could find someone local and rent a decent lav for a day to find out. Where are you?

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[Clyde Villegas]

Hello Ty. Thanks for your reply. I”m from the Philippines. There’s not much good lav microphones for rental here so I’m more or less stuck to ordering one online (importation). I can probably borrow someone’s Rode Link so I can try on the microphone. I’m just not sure if the wiring is the same. If they’re not the same, will I damage any of the equipment, either my transmitter or his lav mic?

I know it’s wrong but I am left with little cash for a mic. So I’m asking around what lav mics are low in price but with reasonable noise floor.

As for the K&F website, I already contacted them months ago. They asked me where I bought it from. I answered, “from Lazada”. I’m not from China or any of the country that they have distributorship so buying online from Lazada is my best way of getting the product. I didn’t get an answer from them ever since. Not a word. Bad customer service.

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[Ty Ford]

https://www.audiophile.ph/lavaliermicrophones

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[Clyde Villegas]

Thanks for your help, Ty!

That one’s got at TRRS plug and mine’s got a TRS. Not sure if it will work but I’ll ask them if I can test it on my transmitter. Thanks!

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[Clyde Villegas]

I think this will allow that lav mic to be attached to my transmitter. Will buy this first.

https://www.lazada.com.ph/products/rode-sc3-35mm-trrs-to-trs-adapter-for-smartlav-i238249855-s322625547.html?spm=a2o4l.searchlist.list.75.6e074f77N8y3JY&search=1

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[Ty Ford]

Hello Clyde,

Looks like a plan! Please let us know if that works for you.

Most of us has accumulated boxes of bits of this and that. I have more adapter cables, many of them hand wired, just to connect A to B. ☺

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[Clyde Villegas]

Yes, will definitely let you know.

By the way, this is the lav mic system that I bought. It’s more expensive than the one at K&F website. The build quality is better because of it’s all metal body. I wonder why this is not in their website.

https://www.amazon.com/Concept-Wireless-Microphone-Transmitter-100-channel/dp/B07D326LWS

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[Ty Ford]

Hello Clyde,

Sort of impossible to know. Bad Webmaster? Obsolete piece of gear, but inventory still floating around on the Internet?

You would think an M9 would follow an M8, but that’s not always the case.

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Ty Ford
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