Wireless challenge

[matthewd]

I've got a bit of challenge going at an permanent installation for webcasting at a Cambridge College Chapel. They have a mobile lectern called a Legilium which to you and I looks rather like a deck chair with a a folding wooden legs bearing a cloth bookstand. The chapel has a good PA already and there are a multitude of wired positions which are controlled by a lay clerk from a custom panel where he sits. There are couple of quite old UHF shure wireless lapels which have seen better days and they tend to just clip one of these to the legilium which does a lousy job picking up handling noise (readers tend to grip the stand) and page rustle much better than the actual source. I have been looking at some of the wireless products but can't find anything which is quite right. There is a shure wireless gooseneck but the base unit is so heavy there is nowhere to really put it. What I imagine is a slinky gooseneck with a nice hyper capsule on the head and a thin cable linked to a body pack strapped underneath somewhere. I have seen a few suitable goosenecks but there tends to then be an issue with phantom power being required so I suppose I am looking for a dynamic discreet gooseneck that can be plugged into a Sony / Sennheiser / Shure bodyback transmitter. Whilst on the subject, the clergy who are going on Countryman earsets would like a remote mute switch on the wrist to avoid having to fish in the cassock pocket if you'll excuse the expression. I keep being asked for a solution to this but have yet to find something on the market to do it and don't really have the inclination to design and build it myself.

Hoping someone might know of a solution to either / both dilemmas.

All the best

Matt Dilley
Cambridge UK

[John Willett]

Dynamic mics get a bit fat.

Any of the Sennheiser install series will plug into the SKP 500 G2 transmitter which supplies 48V phantom power - you can use a short cable if you want to hide the transmitter.

There was also a COM series mic that screwed down and could be connected directly to the mic. input of a pocket transmitter, but I'm not sure if it's still available.