Sennheiser AVX Dynamic Range and Outdoor Distance Tests

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Sennheiser AVX Wireless Lavalier Microphone System

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Sennheiser recently introduced their new digital wireless system called AVX. There are various kits available and in this episode I used the kit with the transmitter, receiver, and MKE2 lavalier microphone (their higher-end pro lavalier microphone). Here we did a few tests to see how well the AVX does in terms of outdoor distance (keeping its signal without dropping out), and the dynamic range feature Sennheiser touts as preventing clipping and distortion when the sound gets much louder. Let’s see how it does!

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Gear covered and used to shoot this episode:

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Panasonic GH4 m4/3 Interchangeable Lens Camera

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Hush Lav (this is a cylindrical sponge type thing you stick your lavalier microphone into when hiding them under clothing to reduce clothing noise)

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Music copyright Curtis Judd 2012

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