this is how to set up and use your sennheiser wireless lapel microphone
here's everything that comes in the kit this is the microphone itself
and the cable and here's the little lapel clip so you slide this over the cable through its open
end and then just slide it firmly up onto the mic and that's what you'll clip to your collar
this is the cable you would use if you want to output the sound into something like a mixing
board this is the cable that goes between the receiver that plugs into your camera
this is the plate assembly that allows you to mount the receiver onto your camera the
two receivers look very similar and you can easily tell them apart by looking at the ports on the top
you can see one has the mic line as well as a mute button and the other one has the line out this
is how you open each transmitter and they each take two double a batteries but unlike any other
product i've ever seen in my life the batteries actually face the same way in these devices
the power switch is located underneath the flip door and your screen will look something like this
same with the other device if the mount isn't on the plate you just place the threaded plate on
the back side of it and put the screw through the mount and thread it into that plate now in order
to mount this you need to take the spring clip off of the transmitter so a flat blade is about the
easiest way i've found to do it you just push it outward on each side push down away from yourself
so you don't hurt yourself with a screwdriver and then pull the other side out make sure you don't
flip it around and get your orientation messed up this is how the clip will go on the mounting
plate when you put the plate on the bottom of the transmitter you'll use your screwdriver again to
push those clips out and get them back into the holes on the transmitter where they originally
were make sure that they're secured in there and they're pressed all the way in so it doesn't flip
out and knock the transmitter on the ground during use there's the full transmitter assembly ready to
mount to your camera most of your cameras will include this little slotted feature
and that's where you will put in the square piece at the bottom of the mount and the part above it
that rotates is what's used to lock it in place so you slide it in and then you rotate the locking
part to make sure it's secure now locate your microphone jack on the camera now take your cable
and use it to connect the af out of your transmitter to the microphone in on your camera
make sure your cable isn't hanging in front of the camera lens and ends up photobombing your film
with the transmitters both turned on let's get our levels set straight for the devices and the camera
the first thing is to go to the receiver push the set button use the arrows to select down to the af
out level and you want to put this at about -18 then hit the set button again it'll say stored
and then press the on button to just get back to the main screen now on your camera make sure
that you're in video mode if that's a selection option find the audio record level and this one
was set at 24 for the onboard mic so i'm going to go ahead and leave it at that level but i want to
keep this screen open so that i can see how my lapel mic input sound behaves on these devices
okay here we go this is falling in pretty good range right there you can kind of see where you
want it see the little green bars down here they're landing not away in red clipping on
the microphone transmitter again you press the set button go to sensitivity and basically adjust this
until the sound bars are where you want on the camera i dropped it to minus 30. now if we look
at the bars they look like they're in a happy spot if i get a loud one it's still not clipping so
that i can probably work with like anything you're gonna have to experiment with your own device a
little bit when you're all done make sure to turn each of the transmitters off so you don't wear out
your batteries and you don't want dead batteries the next time you start filming your next project
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