I have just finished a combination to camera / voice over shoot on DaVinci Resolve. This is a one of a series of tutorials I am doing on various subjects that can be seen on my YouTube Channel.
Normally I’d use a Sennheiser XSW-D digital Lav setup for the audio, and have had no complaints over the 4 or 5 years I have used this mic pair of RX and TX units, beyond discovering that you cannot USB charge them at they same they are recording due to background noise.
My usual setup involves the receiver being plugged into the TRSS port of the RØDECaster Duo (which becomes slider Channel 1) and this is audio feed goes into an Blackmagic Design ATEM Mini Pro, with a Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K picking up the video signal – also going into the Blackmagic Design ATEM Mini Pro – and this all subsequently being stored on a Samsung T5 SSD.
As well as the monitoring possible on the RØDECaster Duo, audio and video are also monitored using the Blackmagic Design ATEM software where I can set levels for the audio, apply Fairlight settings if needs be and also have camera control.
All well and good and hunky dory.
The only difference today was that I substituted the Sennheiser XSW-D for the new Sennheiser Profile Wireless for the audio (the finished clip will be around 12 minutes and took just over an hour to record).
And the quality just blows me away.
I know there has been a lot of audio technology advances over the last few years but when comparing the XSW-D to the Profile Wireless, not just in audio quality but also in flexibility, setup and ease of use, well … the Sennheiser engineers have excelled themselves.
Sure, at AUD$549, on the surface the Sennheiser Profile Wireless is not cheap, but as I suggested in my initial First Look a few weeks back, you get a lot of mic(s) for your dollar.
And now that I have actually used it on a real project, t stays firmly at the top if my general purpose audio kit.