Professional Sound Quality The Schoeps CMIT 5 Shotgun Microphone offers a supercardioid/lobar polar pattern that will maintain consistent sound quality in horizontal and vertical planes. This mic’s directionality increases smoothly at higher frequencies and comes equipped with a 40 Hz to 20 kHz frequency response. You’ll find the best performance results when using this mic with a high-gain mic preamp, thanks to its low self-noise of 13 dBA and moderate sensitivity of -35 dB.

Tone Talk. To ensure a neutral sonic signature, the CMIT 5 offers three selectable filters that will adjust the tonal balance to your liking. The filters are switched using their corresponding buttons, which all have an LED status indicator. This makes it so you can still read settings when working in the dark, and once the mic is turned off, your settings are retained. These settings include treble emphasis to make the subject’s dialogue clearer and easier to understand, a gentle bass roll-off filter to balance proximity effect, and a the steep low-cut filter to cut down on boom noise.

RFI Shield. Radio-frequency interference (RFI) is a pretty annoying consequence of maintaining your set, like switching power supplies or lighting controls. This mic has been perfectly constructed and filtered to minimize RFI, and the switches are mounted in a circuit board with an integrated shielding layer.

Power and Boompole Mounting. To fuel this mic, you’ll find there is a balanced 3-pin XLR output and support for phantom power over 34 VDC, which allows it to pair well with a variety of recorders, mixers, or built-in preamps on many makes and models of cinema cameras and camcorders. As for mounting opportunities, you can mount the CMIT 5 directly on a stand or boompole using the supplied mic clip.