On Wed, 20 Feb 2002 05:40:31 GMT, "JGHoward" wrote:

>I just bought the Sennheiser MKE-300 mic which attaches to the shoe on my
>TRV-900, and I'm getting a loud hum, which appears to be bleeding from the
>camera into the mic from the shoe. From reading archived posts on deja.com,
>this appears to have afflicted other TRV-900 owners. Has anyone figured out
>a way around this problem?
>
>Or, has anyone found a shotgun mic that attaches to the TRV-900 that does
>not have this problem?

Samples of TRV900s vary in this characteristic, but it is a
mechanical pickup of vibration from the camera. If it is
very moderate (as in, just audible, but not overwhelming),
Cool Edit's good noise-reduction module
(www.syntrillium.com) does a good job of removing it from
the tracks. During recording, the only way I have found is
to physically remove the Sennheiser MKE-300 from the camera,
a bit awkward. Using bars, handles, etc. with shoes does
not help much, alas... Perhaps a "home-brew" or commercial
isolation/shock-mount would work, but I have not tried it.
BTW, the VX2000 shares this problem with this mic, but the
"hum" level is low enough for Cool Edit to remove it easily.