The CMIT was nominated for a Technical Achievement award by the C.A.S. (Cinema Audio Society) members in the category "Production Technologies". You will know why with just one use of this great cardioid mic. With it's three pushbutton-activated filters allowing the microphone to adapt to all recording situations, this mic is very versitile in the field. These filters include: High-frequency emphasis (+ 5 dB at 10 kHz) enhances speech intelligibility, and compensates for high-frequency loss caused by windscreens; a steep low-cut filter (18 dB/oct. below 80 Hz) suppresses wind and boom noise; and a gentle low-frequency rolloff (6 dB/oct. below 300 Hz) compensates for proximity effect.
Other features of this mic:
• Unusually low coloration of off-axis sound since the pickup angles at low and high frequencies are kept reasonably similar to one another: At medium frequencies the directivity of the CMIT 5 U is higher than one would expect from a microphone of this length, while at high frequencies the pickup pattern is not as narrow as with long shotgun microphones. Thus in active scenes it is easier to cue the boom and keep actors ”on mike.”
• Schoeps sound quality makes the microphone suitable for music recording as well as dialogue.
• The directional pattern and sound quality are consistent in both the horizontal and vertical planes, unlike some other shotgun microphones.
• Even greater immunity to wind noise than a Schoeps supercardioid
• Very lightweight, robust all-metal housing
