Schoeps CMIT 5, Chroma Green

Shotgun microphone for cinema and broadcast live grip - chroma green

• Professional shotgun microphone for cinema, broadcast and audiovisual production
• Supercardioid polar pattern with highly directional front lobe
• Minimal coloration of off-axis sounds
• Three switchable filters to adapt to different shooting conditions
• High speech intelligibility and extremely natural sound response
• Lightweight and robust metal body
• Chromagreen finish version

The Schoeps CMIT 5 (Chromagreen) is a professional shotgun microphone designed for live sound applications in film, broadcast and audiovisual production. The CMIT 5 has become a standard in the world of sound recording due to its exceptional directional accuracy and extremely natural sound quality.

The directionality of the microphone gradually increases at high frequencies, ensuring a very balanced sound character. Off-axis sounds are attenuated gradually and naturally, reducing the effects of boom movements and maintaining a consistent and realistic sound output.

Schoeps CMIT 5 Chromagreen: precise directionality and natural sound

The CMIT 5 features a supercardioid front-lobe polar pattern that offers very effective directionality while maintaining a natural sound response. This feature makes it possible to isolate the main source while still maintaining a realistic rendering of the surrounding environment.

Coloration of off-axis sounds is extremely low compared to many conventional shotgun microphones. This makes the CMIT 5 ideal not only for dialogue and film live take, but also for music recordings, such as concerts or opera productions.

Symmetrical polar pattern and stable behavior

The behavior of the microphone remains constant even when rotated on its own axis. In fact, the polar pattern is symmetrical in both the vertical and horizontal planes, a feature that is particularly useful during boom use in filming.

Built-in filters to adapt to recording situations

The Schoeps CMIT 5 incorporates three filters that can be activated via dedicated buttons, allowing the microphone to be quickly adapted to different shooting conditions:

• High-frequency boost (+5 dB at 10 kHz) to improve speech intelligibility and compensate for any loss of high frequencies due to the use of windbreakers
• Steep low-cut filter (18 dB/octave below 80 Hz) to reduce wind noise and boom vibration
• Proximity filter (6 dB/octave below 300 Hz) to compensate for proximity effect

LED indicators next to the buttons clearly show the status of active filters, allowing you to quickly check settings even in low light. Settings remain stored even when the microphone is turned off.

Professional construction and ultralight design

The CMIT 5 is built with a sturdy metal body that ensures reliability even in the most demanding productions. Despite the solid construction, the microphone weighs only 95 g, making it ideal for boom use during long shooting sessions.

The capsule and amplifier are integrated into a single unit, a design solution that contributes to the microphone's compactness and operational stability.

Technical Specifications.

• Type: Shotgun condenser microphone
• Polar diagram: Supercardioid / front-lobe
• Frequency response: 40 Hz - 22 kHz
• Sensitivity: 17 mV/Pa (-35 dB)
• Equivalent noise (A-weighted): 14 dB
• Equivalent noise (CCIR): 24 dB
• Signal-to-noise ratio: 80 dB
• Maximum SPL (THD < 0.5%): 132 dB SPL
• Maximum output voltage: 1.3 V with 1 kΩ load
• High-shelf filter: +5 dB at 10 kHz (switchable)
• Low-cut filter: 80 Hz, 18 dB/octave (switchable)
• Proximity filter: 300 Hz, 6 dB/octave (switchable)
• Minimum load impedance: 1 kΩ
• Output impedance: 50 Ω
• Power supply: Phantom Power P48
• Power consumption: 4.4 mA
• Output: XLR-3M analog
• Length: 251 mm
• Diameter: 21 mm
• Weight: 95 g
• Finish: Chromagreen