Saramonic K9 XTX Adds Wireless XLR Workflows

Saramonic has introduced the K9 XTX, a digital UHF wireless plug-on transmitter designed to turn professional XLR microphones into wireless tools for filmmakers, documentary crews, location sound recordists and production teams. The key idea here is not just “another wireless mic”, but a way to make proper production microphones easier to deploy when you’re moving quickly between interviews, boom work, live events or multi-camera shoots. That’s why I think this is interesting for Camera Jabber readers. A lot of us now shoot with leaner crews, smaller kits and tighter turnarounds, but audio still has to be reliable. The Saramonic K9 XTX is built around a wideband 550–960 MHz digital UHF platform with GPS-based frequency updates, which is intended to help when productions move between regions or changing RF environments. It also supports selectable 3V to 48V phantom power, so it can work with a broad range of XLR microphones, including...