I already bought a second set of this system because it does the job reliably for me and is really affordable yet still high quality!
The reason why I bought this system is that I needed to add more wireless channels to be able to record wireless lavaliers on more actors on our narrative film sets. I already had a rode wireless go II and it worked nicely but I needed to have more channels than two.
Here is what I can say so far about the sync 2 pro, although I haven't gotten to use them a lot yet, the times I have used it, they have worked flawlessly and we've been able to record great wireless dialogue sound for the wide shots as well as a backup recording of the lavaliers in addition to the main boom mic.
When I first got them, I compared and tested them right away against the Rode wireless go II and I was very surprised - the sound quality sounded very similar, the t.bone operates at 48khz just like the rodes.... the only thing is that the t.bone operates at a bit depth of 16 versus the rode which operates at 24 bit. But this, from my experience, has not been an issue - here is why. I only use this system as a wireless lavalier system that always mounts onto the actors. Therefore the hidden lavalier mic is always very close to the subject. That bigger dynamic range of the 24 bit on rode is not necessary because there is not a whole lot of dynamic range in a lavalier dialogue recording anyway, 16 bit is sufficient. So that has not been a problem for me at all. The only thing to be aware of is that when you use the lavaliers that come with the sync 2 pro, you might encounter clipping if the person gets very loud. I tested this and it is not the system itself clipping since like on the rode systems, the transmitters and receiver can transmit distortion free signal. I tried to be very loud, recording with the t.bone system but used a Rode Lavalier GO mic and I didn't really hear any clipping, which means that if you do experience clipping, it is not the sync 2 pro system itself, it is the lavalier mic. And it makes sense since the Rode Lavalier GO mic alone is around 50 euros, the t.bones just give you two lavalier mics for free basically, and otherwise they sound super similar to the rode lavalier GO mics, the only thing is that they can't handle super loud voice recording.
So if you want a solid great sounding wireless lavalier system for your video or film shoots where you want to be able to hide the transmitter easily onto the body and hide the lavalier under clothing, like on a real film set, I would say the t.bone sync 2 pro combined with the Rode lavalier GO microphones is a fantastic combo since the lavalier GO is super tiny and super easy to hide and the t.bone's are very similar to the size of the Rode wireless GO II's.... just a little bit bigger but honestly, I have never had a problem with hiding them. The sync 2 pro's also come with two magnets for the two transmitters, which makes it especially easy and fast to hide them under clothing. The rode's don't come with these magnets!
In terms of range, I have not had any issues with the t.bone system. Indoors in quite a large house, I basically didn't manage to lose the signal whatsoever. And outdoors, especially if you manage to hide the transmitter in the front of the body and not behind them (so you can get direct line of sight between the receiver and transmitter without any thick physical thing between them), then you will be able to get a very nice range, more than I have ever needed for my film shoots :)
Since I just got the second set of the sync 2 pro in my hands, I tested out how they act when two of the same model sets are turned on, and here is how:
They only sync to their own receiver... so if you want to sync the transmitters from set nr 2 to the receiver of set nr 1, they won't sync up. But that is good, since there will be no confusion. Mark the receiver and transmitters and the charging /transport case with the same thing, and the second set with a different color / thing, and that way you always know exactly which receiver syncs up with which transmitters. So far I have had no problems at all with having the two t.bone systems synced up at once (4 ch) and on top of that adding the rode with its two wireless transmitters, and having all of the 3 receivers practically touching each other... I recorded some tests and experienced no sync issues or any audio issues at all, so I am confident in saying that you can easily use a bunch of these system all at once together and get solid beautiful audio signals! I read that the t.bone uses the same kind of frequency hopping like the rode's so they will search for free frequencies to use.
One thing to be aware of on the sync 2 pro is that the latency is around 19ms, where as on the rode's it is around 4ms. Now, you can hear a little bit of latency compared to the rode's but it's never really been a problem for me for recording location sound.
The charger case is wonderful for transport, protection as well as making sure your system is always charged up in between filming!
(ran out of space, I really recommend this system, especially for the price!)
