I was about to buy a compact field recorder to have as a back up in my bag, but the new version of the rode go already has two that can now be used completely stand alone with either mic or line in, even when being used as transmiters either singulary or as dual receivers. I needed something more compact than my Sennheiser belt packs to always have in my day to day bag and this is the perfect all rounder set up.
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I'm gonna start with the bad points as we all know these do a great job at recording clear sound and work flawlessly on their own. The trouble comes with connecting them to a device, for some reason its hit and miss with my recordings whether or not they will show up on the video of the camera theyre plugged into. You have no way of knowing if theyre recording to a device, a little camera icon would have been helpful or something just to let you know its recording to a device and not the onboard memory. This leaves you with the mild stress of not knowing if youre gonna have to spend ages trying to sync up the sounds, or if it did its job and recorded the sounds to the device. One such device that is very problematic is the insta360 one r. The sound quality on the one r is good mostly but it always gets bump sounds and knock sounds even though the camera isnt moving. (I think thats the wind reduction option?) So naturally you want to use a better mic for your 360° camera shots but you never know if its recording to the one r or not. The other problem is the very low sound level at which everything is recorded. Gotta have my speakers and pc sound up at 100% to just hear what the recording is doing. Gotta edit each sound file in an editor to bring the levels up. Dunno why they have the lower db levels to choose from, if anything it needs a boost function. One small complaint is I wish you could remove the shirt clip things so you could attach some velcro or 3m tape to the back for mounting. But thats my personal problem and wont effect many people who just use it for vlogging or any situation where its just gonna be attached to your clothes or bags. Other than those two things, theyre very light, easy to connect to your clothing, you can do action sports with them and have no sound issues, my action cameras get knocking, clicking and wind sounds, none of that with these mics. You can run around with one strapped to your shirt and not even get any sounds of it flopping around with your shirt or knocking against your chest. The sound quality really is the clearest I have had on a mic (I havent owned many so that probably means nothing coming from me haha) I wear one on my wrist and the other on my shirt collar, just under my chin. Works perfectly and I dont notice any difference in the way it picks up my voice from wrist level to being just under my chin - both are just as clear and the voice under the chin isnt even any louder than the voice on the wrist. Which means you can mount it to a wrist band if you dont want the mic to show in your video for whatever reason, it doesnt need to be in close proximity to your mouth. The range at which the mic picks up voices at an acceptable loudness before they start to sound like a background person is about 1m then you will notice the voice get farer away sounding. This was impossible to find info about online so I hope this is useful to someone. The largest distance I have seen it pick up a voice is around 6m, but that sounds very far away, like someone talking to you from a distance and you cant quite make out what theyre saying. Lasts all day pretty much, I can go out to a game day and know that I dont have to stop recordings or charge the devices cos they last the entirety of the event filled portion of the day for me. Read full review
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Easy to setup, great sound, I use it on a pro camera setup. If you record to phone or mobile device it would dramatically increase audio quality. Being able to charge via USB c and having two transmitters it’s a bargain. I used Sony and sennheiser for years. Because other pros use them they’re the most likely cause of interference. Yet to have any interference using these.
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Havent used it much yet but all I can say is this was a good investment for my wedding videos. The sound has improved so much since i can now capture the bride and the groom with their own dedicated lapels.
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Just awesome. You can even put the two mics together to create a high quality stereo microphone. Light weight easy to use and excellet sound without noise.
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