Improving the sound from your camera is a little easier both for the gadget and on your eyes, as Australia’s Rode shrinks microphone tech once again.
Making content for online can happen in a variety of ways, but if you’re someone planning a video, there’s a very good chance you’re also working on the audio side of things as well.
Videos almost always need an audio track. We’re typically not making Charlie Chaplin silent films, and even they had a music backing track to go with Chaplin’s antics.
These days, things are a little bit different, and capturing video and audio happens at the same time on the same device, making life a whole lot easier than the production houses of early filmmakers.
You can capture on a phone or on a proper camera, and it will come with a half-decent microphone. But if you want better audio, you need an actual microphone, and that’s an area growing, as well.
One of Australia’s microphone makers (and arguably what it made its name on), Rode is changing the face of microphones again, focusing on the model made to take with you, or more specifically, made for phones and cameras.
Its latest builds on the previous Wireless models with a more compact take, shrinking the previous square clip-on in the Wireless Go to a thin rectangle clip-on and including it in a compact kit for cameras and phones, the Wireless Micro Camera Kit.
The little box includes two microphones and two types of receivers: one for cameras with a 1.1 inch AMOLED screen, and the other as a USB-C receiver intended for recent phones, Android and iPhone.
Each includes windshields integrated in the mic, and the case holding the microphones charges the system together, something we’re beginning to see from the likes of other microphone makers, such as DJI.
“The Wireless Micro Camera Kit represents the next evolution of our mission to make premium audio accessible to all creators,” said Damien Wilson, CEO of Rode.
“By expanding the Wireless Micro’s capabilities to include universal camera connectivity, we’ve created a consolidated creative solution that’s not only more powerful, but incredibly flexible and simple to use,” he said.
Australians will see the Rode Wireless Micro Camera Kit online and in select retailers for $240, or available without the camera receiver for a little less.
