If you’re someone living in the world of high-speed content creation, there’s a good chance you carry a small deck of gear with you where ever you go.
A tripod or selfie stick, or maybe even a clever little gimbal that controls motion on both of them. Your phone. A compact sound system that lets you record audio remotely to your phone while you’re hand-holding that very same phone.
You might even replace the phone with a compact camera, providing a little more quality to the visuals, and possibly better video to edit from
It’s a complex setup that content creators have become quickly used to, though it’s one that depending on the phone and microphone system you use could become easier, as well.
This week, one of Australia’s biggest audio gadget exports has announced an update to its portable microphone, adding Bluetooth support for its Wireless Go and Wireless Pro microphone transmitters to go (no pun intended) directly to an iPhone without the USB physical receiver. That’s specific to the Wireless Go Gen 3 and not the smaller Wireless Mini models you can find today, which are designed to be even more compact.
It’s a change that’ll make bringing a series of microphones for a compact shoot that little bit easier, cutting out a plug-in receiver from the package and simply going microphone to iOS using the Rode Capture app on the iPhone.
We’ve not yet tested whether this works from different apps, and it may end up being incompatible with a setup you might already use. If that’s the case, nothing will probably change.
But it’s handy to know that Rode has found one more gadget to cut out, and could suggest future microphones and audio gear take advantage of all of what Bluetooth has to offer in general. That means one less gadget to keep a hold of and potentially lose.
