So you know how Joby do Gorillapods? So those tripods that you can kind of
fit around anything, mold them around different objects and stuff...
they also do a range of microphones now called the Wavo range and they sent me three from that
range a few months ago so I've got the Wavo AIR, the Wavo PRO, and the Wavo PRO... Wavo
Lav PRO. It's starting to rain. And so in this video I'm just going to talk to you about those
microphones, let you hear what they sound like, and see whether they're microphones
that you might want to use instead of some of the ones that are more popular that you know about.
So I'll start with the Wavo PRO. This one's kind of a similar price to the Rode VideoMic Pro+ so
it costs £259 when I last looked at it, and one of the benefits of this microphone is that you've got
an input on the side where you can actually attach an external microphone, so if you want to record
two people at the same time it will record one audio track-- one microphone on one channel and
then the other microphone on the other channel, it also has a safety track feature so if you
are in an environment which is quite loud and you can't really regulate the audio
then you've got a safety track which records at -10 decibels, so that's really handy. The other
thing that it has is an LED indicator so you can actually see if the audio is clipping. So if it's
green you're good, if it's amber it's getting a little bit hot, and if it's red then your audio
is going to be clipped. The only thing I would say about that is that you can't see it on the front
of the microphone so if you're recording yourself, like I'm doing now I'm talking to the camera,
you can't actually see that you just have to look at your camera levels-- your audio levels on your
actual camera which I'm doing now. The other thing that... so this is something where the
rode VideoMic Pro+ is really great and I really love it is the fact that if you plug the Rode,
if you plug the Rode VideoMic Pro+ into the camera it will automatically power on the microphone,
and I just started talking to the camera doing this bit and I realized that I hadn't actually
switched on the microphone and then I looked and then obviously it wasn't on so I had to redo
this whole section, so having that automatic power on when you plug the microphone into
the camera is really useful and I wish that this microphone had that and it sadly doesn't have it.
So the audio that you've been hearing so far has been coming from the Joby Wavo PRO,
so what do you think? Does it sound good to you? I totally forgot to put the furry windshield on,
the dead cat, so I'm going to do that so that you can hear the difference because it is a bit windy
so I'm hoping that the audio that you've heard hasn't been too bad in terms of wind noise,
also I'm not sure if I mentioned that it has active noise reduction, so yeah, if you're walking
around it's going to kind of cancel out the noise that you would get from bumps whilst you're
walking so that's actually really useful. Okay so now the audio is with the deadcat so hopefully
it's cutting out a lot of the wind because there are gusts of wind coming along at the moment.
One of the other things I also forgot to mention about the microphone was the fact that you've got
a +10 and a +20 gain so you can completely turn the preamps down in your camera and boost the
gain via the microphone which is really handy because it's then gonna just cut out a lot of,
it's gonna cut out a lot of the noise that you would get from the preamps in
your camera if you had to boost the gain in the camera, so that's really handy.
So one of the things I'll do in another video is actually a comparison between this microphone and
the Rode VideoMic Pro+ so that you can hear the difference, because like I said, they're around
the same price point so it'd be interesting to actually hear what that audio sounds like. Another
handy feature of the microphone is the fact that you can control it via the Wavo app so if you
download the app then you can set your levels and that kind of thing within the app itself
so that's actually really handy if you're quite far away from the microphone or someone else is
using it then you've got that functionality to be able to control it via your mobile.
Okay so...
So the next microphone is the Lav PRO, the Wavo Lav PRO
and this one is attached to me here at the moment and I've plugged it in directly into the camera,
but this microphone you can use with the Wavo PRO so you can plug it in as an external microphone.
I'll do that now so that you can hear it.
So the Wavo PRO is on the left channel and the Wavo
Lav PRO is on the right channel and I've got the Wavo Pro at +20 decibels and the Lav PRO at
+10 decibels, so this is what the audio sounds like from both of them, and if you want to compare
it to a more popular brand like the Rode then they also released a new Lav mic a few months back and
so in another video much like with the Wavo PRO I will do a comparison between that and the Rode Lav
GO II, I think it's the Rode Lav GO II, and so yeah this is what the audio sounds like.
Okay so the next mic is the Wavo AIR and this is a wireless microphone system much like the Rode
Wireless GO II. It is a little bit more expensive so it is $249 or $245 and the great thing about
this system is the fact that it's modular so you can kind of mount it wherever you want to because
it's got a magnet, so you can see that I've got it here, it comes with a little pendant which you can
essentially magnetize it to, much like you can do with the DJI Action 2 but obviously you have it
for the microphone and so it means that if you can't attach it to your t-shirt, it's going to
make your t-shirt droop or whatever top you're wearing, then you can attach it that way. You
also don't have to have the band showing I just put it on but you also have two, so you have two
transmitters and one receiver and then you get two lav mics that come with it, which are different to
the Lav PRO. So I'll plug it in so that you can hear the difference. Okay so this audio is now
with the lav mics that come with the Wavo AIR, and the lav mics are a little bit bigger than the Lav
PRO but this is what it sounds like. I'm going to switch over to the PRO so that you can hear what
that sounds like in the Wavo AIR. Okay so now this audio is with the Wavo Lav PRO so this is plugged
in directly to the Wavo AIR. So yeah they are the three microphones that Joby sent me, so I'll drop
a link in the description to where you can get them and you can find out some more about them,
but I hope you found the video useful. If you want to hear them in different cameras then
let me know and I'll put those videos together, at the moment I'm using it with the a7s III, so
yeah if you want to hear it in the Pocket 2 or the HERO10 or anything like that then do let me know.