in this video i'm going to show you how to set up rode's new lavalier 2 their premium
quality lavalier microphone but there are some things you need to be aware of or you
could significantly affect the quality of your sound stick around and i'll step you
through some simple steps first and if you need more help highlight in a little bit more detail
these are the steps you need to take to set up the microphone correctly
you place the microphone into that little clip then fold this flat cable inside the clip
and into the cable restraint place on the little windsock on the top and you're ready to go
feed the microphone cable down through the talon's clothing and clip on the microphone
so that it picks up good audio without distortion then if you're using radio gear
plug the microphone into the microphone input on the transmitter and select the appropriate
settings on the companion application then when you open the app of your choice confirm
that you have a good audio feed from your microphone to the input of your camera that's a
really quick overview now stick around i'm going to step through each of those processes much
more steadily and if you've got any questions please put them in the comments section to set
up the microphone into the supplied clip there's a couple of things that you need to be aware of
the microphone element is on the front of the lav mic and not the top and even though this is
an omnidirectional microphone you can understand the problems setting up the lav mic with it facing
your clothing it could actually inadvertently affect the sound so make sure it's facing
forward you may think this is obvious but when you have the windsock on top it's identical on
the front and the back underneath the microphone head there's a little groove and that goes into
the clip and i've found that it's easier putting it in sideways and then rotating at 90 degrees
now to set up the cable so it's restrained properly
you open up the clip and then lay your cable inside the clip then over the top
and it goes into the little cable restraint at the back
so just to help you appreciate how that goes you've got your cable running from your microphone
through your clip over the top and then down through the cable restraint and just use your
fingernail to push that in or a blunt object now you can place the windsock on top and i'll show
you how that looks uh with a little bit of card just to give you an idea of how it sits
onto your clothing so there's your microphone and how it would sit on your shirt now i have
noticed that some set up this microphone and just let the cable hang down and then into the garment
but what you can find happen is that if the microphone cable gets tugged the microphone
can actually twist on your garment anyway that's a personal choice for you to make there's a couple
of ways you can set up the microphone cable firstly you could use the rat upper drain pipe
method which i've used so many times you just grab a hold of the cable and pull it down
through your shirt and then you can clip your microphone onto the collar wherever you please
good part about the new lavalier 2 is it's always facing forward anyway once you've got it set up
correctly if you're working with talent and you're a little bit concerned about modesty
you might want to use something like this little counterweight Rode have made one and it's called
the mic drop it's basically just a sinker like on a fishing rod and it temporarily clips on
to your microphone plug and then slides down through the talants clothing and you can easily
get it out through the bottom of the shirt or blouse or something like that take it off
and then clip on the microphone with the microphone clipped on and your cable down
through the clothing be careful that you leave a little bit of a loop somewhere so if for some
reason the transmitter gets pulled or stretched if the person sits down that it doesn't drag
on the microphone and pull it you can see what happens if the microphone gets pulled
okay so just see that that's right then the microphone jack can go into
the input of your transmitter that's if you're using wireless gear of course
and there you have it if you choose to connect the new lavalier 2 to any wireless gear the first
thing you need to do is make sure your wireless gear is up to date with the current firmware when
you open up the app it gives you a little reminder anyway to make sure that that's up to date
plugging in the receiver there's a couple of things you need to check
before you start recording two devices are activated here you've got a receiver
and also a transmitter there's a number of personal settings that you can set up for
the receiver and the transmitter but i'm particularly concerned at the moment for
the gain control so the gain on the wireless go II receiver so at the moment it says low
i'm going to select high and the other option is because i'm only using one microphone
i want it across both channels so instead of it being split i'm going to merged mode
so that gives me the single microphone across the two channels into my mobile phone
so with the mobile app set up i can actually go into an application and i'm going to use filmic
pro because it gives me a nice audio readout on the right hand side and i can i just check
a couple of settings one it says external which means that there's an external audio device
coming in and the microphone is connected to the transmitter and there we have an indication that
it's all connected so i'm ready to start filming if you want to have a listen to the lavalier 2 and
compare it to the lavalier go and also the smart lav microphones in my next video i'm going to plug
them into rode's new audio interface the the ai micro now i believe this is a real game changer
for mobile creators because it plugs into not only an iphone and gives a stereo input but also they
supply leads for a pc and mac and also android devices you don't need to buy any other cables
everything's supplied and they plug straight into the ai micro plus there's a mobile app that goes
with this device as well so anyway stick around for our next video and if you want a reminder make
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questions please leave those in the comments section until next time i'll catch you later