this is the DJI mic and after using this for almost a year here are my five favorite things
about it hey my name is Jake and I create content here to help solo Critters on the
go so I test and review lots of filmmaking equipment here in Alaska and I give you tips
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something interests you consider subscribing I purchased this system about a year ago and
I have been using it daily ever since it's been in my backpack literally every single time that
I've gone out to shoot anything both for things here on YouTube and some actually surprisingly
big Productions that I've used this on I think the best thing about this wireless system is the
ease of use it's got this charging case which we'll talk more about in just a little bit but
opening them up automatically turns everything on so you've got your two transmitters and the
receiver here and then as soon as you see it goes there and of course if you're making any noise
at all you can see that it comes through but not only that you can just swipe down
and then change all of the settings that you'd want to change on the wireless mic system which
is great so you could go mono you could change it to mono with a safety Channel you can change
it to stereo to where each receiver comes in on like a left right channel but not only that
you can change pretty much any setting both for the transmitters and for the receiver right from
this touchscreen interface so you can go in here change the receiver gain you can change the volume
you can change the transmitter settings and then of course the main settings of the unit what I
love is the fact that you can access pretty much everything you need to access you don't need to
plug it into any other device so if you're on the Go recording in places where you're really moving
fast you need to make some adjustments to settings it's really easy to do right from here not only
that but having the safety feature of being able to just Tap a button and have it enter record
mode as you can see from the red light and it's recording a safety uh track on the unit here which
will record up to 15 hours is fantastic beyond the touch screen and just the ease of use is the fact
that because this is based on the front and not on the top like other Wireless units it makes it
really easy to see regardless if you're placing yourself in front of the camera or if you're
behind the camera this really bright little OLED screen makes it really easy to see exactly what's
happening with the audio coming in the onboard recording has to be one of the best things that's
coming into these small wireless mic systems and the DJI mic system is really easy as I alluded
to earlier super easy you can either program the system to basically start recording as soon as the
mics turn on and then they won't stop recording until you put them back in the case or you can
just leave them like I have them or you push a button they start recording and then when you push
that button again then they'll finally turn off the fact that they have onboard recording makes
it really nice regardless of the type of stuff you're shooting because you know you always have
a good track in this so you can have interference that will maybe cut the signal between here or
maybe your range isn't quite good enough based on where you are there's a lot of other RF but the
fact that you know that there's always a recording here on the unit that you know is going to be good
makes it absolutely fantastic for being able to trust that this system is recording good audio and
good audio is so important I use this on a shoot I was doing in uh Sofi stadium in LA and a bunch of
other places in LA and there was one point where we couldn't hear the audio coming into the camera
um the Raptor because of the headphones we were using or something just something wasn't
working but I could see the audio was coming through on here and I also knew that I had a
recording going on each of the units so I kept telling the director it's fine it's fine there's
a recording on board the unit that I know is good even if we're not hearing it come into
camera now when we check later it was just the headphones that were messed up for some reason
um everything was fine but knowing that I had that track recording on board gave us all a
huge sense of relief that all the interviews we were doing were fine and we were going to be able
to capture all the audio that we needed you can't talk about a mic system without talking about the
audio quality and the audio quality that comes straight out of these little units is actually
surprisingly good now I think they have a little bit higher self noise than some other units that
are on the market like the rode Wireless go to but the audio quality coming straight out of
here is great the only difference I've really seen is when you plug certain lapel mics into
these systems now I've tried a bunch of different ones and oddly enough some of my higher quality
lapel mics don't work as well with these but this sure one here that you're seeing on the screen
Works exceptionally well with these units and the audio comes off really clean so if you're going
to get an audio system or a lapel mic to use with these I'd recommend these ones here on the screen
the shirts but the audio coming straight out of the units with the built-in mics is really good
and really usable and I've used this in something insanely high wind because they send you these
little dead cats here that just clip into or clip it over the microphone uh it's it's incredible
how much wind these little things can handle now there's a couple of different ways you can handle
in you can obviously do this and then just clip it to the outside like I do a lot or you can put this
like underneath a jacket or underneath a shirt and it'll give you fairly clean audio that way too in
the wind but these little dead cats and the mic placement built in here it's actually extremely
effective when it comes to handling wind noise but 33 megapixels I feel like is a really great sweet
spot for you to be able to shoot both video and photo it's 50 to 400 it's a 67 millimeter filter
thread it's obviously not internal zooming another feature I put to the test a few times
is the range now the great thing about using a small wireless mic as opposed to something like
an on-board or on camera microphone is the fact that you get consistently good audio regardless
how close or how far away from the camera you are and because these have up to 250 meters of range
it's like 800 little over 800 feet that's really phenomenal and it gives you great audio quality no
matter where you are and coupled with the backup recording if you're pushing range or you're in a
really RF dense environment where your range is not going to be up to 250 meters then because
you have the onboard recording you can always go in and put that audio back in in post but
having 250 meters means that you can go quite a distance even in RF dense environments or maybe
obstacles in between you obviously 250 meters is under the most ideal conditions but if you are
going to push the range then you still can knowing that you'll get really good audio quality out of
these overall regardless of the conditions you're shooting in when we're talking about battery life
these may not have the longest battery life on the market but because they come with this
charging case when you're moving from location to location when you slip the uh the microphones and
the receiver in here they automatically because they have these little active pins on the bottom
they will automatically start charging so you get about five hours to five and a half hours
on the receiver and the transmitters based on their built-in batteries but when you use the
charging case the charging case will give you up to 15 hours of runtime total so obviously
you have to charge it in between sessions and stuff like that but because it does have this
battery case it's made it super easy for me to just basically throw it in like this
and then just throw it in my bag and keep it in my bag like this and then the only bummer
is that these don't fit into the charging case anywhere I wish there was a way to do that but
I put these in a pocket in my bag and it's not a big deal and this basically is how this has
lived with me uh in my bag going everywhere for everything I've done over the last year since I
bought this unit so the question becomes should you buy a wireless mic or an on-camera mic and
really it comes down to how you're going to use it if you're going to use a the same microphone
between a lot of different devices like a phone an action camera a regular camera video camera
or anything like that then I'd recommend using a wireless mic because you're probably going
to be in a lot of different situations that a wireless mic gives you a lot more versatility
plus the fact that the DJI wireless mic comes with a lightning connector that will plug into the back
or a USBC connector that will plug directly into something like the action 2 or action 3. you just
pull off the cold shoe Mount and then plug in the connector and then it plugs directly in or
you know same thing if you have a iPhone you can plug in the lightning connector just like that
and then you go directly into the camera or you plug in you know your headphone cable and
come out of the headphone cable uh with using the headphone cable that's included then you have a
lot of Versatility for a lot of different devices and you always get good consistent audio and then
if you plan to do client work down the road obviously this system will come in really handy
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