Rode Wireless Go 2. pretty excited about this i have the original one it's nice because it's
simple it's super compact but with the 2 we have two transmitters so i could be wearing
a microphone and then Dylan could be wearing a microphone even though he's all the way over
there we could have a conversation and have both our audios very clear right now Dylan sounds
terrible say something something and stuff yeah awful right we don't like terrible audio so let's
see what we have here so this must be the receiver so this will be on the camera and these must be
the transmitters so i'll take one and Dylan will take the other so these are gonna help protect us
against the wind and we're just gonna kind of push this on snaps in right there and oh these actually
lock on the previous one if you yank down a little bit it'll pop off so nice touch we also have a TRS
cable to plug the receiver into the camera and three USB-C cables so i'm gonna go ahead
hook these up we are now set up on the a7S and also listening to the audio from this transmitter
how are we sounding and i also love how low profile this looks on the camera opposed to
this thing which is massive it's almost as big as the camera and it always draws so much attention
so having something small like this up top for audio that's cool when i first got this
i thought this was going to be just like the original Rode Wireless Gos but with
two transmitters which is cool right that's a nice upgrade turns out there's a ton under the
hood here now there's one feature in particular that i love about i mean game changingly awesome
can't live without it there's also one problem in here that makes me not really fully trust it in
every single type of shoot and situation so we'll go over all that but first let's take
these bad boys out on a little field trip. Oh right at the receivers over here all right let's
go so we're all charged up and we also have the Rode lav which is sold separately so we have two
of them also these are awesome it's Rycoate under covers and basically they're these little stickies
that you attach so that you can wear underneath your shirt perfect for when you're under cover
and about to enter one of the most high security places on planet earth the aquarium all right so
how does it sound with our top secret microphones it's like you have these glasses this here i
kind of look like an assassin you know like i'm sneaking in here i got this mic kind of hidden you
know yeah sure i'm just here to read about bird rehabilitation it's obviously why i came here yes
yes Dylan's gonna do a little voice over for some of these fish i'm so busy today i don't have time
to deal with all these people standing by do you not understand the office that i need to go to
the meetings that we gotta have between kibbles and bits i don't have time for this whoa whoa
there's children here they're kind of like the puppies of the sea huh he's like what is this hair
i think the coolest part about vlogging with a wireless microphone is you have a lot more freedom
on where you place the camera to get good audio typically to get good audio i have to be within
three to five feet of the camera so being able to just plant the microphone somewhere and just step
all the way away from the camera to get that big grand wide shot that's really cool oh my
gosh Kari look at look at what carrie has done to this doesn't that look better but the feature i
consider to be game changing is not only is this sending the audio signal over to the receiver so
the camera can record it but there's also a audio track being recorded internally which can be used
as a backup or if this is the only thing you have you can set it up to record when you turn
it on now the more i use this microphone the more i love the fact that it records audio internally
as well as transmitting because now if there was somebody behind the camera they could be
monitoring my audio so if there's any issues with like clothing noise or anything like that
they'll be able to let me know right away and also you don't have to sync
the audio if it's recorded straight into the camera but at the same time the more
distance you have between the camera and the microphone the more running could run
into static if there's too much interference in the air although the Go 2 has been pretty solid
of a connection but you never know someone monitoring the audio if you're depending on
from a lav but right now i'm not too worried about it because i know if i walk away too far from the
camera and lose connection or if they're static i can always go ahead and use the backup audio
from the internal microphone and the other reason that's really useful is because sometimes i don't
want to have to set up a receiver on a camera maybe i'm trying to get audio for a drone or
anything like that i can go ahead and turn this on have this record internal and then
sync it afterwards now we already talked about how this locks on which is a big plus because
the past one it would just fall off randomly all the time so this is much more usable and it's
actually really surprisingly good at canceling out wind noise i wanted to see if i could go a
little bit faster with it so i've tested it on a motorcycle and here's how that sounds
all right can we hear anything we're going about 32 miles per hour i'd be pretty impressed if you
can i'm going to angle it towards the wind and then now towards me we're dropped down to about 23
miles per hour now here let me get the accelerator so here we are a little motorcycle vlog here
how's it sound now the biggest issue that i have with these microphones and the only thing that
really keeps it from being the best microphones in my opinion is that it's not good at handling loud
noises probably like a loud talk with a microphone really close like this is probably clipping it so
sorry if it sounds terrible now here's the thing even if i lower the levels out of the
camera or adjust the output out of the receiver or just download the file straight off of this
it does the same thing all right so we're gonna do a quick test with these three microphones to see
how loud of a noise they can handle so microphone number one is the built-in microphone and it does
have this mode activated which pads it a bit to help reduce it from clipping number two
is also a transmitter but this time hooked up to the Rode lav and next to it in the same position
is the same Rode lav mic but this time hooked up to the Tascam DR-10L all right Dylan talk like
you're a bingo announcer at a senior home okay we got red five red five here red five do i see a red
five actually this is roulette i just realized but yeah anyway red five and then you got a black 22
okay we got red five red five here red five do i see a red five actually this is real led i just
realized but yeah anyway red five and then you got a black 22 okay we got red five red five here
red five do i see a red five actually this is real lead i just realized but yeah anyway red five and
then you got a black 22. now one of the senior ladies is getting out of line and throwing that
pudding again okay no more throwing pudding you got that right now we're going to bed right now
okay no more throwing pudding you got that right now we're going to bed right now
okay no more throwing pudding you got that right now we're going to bed right now now you go into
the snack room and realize somebody has taken a bite out of your bologna sandwich you did not
just take a bite out of that i will get you you did not just take a bite out of that I will get
you did not just take a bite out of that i will get you i think you lost your voice dude a little
bit yeah you know i got that raspy smoker's voice now just been smoking a pack of cigarettes dude
you committed to it yeah you know i work out here in the docks okay so to nobody's surprise turns
out when Dylan loses his temper he blows out all the microphones in the room along with my eardrums
and windows but i think it's safe to say this internal microphone was the easiest microphone
to clip and this is definitely something i have noticed in case you're not familiar with clipping
it's basically when your audio gets so loud that it gets slammed against the ceiling and if you
don't have something like a limiter or something to help protect it it's just gonna jam in there
and it gives you this really really harsh sound just like no more throwing pudding you got that
right now now my is you're definitely less likely to clip once you plug in an external lavalier like
this and even when it does clip it doesn't sound as harsh but here's how it sounds no more throwing
pudding you got that right now you probably heard a little bit of harshness there but it's not as
violently harsh as the internal mic but my favorite i think hands down is the Tascam no more
throwing pudding you got that right now i have a lot of trust in that thing and unless you have
Dylan shouting into it it really doesn't click now about 52 miles per hour and how does it sound
now about 52 miles per hour and how does it sound now about 52 miles per hour and how does it sound
Alright going 60 woo-hoo! Alright going 60 woo-hoo! Alright going 60 woo-hoo!
man it's loud like you know imagine just sticking your head out the window on a freeway and it's
pretty loud man it's loud like you know imagine sticking your head out the window on a freeway
man it's pretty loud and it's loud like you know imagine just sticking your head out the window on
a freeway and it's pretty loud yeah in order to download the audio off of the internal memory we
have to download this app from Rode's website it's free do i need to put in my email oh come on don't
act like i'm the first person to ever do that all right downloading the first couple times i tried
this i was having all kinds of issues because i was stuck on this screen when i looked it up a ton
of other people have been having the same issues but for me at least if i use the USB-C cable that
came with the Rode mics it seems to hook up every time so i think it might be a little bit specific
about what cables being used so now we're in this is our most recent recording here so we can go
ahead play through it let's go ahead and export it we can go between MP3 or wave there's also a
32-bit option in here which i got really excited about thinking i might be able to get a little
bit more reach in terms of you know audio clipping but for me at least it didn't make a difference so
i just exported everything out of 24 bit just go ahead and hit export Dylan you're usually the one
downloading the audio so you're gonna be getting very familiar with this process the thing that
i think you're gonna get pissed off about is that you can't batch export if you record a whole bunch
of audio clips you have to go through individually and we got one clip down so now you have to go to
the next one hit export do the same thing is there any advantage in not being able to export them all
at once is there no there should be a feature that should just be in here they should just be like
select yeah these eight clips export on them all and just be less of a headache it's just tedious
to do every single one especially if you have like 35 clips of audio kind of want to just do
it all at once but this is something that they can update in the software so hopefully we see
that now while we're hooked up to Rode Central i might as well show you a few more things let me
go into the settings and this is where you adjust if it's going to record internally now right now
i have it on always record so as soon as you turn this thing on it starts recording all the way up
until you turn it off even if it's not connected to a transmitter or anything like as soon as that
light turns on it's recording everything and in this mode it records uncompressed now you can see
the internal memory is full right now and just to show you i'll go ahead and clear it out but
you actually don't have to because basically if the memory in here gets full it'll just go into a
cycle mode where it'll go ahead and keep recording but delete the oldest audio and it just goes
in a cycle like that now the other option is to switch from always to backup on this mode it
only starts recording when it detects the receiver being turned on and it stops recording if it turns
off and when you're in backup mode you actually do have the option to go into a compressed mode which
will record 43 hours of audio instead of the seven and of course you could just turn it off entirely
now for me i like to just have it on always on because sometimes i like using this thing as an
independent recorder and not even bother with the receiver so i'll just turn it on record a quick
clip real quick and then turn it off also check this thing out so i attach the transmitter onto
here like that and then put this cover on and then all of a sudden i'm like a reporter or the
weatherman welcome to nine o'clock news but that's one of the things i really like about this is
how versatile it is i can use it as a lavalier i can use it as a handheld i could use it with
this camera i could use it with a phone an action camera or even a drum and speaking of drones check
out this thing this is the Skydio it's the drone that's supposed to fly itself and we're gonna
start testing this so if you have any questions about this let us know doesn't even come with a
controller but overall i am super impressed with the Rode Wireless Go 2 there's a ton of features
that they list out on their website so if you end up getting it definitely recommend going
through that page and learning all the different settings and features for example by default each
microphone comes in on different channels so if you have a stereo signal left would be one mic
right would be the other which is great because in post you can separate them and only use the
audio tracks you need you also have the option to merge the two channels if you're doing like a
live broadcast or you're only using one microphone and you could even have one be a safety channel so
one audio track is louder than the other and Rode if you ever make a version 3 i would like
to make a few requests i would love a locking connection right there like the Tascam does
because i am always concerned that in my pocket i'm moving around it might become a little bit
disconnected and all of a sudden i just have audio of this in my pocket rustling around it does also
get a little bit old charging each one of these individually with three different cables but i was
looking into this one case that charges them as you store them so that is something that i may try
in the future but with those minor complaints aside i am a huge huge fan of the Wireless Go
2 much more of a fan of these than i was with the original Wireless Gos these are just so much more
capable much more flexible so really good job and i did have to buy this myself they didn't
send this to me this isn't sponsored or anything like that i do still plan on keeping that Tascam
with me especially if we go to a loud event or environment but remember that the Tascam is only
an internal recorder so you can't monitor it wirelessly so that makes it less useful
in some ways and i did also get the Zoom version of it which also isn't wireless but it does record
32-bit float which is really cool but i hate the design of it there's a big old switch up front
to turn the whole device on and off and when i first saw that i was like oh man i hope i never
accidentally turn it off and then it happened to me while i was using it on a DJI FPV Q&A video
and that just kind of sucks having to worry about if the device accidentally got turned off so this
would be my favorite little wireless self-recorder then the second place would go to the Tascam third
place to the Zoom even though the Zoom has 32-bit float which is pretty awesome alright
so let's go ahead and wrap this up you guys asked some questions about these microphones in
the last video so let's see what you're wondering Bortalazzo says what kind of batteries those mics
use? they are internal batteries so unfortunately if they die then you can't just swap out the
batteries real quick you have to actually charge them up so that is one downside but the battery
life is pretty good and i tested the battery life because i figured okay if it's going to
be recording consistently internally is that going to drain the battery life so one thing i realize
is if you have it turned on and it's recording internally but it's not connected to the receiver
then it actually lasted almost 10 hours for me so that's really cool and if the receiver is also
turned on i think it uses more battery because it's constantly working to send the audio to the
receiver so in that case with the backup recording turned on i was getting under seven hours so it's
a pretty decent battery life i'm a very passionate user of those microphones they are really really
something and i just like to see your take on them i love them i'm going to be keeping these in my
camera bag pretty much at all times now Captain Jack says i'm looking into Rode 2 wireless mics
for use in weddings i like the compact size which i think my clients would also enjoy especially the
bride i also like that i wouldn't need a backup recorder just in case i get static in the wireless
signal and i plan on at least the officiant being miced up with a recorder i think these are going
to be killer for weddings because at weddings there's so much going on so you really want
tools that are going to be very simple and these are as simple as they get and let's say you have
the officiant miced up and they do their thing but afterwards you want to take this off and just
throw them on guests you can go ahead unplug the lavalier and just hook them on that's something i
was doing at the aquarium because Dylan and i were miced up but i wanted to get a few audio bites
from Kari so i went ahead and plugged this through this on her bag and was able to capture audio and
switch it back and forth between different people very fast the only things i can see going wrong is
if the wedding is an all day thing you want to make sure that you're plugging these in between
brakes and also when everybody gets drunk and the DJ's blasting the music you may run into issues
with clipping with all the loud sounds going on Donald says those Wireless Gos sound a lot better
with the lavalier go mic yeah i'd agree with that that's what you're listening to right now
is the transmitter hooked up to the Rode Go lav where did you find Dylan is there a Dylan store
i could use my own Dylan for narrating my life i don't know they closed the last Dylan store i
saw down it might be kind of hard but maybe if you look on Ebay or something someone has a good price
check that out all right Dylan i need a close for this video can you do something cool
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that's only slightly embarrassing oh that's the one i was talking to
that that was you okay in my defense he is asian wearing a black shirt