Wireless Mic racommendation

[goodguy]

Not exactly photography but it is an equipment question.

For those among you who does video I was wondering what is your recommendation to the most affordable yet reasonably good wireless mic for interviews and vlogging.
And I am looking for the small mic you clip on shirt

 

[Dave442]

The cheapest option we use is with digital recorders and add the sound tracks from each in post. A good recorder along with a lav mic can be done for under $200; so you can wire up two or three people for the price of one decent wireless lav. It can also be good to grab some ambient sound with another recorder.

If you are going live then you need to go with the wireless. We have a couple Sure and one Sennhiser wireless lav, and similar for wireless mics and always run through a mixer.

 

[Light Guru]

This will be your cheapest option.
Rode smartLav+ Lavalier Microphone for iPhone and Smartphones Amazon.com: Rode smartLav+ Lavalier Microphone for iPhone and Smartphones: Musical Instruments

Basically it's just a mic and then you connect it to a phone to make the recording.


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[Dave Colangelo]

I have had really good luck with various Audio Technica products. I currently have 2 of their wired Lav's that I use at work and they are great considering they were like ~120$ I cant complain. I believe there is a wireless option from them as well. What is the exact application? Field use? In the studio? if you are mostly in the studio I might advise going with wired ones and a small phantom power source so you never need to worry about batteries. I use this mixer in the studio, hard pan each mic to one side and go direct into the camera. This gives me 2 mono tracks to work with later (final cut allows you a dual mono setup). Mixer drives +48V and I never need to worry about interference or dead batteries. If you are just doing interviews and stuff wired is IMO the way to go. If you are traveling with the gear its actually less gear since you dont need to carry around receivers.

Dave

 

[goodguy]

This will be your cheapest option.
Rode smartLav+ Lavalier Microphone for iPhone and Smartphones Amazon.com: Rode smartLav+ Lavalier Microphone for iPhone and Smartphones: Musical Instruments

Basically it's just a mic and then you connect it to a phone to make the recording.


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What I need is a wireless mic that I can record to my Sony a6300, not really looking to complicate the process with connecting it to a cell phone.
And iPhone is Yakkee Android purist here LOL
At work they force us to use iPhone, found this device frustratingly uncooperative and unreliable, replace with a new phone and same problem, found my supervisor had exactly same issue and so does few other coworkers of mine but this really is off topic.

 

[goodguy]

I have had really good luck with various Audio Technica products. I currently have 2 of their wired Lav's that I use at work and they are great considering they were like ~120$ I cant complain. I believe there is a wireless option from them as well. What is the exact application? Field use? In the studio? if you are mostly in the studio I might advise going with wired ones and a small phantom power source so you never need to worry about batteries. I use this mixer in the studio, hard pan each mic to one side and go direct into the camera. This gives me 2 mono tracks to work with later (final cut allows you a dual mono setup). Mixer drives +48V and I never need to worry about interference or dead batteries. If you are just doing interviews and stuff wired is IMO the way to go. If you are traveling with the gear its actually less gear since you dont need to carry around receivers.

Dave

Use it vloggin and weddings

 

[480sparky41 40]

I just use a separate digital audio recorder with a decent mic. Marry it up with the video in post. Not all that difficult to do.

 

[goodguy]

I just use a separate digital audio recorder with a decent mic. Marry it up with the video in post. Not all that difficult to do.

Thank you, will consider that.

 

[Dave Colangelo]

Use it vloggin and weddings

For weddings you are going to want a good shotgun most likely, a lav is not really a good mic for anything but closeup mic applications which a wedding is not. I have the 18 inch audio technica shotgun and really like it. Internal battery power (AA) and easy to use. Solid quality for the price however it is a bit large when mounted on a small camera. For vlogging it will suffice as well but you may want to consider something on the shorter side like that offered from Rode I dont own one so I cant vouch for it but lots of people use it and seem to like it.

Dave

 

[Light Guru]

I just use a separate digital audio recorder with a decent mic. Marry it up with the video in post. Not all that difficult to do.

Thank you, will consider that.

Thats EXACTLY what recording to the phone with the mic I linked to before does. And I never said you had to use it with an iPhone.