Rode has a better way to connect your tiny wireless mics to your digital camera

Rode’s Wireless Micro Camera Kit includes a charging lawsuit to widen the artillery beingness of its receivers and mics. | Image: Rode

Last November, Rode launched its Wireless Micro microphone system that paired 2 tiny lavalier mics with a tiny receiver that connected to your phone’s charging port. Rode aboriginal gave that merchandise a free upgrade, sending retired different receiver that fto the mics connect to integer cameras, too. Now, the institution is launching an updated mentation of that receiver with an OLED surface — but this time, it’s charging for it.

The caller mentation of Rode’s wireless camera receiver is present disposable arsenic portion of a Wireless Micro Camera Kit that bundles it with 2 Wireless Micro lavalier mics and an further wireless receiver utilized to link the mics to mobile devices utilizing their USB-C oregon Lightning ports. The kit is priced astatine $149, which is what Rode’s Wireless Micro strategy was initially priced astatine erstwhile it launched past November (minus a camera receiver) earlier getting a price chopped earlier this period to $99 erstwhile caller colour options were introduced. Rode’s wireless lav mics inactive don’t connection arsenic overmuch functionality arsenic DJI’s offerings similar the Mic Mini oregon Mic 3, but they’re much competitively priced.

As with the original, the caller receiver is designed to beryllium atop cameras by connecting to their acold footwear equine portion audio from up to 2 wireless mics is delivered to the camera done a USB-C oregon 3.5mm audio cable. Battery beingness is estimated to beryllium up to 7 hours and is maximized by the receiver lone powering connected erstwhile it’s connected to a camera. The receiver’s runtime tin beryllium further extended to up to 21 hours utilizing the Wireless Micro Camera Kit’s charging lawsuit erstwhile you’re distant from a powerfulness source.

The 1.1-inch OLED surface shows details astir the artillery beingness and awesome spot of the receiver and wirelessly connected devices. It works alongside 3 buttons for navigating and adjusting assorted settings including summation assistance levels, but for easiness of usage the receiver tin besides marque those adjustments automatically to suppress measurement spikes and guarantee each the audio coming into the camera is perfectly balanced.