Rode’s tiny wireless mic can now connect directly to your iPhone without a dongle

You don’t request to usage the Rode Wireless Micro’s wireless receiver immoderate more, if you’re good with the limitations of Bluetooth. | Image: Rode

Rode has announced a firmware update for its Wireless Micro microphone system introducing a caller diagnostic called Direct Connect that allows the mic to straight link to iOS devices implicit Bluetooth. Previously, you needed to usage the company’s USB-C dongle receiver.

First launched past November, Rode’s $149 Wireless Micro pairs 2 tiny rechargeable lavalier mics with a wireless receiver that connects straight to mobile devices utilizing their USB-C charging ports (or successful the lawsuit of older iPhones and iPads, the Lightning port). The receiver tin link to and grounds from some of the microphones simultaneously utilizing Rode’s mobile app, with a wireless scope of 328 feet.

The caller Direct Connect diagnostic takes that wireless receiver retired of the equation truthful the mics tin present link straight to a smartphone. That attack perchance allows for simpler setups, but it does travel with a fewer compromises. The diagnostic is lone compatible with iOS devices — not Android — and audio tin lone beryllium captured from a azygous Wireless Micro mic astatine a time. The usage of Bluetooth besides reduces the scope of the microphones, and the wireless transportation whitethorn not beryllium arsenic unchangeable arsenic it is erstwhile utilizing the receiver.

Other upgrades successful the firmware update see a caller sound simplification diagnostic that helps minimize unwanted inheritance sounds portion signaling successful environments wherever soundlessness can’t beryllium guaranteed. That diagnostic tin beryllium activated for each microphone independently. There’s besides a caller output summation power that “lets users easy set signaling levels straight wrong the app,” and erstwhile utilizing the wireless receiver connected to some mics, the audio tin beryllium captured to a azygous merged stereo way oregon recorded independently to abstracted channels for much flexibility portion editing afterwards.