Dji’s Mic 3 Crams More Features Into A Smaller Package

The DJI Mic 3 has shrinked without scrimping.

DJI is making its latest wireless lavalier microphone strategy moreover smaller without scrimping connected features aliases artillery life. The DJI Mic 3 is half nan size and weight of its Mic 2 predecessor and introduces caller capabilities, including 2 adaptive summation power modes, 3 sound reside presets, and a sizable summation successful retention capacity for soul recordings.

DJI’s latest wireless mic tin support up to 4 transmitters and 8 receivers astatine erstwhile for signaling audio from ample groups, pinch a scope of 400 meters (1,312 feet). The Mic 3 automatically switches betwixt 2.4GHz and 5GHz wave bands to thief support nan transmission unchangeable and forestall interference. Two-level progressive sound cancelling is besides disposable for reducing inheritance sounds.

The Adaptive Gain Control modes see an Automatic action that tin suppress abrupt measurement spikes and forestall clipping successful noisy environments, and a Dynamic mode that automatically adjusts summation to support measurement accordant successful quieter indoor settings for illustration studios. The 3 sound reside presets see Regular, Rich, and Bright, which tin beryllium selected based connected nan vocal characteristics of whoever is speaking to set clarity.

At 16 grams, nan Mic 3 is person successful size and weight to nan 10-gram Mic Mini system that DJI launched past year. Unlike nan Mic Mini, however, nan Mic 3 retains features for illustration built-in backup signaling abilities to forestall losing audio, and a touchscreen show connected nan receiver to set settings and show artillery levels. It besides includes 32GB of retention for dual-file soul recordings that support some 24-bit and 32-bit floating points, which is importantly larger than nan 8GB of built-in retention connected nan Mic 2.

Battery life sits betwixt nan 2 older DJI lav mics, providing up to 8 hours for nan receiver and 10 hours for nan transmitter, compared to six hours for some connected nan Mic 2, and up to 11.5 hours and 10.5 hours connected nan Mic Mini’s transmitter and receiver, respectively. The Mic 3 charging lawsuit provides 2.4 afloat charges, according to DJI, giving users 28 hours of other juice connected nan go.

What we don’t cognize is nan value aliases merchandise timeline. DJI says nan Mic 3 won’t beryllium disposable successful nan US immediately, which suggests it’ll beryllium launching successful different markets first. The two-microphone transmitter kit for nan Mic 2 launched astatine $219, and nan much affordable Mic Mini is $169 by comparison, truthful we’ll person to hold and spot really nan Mic 3 stacks up erstwhile it arrives successful nan US.