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 nan artillery life of its receivers and mics. | Image: Rode

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

The caller type of Rode’s wireless camera receiver is now disposable arsenic portion of a Wireless Micro Camera Kit that bundles it pinch 2 Wireless Micro lavalier mics and an further wireless receiver utilized to link nan mics to mobile devices utilizing their USB-C aliases 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 trim earlier this period to $99 erstwhile caller colour options were introduced. Rode’s wireless lav mics still don’t connection arsenic overmuch functionality arsenic DJI’s offerings for illustration nan Mic Mini aliases Mic 3, but they’re much competitively priced.

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

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