Audio. It’s one of the things that separates videography and film from a standard still apart from motion. Bad audio is incredibly easy to attain, and good audio can be a struggle if you don’t have a good workflow or the proper equipment. Rode, Audio Technica and Sennheiser are some of the better manufacturers for film and video work when it comes to microphones. Rode in particular (no I’m not really a Rode fanboy), is an independent manufacturer that has been around since the mid 60’s and has a very proven track record. Their shotgun offerings such as the NTG2, NTG3, and the small video camera videomic, videomic pro’s and stereo videomic pros are staples for HDSLR users. They provide excellent audio capability in small and sonically robust packages.
Today Rode just announced their new Videomic Go.
An interesting animal paired up with an integrated version of Rycote’s new Lyre® shockmount. We use one of the more established Stereo Videomic Pro with the older style shockmount. Most of the time this sucker is pretty rock solid, but the rubber banding system shockmount can be frustratingly problematic on occasion. We really like that on this new unit they use a coiled cord system, but have some mixed feelings about the colour of the mount and cord. While great that if it’s buried in your kit you can spot it, it also doesn’t exactly allow you to record guerrilla with this bright pinkish/red cradle jutting out of your camera rig.
Now the other primary feature is the lack of well…. features! There’s no battery to worry about, no dip switches, knobs settings to fumble around with or anything. It’s completely un-powered and controlled from your capture device.
At a price point of around $99, we think these suckers will probably fly off the shelves. This little hotcake just may find itself in our kit as a backup mic.
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Go to Rode’s site for more details http://www.rodemic.com/videomicgo
