Posts Tagged ‘mic’

Final Cut Pro X plug-in specialist CrumplePop continues its push into audio with a whole new type of plug-in – Magnetic Stereo, designed to automatically fix unbalanced stereo recordings. High quality stereo audio continues to come to the fore as more dedicated stereo mikes appear…

Microphone maker RØDE wowed a wildly cheering audience in a heavily-attended event in San Diego this evening with not one, not two, not three but four new products including the Australian company’s very first dip into the waves of wireless microphones. RØDE launched the amazing…

How do you cost-effectively improve sound recording quality from your DSLR? The Aputure V-mic D2 answers: take the load off your camera’s preamp and on-board mic by adding a better preamp to a shoe-mounted shotgun mic -- and provide an outboard, binary LED sound meter…

RØDE, manufacturer of some of the most popular stereo and shotgun microphones used by moviemakers today, has launched the RØDE 2014 Customer Survey. The prime purpose of the survey is to better understand customer needs in order to best meet them with coming new products.…

We have entered a new era of independent moviemaking when image acquisition threatens to far outstrip audio acquisition. Ultra HD has already made itself at home in the home, if sales of big screen 4K TVs are anything to go by. [adrotate group="6"]Immersive audio playback…

Rycote has twice reinvented that staple of professional audio recoding, the microphone windshield, this year and has just released its latest windshield reinvention, the Cyclone. On being unveiled at IBC 2014 easily in September, the Cyclone won Best Audio Product award and I suspect the…

Highly regarded Australian manufacturer RØDE Microphones broadens its competitive footprint with just announced Stereo VideoMic X (SVMX), looks to take on Zoom? What a great time of year for us gear-nerds. New equipment, new expectations – and every now and again something which melds function AND…

You gotta love those guys at RODE Microphones. They gave us the NTG-2, for many indie filmmakers -- including yours truly -- the go-to mic for pretty much everything except when the shot absolutely, positively can’t be boomed. But they didn’t stop there.[adrotate group="6"] I…

Just when you thought that the "blimp" couldn't be improved, RØDE has gone and put some very awesome changes in their new RØDE blimp windshield.[adrotate group="6"] RØDE Announces New and Improved Blimp Windshield Australian microphone manufacturer RØDE has today announced a fully updated version of…

Zoom has released the new Zoom H5 Handy Recorder - a very good sequel to the H4n that is so dearly loved by many in the DSLR video world. [adrotate group="6"] A few months ago, we released a video review of the Zoom H6 which…