Episode 119
DJI Mic 2 Review: the good, the bad and the ugly
As the wireless microphone offerings expand, so does my need to review them. Traditionally, the wireless microphone space was a bit lacklustre. They had clunky receivers that you had to try to hide under your clothes, the connections would drop out and the ability to connect seamlessly to a smartphone was rare.
Today, that is no longer the case.
We’ve got Rode, DJI, Hollyland and Sennheiser as well as many others all putting their hats into the ring and today I’m putting the DJI Mic 2 to the test.
As a podcast producer with over 60 clients globally, I'm always on the hunt for audio and video equipment that can simplify our client workflow while delivering top-notch quality. If you're in the same boat, or perhaps just curious about whether this kit holds its ground against competitors like the Rode Wireless Pro, keep reading.
I've spent the last month and a half putting the DJI Mic 2 through its paces across a variety of environments—from the roaring waves of the beach, to the tranquil hinterland of Byron Bay, and within the confines of my home studio. My aim? To see how this system performs under different conditions and with varying sound profiles.
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Today, I'm doing a
Speaker:review of the DJI Mic 2.
Speaker:This is the wireless system
Speaker:that is kind of the competitor
Speaker:to the Rode Wireless Pro.
Speaker:You get two microphones, you get
Speaker:a receiver, and there's also going
Speaker:to be a battle between the two Rode
Speaker:Wireless Pro and the DJI Mic 2.
Speaker:So if that is finished and up,
Speaker:you'll be able to go and see
Speaker:which one is actually going to
Speaker:be best suited for your use case.
Speaker:Now I've been testing this wireless
Speaker:microphone set up now for probably about
Speaker:a month and a half to put it through its
Speaker:paces in a bunch of different locations.
Speaker:So I wanted to go somewhere really loud.
Speaker:So we went to the beach and we
Speaker:have like crashing waves and
Speaker:things going on in the background.
Speaker:I tested it with a few different
Speaker:voices in that location.
Speaker:We also went out to hinterland of Byron
Speaker:Bay, and were again, different sounds,
Speaker:but not as many just to see what it
Speaker:sounds like in a location like that.
Speaker:Tested how far away you could be.
Speaker:So I just walked for a long time to find
Speaker:out whether it dropped out at any point.
Speaker:So I've tested that.
Speaker:And I also tested it in the home
Speaker:studio so that you could hear
Speaker:what it sounds like when it's in a
Speaker:location that is more controlled.
Speaker:Although in this space, this
Speaker:is not a very big room and
Speaker:it's not acoustically treated.
Speaker:So there is a bit of fluctuation
Speaker:with kind of, Bounce.
Speaker:And it's not a super dead space
Speaker:as they say in the audio industry.
Speaker:So that's something that
Speaker:I wanted to test as well.
Speaker:I also tested it at different locations.
Speaker:So as in, you know, on the lapel where
Speaker:you would normally kind of put it.
Speaker:And then also up here where people
Speaker:often have their microphones as
Speaker:well, especially on TikTok videos,
Speaker:you see everyone doing this.
Speaker:So I wanted to show you how it
Speaker:sounds in all those different places.
Speaker:The other thing I did as well
Speaker:is I also tested it using its
Speaker:noise cancellation feature.
Speaker:On and off, because I have
Speaker:particular things that I want
Speaker:to say about that particular
Speaker:feature of the DJI Mic 2 system.
Speaker:So the first place I'm going to take you
Speaker:is to the beach and more specifically the
Speaker:surfers paradise beach on the gold coast,
Speaker:which is a beautiful stretch of beach.
Speaker:In this situation, we're going
Speaker:to have the noise reduction.
Speaker:setting on on the DJI and from there,
Speaker:you'll be able to hear how much
Speaker:of the beach sound of the waves,
Speaker:which are very loud by the way, how
Speaker:much of that it actually reduces.
Speaker:Let's go to the beach and do some tests.
Speaker:All right, I've got the DJI
Speaker:mic two on we're at the beach.
Speaker:We're going to do a test.
Speaker:With the ocean sounds in the background.
Speaker:Okay, so I have the wind,
Speaker:so on at the moment.
Speaker:Now I'm gonna take the wind so
Speaker:off, which is actually really easy.
Speaker:Now it's off.
Speaker:We're at the beach.
Speaker:It's quite windy today we're gonna
Speaker:see if we can tell the difference.
Speaker:So this is with the wind, so off wind.
Speaker:So off talking with the wind.
Speaker:So off and now I'm gonna put it back on.
Speaker:Okay, now we've got the wind top
Speaker:on testing with the wind top on.
Speaker:Testing with the wind sock on.
Speaker:I'm going to walk back a long way and
Speaker:then we're going to see when it cuts out.
Speaker:Okay, so now I'm about 150 meters
Speaker:is my dad, uh, at the beach
Speaker:making some sort of sandcastle.
Speaker:I would like you to tell me how
Speaker:you got this particular injury.
Speaker:You can't remember?
Speaker:I forget.
Speaker:But most of my injuries around
Speaker:this here are from paint cans.
Speaker:Oh.
Speaker:Where they're 20 litre lids and
Speaker:they've got sticky out bits.
Speaker:And I walk past them.
Speaker:Oh dear.
Speaker:Thank you very much.
Speaker:Talk to you later.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:I would like to know what you have
Speaker:been enjoying about your beach trip.
Speaker:The wind and the sun and the sand, you
Speaker:know, all the usual beach things, yeah.
Speaker:And the serenity.
Speaker:And the person next to you who gets
Speaker:up and puts all sand in your face.
Speaker:I like how you said that
Speaker:just after the serenity.
Speaker:What did you think of that?
Speaker:So the beach I thought was really good.
Speaker:The way it actually reduced the sound
Speaker:of the waves was pretty incredible
Speaker:because those waves I'm telling
Speaker:you are, were very, very loud.
Speaker:And so listening back to that, I thought,
Speaker:gosh, this would be really good as a
Speaker:system in a location where it was really
Speaker:loud, like a concert or like a, yeah,
Speaker:something live where there's a band.
Speaker:bunch of people and you're trying
Speaker:to do some sort of content with
Speaker:your phone, then that would be
Speaker:just the perfect use case for that
Speaker:to have the noise reduction on.
Speaker:But did you hear how I sounded
Speaker:with the noise reduction on?
Speaker:Did I sound like myself or did I sound
Speaker:a little bit the other thing that was
Speaker:cool to see was just how far I could walk
Speaker:and it just didn't drop out of signal.
Speaker:Although I don't see a huge amount of
Speaker:use cases for that particular thing.
Speaker:Like some people may, especially in
Speaker:the more adventure travel kind of,
Speaker:uh, YouTube and create a economy.
Speaker:They may use that feature a
Speaker:little bit more, but not something
Speaker:that I would use all that often.
Speaker:And then you heard from a couple
Speaker:of other voices all with the noise
Speaker:reduction on just to see how that
Speaker:sounded with a male and female
Speaker:voice who happened to be my parents.
Speaker:So that was very nice.
Speaker:I'm not going to say too much more.
Speaker:We're going to get back into the tests.
Speaker:The next test we're going to go
Speaker:through is out in the hinterland.
Speaker:And this is with not a lot of
Speaker:sounds around us, kind of a use
Speaker:case that you may use the distance
Speaker:that you may be from the device.
Speaker:Maybe you're again, like a
Speaker:travel blogger or someone that
Speaker:reviews things on location.
Speaker:That's also with the noise
Speaker:reduction feature on so you
Speaker:can hear what that sounds like.
Speaker:Let's get into.
Speaker:Okay, so we're at the
Speaker:brooklet for this test.
Speaker:This is with the DJI mic 2, uh, we
Speaker:are spending a couple of days here and
Speaker:I'm going to show you a few different
Speaker:ways you can use this system for now.
Speaker:This is just me with the little wind sock
Speaker:thing on because there is a little bit
Speaker:of wind today and I'm just getting you to
Speaker:hear what it sounds like as I walk around
Speaker:and as I do things, uh, as well, just to
Speaker:see whether you can hear anything that's.
Speaker:It's different or whether it sounds good.
Speaker:I've got rustling grass below me,
Speaker:whether you can hear any of that, as
Speaker:well as, as I said, any of the wind.
Speaker:And then as I transition onto ground
Speaker:that has lots of asphalt, like the road,
Speaker:how much of that road can you hear?
Speaker:Doesn't matter how much
Speaker:of that you can hear.
Speaker:The point of these kind of wireless
Speaker:systems is so that you can.
Speaker:Move your arms, move your legs,
Speaker:do whatever you're going to be
Speaker:doing and it not interrupt the
Speaker:actual flow and sound quality.
Speaker:There was actually also just a car that
Speaker:drove past there, so I'd be interested to
Speaker:know whether you can hear that as well.
Speaker:And yeah, so we're just walking along.
Speaker:The booklet is beautiful by the way,
Speaker:this is a really nice place to stay and
Speaker:as you see more of this review you'll
Speaker:see some of the locations that they
Speaker:have here on site which is really cool.
Speaker:This is not sponsored content,
Speaker:we just happen to be here
Speaker:for this round of testing.
Speaker:So there we go, that's the
Speaker:little test of me just out in the
Speaker:wilderness with the DJI Mic 2.
Speaker:Now, I'm testing it without the little
Speaker:puffy wind sock on, so it is just as is.
Speaker:I'm looking down at it at the moment.
Speaker:Hi, Alex from Bambi Media and
Speaker:we're testing the DJI Mic 2 out at
Speaker:the Brooklet, which is a property
Speaker:in Northern New South Wales.
Speaker:I can currently hear very little.
Speaker:I can hear some cars on a road
Speaker:about 50 meters behind us, some
Speaker:birds chirping in the background.
Speaker:So really background noise is not much.
Speaker:A little bit of gravel
Speaker:underfoot, but it's pretty quiet.
Speaker:There's a bit of birds chirping,
Speaker:but it'll be interesting to see how
Speaker:it's going and how it's performing
Speaker:with this level of background noise.
Speaker:So I'll walk a little bit further
Speaker:away from the camera, and we'll
Speaker:just see how clear the audio stays.
Speaker:It's a beautiful place, the Brooklyn.
Speaker:It's got this awesome veggie patch on
Speaker:site, where you can harvest whatever
Speaker:you want for your dinners and lunches.
Speaker:There is a car coming.
Speaker:Uh, which you'll hear soon as it passes.
Speaker:You can see just how much noise you
Speaker:might get in the background of the shot.
Speaker:And that's again with the windsock
Speaker:on and everything like that.
Speaker:And there's a few magpies over here too.
Speaker:So as you can see I'm probably about
Speaker:70, 80 meters away from the camera.
Speaker:So that's the DJI Mic 2 brought to you
Speaker:by me and back to Rhianna in the studio.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:What did you think of that?
Speaker:So in this one, we had my
Speaker:voice as well as Alex's voice.
Speaker:So he has.
Speaker:You know, obviously a
Speaker:deeper voice than me.
Speaker:Could you hear different
Speaker:inflections on the sounds?
Speaker:How did we sound?
Speaker:How was the EQ?
Speaker:Could you feel and hear like a
Speaker:full body of the sound as well, or
Speaker:were there things missing perhaps?
Speaker:I want you to really give that a listen,
Speaker:maybe go back, make sure that you have
Speaker:headphones on so that you can really
Speaker:hear the intricacies of this microphone
Speaker:with those setups, with those different
Speaker:voices in those locations to double check
Speaker:what you think about this particular.
Speaker:device.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Now that we've done that, we're
Speaker:going to go into the studio and
Speaker:you're going to hear me without
Speaker:the noise reduction feature on.
Speaker:So this would be a use case where
Speaker:there's no reason for you to have
Speaker:that noise reduction on and how I
Speaker:sound in those locations, both with
Speaker:the microphone close to my mouth.
Speaker:And on my lapel, so we're going
Speaker:to use this iPhone 14 pro here.
Speaker:You can see it's connected.
Speaker:On this end, it's connected.
Speaker:I've also made sure to switch the
Speaker:settings on the DJI to mono because
Speaker:it's just me recording by myself.
Speaker:I don't have two speakers, I don't
Speaker:have the need for two microphones
Speaker:meaning that I want it to make
Speaker:sure that there's no left and right
Speaker:split, that it's all together.
Speaker:So I can see there is just one
Speaker:level here, which is the Um, mono
Speaker:channel, just the one recorder,
Speaker:which is what I'm doing now.
Speaker:You want to make sure when you're
Speaker:recording with your phone that
Speaker:you're recording with the back
Speaker:camera so that, because that's the
Speaker:best quality cameras, you want to
Speaker:make sure that you're using those.
Speaker:So we're going to run a test with
Speaker:the DJI with this set up recording
Speaker:into the phone and uh, this would
Speaker:be what most people would do.
Speaker:So I'm going to hit record okay,
Speaker:now I'm running the test of the
Speaker:DJI Mic 2 in my home studio.
Speaker:This is recorded Using just one
Speaker:microphone, not the second one in mono,
Speaker:so that it all comes through to the
Speaker:one channel, both ears, left and right.
Speaker:Although I'm completely deaf in
Speaker:one ear, so it makes less of a
Speaker:difference to me than others.
Speaker:In fact, stereo is such a pain
Speaker:because I can't hear what's happening.
Speaker:So, this is what it sounds like in
Speaker:this environment, with the microphone,
Speaker:uh, in a location that is, uh, It's
Speaker:probably what most people would do.
Speaker:Now that I've done that, I'm
Speaker:going to test it with it.
Speaker:What a lot of people do they hold onto
Speaker:it like this so that it can get closer
Speaker:to their mouth so that you get a better
Speaker:audio signal, but it's not really
Speaker:what you're supposed to do with them.
Speaker:Now I'm pretending that
Speaker:I'm a content creator.
Speaker:I mean, I guess I am a content
Speaker:creator, but I'm pretending that
Speaker:I'm doing this for a purpose
Speaker:other than testing the microphone.
Speaker:So this would be most people, they
Speaker:would have some sort of little
Speaker:tripod that they're holding, or
Speaker:it's on the desk and they're using
Speaker:this nice and close to their mouth.
Speaker:So we're going to test
Speaker:what that is like as well.
Speaker:So that's the sample for the DJI mic 2.
Speaker:So before I give you my
Speaker:thoughts, what did you think?
Speaker:Please put it in the comments.
Speaker:What did you think?
Speaker:How did it sound?
Speaker:Would this be a device
Speaker:that you would want to use?
Speaker:Now that you've written that comment,
Speaker:thank you so much for leaving a comment.
Speaker:I love replying to them.
Speaker:So the first thing I'm going to
Speaker:make a little bit of a remark on is
Speaker:this case within a case situation.
Speaker:I mean, I like that.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:It's all in one, but I find it kind
Speaker:of annoying like to get this thing
Speaker:out and then to get this thing out
Speaker:and then have this, like, you know,
Speaker:things are kind of stuck away there.
Speaker:I don't really like the design of this.
Speaker:I find it a little bit clunky to kind
Speaker:of get things in and out of, and it
Speaker:feels a bit like a bit of a waste.
Speaker:You know, it does keep everything really
Speaker:together, really secure, really easy
Speaker:to just pop in your bag as one thing.
Speaker:Now, if we go into the, what's actually
Speaker:in the hard case here, The actual devices
Speaker:themselves are really easy to clip on.
Speaker:I think they look cool too.
Speaker:Just being able to see the
Speaker:inner workings of the DJI.
Speaker:I really liked that.
Speaker:I like that it gives you the option
Speaker:of the actual clip as well as the
Speaker:magnet so that you've got a couple of
Speaker:different ways that you can connect.
Speaker:Two people.
Speaker:And it is really easy
Speaker:to connect to people.
Speaker:The magnet thing is a little bit
Speaker:tricky because you kind of got to like
Speaker:slide it under and then like get it.
Speaker:And then if it falls out, it's
Speaker:this tiny little magnet that
Speaker:is just somewhere on the floor.
Speaker:So if you happen to drop it,
Speaker:especially at the beach, that is
Speaker:a little bit annoying, but it does
Speaker:function a lot better if you use
Speaker:the magnet versus the actual clip.
Speaker:Like it just sounds better
Speaker:because it doesn't drop forward.
Speaker:Like I said, in one of those tests,
Speaker:it has an on button on the side.
Speaker:It has a record button as well.
Speaker:And then it has a pairing button.
Speaker:So it's pretty easy to understand
Speaker:how this works as a microphone.
Speaker:You just clip it on, you hit record.
Speaker:The haptic feedback that you get
Speaker:when you turn it on is really nice.
Speaker:So it gives you that, okay,
Speaker:this thing is definitely on.
Speaker:Uh, and then it's very easy to, when you
Speaker:hit record, there's a little red light
Speaker:that shows you that it is recording.
Speaker:And then there's the button gives
Speaker:you haptic feedback as well.
Speaker:So that kind of feature gives
Speaker:you that extra reassurance.
Speaker:That the device is working.
Speaker:And then the green light tells
Speaker:you that it's on as well.
Speaker:You can also plug this
Speaker:in to your computer.
Speaker:In fact, it's necessary for you
Speaker:to plug it into your computer.
Speaker:If you've recorded to the device,
Speaker:as in, if you haven't recorded it on
Speaker:using a camera or a phone, you need to
Speaker:plug this in so that you can actually
Speaker:get the audio off of the device.
Speaker:So as far as the look of those,
Speaker:how it feels, how easy it is to
Speaker:like get out and pull in, put
Speaker:away, all of that is really good.
Speaker:The actual receiver, again, you know,
Speaker:I like that it's nice and small.
Speaker:What I do like is that it connects
Speaker:to the base of your phone so easily.
Speaker:Like it's just connected to the
Speaker:base of the phone or to, you
Speaker:know, the other DJI products,
Speaker:whatever you want to connect it to.
Speaker:It does do it very simply and
Speaker:easily, but it is quite bulky then.
Speaker:And it, you know, it's something that you
Speaker:have to manage as far as making sure that
Speaker:you're not hitting things by mistake.
Speaker:If you've got another device there.
Speaker:I like that they've done that,
Speaker:but I also don't like it.
Speaker:So the DJI mic two at time of recording,
Speaker:doesn't have an option for you to
Speaker:connect this to your computer or
Speaker:your phone and have any kind of app
Speaker:customizations, anything that you want
Speaker:to change on the device, you need to do.
Speaker:On the device itself.
Speaker:There's a little touch screen for this.
Speaker:You can change the receiver settings.
Speaker:You can change the transmitter
Speaker:settings and you can change
Speaker:overall settings, but they're all
Speaker:within this little touch screen.
Speaker:The touch screen is easy
Speaker:enough to navigate, but the
Speaker:feedback on it is not great.
Speaker:Sliding through to what
Speaker:you want takes a while.
Speaker:Sometimes when you're first
Speaker:using it as well, you don't know
Speaker:what all these features are.
Speaker:There's no way for you to figure it
Speaker:out easily other than to go back to
Speaker:the user manual of the DJI mic 2 and
Speaker:find the support documentation for
Speaker:it or a YouTube video to figure out
Speaker:what all of these things even are.
Speaker:So it's cool that it's simple and
Speaker:that it's all in one thing, But I
Speaker:actually don't like that it doesn't
Speaker:have some way for you to plug it in
Speaker:and mess with stuff like have an app.
Speaker:To me, that would be a better user
Speaker:experience than sitting there going,
Speaker:hang on now, where was that menu?
Speaker:And I got to click on this thing.
Speaker:And then I got to get, you know,
Speaker:scroll through all this stuff.
Speaker:I don't like that.
Speaker:I really think that DJI should have
Speaker:an app that goes with this to make it
Speaker:more functional, make it easier for
Speaker:you to get what you want out of it.
Speaker:Even getting out of the settings as well,
Speaker:you got to kind of scroll back through
Speaker:things, and it's not, it's not great.
Speaker:The user guide on it I found
Speaker:to be a little bit confusing.
Speaker:It did explain things kind
Speaker:of well, but I feel like DJI,
Speaker:its first love was not audio.
Speaker:With the user guide and the support,
Speaker:it's lacking in that area, and that
Speaker:has been a bit of a downfall, like a
Speaker:bit of a negative thing for me, because
Speaker:I'm like, if this is supposed to be
Speaker:an audio device, this should be much
Speaker:easier for people to understand quicker.
Speaker:You can monitor your volume using the
Speaker:headphone on the side, which I like.
Speaker:And you can also obviously connect
Speaker:this to a camera as well as a
Speaker:phone, as well as to any DJI product
Speaker:that is supported for it as well.
Speaker:Now I want to talk about the
Speaker:noise reduction features.
Speaker:It's cool that it does a lot, that it
Speaker:can get rid of a lot of background noise,
Speaker:but I actually don't sound good at all.
Speaker:And anyone that I tested with the noise
Speaker:reduction on, whatever they've done,
Speaker:Makes you sound kind of like trash like
Speaker:you sound really thin it's not your
Speaker:full expression of your voice, which
Speaker:I would expect it wouldn't be the full
Speaker:expression, but It's the loss that you
Speaker:get from turning the noise reduction
Speaker:on to me makes it Kind of useless.
Speaker:I would not use it because it sounds bad.
Speaker:I honestly think it sounds bad.
Speaker:And I know that they do firmware
Speaker:updates and I hope that they're going
Speaker:to improve that particular feature
Speaker:because right now I think that it is
Speaker:just not something that is worth using.
Speaker:Whereas when you turn that off
Speaker:immediately, you sound so much better.
Speaker:And so if I was suggesting that for
Speaker:a, like, podcasting conversation or
Speaker:an interview, absolutely make sure
Speaker:that the noise reduction is off.
Speaker:And by default, it is on.
Speaker:So you need, that needs to be
Speaker:something that you go into almost
Speaker:immediately and go, okay, where
Speaker:am I going to be recording?
Speaker:Am I going to be somewhere that's loud?
Speaker:If I'm not, get rid of it.
Speaker:Don't have that thing on
Speaker:because it sounds bad.
Speaker:So on Amazon right now, you
Speaker:can get this for around $520.
Speaker:That's Australian dollars, which.
Speaker:You get the case, everything you've
Speaker:seen here, you get two microphones,
Speaker:you get the receiver as well, and
Speaker:you get the case and everything.
Speaker:There's a link to do so
Speaker:in the description below.
Speaker:If that interests you, we
Speaker:are an Amazon affiliate.
Speaker:So we would get a teeny tiny
Speaker:little kickback if you end
Speaker:up purchasing this system.
Speaker:Who do I think this is for?
Speaker:For though.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:That's, that's the most important
Speaker:thing that I want to go through.
Speaker:Who is this for?
Speaker:If you are a person that likes to
Speaker:record on location a lot, if you want
Speaker:to go to other people's houses, to
Speaker:studios, to, you know, uh, anywhere
Speaker:that or conferences, and you want
Speaker:to take something that's really
Speaker:simple and easy to carry in your bag.
Speaker:If you want to go overseas and you
Speaker:still want to record content, that's
Speaker:the person that should have this.
Speaker:If you're a person that's going to be in
Speaker:your house recording, and this is for a
Speaker:podcast, then I wouldn't recommend this
Speaker:system because it's kind of overkill.
Speaker:Firstly, if it's just you, you
Speaker:don't need two microphones.
Speaker:You don't need to spend 526
Speaker:on this whole setup, just so
Speaker:that you can record a podcast.
Speaker:You can have a microphone, which
Speaker:I've done plenty of microphone
Speaker:reviews, and you could spend as
Speaker:little as like 150, 200 Aussie
Speaker:dollars, And get something that will
Speaker:do that will suffice for your setup.
Speaker:You really have to think
Speaker:about what is your setup.
Speaker:If it's just you at your house, just a
Speaker:microphone on a stand, you would get all
Speaker:of that for less than 500 and something
Speaker:dollars, and you will have better audio.
Speaker:This would be something I
Speaker:would add to my arsenal later.
Speaker:If I was going to then go and interview
Speaker:people or if I want to start going
Speaker:out and into the world and maybe
Speaker:interviewing people on the street
Speaker:or whatever, then you could do this.
Speaker:If you're recording content with your
Speaker:phone and you're wanting high quality
Speaker:sound for your phone Stuff as well,
Speaker:then this kind of system will work.
Speaker:I have done other videos as well
Speaker:where you can just use again,
Speaker:like a traditional microphone.
Speaker:You just plug that into
Speaker:the bottom of your phone.
Speaker:The Rode PodMic USB actually
Speaker:does that really easily.
Speaker:A lot of them are having
Speaker:that option available now,
Speaker:which is really, really cool.
Speaker:You're going to get better audio doing
Speaker:that than this, but it's like a lead.
Speaker:It's a bit more things.
Speaker:Whereas this is, I guess, maybe easier.
Speaker:You just put it on here, but the audio
Speaker:quality doesn't sound as good as it, if
Speaker:it's down here, it's better if it's here.
Speaker:And I don't really like the
Speaker:way this looks like this.
Speaker:I find distracting when I see that
Speaker:in videos, I'm like looking at this
Speaker:more than I'm looking at their face.
Speaker:The branding is so.
Speaker:big DJI that I find it distracting
Speaker:in those videos as well.
Speaker:But I can see how content creators just
Speaker:want to do something that's simple.
Speaker:You just plug that into the bottom
Speaker:of your phone, you connect it, you
Speaker:start recording, and you're done.
Speaker:You're good to go.
Speaker:So from that standpoint,
Speaker:it is really good.
Speaker:Uh, the other place that you might want
Speaker:to think about using a system like this
Speaker:is, is if you are shooting tutorials
Speaker:or you're shooting at a whiteboard or
Speaker:something like that, where you're going
Speaker:to be using your hands a lot and you're
Speaker:not going to be In the one place as much.
Speaker:So like we have a content creators
Speaker:Academy, which is a thing that
Speaker:we go to high schools and then we
Speaker:help them shoot a bunch of stuff.
Speaker:And we have workshops that we
Speaker:record and replay for them.
Speaker:We can facilitate that by having things
Speaker:like this with good quality audio.
Speaker:Even if we're not facing a
Speaker:microphone, you know, so that
Speaker:kind of situation is really good.
Speaker:If you're running workshops, live
Speaker:events, you want to get the sound
Speaker:from it and you are going to be
Speaker:moving around, then this kind of
Speaker:system will work for that as well.
Speaker:What is my overall picture of the DJI?
Speaker:When I first got it, I didn't like it.
Speaker:I didn't like that there was this
Speaker:bulky kind of case within a case and
Speaker:I found this like, you know, having
Speaker:to scroll through things on this
Speaker:tiny little screen really annoying.
Speaker:There was a few things that I
Speaker:was I just didn't like straight
Speaker:out of the box there with that.
Speaker:I also didn't like that you could
Speaker:actually have the inputs come
Speaker:out without you knowing as well.
Speaker:It is strong, but it's not strong enough.
Speaker:There's a few little design
Speaker:things that I really didn't like
Speaker:when I first started using it.
Speaker:And then when I first started
Speaker:using it and I used it with the
Speaker:noise reduction again, I hated it.
Speaker:I was like, this is trash.
Speaker:This sounds so bad.
Speaker:There is no way I would ever use this.
Speaker:But then when I turned the noise
Speaker:reduction off, I was like, ah,
Speaker:okay, this actually is pretty good.
Speaker:So how I felt about it.
Speaker:Then when I first started
Speaker:versus now is much different.
Speaker:I definitely like this system now.
Speaker:There are definitely features of
Speaker:this that are really impressive.
Speaker:And I think that they've
Speaker:put a lot of effort into it.
Speaker:I would like the audio
Speaker:quality to be better.
Speaker:There are issues with the, like,
Speaker:Placement of the microphone and
Speaker:where it actually sounds good.
Speaker:Lapels always have issues because they,
Speaker:they can't be right close to the source.
Speaker:It's kind of down here or
Speaker:you have to hold it up here.
Speaker:I think there's better situations if you
Speaker:want really high quality audio, but if
Speaker:you want versatility, then I think that
Speaker:this is a really good system to get,
Speaker:especially if you have DJI products.
Speaker:Elsewhere as well.
Speaker:Very easy to connect to those.
Speaker:And smartphones are easy
Speaker:to connect to as well.
Speaker:So impressed with this in the end,
Speaker:I thought I was going to hate it.
Speaker:I didn't mind it.
Speaker:Audio quality is pretty good and, uh,
Speaker:something that I would recommend to
Speaker:people, but at the price point, I would
Speaker:also be asking, what do you need it for?
Speaker:How many people are you
Speaker:going to be recording?
Speaker:Where are you going to be recording?
Speaker:Do you need to spend 520 on this?
Speaker:If you want help with this kind of
Speaker:stuff and you really actually don't
Speaker:know what to choose, you can actually
Speaker:book in for a consult with me.
Speaker:We can run through where you're currently
Speaker:at, what you're trying to record.
Speaker:We can go through your
Speaker:recording location.
Speaker:That's a consult that you can
Speaker:click on using the link in the
Speaker:description below and I would be
Speaker:happy to get on a consult with you.
Speaker:Just a 30 minute consult would
Speaker:probably be all we need to establish
Speaker:what you need for your setup.
Speaker:And then I will be able to
Speaker:send you through some links to
Speaker:some things that I think would
Speaker:really work for your situation.
Speaker:If you like this kind of content,
Speaker:you know, the drill, do you, you
Speaker:should, like it, subscribe it.
Speaker:Comment.
Speaker:I love comments.
Speaker:What do you think?
Speaker:How did it sound?
Speaker:Did you like it?
Speaker:And will you be buying one?
Speaker:Or is there something else
Speaker:you would buy instead?
