First, the price is amazing for a Rode microphone. Second, it significantly improved the sound quality of music videos that I shoot with my Canon T7i. The difference between this and the camera's internal mic is like night and day. It was simple to integrate with the camera and use. Highly recommended if you want to inexpensively upgrade the audio quality of a camera like the T7i when shooting videos with it.
03/07/2021
I have a growing YouTube channel and find this mic to work awesome. So well in fact that I purchased 2 - one for my main cam, one for my GoPro, and one for backup. If you are looking for a mic with excellent sound and very low noise, this is it.
30/06/2021
I have the worst time with this mic and it's unusable for voice over. The sound is so pingy and awful. I have to sit under a blanket to get it to sound halfway decent and I really wish I had a mic that worked better.
22/06/2021
I used this mic with an iphone, and the quality on it is ok but the volume of the videos that I was able to record was extremely low even though I had the mic right in front of my face. I feel like I wasted $60 on this + I also had to get a different cable to use this mic with my phone. I do not recommend getting this product if you are using it with a phone to record your YouTuber videos with. My friends were able to tell me that the volume of my videos was low. Maybe the people who used it with a camera had a better experience, but I did not have a good one.
13/06/2021
Had this Microphone about 2 years at the most and have only used it a hand full of times. When I try to use it now it makes my Sony a6400 shut off if I mount it on the camera or just put it close to the camera? I thought my camera had a problem but anytime I mount the mic on the camera it shuts on and off… mostly off. When I take it off the camera I have no problem at all and the camera works perfectly. I also tried another external mic and it works perfect. So no sure why it would do that… I can actually put the mic close to the camera and it shuts the screen down where you can see anything?? Not sure if the camera is off or it’s just the screen on back? This is weird I know and have no idea why.. maybe it has a short in it?
08/06/2021
14/05/2021
I have owned a Rode mic in the past that was great, but these must be 2nd hand or I don't know what's going on with them. The boxes were all beat up. The 1st one I got didn't work at all in my sony a6400. So I thought maybe it was just a dud and ordered another one. The 2nd one did work, but in any kind of wind it cracks out even at the lowest audio setting on the sony DSLR. I switched to a different mic now that works great. It's past the return time for the item so I can't send them back since I was on a trip filming for a couple weeks and didn't have a chance to test them. My buddy has the Rode micro and it works great in my camera so I hate to leave a 1 star review but I now have 2 of these mics and can't use either of them... Partly my fault because I should have tested them right away in the window time frame to return them, but I travel and film for work so I wasn't able to. I would change my rating if I can get some help on this issue. PS: It's not a chord issue. I tried the working chord for my other mics in them along with the ones they came with. I also put an additional foam inside the deadcat mic for wind and it still didn't fix the issue.
12/05/2021
Great mic, good sound quality but it definitely works better from “in front” it’s definitely directional. Don’t get me wrong, that’s why I bought it but I use it on my chest mount and while I’m talking behind it you can definitely tell a sound difference when in front of it but it does a great of buffing the wind.
10/05/2021
The mic it’s self works amazingly. The shoe mount however, is a different story. It simply doesn’t fit any camera (canon) or tripod mounts that I have.
08/05/2021