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Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Rode Lava mic
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Posted . Owned for 1 week when reviewed.
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Great little lav mic, it’s pretty expensive, but it does a good job.
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I've used this several times for videos to post to Instagram. All in all, it's a good mic for this use, however sometimes it can sound a little echo-ish, like you are in a well. It's a nice mic economically for the someone just getting into video.
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This microphone works good enough, but the clip fell off almost immediately. The clip was poorly made and even before it fell off, it was difficult to get the mic clipped to my sons shirt so he could use it to make videos.
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The build quality is horrible. Flimsy. The clip is metal, and it is nice. That is the only thing differentiating its build quality from a cheap fifteen dollar lav mic. I had to turn my gain to 100 and then my sound card's "mic boost" feature the max (what it calls "+30db") to get it audible less than two inches from my mouth. This resulted in a clipped sound having everything cranked up, but I could at least position the mic about 7 inches from my mouth on my shirt.
It's just junk. You buying a nice lav clip. Otherwise it might as well be sold at a dollar general in the impulse isle.
I tried different sample rates on my PC's sound card. It doesn't get any better at 24 bit 192 Khz or anything below that. My sound card is not a pro grade card, but it's capable enough to achieve those sample rates on the mic and 32 bit 192 kHz on the output. Maybe it's an impedance thing? I don't know. Now I have to return this hopefully at a loss to the manufacture putting this out for this price.
For some reason I thought this thing had a two meter cord. It's one meter by my estimation. Which means it would require an extension cord for me anyway. I didn't even try it with an extension cord since it works poorly without one.
My sound card is built into my motherboard a Asus ROG Strix Z590-A. It says this on the specs: ALC4080 with Savitech SV3H712 amplifier, along with DTS® Sound Unbound and Sonic Studio III
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Great mic did YouTube videos! I use this plugged into my phone or camera and it's great. Keep in mind that if you want to plug it into your phone you'll probably needba TRRS adapter.