RODE WIRELESS GO Review: Simple Wireless Microphone System
RODE’s new WIRELESS GO is a wireless microphone system designed to be simple and quick to use but also has the ability to add external lavalier microphones for cases where you want an even more discreet look. This system is well suited for vloggers, YouTubers, and for cases where you want to do quick pick-up interviews without a lot of fuss getting set up. Let’s take a closer look and listen to see how it performs.
If you’d like to learn how to make great dialogue audio for your film and video projects, please have a look at my courses including processing dialogue audio in Adobe Audition and DaVinci Resolve/Fairlight, recording sound, how to use the Zoom F8 and F8n, and how to get the most from the Sound Devices MixPre series of recorders.
Links to gear used in this video:
RODE WIRELESS GO - Super simple to use wireless microphone system
RODELink Filmmaker Kit - More versatile wireless microphone system with longer range and more options for add-on transmitters. Can also control the input and output levels on the transmitter and receiver.
Lupo Superpanel Dual Color 60 - key light for all of the shots in this video
Lupo Superpanel Full Color 60 - RGBW light used to light the background
Panasonic GH5 (Amazon)
Panasonic 12-35mm f/2.8 OIS Lens (Amazon)
Blackmagic Design Pocket Cinema Camera 4K - used to shoot the talking head and most of the product shots
Copyright 2019 by Curtis Judd
Music Copyright 2018 by Cary Judd. Used with permission.
RODE WIRELESS GO - NAB 2019
On the show floor at NAB 2019, we met up with Ryan Burke of RODE Microphones to have a look at their new WIRELESS GO system - a small, very simple to use wireless microphone system.
The audio in this episode was recorded entirely with the WIRELESS GO into a Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K. The audio was loudness normalized to -23 LUFS and no other processing was applied.
This was a brutal test for a wireless system - on the show floor at NAB with a ton of RF activity. The handheld mic I use during this was for backup but since the WIRELESS GO did so well, we muted the handheld in post.
The WIRELESS GO kit used to record the audio for this episode was provided free of charge to us. We were not paid further to produce this video.
If you’d like to learn how to make great dialogue audio for your film and video projects, please have a look at my courses including processing dialogue audio in Adobe Audition and DaVinci Resolve/Fairlight, recording sound, how to use the Zoom F8 and F8n, and how to get the most from the Sound Devices MixPre series of recorders.
Links to gear used in this video:
Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K
Panasonic 12-35mm f/2.8 OIS Lens
Copyright 2019 by Curtis Judd
Music Copyright 2017 by TVAC. Used with permission.
