Dji's Much Smaller Mic 3 Can Record Four Subjects At Once

DJI's engaged engineering squad is astatine it again pinch nan creation of nan company's third wireless mic strategy successful little than 2 years. The caller flagship DJI Mic 3 has a wholesale creation alteration from nan Mic 2 positive galore improvements successful areas for illustration sound quality, sound simplification and nan number of subjects you tin grounds astatine erstwhile — though location is 1 downgrade compared to to nan past model. I've had 1 for complete a week truthful I'll supply immoderate impressions arsenic well.

The astir noticeable alteration pinch nan Mic 3 is nan smaller transmitter size and lighter weight. It weighs conscionable 16 grams (.58 ounces) compared to 28 grams (.99 ounces) for nan Mic 2, though it's bigger and heavier than nan Mic Mini transmitter (10 grams). DJI has besides improved nan transmitter mounting options, introducing a rotating clip on pinch nan magnetic option. There's moreover a prime of 5 colors for nan windscreen to amended lucifer your subject's clothing.

The smaller size and rotating clip makes nan Mic 3 much discreet and easier to connect to immoderate garment aliases hat. However, there's still a ample "DJI" logo connected some sides of nan transmitter that looks disfigured but gives nan institution free advertising, I suppose.

The charging lawsuit holds a receiver and 2 transmitters and, dissimilar nan past model, now lets you insert nan transmitter pinch nan magnetic equine and windscreen still attached. Fully charged transmitters tin tally for astir 8 hours and nan receiver tin spell 10 hours. However, nan lawsuit provides capable powerfulness to complaint each 3 devices 2.4 times for astir 28 hours of extended use. This characteristic makes nan Mic 3 useful for marathon shoots and was cardinal to nan occurrence of nan original DJI Mic, though competitors for illustration Sennheiser person caught connected and introduced akin cases.

The Mic 3 now supports up to 4 transmitters and 8 receivers astatine once. That intends you tin grounds 4 subjects astatine a clip to arsenic galore arsenic 8 receivers simultaneously for multi-camera shoots (if you acquisition nan other kits, of course). I wasn't capable to trial this characteristic arsenic I had conscionable a azygous kit, but it'll beryllium useful for ample jobs if it useful arsenic advertised.

To make syncing and lining up each that audio and video simpler, nan Mic 3 now offers high-precision timecode seizure embedded during soul recording. I tested this characteristic pinch 2 cameras, and erstwhile I figured retired really to align nan shots successful DaVinci Resolve, it proved to beryllium a valuable post-production timesaver.

The receiver tin besides beryllium group to quadrophonic mode for prime Sony cameras and software, allowing independent output of 4 channels astatine erstwhile to a azygous camera. DJI is promising a scope of 400 meters (around 1,300 feet) and beardown guidance to interference via automatic wave hopping betwixt nan 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands.

There are immoderate awesome improvements successful audio value arsenic well. It's DJI's first microphone pinch 2 adaptive summation power modes. For noisy outdoor environments for illustration sporting events, Automatic mode suppresses abrupt measurement spikes to forestall clipping. Dynamic mode, meanwhile, adjusts summation connected nan alert successful consequence to measurement changes to guarantee accordant loudness successful quieter settings for illustration studios.

I tested this characteristic successful Paris successful a comparatively quiet workplace and extracurricular pinch postulation and different metropolis noises. The Automatic mounting did a bully occupation suppressing those unwanted sounds without a noticeable effect connected audio quality. And nan move mode kept my speaking levels dependable moreover erstwhile I trailed disconnected astatine nan extremity of sentences, again without impacting sound timbre aliases clarity.

The Mic 3 is besides DJI's first pinch 3 reside presets (Regular, Rich and Bright) to grip different sound characteristics (medium, debased and precocious pitches). This characteristic besides worked arsenic advertised. Set to "Regular," I needed little equalization than accustomed to moreover retired my sound and it worked arsenic good connected a higher-pitched female voice.

Two-level progressive sound cancelation reduces inheritance sounds for illustration aerial conditioning and upwind noise. Again, this worked effectively, though for illustration immoderate sound simplification algorithm, it impacted sound value by artificially reducing immoderate frequencies. Finally, nan lossless audio characteristic lets nan mic nonstop uncompressed 48kHz 24-bit audio straight to nan receiver to destruct immoderate MPEG audio artifacts. This is apt overkill for astir usage cases. While nan Mic 3 offers bully sound quality, it's obscurity adjacent to a dedicated high-end workplace microphone — truthful you'll beryllium difficult pressed to announcement immoderate difference.

DJI besides added soul dual-file 24-bit and 32-bit float recording, which records nan highest value imaginable without immoderate clipping. That allows you to seizure 2 files of 32-bit float sound without algorithmic changes, 2 channels of 24-bit sound with algorithmic changes aliases 1 of each. That's an betterment complete nan Mic 2, which only captured a azygous record of nan original sound internally successful 32-bit float.

There's 1 cardinal characteristic missing connected DJI's Mic 3 that mightiness make it a non-starter for immoderate audio pros. Unlike nan Mic 2, nan transmitter lacks a 3.5mm mic larboard for wired lav aliases different microphones. That intends you're relying connected nan Mic 3's built successful microphone, and though it offers precocious value sound, whitethorn not beryllium precocious capable for applications for illustration broadcast.

Finally, nan Mic 3 useful pinch DJI's OsmoAudio system, truthful it pairs pinch nan Osmo 360, Osmo Action 5 Pro, Action 4 and Osmo Pocket without nan request for a receiver. I tested it pinch nan Osmo 360 and Action 5 Pro and it connected without immoderate issues. For different devices, you tin ligament it successful via a 3.5mm TRS port, TRRS monitoring and a USB-C port, aliases to smartphones via Bluetooth aliases USB-C utilizing nan included adapter.

DJI's Mic 3 is now connected waste successful astir territories, priced astatine 309 euros ($359) successful a kit pinch a charging lawsuit positive 2 transmitters and a receiver, aliases 199 euros ($231) pinch a azygous transmitter and receiver. However, arsenic pinch nan company's different caller products, it's not yet disposable successful nan US "in ray of evolving marketplace conditions," nan institution said successful a statement. There is immoderate dream though. The company's Mavic 4 Pro drone wasn't primitively connected waste successful nan US, but it tin now beryllium purchased astatine Walmart and elsewhere via a third-party distributor.