Movo/Sevenoak Camera Stereo Camera Microphone - Condenser Video Mic with 90°-120° Adjustable Directional Mic Capsules - Compatible with Sony, Nikon, and Canon DSLR Cameras

For only $50, this is an excellent and inexpensive stereo microphone for your camera. It has a certain amount of self-noise, hard to assess, though, how it compares to considerably more expensive mics.Pros:Very compact, lightweight, and easy to use.It has an input volume control.It has an earphone jack so that you can listen as you're recording and adjust the input volume (a feature I really like).It picks up sound quite well and you can change the directional angle of the two microphones.It has a two-step high pass filter that you can use if there's too much wind noise.It has a dead cat for wind noise control.Questionable issues:I am not sure that the directional angle does a lot (I do notice a difference, but it is not spectacular).I am not sure about the noise attenuation; it seems unnecessary in almost all situations.Cons:It picks up a fair amount of background noise from behind, particularly (unsurprisingly) when the main source of sound is a bit on the quiet side (i.e. it is not a shotgun or a parabolic mic).Update Nov. 28, 2015: I gave one of these to my brother, who's recording live opera music with it. He said that the quality of his recordings with this microphone and a Nikon D3300 is better than the professional recordings the opera house people do.

I liked the quality of the stereo sound, but unfortunately it stopped working. I had to give it a poor rating since mine stopped working after one test listening.

I found this mic helpful for my video camera sound. Only giving 4 stars because it felt a little heavy and bulky.

I am a piano student and am trying to record a performance using my Sony FDR-AX53 video camera. It takes excellent video but the sound from the built-in microphone often leaves a lot to be desired. As mentioned in forums online I tried changing the video recording mode to allow me to record in 5.1 rather than 2 channels but I still experienced a lot of distortion, even with the record level manually set low. So I pulled the trigger and bought this microphone. Then I tested it out. When the sound comes through clearly it sounds great but there are still dropouts and distortions and now there are new clicks on the soundtrack. So this mic isn't so good for recording a live piano performance in conjunction with s Sony FDR-AX53 video camera, but I'm keeping it anyhow because it could be useful someday, albeit perhaps in a different context. I didn't want to deduct a star because I strongly suspect issues with the audio input circuitry on the camera.UPDATE: I examined the camera and saw that I had the record mode set to record 5.1, stereo which uses only the internal mic. So I changed it back to where the camera was expecting 2-channel stereo. I also discovered that, contrary to the camera manual, one CAN adjust the record volume with the camera's controls while recording with an external mic. So using these facts, I managed to get a recording of my performance laid down again, but the sound still sucks - it "wobbles", cuts in and out and still I blame the camera rather than the mic, because similar issues occur with the internal mic.SECOND UPDATE: I finally found out that, in my case at least, the problem lies with Airplay. When I play the video on ANY device other than on my TV through AirPlay, the audio sounds just fine. When I import the video into iMovie & AirPlay it to the TV the sound is...unstable, for lack of a better word. So - the mic sounds great!

The built in mics on my Canon Rebel T6i already sound very good. I am quite happy with that audio. However, this Movo mic is a definite upgrade on the frequency response, having better lows and highs. In lieu of a better term, the sound has a better "fullness" to it, if you will. I have tested all 3 orientations of the mic...X-Y, A-B (parallel and spaced side by side pointing in same direction), and the 120 Deg separation. The first 2 have reasonably good stereo separation at closer ranges like, say, 5-10 feet away or so. However for my primary use in church where the main subjects are usually from 10-50 feet maybe more, the 120 Deg ORTF separation is best, giving very beautiful stereo imaging. This type separation was originally devised because it closely duplicates how our ears work and give the best natural sounding audio.My particular Movo doesn't have perfectly matched mics. The left mike has slightly more gain than the right mic. But this is actually not really problematic. The T6i mics are perfectly matched, but the Movo has an average of about 3 dB of more gain to it on the left channel. I can't really tell if it has any obvious effect on stereo imaging accuracy. I don't think it's audibly noticeable at all. But, being the precision freak that I am, I can electronically see it and know it's there and have played around with adjusting it to perfection. I used WavePad basic free edition to extract the audio and save as PCM. Then insert into Audacity, separated the channels, use Amplify under Effects tab to lower left channel by 3 dB, joined the channels. Then used an audio converter to change back to the original AAC and put it back in the video. This info I provided for those who like messing around fine tuning stuff as I do! 8-) As I said, the slight gain difference is actually not audibly noticeable.Yes, it seems be made of cheap plastic, but it's actually very sturdy, the buttons have a solid feel to them. I adjusted the gain control to be just slightly a little higher than the built in mics...I let the auto gain in the camera take care of the rest. Overall I am very pleased with the price to quality ratio. Very nice mic that certainly is a very noticeable low cost upgrade from the built in mics. Happy I bought this.

I couldn't get it to work well on my Canon 6d. There was background hiss no matter what setting I had it on. On test clips it made my built in mic sound good.

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