Not to no end has Rode’s VideoMic GO turned into a famous top pick among bloggers, podcasters, and others searching for nice sound quality without a wild sticker price. Minimized, reasonable, and adaptable, it plays similarly as pleasantly with a cell phone as it does a camera or a PC. Presently, it’s getting an update civility of certain elements Rode acquired from more costly models like the VideoMic NTG.
The outcome is the Rode VideoMic GO II. The tube shaped body is extended – weighing in at 89 grams (3.1 ounces) and presently with an all-metal development – with Rode utilizing a similar annular line tube plan as on the NTG and VideoMic NTG5, alongside the 3.5mm TRS yield. Nonetheless, there’s presently likewise a USB-C result on the mouthpiece, as well.
You can utilize the telephone or PC recording application, however the new receiver likewise works with Rode’s own applications. That incorporates support for Rode Central, Rode Connect, and Rode Reporter on iOS and Android; for work area, there’s full similarity with the work area form of Rode Connect. Accessible for Windows and Mac, Rode Connect is podcasting and streaming programming that backings up to four Rode amplifiers to be utilized at the same time. That incorporates individual command over input level, high-pass channel, high-recurrence lift and cushion, and different impacts.
While connecting a telephone is presumably quite possibly the most probable application here, Rode is likewise ensuring photographic artists with a DSLR, Micro Four Thirds, or different cameras can cooperate. Notwithstanding the 3.5mm link in the container, there’s likewise a SM8-R Camera Mount for the mouthpiece. That secludes it from vibrations, in addition to there’s a standard hot shoe plate on the base.
What might part assessment is that Rode has likewise eliminated the 9V battery that fueled the first VideoMic GO. All things being equal, it’s transport fueled – that is fine assuming you’re involving it in USB-C mode, however that could provoke a cerebral pain or two in the event that what you’re connecting the 3.5mm link to doesn’t supply sufficient module power. For a great many people, it’s likely not going to be a thought, mind, since the expansion of USB-C is the enormous information here, and not pondering supplanting batteries – or turning the VideoMic GO II off after you’re finished with it – will be a much-appreciated improvement.
