David_Harry
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BobWinNV Posted at 4-3 10:10
Hi Dave,
I sent you 4 audio clips from my testing. One was just the audio from the previous SGC598 test and then three new tests with Clippy EM172 Lav, Edutige ETM001 omni, and EM172 cartridge test. All start by powering up the Osmo Pocket with the adapter and mic to test already plugged in. I then cycle through from Auto to low to moderate and back to low at which point I power down to change microphones by disconnecting the previous mic and the audio adapter then connecting the new mic and audio adapter before turning on the Osmo Pocket for the next test.
Hi Bob.
I've just had a listen to the clips, thanks for sharing them.
Here's what I noticed.
The drop in level in anything other than auto is really far too much and unusable for most people as most people wont be able to correct such things in post. The tone also changes in the fixed gain settings.
When returning to the auto setting every mic tested had much lower levels compared to the start of each take where it started off in auto. This is completely wrong, when returning to any given setting it should always be the same. Can you imagine if this happened with certain picture functions such as white balance, shutter, frame rate, resolution etc. People would be returning their Pocket's.
When working as you think it should, auto is the only setting that's of any use. But this is extremely problematic due to the excessive dynamics processing being applied but is the only way to get anything out of the Pocket that can sound OK.
This is all unacceptable for a peripheral that's designed for microphones and is the only one available. The only use this adaptor has is for people with some audio experience as they're likely to be the only ones who can get anything usable out of it due to post processing or gain matching with the appropriate microphone that's required. Add to this the price of the adaptor and the whole thing becomes totally outrageous.
On the plus side. That example with the Clippy lav sounds great, I'm guessing you're really happy with it?
Maybe to give Pocket owners a very good option for a mic for the Pocket, DJI may want to consider a link in the Pocket forum to the MicBooster site for this lavalier, as it's one of the best mics so far tested for the Pocket.
BTW, Bob. You may want to do a full on video with all these examples, I think it'd be great for Pocket owners.
Thanks again for giving me access to the examples.
Cheers,
Dave. |
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