Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “iKey Audio HDR7 Dual Microphone”.
Hey, what’s up guys mkbhd here back with a high definition, video review of an ikea audio high performance microphone system, portable microphone called the hdr7. So what you’re looking at here is the unit itself. It’S a handheld microphone with dual condenser mics, an lcd screen on the front and a tripod mount on the bottom, and it’s really something that you’re going to see reporters bringing around you’re going to see. People mount it when they’re not going to use the built-in microphone on their camera. They’Ll mount this somewhere off screen in front of them to record their audio with this and feed that into their camera.
So this is really a semi-professional sort of video recording or sorry audio recording device that you’ll see a lot of youtubers start to use and you’ll see a lot of video producers begin to use the cardio patterns on these microphones. As i can tell you from experience, make the sound very, very accurate, on the left hand, side, you have an input, gain control and you also have some other switches for turning it on and giving it ac power when you’re running out of battery at the bottom. You have that tripod mount and your sd card slot, and it does come with a one gig card. On the other side, you can see your usb input, your usb to pc connection, and it comes with the cable input, high and low gain and your output level control, and that brings us to the front of the device which has a really professional clean layout.
With the lcd screen in the middle – and you have your menu button to the left of that underneath you have your stop, play, pause and record buttons. Then you have your little click wheel here, which is actually doesn’t click down. You have an ok button. Next to it, but that little jog wheel to turn left to turn right or to change your input uh to actually turn up and down volume of what you’re recording is all done via that wheel. So that’s a really nice clean professional interface and speaking of interface. Actually, turning it on the power button on the left hand, side will give you a good idea of the pretty fast startup time and i’ll get right into the ability to record, and basically once this loads up here, you’ll be able to basically just hit record and Go and when you stop and you go ahead and bring it to your computer and listen to it. If it sounds a little bit quiet, you can turn up input gain, but i’ll tell you right now. This thing is a beast. You can be standing 15 feet away from it and if you turn, input gain all the way up. It’Ll stand like it’ll sound, like i’m sitting right next to you talking into your ear. So i definitely recommend this for people who are recording things that are far away or want a solution to the microphone on top of their camera. That simply doesn’t pick up their voice.
Well enough say you get the rode video mic for your camera and you point it out yourself and it’s still too quiet. I recommend this and you’ll be able to put that pretty far away out of sight from camera view and still get very crisp clean audio from the hdr7. So, there’s no doubt that the thing is top-notch hardware you’re going to be able to easily take recordings, and it’s actually really simple and easy to use if you’ve ever seen. Those things at interviews where they hold up to the the person’s mouth to talk, it’ll, be something like this and the hdr 7 is really a great solution for the built-in video mic on your camera. I’Ve recently purchased the canon t2i, and this is actually one of the last videos you will see. That is not filmed with the canon t2i, possibly the last.
So this is a definitely a solution. I’M going to be utilizing to replace the canon’s built-in video mic with the testing that i’ve gone on with this, i have to give this product a 9 out of 10 for just a phenomenal recording structure, just the wav format it records to the customization of the Interface and the really powerful microphone i’ll make it just a great product. The only negatives that i could find were that the battery life was somewhat disappointing and that the shutdown time and delete time of certain files for some reason took a little bit longer than normal. But otherwise this is going to be excellent for the beginning user and definitely suggested and recommended by mkbhd, and if i could give it an editor’s choice, if i was actually an editor of a website.
Well, i definitely would so. In the end, this has been mkbhd with an hdr7 review and i’ll talk to you guys in the next one peace .