3.5 Mm Mini Camera Microphone

[Nickel] I have no complaints about this stereo mini 3.5mm cable. It sounds great and seems to be built well.

[8' / 2.4 m] I plug the 3.5mm mini-jack end into my dual wireless lav receiver. I plug the two XLRs into my audio recorder. The stereo signal from the lav receiver splits into Left on one XLR and Right on the other XLR, leaving me with two Mono tracks on the audio recorder. Exactly what I need.

[Eurorack Power] I have been looking for a mini mixer to interface a 3.5 mm stereo source and a XLR mic input. This box is perfect! It is built well and sums both devices to a lowZ mic input and it has a Ground lift to boot.

[Black] Folks - this omnidirectional lavalier microphone with locking 3.5mm connector in black is made by Sennheiser and is 101% a quality microphone connector.

[1] I purchased this along with the Rode Rodelink Lav microphone. The thread-lock on the 3.5mm connector of the lav fits perfectly with connector on the Rode VXLR+. This allows me to belt-clip (included) the converter to the talent and run an XLR mic cable back to the mixer with phantom power when needed in place of connecting the lav to a bodypack for wireless use. It also works with the non-locking 3.5mm connector of the Rode Lavalier Go mic but this combination gives more assurance that the mic's connector won't pull out of the adapter.

[0.485 lb] this cable worked well for adapting my microphone cable to a 3.5mm recording device. sound pick up was good

[Blue] More solid than I was expecting for a 3.5mm

[14 AWG] I use this to connect 3.5mm cords with male ends.

[12" / 30.5 cm] The 3.5mm locking connector fits well with RodeLink.

[Low Cut/HPF] It's a different concept as it requires no batteries, it's powered from the camera. Why is this important. Well, for me two reasons, the first being you cannot screw-up and forget to turn it on, its on when mounted on the camera. The second reason, if this is an occasional use mic batteries are a pain, you find yourself thinking, are they fresh, maybe they're dead or will they last the recording session? No issues with this mic, if your camera's rolling then the mic is working - as it should be. It may not be the best mic you can buy, but (and its a big but) if you attach this mic to your SONY you will get very decent audio most every time, it's pretty much immune to pilot error and therefore it has its proper place in my kit (as does the auto exposure setting on my mode dial). Size-wise, it's tiny. You could leave it in your pocket for those just-in-case moments. As with all these on-camera mics (or on-camera flash) I'd say being within 6-10 feet is the optimal working distance. My only complaint, even when mounted on a SONY smart-shoe equipped camera you still have to plug-in the 3.5mm cable to access the manual audio levels feature on the camera. Without the 3.5mm cable this mic is in full-auto mode, but it does appear to do a very good job is noisy environments! So to sum it up, if I were to take one mic out on a road-trip, I'd take this one, it'll just work. Fancy mics are obviously better, but how many times have you heard a video guy say, well the audio isn't too good in the clip, I didn't have the levels set properly -- no issues here (without the 3.5mm cable), you'll be in full auto and in the ball park. KISS!