Best 3.5 Mm Headphones With Mic

[Black] I had to hook a headset (mic and headphones) to a Griffin iMic. The headset has a 4-pin/TRRS 3.5mm plug; the iMic has two jacks, a mic input and headphone outputs; both are 3.5mm 3-pin/TRS. This is the cord that converts it. It works. It's sturdy. I don't think about it. It's surprisingly hard to find these things, so I'm glad B&H stocks them.

[15.2 in] [This review was collected as part of a promotion.] Full disclosure: I was sent this product to review it. Honestly, it works great for its intended purpose. I was able to charge my phone and connect Lightning headphones at the same time. I didn't notice any difference in sound quality between plugging the headphones into this product or plugging them straight into my iPhone. They also work perfectly with the 3.5 mm to Lightning adapter provided by Apple with my phone. The RockStar feels sturdy and uses Apple's signature look well. If it weren't for the Belkin logo on the Lightning plug, this could easily have been mistaken for something made by Apple. It also couldn't be simpler to use. Plug it into the iPhone and plug your headphones and power cord into either available port. There are only two things I could think of to make this product better. First would have been to have one port be a 3.5 mm jack. I only have the one pair of lightning headphones Apple provided and the adapter. I have a pile of old headphones though. My second thought would have been, if you have two Lightning ports on the adapter, let it be used to plug in two sets of headphones to act as a splitter. This may be a limitation set by Apple and not the product itself, but it would add a level of use to the RockStar. If you use Lightning headphones or 3.5 mm headphones with a Lightning adapter, this is a great product to be able to listen to music while you charge your phone. Personally, I use Bluetooth about 99.9% of the time, but I'm glad I have this product for those times I can't.

[Black] Fast delivery, quick turn-around. This splitter makes it possible to use regular 3.5mm headphones with my Samsung Galaxy S4, which has the headphone/mic combo jack.

[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!

[End Address] The MVP-6 is a good first and affordable shotgun mic: it has a switch to select usage with a camera (TRRS) or a smarphone 3.5 mm jack (TRS) without requiring an adapter, battery or phantom power. Its cable is non-detachable, coiled and its length is perfect.  It is meant to capture audio from its source with a focused narrower perception during the recording the way we hear selectively when we focus our attention.  So far, I used it indoors for an interview with a camera positioned 3 ft away in a quite room, then with music playing at close proximity and finally outdoors while filming sport car with an 85 mm lens, so quite away from the subject at a marina with surrounding noises. During each recording, I pointed the shotgun mic straight at the audio source, rotated 90° and then all the way at 180° to test the off-axis rejection. I compared the audio by playing it back with quality headphones from the shotgun mic and the on-board SONY A6400 omni directional mics in all three scenarios. I found the self-noise to be similar between the MVP-6 and the camera while listening at 75% playback volume. However, on-axis, the audio pleasantly more focused when using the shotgun mic. If you can be close to the source (on-camera using the cold shoe while filming with a wide angle lens or using a boom pole using its 1/4”-20 threaded hole and 3.5 mm cable extension plugged into an audio recorder) and orientate it properly, this shotgun will definitely improve the audio quality. It adds clarity and some perceptible loudness to the production.  The advantage in using a shotgun mic such as this one is also to allow keeping the audio gain low(er). This is desirable because the camera’s built-in pre-amps are rarely very good. It is best to keep the gain as low as reasonable to reduce the self-noise. As for the sound characteristics: it is a little on the bright side and it reminded me of  Sennheiser.  [I have received this product in exchange for my honest review]

[1x USB-C Male] So yes. First off this thing cleans up your audio from external mics very well. I've tried this on my motorcycle with the gain set to -10db and it turned out very clear (I am still editing that video). It fits nice and tight onto the side of your Action 3/4. Something to note....you WILL need to remove your usb-c access door to use this. Lucky for you, it removes easily by design and yessss it fits Into your camera while your camera is still in a cage. Another thing is you CAN use the usb-c port to charge your camera while still using the 3.5mm jack to plug a mic into while recording. - The 3.5mm jack is a TRS port so your mic has to have 2 lines on the 3.5mm end (not 3) in order to work with this adapter. - You cannot use the usb-c port of this mic adapter with a usb-c microphone as that mic will not work. If you have a usb-c microphone, plug it directly into the camera to use it. - the usb-c port of this adapter can be used to transfer files from the camera to your phone/laptop/tablet or PC or charge the camera ONLY.

[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.

[Phantom Power] I paired this with my FX30 with Top Handle and Wow compared to a 3.5mm Mic. The sound is super clear and crisp and doesn't pick up nearly as much background noise. I compared this to my Rode Videomic NTG which is not that much cheaper and blew my expectations. It's not long and great for on mic shooting.

[Black] I was looking for a way to bring external audio into my iPad without resorting to an external audio interface. I found that some simple apps, for example the iPad's built-in video camera, don't always recognize pro audio interfaces even if designed for iOS devices. Since this cable just utilizes the ubiquitous mic input on the iPad, it works perfectly. You can run your mixing board output(s) straight into this. It has the internal circuitry needed to do the line-to-mic conversion and (if needed) summing, and other protections. Of course you get mono into your device whether one or both XLRs are connected. It was well worth it to me to not have to figure out the proper circuit and then kludge solder something up on my own. For being molded it is well constructed. I suggest being careful with the 3.5mm end and not stress it or your iPad/Phone jack by dangling this adapter with heavy XLR connectors from your iPad/Phone. Use a lighter-weight 3.5mm extension cable at the iPad first or otherwise strain relief the 3.5mm at the iPad/Phone some way.

[1.1 in] Purchased this to add a wireless 3.5mm mic to a PTZ camera that outputs video through HDMI. The camera has a 3.5mm audio in, but sounded like garbage. This fixed that. If anyone is wondering: I did PTZ HDMI to the KanexPro, Wireless mic to the 3.5mm Line In, HDMI from the KanexPro to a deck recorder. This embeds the audio to HMDI without any lip-sync issues that I've noticed. Sounds decent for the price. Will be running this on a 24/7 PTZ camera. Hopefully it holds up.