Best Wireless Mic - Rode Wireless Pro vs GO II, DJI, Lark max

I compare the sound and features of the Rode Wireless Pro against the Rode Wireless GO II, Hollyland Lark Max, and DJI Mic. My top pick is the Wireless Pro as I feel it has the most balanced sound and excellent features for the price. But the Lark Max and DJI are both great options at a lower price also.

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- All audio was normalized to -16 LUFS
- Limiter was applied at -2dB (except for the demonstration of clipping audio in the street interview)
- No other post-processing was applied

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[robinhilliermodernagents]

I think the most important thing to note is that the Wireless Pro is configured in such a way that you are guaranteed to have good audio no matter what. You’d have to shove the mic in your mouth in order to damage a 32 bit float enough to be unusable. This is a tremendous piece of mind.

[simplytechit]

A rotating mic recordings demonstration! Exactly what we need!! Btw the Lark sounds so damn good and crispy tho

[puddytat]

The mic you cal Digee is made by DJI. Pronounced Dee Jay Eye not digee

[ikhanakib]

The review I have been looking for so long, scratching over youtube for couple of days! Good work!

[peccotunity]

Your voice with the wPRO is beyond the level wow 😮 You have a great voice tone.

[MarkoMarkolovic]

This is the comparison I needed to help make my decision. Well-done! Thank You!!

[maxhammer]

The lark has a nasty tint to the sound, dji sounds nutral and rode go 2 sounds well balanced i think wireless pro slightly sonds the best but not by much, pro might sound a little base heavey, but im nit picking

[GenevieveHathaway]

Best review I've found on the difference between these systems. I can tell you use them, you understand them and you can explain the difference between the wireless setups. I also really liked that you played the recordings of each system through the video. That really helped me narrow down which sound I preferred.

[TheVelvetvoicecoach]

This is an amazing review. To reference the MKH beside the Wireless Pro on pure audio quality made the decision very clear.

[fabiobarbati]

About the sound of the built in mics, I am quite surprised to find, at least in this video, that :
- the Rode GO II still sounds very pleasant and natural
- the Rode wPro sounds muddy, dark and unoleasant
- the Hollyland Lark is nasal
- the DJI seems to stand in between all the others and maybe, all considered, still seems to be the best option

[karll]

Man!!! The mkh50 or whatever, the way tou tuned it, placed it and set it up, sounds horrible compared to the rode pro and pretty much all of the tested ones today! ( yes the rode go doesnt make it really)
Mike placement is the key. Period. Excellent and usefull review!! Thanks

[Realistick]

Damn, job well done! Thank you for making this. I'm currently contemplating a Wireless pro (after watching this) and contemplating switching from my Zoom H4N with Sony ECM 44b and this seemed to answer all of my quality concerns!

[reymondiraola]

Awesome video!!! Can you do a video for the BOYA BY-XM6-S2 wireless mic? Is a lot cheaper than all of those and I think it sounds very good as well.

[umbertoaguiar]

Thanks for your review. I tried very hard but couldn't notice any significant difference between the mics. So the receivers are connected do a Mac ? Could the Mac be somehow levelling the sound of different mics? 

Then I put my wired Beyer headphone on. Still, no significant difference between DJI, GO II and Lark. But the sound of the Rode PRO was clearly better. Things changed considerably when you went outdoors and recorded to a camera. It was much easier to distinguish one mic from another and the better sound of the Rode Pro was more evident than it was indoors/Mac.

I also think it would help to notice differences in the sound if you were using the same words, reading a paragraph again and again for example, than just talking. It would be easier to compare the sound.

It's a jungle of wireless mics out there as you said yourself.

[davidbcrux]

Great video, thank you! Answered all my questions and showed very clearly what the different mics sound like.

[ALSAMARIE.]

The best sound quality is the Road Wireless Pro.

[jKHAHNPA]

12:55 I have brand new unopened box of the rode wireless go 2.. the extra hundred dollars covers the cost of the chargers and lavalier mics alone

[TechKid]

Why is no one talking about HollyLand's reliability? I purchased the Lark Max yesterday and they crapped out on me yesterday before I even got to use it. Out of the box, everything worked fine but hours later both mics got disconnected from the receiver and I haven't been able to get them to pair to each other. It seems this is an unresolved issue from the older Lark model. I only seen one vid on here discussing the issue and the comments are loaded with people having the pairing issue. Not even 24 hours in and they died and the company has not offered any support or explanation. Very bad look for them.

[igorcosta]

Great video comparison you've made! I got the Lark Max, and the one thing I disliked about it is recording the volume of my voice very low. Gain on Lark Max is set at 0, on a Canon 650D is at the lowest mark. Looking at the audio feedback on the computer when I speak, it's always in the green / yellow zone, but the volume is too low and I feel like increasing it will clip. Did you experience the same? How did you fix this issue? In your video the recordings from all mics are set at roughly the same volume.

[djresqvideomix]

I would like to know if you tried and your opinion on the NEEWER CM28 compared to the others you mentioned please