



Having the signal converted to digital inside the Rode AI-Magic (or taking a straight digital USB feed out from the VideoMic NTG or Wireless GO II) means that you bypass those preamps completely, eliminating any noise they would otherwise generate in your audio. This introduces noise – commonly heard as an underlying hiss throughout your recording.Īnd like many DSLRs and mirrorless cameras, smartphones and laptops typically have pretty crappy preamps inside them. When you feed them an analogue audio signal, it has to run it through a preamp to get the signal to a level it’s happy with. Wide Stereo: Captures audio with greater stereo separation, room ambience, and depth-ideal for situations where you want to capture sounds all around the mic, such as documentaries, field recordings, or spontaneous jam sessions.What is the point of a digital USB audio device? What’s wrong with just plugging straight into the microphone socket of your laptop or the headphone jack cable that came with your smartphone? Well, it’s the same issue we havef with cameras.Tight Stereo: Captures audio in true stereo, providing discrete left and right audio for great sound separation-ideal for recording side-by-side interviews, panel discussions, drums, or piano.Front and Back: Captures and blends together sound equally on all sides-ideal for face-to-face interviews and duets.Front: Isolates the target source from distracting background noise by rejecting unwanted sounds at the microphone back and sides-ideal for spoken word, vocals, and close-miked instruments.LED indicators display the capture mode at a glance. The Lyra's proprietary Adaptive Capsule Array utilizes four condenser capsules to offer four user-friendly capture modes (polar patterns)-front, front and back, tight stereo, and wide stereo-to accommodate a variety of performances and applications.
