Most GoPro videos of extreme stunts are accompanied by the sound of rushing wind, the roar of an engine, or just straight-up screaming. But with Sena’s new Bluetooth Audio Pack for the GoPro Hero 3, you can use a wireless mic to provide narration alongside whatever stunt you’re attempting.
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If there’s one telltale sign that a video wasn’t produced by a professional, it’s usually the crappy sound accompanying the footage. The microphones on a smartphone or a cheap camcorder are awful at best, which is why companies like Sony
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You can capture amazing video with all kinds of cameras these days, but almost all of them have really bad on-board microphones. Rode’s new simple-as-pie shotgun mic looks like an easy and cheap way to give your videos the clear sound they deserve.
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When it comes to secrets, whispering just got outdated. Disney Research has come up with a microphone, straight out of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, that doesn’t actually amplify your ramblings, but instead turns them into a secret signal you can transmit by touch.
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Nobody expects studio quality recording from a smartphone, but the technology in HTC’s recently launched One at least allows distortion free audio to be nabbed in the quietest or loudest environments, according to the company’s blog. Describing BoomSound tech, HTC says the system brings two dual-membrane MEMS microphones to the handset, one of which is focused on sensitivity and the other on high decibel sources. The two signals are then combined electronically, resulting in whisper-level tones that are free of hiss along with concert level blasting that won’t clip or distort. By HTC’s reckoning, that means the audio that goes along with those UltraPixels will be clear whether you’re capturing a physics lecture or death metal concert.
Filed under: Cellphones, Mobile, HTC
Via: Android Central
Source: HTC Blog
To better their ability to perfect a mix, sound engineers sit at a giant board outside of a recording studio where it’s whisper quiet. And to avoid having to keep running in and out of a studio to perfect their mic placement, someone’s slapped a microphone on a remote controlled RC toy tank that promises to make a sound engineer’s job a heck of a lot easier. More »
You know how you can set a point-and-shoot camera to Auto Mode and it’ll do a lot of the tweaking for you to get the best shot possible? Wouldn’t it be cool if you could do that for audio? Well, the new Nessie is Blue’s first shot at a mic with Auto Mode. More »
Tascam has announced the availability of the iM2X and iXJ2 microphones for Apple’s iPhone. The Tascam iM2X features a pair of big microphones in the usual XY configuration, offering a 125dB max recording on a 10~20kHz frequency response, while the Tascam iXJ2 features only one microphone. The Tascam iXJ2 also has two Line/Mic-In that enables you to easily connect a pair of additional microphones. The Tascam iM2X and iXJ2 will be released at the end of September 2012 for 8,000 Yen (around $100) each. [Tascam]
With an Apple event just around the corner where the company is expected to reveal the next generation iPhone and its rumored updated dock connector, now is a very bad time to announce accessories that could be obsolete in just a few weeks time. But Tascam didn’t get that memo, and so has graced us with a couple of new iPhone mics that you probably shouldn’t buy. More »
Microsoft, objecting to a web standard promoted by its competitors? Get out. While Firefox, Opera and now Chrome have implemented WebRTC on some level for plugin-free VoIP and webcam chats, Microsoft doesn’t think the existing, proposed standard is up to snuff for linking with existing devices or obeying “key web tenets.” It’s suggesting a new CU-RTC-Web standard to fix what it claims is broken with WebRTC. Thankfully, the changes are more technical improvements than political maneuvering: Microsoft wants a peer-to-peer transport level that gives more control as well as to reduce some of the requirements that it sees holding the technology back as of today. There’s no doubt an economic incentive for a company that wants to push Skype in the browser, but the format is already in front of the W3C and could become a real cross-platform standard. If other W3C members are willing to (slightly) reinvent the wheel, Microsoft’s approach could get Chrome and Internet Explorer users talking — no, really talking.
Filed under: Internet
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