075 - Rode Smart Lav Plus

Jey's Podcasting Journal

English - March 19, 2021 23:43 - 8 minutes - 7.49 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
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The Rode Smart Lav Plus is a lavalier mic that plugs straight into a smartphone. Learn the advantage of this and how I plan to use lav mics with my Zoom H6 digital recorder to enhance my field interviewing setup.

The 3.5mm to XLR adaptor and phantom power to plug-in power convertor is the Rode VXLR Pro (make sure you get the Pro)

EDIT - I picked up a lot of RF interference on this recording. That's not got for a mic designed for phones! I'm going to test this further and I'll update if this mic is prone to RF. You will not hear the noise since Auphonic cleaned it all up. But it should not be there in the first place. Sigh...

PRODUCTION NOTES:

Recording location: Sitting on my bed

Microphone: Rode SmartLav+ and Samsung Galaxy Note 4 phone

Headphones: None

Recording app: Auphonic Edit for Android.

Recording format: WAV

Sample rate: 48000Hz

Editing app: Adobe Audition

Sound Treatment: Auphonic.com

Auphonic.com settings [to output as a 16bit mono WAV file]: Adaptive Leveler (on), Loudness Normalization (Loudness Target -19 LUFS ), Filtering (on), Noise and Hum Reduction (Reduction Amount: Auto)

I uploaded the resulting WAV file to Anchor.fm to host the file and added the music from their free music stock.

Anchor automatically converts the WAV file into a 128kbps .m4a file