Customer Reviews

AZDEN WLT-PRO Pro Series Wireless Lavaliere Microphone and Transmitter

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This was one of my very first wireless mics - I quickly sold it and moved on to UHF for the following reasons.

If I were recording a single (mono) channel interview in the middle of kansas this would probably be a 5 star item, but in dense urban areas the vhf frequencies are a mess of intermodulation distortion and other RF interferance. This is the low end of azden's wireless line - as you step up to UHF you get a number of advantages:

1 - multiple frequencies that do not interfere with each other and also avoid tv stations
2 - companders to improve dynamic range
3 - the less expensive AA battery instead of 9VDC cells - with improved runtimes as well

What it basically boils down to is if you are working in the 5% of the usa that is sparsly populated, this will do the job
But if you are working in a major metropolitan area or have multiple mics / in ear monitors in use - this will sound pretty cruddy.

For an extra $50 you can make the first step to UHF and from there you can go to the user configurabe UHF mics with 1600+ frequencies to operate on thus getting a guaranteed clear channel to use no matter where you go in the usa or how many mics you have live.

I purchased this wireless lav to go with my existing AZDEN wireless lav & receiver. When operating with only one lav at a time this works fine, HOWEVER when BOTH lavs are on the same channel at once, there is horrible interference thus rendering them both useless. I performed several tests, using both channels in multiple environments, and came to the conclusion that recording from two wireless lavs simultaneously using this equipment is completely flawed. Therefore, there is no reason in purchasing this product if you plan to use it with an additional wireless lav.

We use the Azden WR-Pro for weekly videos. They work great considering the sub $100 price. We use it in a green screen studio, at a range of about 3 to 8 meters, and havent had any reception issues. We do get some "buzzing" when the batteries run low, so we keep extras 9V around. Getting about 20+ hours of record time per battery change. Multi-channel works good, but we only have one audio input in our HD camera, so have to use a simple radio shack splitter to combine them into a single line, thus not allowing us to split the audio into seperate channels in production. I am surprised by the quality, as the mic does pick up a good amount of ambient noises (people wispering, chairs squeeking, etc.), so a quiet set is essential. For the price, there is NO other option.

I have had a great experience with my mic. I do acknowledge some of the interference issues in other reviews, but paired to a hand held Kodak HD (Zi8) camera, it works great. The audio is perfect for this purpose (interviews) in contained environments. I had no problems with set-up and experienced no loss of audio pick up even when the subject was moving around in a scene. I have not tested it in very dense or noisy areas to determine range or quality problems. But for basic home video projects that allow you to get away from the camera built in mic problem this works fine.

I purchased this product so that I would have two lav mics. They are quite inexpensive, but work fine. I haven't used them too much, but so far they have been reliable.