Sony ECMHW1

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21 Oct 2008 Didn't work for our purpose I read the positive reviews for this prior to purchase. For home video/audio recording it might work fine. We were trying to use it for recording "how to" demonstrations and it was not suitable for that use. It has an overly sensitive, built-in audio limiter and as soon as the microphone picks up additional sound (glass beads in a vase, etc.) it lowers the overall audio level sharply, causing the level of the speaker's voice to drop very noticibly. Then when the background noise ends, the spe... –S. Mummfrom Amazon.com
20 Oct 2008 No regrets whatsovever! My husband and I love to hike and backpack and we like to set-up our video camera to record the scenery around us when we stop for meals and breaks but we always had to have the camera real close to us in order to pick-up our voices clearly.

After researching, we decided to purchase this microphone to use on our recent backpacking trip to Colorado. We love this microphone! The microphone picked up our voices clearly even when we had the video camera as far away as 75 feet from us so t... –Gakayakerfrom Amazon.com
15 Oct 2008 Very convenient As an experienced sound guy for live events, I have a pretty good handle on sound quality for microphones. This little jewel is still a condenser-type microphone, similar to the one on the camera, designed for picking up sounds from a bit of a distance. As such, the sound quality is similar to the microphones on the camera itself. The advantage, of course, is that you have the ability to put the center of the sound further away, presumably closer to your subject.

I have used wireless d... –Audio guyfrom Amazon.com

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