Insta360 Mic Pro - New wireless mic with 32-bit stereo internal recording

[meltycrayon]

To get past security, do you think would sticking it to the back of your phone like a phone grip would work?

Is anyone going to look at it closely enough to determine it's a recorder? I wouldn't even take it out of my pocket. Last show I went to, I had an Instamic Pro C in one pocket, and my lucky silver dollar and a neodymium magnet in another, and neither set off the wand. It's not a gun, knife, or vape, so it's probably not going to get a second glance.

[Ozpeter]

To get past security, do you think would sticking it to the back of your phone like a phone grip would work?

Some of those mushroom things have a circular kind of spiral pattern on the back - make that the display image and it might help. I think I will try that right now...

[Ozpeter]

Here you go - a little while back I attached a sticky metal disk to the back of my phone (I got a packet from Amazon a few years ago) and the Mic Pro holds onto that like a limpet, particularly if I use the supplied magnet thingy.  I guess if showing a guy your phone while holding it they wouldn't see what is underneath it anyway - or if put on a table type surface, phone screen up, they would assume it had a holder behind as it wouldn't lie flat.  And if they glanced at the back, the image on the Mic Pro kind of looks like the back of a holder.  Well, slightly...

Pics attached, hopefully... you could download the design I used to your phone and use that to customise your Mic Pro display.  Or not.

[Ozpeter]

If anyone read the two posts I have just deleted, I embarrassed myself by incorrectly assembling the MS pair I was comparing to the Mic Pro.  Idiot.  And so the comparison I did, and uploaded to YouTube, will now have to be done again from scratch.  This is what happens when you get old.  But on the other hand, it shows that while some traditional mic techniques can be totally done wrong, you would have to work hard to make a mistake with the Mic Pro!

[Ozpeter]

So here's my video of my tests of the Mic Pro vs the Sennheiser MKH 30/40 MS rig, which costs about 30 times more.  And it is massive in comparison.  And takes a fair bit of setting up.  

- I don't make money from my channel.

I incorporated relevant frequency plots in the video rather than clutter this discussion with them.

Overall, to my (elderly) ears, there's not a vast difference between these two rigs.  Certainly less difference than there seems to be between the Mic Pro and other low cost portable 32 bit float stereo recorders with built in mics I own. The chief difference is probably due to the inherent difference between MS audio and 'normal' audio.  

It seems to me that this is a groundbreaking device - but apart from people here, nobody seems to have cottoned on to it.  I've not seen other YouTube videos focussed on its use as a stereo recording device - others just see it as a another wireless mic system only for use with video.  Oh well.  Time will tell. 

[mccordo]

Overall, to my (elderly) ears, there's not a vast difference between these two rigs.  Certainly less difference than there seems to be between the Mic Pro and other low cost portable 32 bit float stereo recorders with built in mics I own. 

After watching your video, I have to agree that the difference between the 2 rigs is not that vast. In an ideal (open) taping situation I would much prefer to use my DPAs or AKGs, but the Insta360 seems plenty good enough to my ears for those times when using a full sized rig is not practical or feasible.