@peternap

http://www.mxlmics.com/microphones/field-recording/FR-300/

Yep, it is very good mike, it is sensitive and quality is good. Plus price is really good.

Feedback from guys at comments at:

I have this mic and have had surprisingly good results for the price. Very surprising. I also own a Rode NTG-2 and a Sennheiser MKH-416. In side-by-side tests of the this mic against the Senn ($1000 US) I was blown away. The MXL has a virtually identical sound quality and timbre, but slightly more self-noise. Is the Senn $850 better than the MXL, in my opinion no way. The Rode is noisier than both so I never use it anymore.

It is all about 304. For me, it is too long, and not sensitive mike.

http://www.mxlmics.com/microphones/field-recording/FR-304/

With small recorders we use you need most sensitive mikes, as recorders preamps mostly sucks.

Amazon has a warehouse deal on the FR-300 http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B0029YPGQ8/ref=dp_olp_used?ie=UTF8&condition=used

@fosterchen I'm not real excited about that. It looks like a videomic Pro glued on a squashed H4n. I'd rather have the component items....I guess it depends on the price

@JCVD

http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/3583/2.5mm-to-3.5mm-audio-adapter

As they are quite cheap I can recommend buying as many various as you can get and test them all. I got one here from amazon Germany.

I ordered a RVM Pro for the BMPCC as it's the only small DSLR mic with a 20+ db boost. Unfortunately it does not record audio neither on the BMPCC nor on a Canon. I can hear the boost of the noise when switching to +20db and knocking on the body too - but no recording audio. I tested two batteries also another mic on the cameras which worked. Is there a possibility that I made a mistake in setting up or is it just dead on arrival?

@matt_gh2 thanks for the hint. I don't think it's the camera settings as it works with the rode stereo mic and it's the same fault on two different cameras.

I'm bringing up this thread up again because I have the same question as when this started, but applied for the GH3. While I know that numerous tests show that the Videomic Pro is much better than the Videomic on the GH3 when turning on the +20 and lowering the input level all the way down, I would like to know if anyone here uses the Videomic on the GH3 and what settings.

I bought a Videomic for my GH2 some months ago. At that time I didn't get the pro version because the +20 was not important in the GH2 camera - according to other tests online. However, I have now upgraded to the GH3 and I can't get the Videomic Pro at the moment. So, I'm stuck with the original Videomic. I tried lowering the input levels all the way down like I used to do in the GH2 but it goes way too low, I am thinking maybe somewhere around level 10 would be similar to the GH2 all the way down. Anyone has test this, or anyone has the Videomic on the GH3?

It´s good they changed the shock mount on the PRO too - The rubber holders of the original version are slipping off quite easily - AND the mic is always hanging a little bit to the front - Especially with a windscreen attached ...

Hi.

@ Vitaliy_Kiselev

"Pro version is smaller and have preamp."

Is the preamp useles, if the camcorder has mic-in-power? For example Sony AX53.