Features: 1.High Quality & Brand New 2.Practical Occasion: photography, interviews and other occasions pickup.3.Product Features: Specially designed for the camera and high-sensitivity condenser microphone to enhance the quality of the recording.4.Heart-shaped single-point pickup features can effectively reduce the noise of the surrounding environment to be picked up. 5.10dB sensitivity enhancement and 200Hz low-frequency attenuation; to meet the different field Co-use. Use standard universal connector specifications, can be simply fixed the camera. 6.Shock-resistant structural design, to reduce the mechanical noise of the camera and other vibration noise. 7.Set tone governing the selection of alloy materials design, sturdy solid, and can effectively shield electromagnetic interference. 8. 1.5V AA alkaline battery-powered, battery life of up to 100 hours.(No Battery Included) 9. Low power indicator, fully prepared ready to replace the battery. 10.Technical parameters: Monomer: Back electret. 11.Polar pattern: cardioid. 12. Frequency response: 50Hz-16kHz. 13.Sensitivity:-32dB À 3dB (0dB = 1V/Pa at 1kHz). enhanced sensitivity: +10 db. 14.The low-frequency attenuation: 60Hz 10dB / octave. output impedance: 2000 À 30%. 15. Use voltage: 1.5V AA batteries. (No Battery Included) Package Contents: 1* SGC-598 Microphone 1* Windscreen 1* English User’s Manual
Product Features
- 10dB sensitivity enhancement and 200Hz low-frequency attenuation; to meet the different field Co-use. Use standard universal connector specifications, can be simply fixed the camera.
- Product Features: Specially designed for the camera and high-sensitivity condenser microphone to enhance the quality of the recording.
- Set tone governing the selection of alloy materials design, sturdy solid, and can effectively shield electromagnetic interference.
- Heart-shaped single-point pickup features can effectively reduce the noise of the surrounding environment to be picked up.
- Shock-resistant structural design, to reduce the mechanical noise of the camera and other vibration noise. Package Contents: 1* SGC-598 Microphone 1* Windscreen 1* English User’s Manual
Mounting Issue / Hissing Sound issues? Look here. For anyone having an issue mounting it to your camera or getting it to fit the hot shoe mount:1. Using a screwdriver, unscrew the mount from the microphone assembly.2. Using a wrench, grasp the metal bracket.3. Using your hand, twist the round knob until bracket comes loose.4. Screw the mount back onto the assembly.5. Slide the whole thing onto the camera shoe mount.6. Turn knob until it is tight.For anyone with an overwhelming hissing sound (on a Canon Rebel EOS, at least. I imagine it’s the same for most Canons):1. Put the camera into Video mode.2. Turn the camera’s “mode” knob to (M)anual.3. Hit the Menu button.4. Find the “Sound Recording” option within the menu.5. Change Sound Recording to Manual6. Adjust Recording Level to minimum, and then work your way up to where you like the recording levels. For me, it was about 5 or 6 button presses from the absolute minimum. No hiss but…
Skip the Rode mics, this is a great value At first I was considering a Rode mic, but decided to go for this one since it’s literally $200 cheaper. Very glad I saved myself that money because this microphone works just as well as the Rode.If you’re using it with a DSLR (which I assume most everyone is since not many camcorders have hotshoe mounts) you’ll need to go into your audio settings and turn down the on-board audio amplifier. They don’t play well with external microphones and tend to amplify ambient sounds. Set that to 25-30% to get rid of any hissing sounds, and turn on the +10dB switch. With those settings, the audio is perfectly clear, no hissing, and keeps surrounding noise at a minimum.I used it for a video this morning, and stopped talking for a passing car in the background; however, while editing I realized I could’ve just kept going because the car didn’t get picked up at all.Very impressed for the price.
Best Cheap Mic! Comparisons to other mics Important notice: I didn’t realize how much white noise/hiss this mic when set on +10 db setting created when I wrote this review. The review is only with the mic set to 0 ( NOT +10db ). The audio levels should be good enough at 0db. I use Parametric EQ in post production to get better quality audio gain than simply raising the volume. Just make sure to have the camera’s audio gain set to the highest level that you can set it at without getting hiss.I have compared this mic to 6 other mics and this was the best! I have also listened to comparisons online between various Rode mics and the Takstar 598 and the Takstar 598 sounded better to me than the Rode mics, including the Rode VideoMicro, which is actually a fantastic mic with excellent sound quality and convience of small size and no batteries, however the room echo (which is very hard to fix in post) is really bad with the Rode VideoMicro and was much less, barely there in fact, with the Takstar scg-598, so naturally I…