{"id":3151,"date":"2012-03-06T18:00:27","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T22:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/?p=3151"},"modified":"2012-03-07T16:30:02","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T20:30:02","slug":"wireless-microphone-shootout-sony-wcs-999-olympus-me-15-wins-over-azden-wms-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/2012\/03\/wireless-microphone-shootout-sony-wcs-999-olympus-me-15-wins-over-azden-wms-pro\/","title":{"rendered":"Wireless Microphone Shootout &#8211; Sony WCS-999 + Olympus ME-15 Wins over Azden  WMS-Pro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you look at my original post about my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/2012\/02\/two-camera-sony-hd-interview-shoot-lightweight-travel-setup\/\">video interview travel kit<\/a>, I was unsure about which wireless microphone setup to standardize on.<\/p>\n<p>I was trying to decide between the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00004UFRO\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=drchu02-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B00004UFRO\">Sony WCS-999 Wireless Microphone<\/a>  and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00006JPD8\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=drchu02-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B00006JPD8\">Azden WMS-PRO Wireless Microphone<\/a>.   I did not like the clip-on microphone supplied with the Sony, so I purchased a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000815CF4\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=drchu02-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B000815CF4\">Olympus ME-15 Microphone<\/a> to use with the Sony WCS-999 wireless unit.<\/p>\n<p>I had bought one of each and did a side by side test to compare them.  I have two cameras and connected each mic to one of the cameras.   When I switch mics, I always switch audio and you can see the active mic in the video as well.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/37573979\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>When the test was done, I preferred the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00004UFRO\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=drchu02-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B00004UFRO\">Sony WCS-999 Wireless Microphone<\/a>  and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000815CF4\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=drchu02-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B000815CF4\">Olympus ME-15 Microphone<\/a>.  It overdrives the audio a little bit and I wish I could turn it down about 10% &#8211; but overdriving is better than under driving because when I have to increase the column from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00006JPD8\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=drchu02-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B00006JPD8\">Azden WMS-PRO Wireless Microphone<\/a> in post-production, I got a lot of background noise.<\/p>\n<p>So from this point forward, I will be packing two Sony WCS-999 units.  Anyone want to buy a slightly used Azden WR-Pro Wireless microphone setup?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you look at my original post about my video interview travel kit, I was unsure about which wireless microphone setup to standardize on. I was trying to decide between the Sony WCS-999 Wireless Microphone and the Azden WMS-PRO Wireless Microphone. I did not like the clip-on microphone supplied with the Sony, so I purchased [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3151"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3162,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3151\/revisions\/3162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}