{"id":148227,"date":"2021-01-26T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/?p=148227"},"modified":"2022-10-25T04:35:53","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T09:35:53","slug":"rode-videomic-go-audio-fix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/rode-videomic-go-audio-fix\/","title":{"rendered":"The R\u00d8DE VideoMic Go Audio is Terrible: Here’s How to Fix it"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

You should probably purchase a different microphone. However, these steps can help you fix your R\u00d8DE VideoMic Go audio.<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

On a recent expedition to the outside world, I brought my camera with me and decided to shoot a video. Instead of bringing my trusty Zoom H1n recorder, which I typically mount on my Canon M50<\/a> to record audio as an external mic, I brought my R\u00d8DE VideoMic Go. It was a bad idea. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Zoom H1n has one fatal flaw: it uses two AAA batteries, and I didn’t have any. After several instances where the Video Mic Go failed me, I hadn’t used it for a while, but I decided to give it another shot. I thought that anything would be better than the M50’s onboard mic\u2014I was wrong. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you’ve made the same mistake and heard the loud clicking noises in the audio<\/a> as I did, then you’re in the right place. Entirely removing or silencing loud clicking noises may not be possible, but you can still do plenty to reduce other unwanted noise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Issue<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The VideoMic Go is a condenser mic, which explains why it picks up so much noise. Condenser mics are known to be very sensitive, but something about the VideoMic Go takes it to an extreme. In many clips I’ve recorded, I can clearly hear hissing or the sounds made by my air conditioner or computer fans. The only way I could fix it was to switch the M50\u2019s audio levels to manual and set the levels to twenty-five or less. It wasn\u2019t a fix so much as a compromise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The VideoMic Go looks and feels like a solid microphone, but it’s not. Image via MikolajS<\/a>.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A few weeks ago when I went out to shoot video, I set the audio to auto, hoping that shooting in louder outdoor spaces and shops would drown out the hiss. The M50 doesn\u2019t have an audio output, so it\u2019s impossible to check audio levels while recording. So, with my mask properly secured and my eyes scanning for complimentary hand sanitizer dispensers, I shot a ton of clips. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I sat down to edit on my iPad Air (4th gen), using LumaFusion for the first time, I immediately noticed the audio sounded terrible. Not only could I hear a hiss, but it also had this loud clicking that persisted throughout almost every video. This stable cadence of the clicking noise drowned out the audio, making it unusable for the most part. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a first-time user of LumaFusion, it took me some time to figure out how to edit audio. However, I still couldn\u2019t save it. Although LumaFusion is a fantastic mobile video editing app, it doesn\u2019t have the best tools for fixing audio. Ultimately, I couldn\u2019t fix the recorded audio, so I just threw a song on the timeline and muted most of the audio as a Hail Mary. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can still hear the clicking in some sections, but it is what it is. I learned my lesson, so I’ll devote the rest of this article to explain how you can prevent it from happening, and how you can fix it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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