DJI’s two-transmitter Mic 3 kit has received its first price cut, bringing the wireless lavalier bundle down to $219 from its usual $259 at Amazon, Best Buy and B&H Photo.
For people shooting video on phones or cameras, the deal is aimed at the unglamorous part of production that still wrecks plenty of otherwise usable footage: audio. Phone cameras have become good enough for sharp, stabilized video, but the built-in microphones are still a weak link once distance, wind, rooms, traffic or more than one speaker enter the frame.
The discounted bundle includes two clip-on microphones, a receiver for connecting to a phone or camera, a charging case, power and audio cables, and four windscreens for outdoor recording. Retail listings from Amazon, Best Buy and B&H Photo show the same $219 price for the two-transmitter kit.
DJI positioned the Mic 3 as a more capable version of its earlier wireless mic systems, and the spec changes are practical rather than decorative. The receiver includes 32GB of onboard audio storage, according to DJI, up from 8GB on prior hardware. It also supports 24-bit and 32-bit floating point recording, which gives editors more room to recover audio that was captured too quietly or too loudly.
The receiver has a built-in display for checking battery levels and connection status. The transmitters can attach to clothing or hats using the included magnetic clips, which is the kind of small mechanical detail that matters when a speaker refuses to wear anything with a normal collar.
DJI also added tools for recordings that happen outside a clean studio. The Mic 3 offers two noise-reduction levels, plus active gain control designed to clamp down on sudden loud sounds before they blow out a take. Those features do not make bad mic placement disappear, but they can reduce the usual punishment from wind, street noise and surprise volume spikes.
Battery life is rated at about eight hours per microphone on a charge, while the receiver is rated for around ten hours. DJI says the charging case can refill the set at least twice.
At $219, the Mic 3 remains a specialized buy, especially for casual phone video. For creators, interviewers or small crews who need two clean audio channels without running cables across a room, the first discount makes DJI’s current wireless kit a little less painful to justify.
This story draws on original reporting from The Verge.
