| | |  | Condenser | Home » » » » » » » Audio Video Camera Condenser Microphone | | | | | | | Description: | | Crisp & intelligible pickup far away or up close. In its “Tele” range setting, this cardioid condenser is engineered to pick up dialogue and sound effects at a distance, while bypassing ambient noise such as traffic, air-handling systems, room reverberation and mechanically coupled vibrations. Designed especially for use with video cameras. | | | Features: | |
• 2-range settings: normal and tele
• 3.5mm connector plugs into video camera
• Designed especially for use with video cameras
• Freq resp: 70 Hz?18,00 Hz
• Imp: Normal 1000 ohm +/- 30% and tele 2200 ohm +/- 30%
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| 0.25 pounds | | Package Length:
| 13.3 inches | | Package Width:
| 8.3 inches | | Package Height:
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| 0.75 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
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233 of 235 found the following review helpful:
 ATR6550 is the mic to buy for easy, good quality!Mar 26, 2010
By C. Spencer Reynolds
"Business Coach - Book Aficionado I'm a father of 4 and LOVE to travel and spend time outdoors hiking, running, biking and reading!"
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R28EVRC52YLAJU The ATR6550 is a GREAT $50 mic. If you are going to interview others, or recording in a room with echo, USE THIS MIC! The video explains my reasons for choosing this one...
59 of 63 found the following review helpful:
 Decent performance--but unreliableMar 03, 2010
By a reader
This is a good option if you want to use shotgun techniques with a consumer video camera. It gives sound that, after compression for youtube-level playback, would be difficult to distinguish from a professional mic. The sound is comparatively thin, it generates a small amount of internal noise, and its cabling is subject to indoor electrical noise, so it would knock a project out of contention for broadcast quality. But it pairs well with inexpensive camcorders and is an improvement over on-camera mics, especially if you don't mount it on the camera. It balances in a shock mount better than others in this price range.
Its cable is 3 feet long and coiled, and it's hardwired to the mic, so it picks up more electrical interference than a straight cable of the same effective reach. Simply having a jack would allow the option boosting the signal closer to the mic before a long cable run from a boom, for example.
But its biggest flaw is that it's unreliable. Mine had a bad internal wire connection and failed in its first hour of use. I've seen this happen with other sub-$100 shotguns. Audio-Technica has a generous lifetime warranty, and it's great to be able to trust the manufacturer to make it right; but one needs to be able to trust the gear itself. I wouldn't take this mic on a shoot without a backup, and then it's not such inexpensive option.
22 of 22 found the following review helpful:
 Excellent Value, good performanceApr 13, 2010
By WestlaFdwy
I've used this mic on three different types of shoots so far and it's performance is pretty impressive for the price. Of course if you are an audiophile and you are comparing this to a top of the line $1600 sennheiser I'm sure you will find plenty of things to gripe about, but if you are looking for an affordable, immediate step up from your on camera mic, this works great.
I shot a scene in front of a courthouse a few days ago, and there were so many buses going by that I ended up screaming out most of the dialogue - it was a little bit deafening. The performance of the mic on its regular mode was OK, but on telephoto mode it completely blocked out the sound of the buses (which were behind the camera).
Later that same day I followed a guy around on a busy street at night while he was performing some magic, and the sound (also on telephoto) was really good. I was far enough back with the camera that I couldn't hear a lot of what he was saying, but the mic picked it up - clean, good volume, and intelligible.
Two warnings, make sure the mic wire is not touching anything or bumps into anything because it will get picked up on your audio. And if you are in a slightly loud environment use the telephoto. In fact, I'm sticking with the telephoto permanently for now on. I'm leaving 4 stars because I have only used the mic a few times and I don't know how it will hold up, but so far I am very happy with my purchase.
15 of 17 found the following review helpful:
I think this is a decent micAug 04, 2011
By Grizz1.
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R3RSC7U0EXLQWS Listen to this test and decide for yourself if this mic is what you are needing. If you purchase this mic, you will need to buy a mono-female to stereo-male adapter to go directly into your camera and that part runs regularly for 3 bucks everywhere, radio shack ect. I used this on a T2i with no onboard volume control. I am going to run a juicedlink pre-amp on this mic and I think it will clean up nicely...
5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
Great Shotgun Even for MusicJan 10, 2011
By FrosteBiteAC
I play music and I operate a YouTube channel where I teach lessons and cover songs. And being a bass player, my frequencies are low. This mic does a wonderful job of picking up the sound. The normal setting is a bit quieter for people talking near the mic (personal Podcasts) and for very loud noised you need to condense the sound of in order to make them pleasing to the ear. The tele setting is more of a long range sound for when you place it on a boom pole or something of that nature. So this thing covers a pretty good range of needs. It also comes with enough accessories to get started, specifically a pole attachment and a shoe mount. Best thing is, it fits into a 1/8mm jack, so when you have that Canon (the cheaper consumer camera's that have a mic input) in your hand, you'll have good sound as well.
Now for the bad. There really isn't anything too bad, but the fact that it records in mono. When you plug this thing straight into anything, you'll get one channel of sound. That will sound awkward. To fix this, simply get a 1/8 to 1/8 mono to stereo adapter. It's a $3 fix and after that, there will be no problems.
If you're looking for a shotgun mic for some hobby use or just an extra one (in case), this is the one to go. The price isn't to shabby either, especially at Amazon (and no, they didn't pay me to say that).
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