DJI Mic Mini Review: Tiny Wireless Microphones

The Mic 2 supports interior recording, meaning it tin prevention your audio arsenic a backup straight to the transmitter's interior storage, but this is not supported connected the Mic Mini. Also, the Mic 2 is susceptible of 32-bit interval interior recording, which gives you much headroom erstwhile you're editing. Basically, you person much accusation to enactment with successful lawsuit thing goes incorrect with the audio. This is besides not supported connected the Mic Mini. The Mic Mini doesn't enactment a Lavalier microphone (no wires here!), and there's nary touchscreen show to interface with. (There is a dial conscionable similar connected the Mic 2 to set the gain.)

But the Mic Mini does person immoderate tricks up its sleeve. It supports automatic limiting to forestall audio clipping, meaning it volition trim the signal's measurement if you're approaching those limits. To trial this, I intentionally maxed retired the summation connected the receiver and spoke loudly into some the Mic 2 and Mic Mini. The second sounded fine, but the Mic 2's audio was distorted and clipped successful a fewer places. Yay!

Also, successful general, you volition get acold amended artillery beingness with the Mic Mini. Despite its tiny size, the deficiency of interior signaling enables it to deed 48 hours of operating time, whereas the Mic 2 is constricted to 18 hours.

As for the microphone quality, I recovered it mostly akin to the Mic 2, barring the flimsy differences successful sound canceling. Watch my video supra to spot however it fares compared to the built-in mics connected the iPhone 16 Pro—the magnitude of ambient dependable these mics destruct ne'er ceases to impressment me.

All successful all, the Mic Mini is simply a simple, affordable, and effectual wireless microphone system, and I deliberation it's suitable for astir radical getting started and upgrading from their phone's built-in audio (or the mic on the EarPods). Keep successful caput that you also tin bargain the DJI Mic 2 successful parts—the transmitter unsocial is $99, and determination are reasons wherefore you whitethorn privation it implicit the Mini. But portion it tin beryllium harder to finagle with due to the fact that of its tiny size, the Mic Mini is truthful overmuch much discreet and nicer to person connected a shirt, and that makes maine privation to usage it adjacent more.