2 x Faulty Rode Videomic Pro | Can I FIX them?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ย. 2024
- I've recently upgraded my camera for recording videos, as the makeshift microphone I hastily cobbled together was somewhat lacking.
I didn't want to spend a lot of money on top of the range high end microphone so in true "buy it fix it" style, I bought a faulty Rode Videomic Pro from eBay, and somehow ended up with two of them....
Can I fix them?
Let's find out!
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Audio on that new mic is GREAT!
Thanks W. L 👍👍👌
These things have an AWFUL cable. Mine has the exact same problem. I will be fixing it according to your instructions. Thank you for this video
You're very welcome. I was hoping it would be of help to someone🙂👍
The capsule without the hum is clearer and carries a higher audio level than the one that hums. The hum is caused by a ground issue somewhere within the capsule area, as you made obvious when you touched the housing with your finger and the hum intensified. It was also obviously apparent that the ground connection was in place, as the capsule relies on it to pass its signal. It must be a failed filter circuit causing the issue. I did find it a little ironic that a number of those mics have recently sold on eBay for around half of what you paid for yours, and they were in working condition. Sod's law I guess...
Thanks Will 👍
Nothing more boring than stuff that works though!
Yes I've bought a few faulty items from Ebay to do repair videos on and test them on camera and they were working fine, such as a Sony bluetooth speaker a few weeks back.
Great fix as always, keep up the good work.
Thanks Tony 👍
Nice job Mick. You always impress me with your attention to detail.
Thanks Fred 👍
Love your persistence. I might have been able to make a bodge job of the lead but doubt if I would have sorted the mic capsule out. I have to fix the mic on my Bat Detector some time. Might look for one of those Rode mics to go with my DSLR, they seem quite good. Actually lucky that you got 2 enabling you to swap the capsules over.
Thanks Chris👍. Yes I'm pretty pleased with the sound quality. The last two video's I did I've used it. Only downside is I keep forgetting to switch the bloody thing off!
I had to turn the volume down on the next video :-)
Brilliant fix well done mate 😊
Thanks Cucumber man 👍👌
Brill and funny mate !! 😂 New camera and now a fix for a new mic - skills !! Keeping it simple 😉
Thanks DAD TDM 👍👍 .. if you think that's funny wait until you see what I dragged out of a skip a couple months back... video soon!
@@BuyitFixit looking forwarded to it mate !!
Wonderful! Yes good audio
Thanks j s
video side is ok. good sound.
Think you're being a bit picky.Sounds great to me.Good work.
Thanks Malin Head 👍
Great job there mate.
Thanks Jacques 👍
i love electronic devices with 9v battery. should have used 18650 li ion.
Yes I've often left it on and forgot for a week.. I bought a 20 pack of PP3 9V 😂😂
Nice Job !
Thank you! Cheers!
Aren’t the Jack plugs stereo left , right and a common earth
Shocked to see the mic you have been using all this time
Lol. I've only been using that on perhaps the last 2 or 3 videos when I upgraded my camera. Previously I was using an old iPhone 6s which I got off someone for free as the battery was knackered. I actually did a video on replacing its battery sometime ago.
@@BuyitFixitWow never would have guessed. Always thought your videos sounded fine but definitely noticed the difference with the new mic. Really enjoy your videos BTW.
Thank you RockPaperRedshell 👍it's good to hear comments like that!
You have spare part mic microphone rode right?
Yes, it still works just has a very faint buzz so I'll keep it as a backup in case the one I'm using fails.
Interesting fault, I always listen using earphones, so the hum was up front. I had a similar expensive Sennheiser microphone with a weird fault. It seemed that when the battery ran down the mic produced a really high whistle. So high that I couldn't hear it! My son who had young ears could. He said it was intensly loud. So I made a recording and played it back at half speed and sure enough there was the incredibly loud whistle. Unfortunately I had been to Mexico and filmed a lot of mariachi music which had been ruined for people with good ears. In the edit I had to create a notch filter to remove the whistle. Sadly the mic was dumped as it could never be trust it again. I should have sent it back to Sennheiser but it's still in the back of the drawer if you are interested in looking / listening to it. 🧐
Interesting, thanks for sharing 👍Yes our old ears don't pick up high frequencies as good or if at all compared to the young ears.
Rode. Videomic. Pro. Buzzin. Repair
A super flex would have been to solder a female jack to the microphone so leads can be swapped on the fly
Good idea Jeremy. I wonder why they didn't make them like that in the first place.
never had a prob with ur audio before, hell, doc Emett---er Doc Andrew Armstrong uses (10 fer a quid mic modules) and has no probs ,
might be worth checking back on one of his vids fer a mic module that can b stuffed in place of.
Thanks Biker Dave 👍
At £35 a pop you are not being too fussy.
Thanks Gary, Yes I use one of them all the time now, and have the other as a backup.
... just started, i cannot keep me to NOT laugh!!! :))))))))
how they look... whew!!! :))))))))))))))))))
ok, movie finished... that buzz is because, somehow, the mic is not shielded anymore!
did you remember, when you put fingers over that part where the mic resides? the buzz intesifies, and this is a very familiar buzz for me: i used my own fingers as a cheap signal generator for years! :)
this means the shielding of the "hot" part of than microphone is gone, and he's picking up all the emi/electric/spikes noise around...
also... 35 pounds for a broken mic, sir???? Rode&Schwartz, but anyway... is broken, yes?
no way, i don't care if you call me "Scotty", it's way too costly!
even i'm freckled enough to call me "Irish"! :P
Lol. Used I think they were going for around £60 at the time I bought them. I needed a mic as when I upgraded the camera it was picking up noise of the motor focusing. (I was using an old iPhone 6 when I started doing repair videos). Yes I also think the shielding on the mic has gone somehow but it's a sealed unit. I even tried grounding the outer case of it but it made no difference.
@@BuyitFixitsounds like Covid time, everything useable for homeoffice meetings was expensive that time.
why dont we have digital audio. why still have analog cables. we need 100% digital audio video standard.
you need to good pair of cable strippers by the looks of it. very easy to snip the core on small cables with a pair of side cutters.
Never really got away with wire strippers, I used to always use my teeth 😂😂😂just not on things like twin and earth 😂😂
Invest in a wire stripper.
Do you have any recommendations?
Great methodical fix. Thanks
Thanks Bobby 👍
Didn't think the sound was off in the first place, but nice fixes as always 😁
Thanks Jay G. Perhaps I'm just a bit too picky!
@@BuyitFixit Or perhaps my ears are just dodgy haha
@@JAYG6390 probably just my OCD or something lol
Well done, two other devices saved from landfill. Although the issue with the mic insert appeared obvious, it may be worth switching off all potential interferers (lights, power supplies, phone etc) to see if the buzzing reduces or is eliminated. Not that would be practical in real-life but may prove a point. I'm sure you know but a very thin wall sleeve, pushed between the shield and the mic wires (before the shield is twisted) will help prevent the shield burning through the wires when soldered.
Thanks Ralph 👍
The Rode mics are very directional and intended to be on camera pointing at whatever you are filming. They are really for outdoors, hence the long wind sock. For your desk setup you would likely get better audio from an omni-directional or a lavalier if you can cope with a mic clipped on to you. Your cobbled up mic sounded fine up to this point.
I got these because when I was first setting up I was chatting with "MyMateVince" and he kindly sent me a picture of his setup. He has the next model up from this one on a small tripod pointing towards him. Someone recently mentioned that you can hear my breathing in the videos (I do get seasonal Asthma) so I'm trying to figure out how to minimise this on the videos if possible. I always get a bit nervous when recording too 😂😂😂
I'm having trouble with my Videomic Pro too. Sometimes it works properly but sometimes the audio drops so bad, which means the sound becomes faint, obviously this means the mic has become unreliable. Sometimes the sound cuts out all together. The trouble is, I'm not very good at soldering, so it looks like I'll have to buy another one.
Sounds like the wire like the one I repaired. Perhaps you know someone or a local repair cafe or makerspace which could help?
Your original mic was surprising to see, because up until that point, I thought your audio sounded fine, and loved how it picked up the noises of you manipulating screws, cracking apart plastic shells. It really was remarkable. Curious if you switch to a better mic, if it will pick up all those secondary, unnecessary but rich sounds
I just wasn't sure how good it was. Originally when I first started I was using an old glass computer desk and an iPhone6s with a faulty battery I got from a friend. Problem was I couldn't see what I was recording with it being mounted above my head and it had no way to remotely zoom in, so I tried improving all of my equipment over time 👍
its interesting how different people would do things differently.. I would of cut the 3.5mm plug and replace it. You decided to swap the entire cable.
Yes, plugs put on the end of a cable aren't usually as good as a factory sealed one, and are usually prone to problems. Neutrik used to make good connectors, but I've not used them for ages. The easiest solution I could think of was buy a pre-made cable of suitable length and chop in in half, thus having two ends for two mikes which hopefully will last as long as the OEM cable.
There is definitely hum that isn't coming from the Rode in your system somewhere. Eg 13:08 where it wasn't even plugged in but there's still hum - so it's more than the mic...
Yes Pete you are correct. That is the cable I made, as when it hasn't got anything plugged into it, the input to the camera is just floating and it's acting like an antenna. That's why it goes away when the mic is plugged in.
Wow just looked at the price of one of those and they are arround 500k which is insane. I wonder if its just that good of an mic or if its just not made anymore and thats why it is that expensive?
I'm sure they don't cost that much. On Ebay they still sell for around £50-£90
May be an impedance mismatch on the Rode mics. They are very quiet compared to your original lash up, which to my ex - sound engineers ears sounded better. IMO nothing wrong with the original audio, ignore the moaners 😉😎
Cheers for that. I might have another look at the audio side of things.
Røde. Red in plural. As in Many red roses. Mange røde roser. Norwegian name on absolutely not norwegian product. Red in singular is rød for reference.
Very interesting. Something I did not know. Everyday is a school day so they say 👍
Although the second mic had a small buzz in it. I couldn't hear it on the video. they both sounded great. Thanks for the video again.
Thanks Ron 👍
maybe the mic capsule or its casing isn't grounded properly?
Yes that's what I thought but I checked continuing between the jack plug all the way back to the mic casing.
Back in the days, I recall that messing with fine stranded stereo headphone wires with a 3.5 mm jack was a huge problem. There was always tiny wires going everywhere with no chance of collecting in a bundle for soldering .I would suspect that the cable for a 3.5 mm jacked mic would be just as bad to repair/solder. This Røde cable seems to be way easier to handle
Yes those coated wires in headphones are a nightmare. I volunteer at the local repair cafe, and some brought in a set with a replacement 4 ring 3.5mm jack to solder on as it was like a headset type thing. Boy that was fun.. managed to do it but not sure how long it would last due to the not so great strain relief on the plug.
Your absolutely brilliant my friend. Great video. Kind regards. Paul. 👍
Thanks Paul, appreciate your feedback 😊👍
I wonder why they would call a microphone Røde, it means red in Danish. But a fun little fix and now you can record it stereo with two microphones
Thanks Morten 👍
@@BuyitFixit I would say that the difference in the two microphones was tiny, I don't think that anyone would notice if used like you do, but I don't think it was supposed to sound like that
@@MrEwool Yeah I'm not sure if most people would notice. I think at times I'm a bit too picky and things like that just annoy me. OCD perhaps lol.
@@BuyitFixit it's also very difficult not to hear once you hear it, unfortunately I'm not as affected by sound anymore been working with heavy machinery for too long
Yes that would do it, also listening to loud music in the car in your younger days has a similar effect! (Don't ask how I know) lol.
I'm sure Røde used to have a very generous policy on repairs. Might be worth asking them for a new mic capsule?
Not s bad idea👍, I've not really had a positive experience so far with companies and spares or even advice. I normally either get 'send it in for repair' or 'buy a new one'. See the video I did on the FLIR thermal camera, or the solar inverter 'No password, No problem' and you'll see what I've encountered. Perhaps Rode might be different 🤷♂️
@@BuyitFixit Yeah, I hear you. My day job is fixing A/V gear and we find this all the time. Bose are another bad one.