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Mikme Pocket lets you record mobile audio like a pro
For the past five years, Mikme has been chasing the dream of perfect mobile audio recording. Its first product was an excellent wireless microphone that automatically synchronized with your video recordings on iOS and Android devices. Now, the company is turning that box into something that you can easily hide from the camera. The Mikme Pocket is its spin on a wireless lavalier (or "lav"), those tiny microphones you typically see attached to talk show hosts and broadcast reporters to capture everything they say. It'll still do the hard work of syncing up its high quality audio with your mobile videos, but now you can clip the microphone on your shirt, stuff the recorder in your pocket, and shoot more like a professional.
Mikme's clever wireless microphone gets cheaper and more useful
Mikme's wireless microphone was one of the most unique devices we saw last year. It works as a standalone audio recorder, but most impressively, it can also connect to your phone and serve as a remote microphone when shooting video. The only problem was its high $500 launch price. Now Mikme is ready to make its device a lot more consumer friendly. It's dropping the price of the original microphone, now known as the Mikme BlackGold, to $299. And it's introducing another model, the Mikme Silver, for $199. Even better, the company is also enabling USB microphone functionality, so you can finally plug the devices into your computer and use them while chatting on Skype.
Wireless mic Mikme brings high-end sound to mobile videos
There are plenty of portable audio recorders and microphones on the market, but Mikme goes a step beyond all of them. It's a compact wireless microphone that synchronizes with an iPhone app, allowing you to make quick mobile videos with high-quality sound. The only problem: It costs $500. That puts it out of reach for normal consumers, but it might be worth it for vloggers and people who need to make professional-sounding videos on the fly. And if you really care about audio quality, you're probably used to paying a premium for specialized gear.
Mikme is a wireless microphone and audio recorder like no other
Recording random bits of sound these days is easy -- but recording audio that sounds good enough to be used in professional environments still requires plenty of work. Enter Mikme, a portable audio recorder that can capture high-quality 24-bit/96 kHz audio with the press of a button and, most distinctively, it can also stream recordings over Bluetooth. Mikme's iPhone app captures those wireless streams, or you can set it up as a Bluetooth microphone on your computer. Mikme is kicking off an Indiegogo campaign today with the hopes of raising $25,000, which follows a failed Kickstarter campaign from last fall in which it tried to raise an ambitious $217,000 (it got up to $85,615 from backers). You can snag a Mikme of your own for $169 from its Indiegogo page, and the company expects to ship the microphone later this fall.
