Using an Omni-Directional Mic for News Reporter Type Interviews

When you’re on-location interviewing various people like a news reporter, it’s good to use an omni-directional mic because this will ensure that you don’t completely miss anything that your subject says. *As long as the noise level of the environment is not super loud.

On problem in this scenario when using a cardioid mic: When you are asking a questions, many times the guest will start answering before you have time to move the mic from your mouth to their mouth, and with a cardioid mic the beginning of their answer will be mostly rejected by the mic and be very low volume. With an omni mic in this scenario, the mic will pick up quite a bit of the guest even when the mic is pointed at you, so you don’t have to worry so much about moving the mic back and forth fast enough to capture every word.

One example of an omni mic for this purpose is the RØDE Reporter microphone.

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