Hollyland - LARK C1

I have the $30 Lark set from Hollyland and they’re great for recording at my desk and in the studio. The noise cancellation completely removes the ambient background noise like my PC and room fans. I’d expect the higher end model to be a bit more robust, but loud environmental noise can be a gamble.

Wireless lav mics with magnets will be a great help. Hollyland, Neewer, and Boya I can vouch for.

The new one from Hollyland is so tiny it's as small as a lav. Problem is the audio quality isn't quite good enough (their bigger version sounds better). But soon we'll actually have good sounding and cheap lav mics that are their own transmitter. Pretty cool.

hollyland lark solves these issues

https://a.co/d/hHFaJtT I was using a hollyland lark. But somebody pointed me towards this one because the receiver can go right on the side of the camera and doesn’t show up on the invisible stick. And it works pretty dang good. Down the road if Insta360 ever allows you to have two of their air mics in operation at the same time. I may switch over to those. At the moment, I’m pretty happy with this one.

Yeah, but that's not comparable. You're kinda talking apples and oranges here. I've got a couple NTG1s that RODE sent me and I agree that they're great, but you need to set them up on a boom stand, run XLR cable to camera/recorder - then in terms of position you have to watch out for background nosie. In a controlled environment I'd probably prefer it to lavs (although I'm starting to shift a bit on that position) The nice thing with these modern wireless mic packs is you just pop them on, send the signal back to the camera and they have their own backup recording on board. I prefer the Hollyland Lark personally... but this is such a leap ahead from the old ENG wireless gear like Sennheiser G series and Sony wireless sets (and these mics in a two bundle vs. only a single channel of those old wireless systems that cost about 3 times as much).

Oh nice… must’ve been an update… I know the Hollyland Lark works

Any of the Hollyland Lark series is great if you wanted something more versatile than a desk mic.

Those huge mics are terrible. But the small ones like hollyland larks, are very good. You can put them inside the shirt and the sound will remain very good

You could use something like the Hollyland LARK or DJI Mic and leave the receive inactive, just trigger the local recording on each transmitter as you put them on the speakers. It might be a bit of a hassle to sync up all of those recordings in post but it would work. They'll still be trying to transmit, there would just be nothing at the other end to receive. If the venue techs will worried about that, then I'd look into carrying a small bag of something like the Tascam DR-10L recorders - on-body recorders with no transmission capability. They'll be a bit bigger and have no remote monitoring option but have no antennas or chance of causing interference.

I own both the Larks and the RODE Wireless GO (Pro and regular) - they’ll all do essentially the same job, but none of them will let you turn the transmitting off. So that’s the only real concern.

Agreed on the RODEs. Honestly, the only reasonable way to manage the settings is by connecting them to your phone via cable and configuring in the mobile app. I've got a couple of sets of the Hollyland Lark mics and while they're a bit fiddly, the audio quality is quite good, especially if you record locally on the transmitters. My big complaint is the auto-gain logic is quite slow to adjust.