Hollyland - LARK MAX

I have the original Lark Max and love them. I may get the 4 mic Lark 2 setup. They sound great, and the noise reduction setting is terrific in a noisy environment.

You’ll get a zillion different opinions, but in that price range, I really love the Hollyland Lark Max kit. It’s $215 including lavs. You can run 2 mics to the receiver, and set it to record each mic on a separate channel. The noise reduction works well, and you can monitor from the receiver. They also have built in recording at the transmitter, and the case charges the whole kit when you put it away.

Better buy hollyland wireless mics. Better sound and not so expensive. I don’t like dji mic, because sounds bad. Best sound mic rode wireless pro. But it’s expensive) So if price matters for you choose hollyland (lark m2, or lark max)

For a filming situation where I can expect a lot of interference, like a performance venue with other wireless mics and an audience all carrying (and likely using) mobile phones, I'd prefer to rely on a mic that can record at the transmitter rather than record at the receiver. My team and I regularly film in event venues and will double-mic the talent with our own lavs in addition to the headset or handheld that drives the PA system. We'll use systems like RODE Wireless GO Pro or Hollyland Lark Max that allow me to remotely trigger recording at the transmitter, then the receiver on the camera is just for sync purposes. Maybe 15% of the time the received signal takes hits, but I'd rather be safe. You could use a cheap on-camera-style shotgun mic plugged into a second transmitter to capture ambient audience sound, but without it being moved around to follow activity it's going to miss more than it catches.

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.

I've had success with Hollyland and DJI. DJI is less prone to signal interference though and with the Mic Mini, it's such a tiny thing. I have Lark Max V1, Mic Mini and Mic 2. The Max and Mic 2 have built in 24 and 32 bit recording, respectively which is great when you run into interference.

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I see no love for the Lark Max here. It seems to work very well for the short period I've had it

Been using these for a while, we interviewed a band in the venue while the openers were playing and actually got very good audio - highly recommend!

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.