Hollyland - LARK MAX 2

The Hollyland Lark Max 2 with 4 mics (one receiver can pair with up to 4 mics) plus another USB mic for you could do the trick while staying in budget. Even cheap USB mics ~50€ have better audio quality than an expensive headset mic.

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.

Not a fan of 2.8 zooms as they are heavy and expensive Can recommend 20-60 and a third party 35mm or 50mm primes instead. Mic wise can recommend maono wave T5. On par with holyland mark 2 and DJI mics, but a lot cheaper.

hollyland lark solves these issues

Hollyland Lark Max 2, definitely the best on the market. 32-bit full chain audio, fantastic noise reduction, each microphone receiver can record 8 to 12 hours of audio depending upon your setting. Just an all-around great product

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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.

Ok I’ll give you the Sennheiser Profile. Though to be fair, it didn’t have 32bit float when they launched it back in 2024 and they only added it this past spring (so in my head I wrote it off as not worth my time and moved on). Otherwise I couldn’t find any other Hollyland mics (besides the Lark MAX 2 which I did review in the video) that use 32bit float. And not sure “and others”. Don’t want to waste your time making you look up or type long comments but I do genuinely appreciate the feedback cause this is a pretty niche thing I’ve been obsessed with for the past year.

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