Shure Movemic 88+ Receiver Kit | Jands | RRP: $1039
Content creation, streaming, documenting, recording and making music is becoming a global affair, makers travelling and having the need for a mobile solution to great sounding audio. Stalwarts of the recording industry, Shure, are ahead of the curve, as always, unveiling the MoveMic 88+ Receiver Kit this year.
The MoveMic 88+ is a wireless stereo condenser microphone, with selectable polar patterns depending on the sound you’re chasing and the environment you’re in. Expand from traditional mono polar patterns to mid-side, bi-directional and an adjustable stereo setting, allowing you to record a sound as focused or filled with ambient environmental sound as you like.
The main component of the microphone is comprised of three capsules, allowing you to split or combine the capsules for different areas of capture, as well as shifting where areas of rejection.
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The box includes the MoveMic 88+ itself, this Receiver Kit including a MoveMic Receiver as well, used to connect via Bluetooth to a phone, allowing for totally wireless connection. This allows you to pair with your phone and position the mic wherever sounds the best before moving your camera to a more optimal position and retain the clarity of the sonics while getting the shot.
The addition of the Receiver into the Receiver Kit allows users to record without a phone as well, for an even more mobile solution, the Receiver communicating things like gain, input and recording status and modes.
Movemic 88+ Receiver Kit
Specifications at a glance; the four polar patterns are adjustable from 60° to 135. On-board DSP allows for compression, EQ and a handy high-pass filter (you’d be surprised how much low rumble there is in a city!), the MoveMic 88+ now including brand new noise reduction options for treat your audio while it’s being recording; designed to get rid of environmental noise as well as helping to give your voice more clarity. Adjustable settings aside, there’s five presets for quick set-up in the speech, singing, flat, acoustic and loud presets.
The MoveMic 88+ responds from 40Hz – 18kHz, allowing for a maximum sound pressure level of 122.4dB SPL. With just the MoveMic 88+ connected to your phone, you can record up to 16-bit and 44.1kHz or 48kHz sample rate, the addition of the Receiver into the signal chain bumping the bit depth up to 24-bit.
You can monitor the input signal/s directly from the mic itself or the receiver, a handy addition when making the most of the 30m (100 foot) wireless range. Best of all the MoveMic 88+ microphone and the Receiver packaged here with it are supremely portable and lightweight, meaning they can be stowed away until they’re needed. Combined, the mic and Receiver clock in just under 200g.
While you’d be forgiven for assuming the MoveMic 88+ is made for solely content creation, the MoveMic 88+ is built for so much more, taking world-class and professional sound capture on the go with you. The 88+ represents a step up in quality from the MoveMic that came before it, and while still very easy to use, it provides the cutting edge of audio in a portable unit, with options for capture and audio treatment that place it into the upper echelon of audio recording technology. Designed for field recording, professional content creation and more, the MoveMic 88+ delivers in the most demanding recording situations.
The aforementioned polar patterns make for great recording options, the mono bi-directional setting being great for pointing at a source and capturing a natural ambience as well, while adjustable stereo or Raw Mid-Side can be great for capturing a whole room.
Setting up a recording in the MOTIV Video or MOTIV Audio app is a breeze, the MoveMic 88+ quickly connecting and allowing me to record in moments. The app also displays connection status as well as battery status; the MoveMic 88+ Wireless Video Microphone having up to 8 hours of battery life.
It’s important to note that the MoveMic 88+ can connect directly to your phone through Bluetooth, via either the MOTIV Video or Audio app, though the addition of a Receiver to your rig allows for connection to the MoveMic 88+ as well as much of Shure’s expanding range of mobile mic solutions. The Receiver includes a cold-shoe mount adapter for connection to a stand or camera if available, the Receiver also having some onboard controls and displays for recording, muting and routing options. As mentioned earlier, the Receiver also allows for higher bit-depth recording.
The MoveMic 88+ is a stellar move forward in the consistently expanding world of content creation, the world-class sound quality from making it an equally formidable option for recording music. Demo songs are a given, but the sound quality of the MoveMic 88+ rivals other products more dedicated to music making, as well as being a great solution to podcasts, vox pops and more with two speakers or sound sourced. The addition of the Receiver in this kit bundles it all together (literally, in a branded Shure satchel with space for every accessory and then some!), offering a really unique way to make world-class videos very easily.
The Shure MoveMic 88+ alone is a worthy tool for every music maker and content creator, the Receiver Kit augmenting the product further with more routing and recording options, as well as additional metering, display and higher quality audio.
For a company so innovative, it should serve as no surprise that Shure is pushing the entire industry forward, yet here we are shocked and impressed at the level of thought and detail into making products for capturing, amplifying and recording sound.
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