Product Description

Hear even more of what you've been missing with the ECM-HW1 Bluetooth Wireless Microphone from Sony, the ultimate accessory for capturing full 5.1 channel sound for all your digital video recordings. The Bluetooth-enabled wireless microphone captures clear and dynamic audio from up to one-hundred feet away. And it connects easily to your Handycam(R) camcorder using the convenient active interface shoe. Add a new dimension of sound to all your important moments. Records sound in Mono Records center-channel sound (for compatible camcorders with 5.1 Center mode) Earphone jack on receiver to monitor sound picked up by microphone Microphone transmitter powered by 2 AAA batteries Wireless microphone captures 5.1 channel sound Bluetooth-enabled captures clear audio from up to 100 feet away Connects easily to your Handycam(R) with the Active Interface Shoe

Product Details

• Brand: Sony
• Model: ECMHW1
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 3.50" h x 6.50" w x 4.80" l, 8.00 pounds

Features

• Wireless microphone captures 5.1 channel sound
• Bluetooth-enabled captures clear audio from up to 100 feet away
• Connects easily to your Handycam with the Active Interface Shoe
• Includes clip, arm band, neck strap, wind screen, and carrying pouch

From the Manufacturer
Never miss another scream of delight, another note of special performance, or another vow on that "special day." Designed to capture sound directly from the source, the ECM-HW1 takes advantage of Bluetooth® technology to wirelessly capture sound. With the included armband, lanyard or clip, position the microphone wherever your "star" may go. With security native to Bluetooth® technology, be assured that you are safely capturing the sounds of your special moments.

EC-MHW1 Features

AIS connection
Connects to the Active Interface Shoe (AIS) of the camcorder

Microphone range
Range of up to 30m, depending on conditions

Center channel
Serves as the center channel microphone in 5.1 channel surround sound recording1

Supplied accessories
Includes armband, lanyard, clip, and a convenient pouch

Battery requirements
Requires 2 AAA batteries

Customer Reviews

Didn't work for our purpose
I read the positive reviews for this prior to purchase. For home video/audio recording it might work fine. We were trying to use it for recording "how to" demonstrations and it was not suitable for that use. It has an overly sensitive, built-in audio limiter and as soon as the microphone picks up additional sound (glass beads in a vase, etc.) it lowers the overall audio level sharply, causing the level of the speaker's voice to drop very noticibly. Then when the background noise ends, the speaker's voice level pops back up. There is no manual adjustment to the audio limiter - that would solve this problem. Because of the over reactive audio limiter we had to return this product.

No regrets whatsovever!
My husband and I love to hike and backpack and we like to set-up our video camera to record the scenery around us when we stop for meals and breaks but we always had to have the camera real close to us in order to pick-up our voices clearly.

After researching, we decided to purchase this microphone to use on our recent backpacking trip to Colorado. We love this microphone! The microphone picked up our voices clearly even when we had the video camera as far away as 75 feet from us so that the beautiful mountain scenery would be recorded also.

My only regret is that we didn't purchase this microphone when we first bought our video camera.

Very convenient
As an experienced sound guy for live events, I have a pretty good handle on sound quality for microphones. This little jewel is still a condenser-type microphone, similar to the one on the camera, designed for picking up sounds from a bit of a distance. As such, the sound quality is similar to the microphones on the camera itself. The advantage, of course, is that you have the ability to put the center of the sound further away, presumably closer to your subject.

I have used wireless dynamic lapel mics for camera interview work and typically, they sound much warmer and reject more background noise. If I were doing professional video work, I would use professional dynamic mics instead of this set.

However, you can't beat the convenience for this unit. Just get the little wireless microphone unit reasonbly close to your subject(s) and shoot. I've used it with very good results. At one point I was recording under a canopy at a park. I could hear my subjects well, but also picked up a conversation from two people at the other end of the canopy about 40 feet away, oh, and airplanes, busses, trucks, etc.

That said, I still recommend this solution. The quality is typical of video camera mics, the convenience of just place and shoot is great, and the bluetooth connection works reliably. I'd buy it again. Just don't expect to go pro with it.