When I’m not testing gadgets for Digital Camera World I sometimes freelance as a camera operator in the corporate video sector, which often involves using the client’s supplied camera and mic kit. This mic kit is often manufactured by Australian company RØDE as they have a 50-year history of designing and manufacturing the best microphones for vlogging and filmmaking for professionals. As well as releasing high-end products such as the RØDE Wireless Pro, RØDE unveiled a smaller and cheaper smartphone mic for the ever-growing smartphone content creator market in 2034 - the RØDE Wireless Micro.
The RØDE Wireless Go was first released in 2019 and was embraced by video makers thanks to the freedom it gave them to broadcast sound from a distance without physically wiring the subject’s mic to the camera. In February 2021 RØDE released the second generation of the Wireless Go which featured a dual-channel system so that you could broadcast two subjects’ voices to a receiver attached to your camera. The Wireless Go II also introduced onboard recording on its transmitters so that a clean audio track could be captured even if there was a drop-out between a transmitter and the receiver. In December 2024 the third generation of the RØDE Wireless Go was released and I borrowed on to test it out. Read on to discover its upgraded features and see how it fared during my test.
