Hollyland Lark C1 Wireless Lavalier Microphone for iPhone, MFi Certified, Plug and Play, Noise Cancelling Lapel Mic with 200m Transmission, 32H Working Time, Compatible with iPhone, iPad, Black

I use radio microphones professionally and I can say that the really good ones cost a lot of money. But, I wanted something quick and easy that I could just pop onto my iphone and start shooting interviews. I was highly sceptical I could achieve that at the price point this product is on offer for! How wrong could I be? Let me tell you how good they are. With a couple of tips. The microphone (bluetooth transmitter unit) clips onto the interviewee lavalier style. So, a collar, a tie, but no further than a foot away from the mouth but not too close either. Make sure you use the included wind gag if outdoors. Inside that mic unit is the transmitter. This part of the two pieces will need to be charged with the USB cable. It holds a good charge, I have used it for the most of about an hour maximum, and it still plenty of juice left in it. The receiver, you plug into the bottom of your smartphone. You download an app. (all instructions for this come with the device) The app will enable you to control certain parameters. Like: level of background noise cancelation. I keep mine on minimum as any kind of processing lowers sound quality a little. And also, I don't film interviews anywhere really noisy anyway. Once you have plugged the mic receiver into your phone and turned on the transmitter (the mic unit) you will see it pair with the bluetooth light stopping flashing. Then you are ready to go. I would warn against your interviewees speaking really loudly, which some people tend to do when wearing a radio mic. If you are more than a few feet away they start to shout. They don't realise that the mic will pick up their voice without needing to. If they shout, it will distort a little. Next, you'll want to make sure it has recorded...so you play back your shot on the phone...but heck! There's no sound! That's because the device is still plugged into the smart phone....*but* there's a setting on the Hollyland app which you can activate which lets you hear play back without having to unplug the receiver each time. Works a treat. Also, remember, the receiver does not need to be charged, it gets power from your phone. Distance? Outdoors I have been 100 feet away line of sight and recorded perfect sound. And one other *important* point. The receiver is so small and so light, that you can use it when the phone is mounted on a stabilizing gimbal like the DJI Osmo Mobile 6, (available from Amazon) and it does not throw it off balance at all. This was the deal maker for me. A great combo. I am thrilled with this product. Thank you, Hollyland!

The media could not be loaded. Purchased a few mics in the past that were cheaper than this but I do think you get what you pay for. This mic is super easy to use. Just plug and play. The quality is excellent producing crisp and clear sound. I like that it has two mics so I can have great content of my husband and I out and about. It comes with a wind cancellation attachment so great if you want to remove background noise. The attached video was taken on a very windy day but the cancellation was very effective and the sound is excellent. Comes in a great little zip case which looks stylish and easy to fit in a pocket or pack in your bag. Comes with two different charging leads.

I’ve had this little mic for a couple of months now and really like it! It’s maybe a little bit more expensive than some competitor devices, but I think the quality of the Hollyland shows through. I’ve used it for short video clips recorded on my iPhone, so I haven’t really tested the range fully — I’ve always had the receiver and transmitter close together — but have had no glitches or dropouts on any of my recordings. The iPhone mic system is pretty good already, so I wondered what sort of improvement I might get, but frankly the difference is very noticeable. My voice from the Hollyland is much richer, deeper and fuller and (principally I guess because the mic is so much nearer my mouth) I get a more direct sound without so much of the ambience and echo from the room. I would have thought this would be even more obvious when using the mics with two people but I haven’t had the opportunity to try that yet. The built-in noise reduction functionality is much more effective than you might have anticipated — it does an excellent job of filtering out background noise like computer fans and similar background rumbling without having any major detrimental effect on the voice (you can definitely tell when it’s enabled, but there’s none of the unpleasant digital gurgling that similar functions on other devices sometimes generate). Battery life is very impressive too — I tend to keep the mics charged up, but they’ve never run out on me mid recording yet — and the charging case is great, easy to carry in a small pocket and light enough to drop into a bag so I can take the mic set just in case it’s needed. I have another couple of Hollyland mics — the Lark M1 and the Lark 150 — so am a bit of a fan of the brand; I’ll use the C1 very specifically just for iPhone recordings and will have the others for other purposes. The only challenge then will be if the iPhone switches to USB-C in future instead of Lightning, but for the moment this works really nicely for my current needs and it’s an impressive bit of kit.

this product doesn’t work on iPhone 15. It will not connect to their app. I will like to return this and get the lark m2 usbc. What do I need to do? And what’s the cost??

I tell you what I am very pleased with these mic's the battery is extremely good and the sound quality is very very good for the price you can not go wrong. They have been tested out in extreme winds using the dead cat mic cover with the background noise reduction on and fair play it really helps it's own, very impressed and very happy with it. The only downside is the two mics you get don't come through on separate channels so if you used it for say an interview there is no way to separate the channels which in my case doesn't matter as it's only me in my YouTube video so it's all good, but very very impressed and well worth the money. Highly recommend if you are looking for a cheaper alternative to say DJI Mics.

Unfortunately my receiver does not seem to connect to the app; the app itself seems to be broken. And the receiver itself doesn’t always turn on when plugged into my device. I recently used this one a shoot with a client, and it caused a solid minute of me being ready to shoot, my client under the spotlights, and me fiddling with this mic as the receiver wasn’t turning on. What a shame.