so we have the DJI Mike mini we'll see how good the Bluetooth is and I don't know if it's uh if it's going to connect but this is going to be crazy if it connects via Bluetooth that is going to be awesome so for the past few weeks I've been using this right here the allnew DJI Mike mini pretty much alongside this guy the DJI Mike 2 I've been putting the Mike mini through its Paces using it from everything from just personal vlogging doing a lot of range tests also hooking this up to my daughter when she's doing a play at her school also when I was on site with a client I also used the mik mini and I definitely learned a lot of things with the mik mini especially in comparison to the DJI mic 2 so in this video of course let's go through all of the new features and advantages and talk about some of the shortcomings when comparing it to the DJI Mike 2 first and foremost let's get some of the main stuff out of the way which is pretty obvious Mike mini comes in about less than half the size and weight of the DJI Mike 2 of course with that size difference one of the biggest advantages of the mik mini is hooking it up to your talent or hooking it up to your shirt you don't have a heavier mic like the mic 2 which weighs about 28 G the mic mini comes in at only 10 G also has that little small M has a mini magnet on the back so you can hook it up to your chest just like this and you're able to have this thing on your talent and of course like I said it doesn't pull your shirt down as much as some of the heavier mics now I like to wear black shirts a lot so of course this matches my black shirt but if you are wearing white this right here they have the mic mini in what they call the arctic white so here are the two different colors for the mic mini when it come out to microphones we have built-in mics here at the very top of the mic mini as well as of course the DJI mic 2 the one thing that you will notice here on the very top of the mic mini versus the DJI mic 2 is that there is no port for you to hook up a wired mic so if you wanted to use something like a lavalier mic like you can on the DJI mic 2 you're not able to do that on the mic mini next about range and this was something that actually really surprised me the range on the Mike mini rated for 400 m in distance lineup site where the DJI Mike 2 is rated for 250 M all right now I am hooked up to the DJI action 5 via Bluetooth so we have the DJI Mike mini in the same location here in downtown Petco Park and I'm going to do the same thing I'm going to have my back to the microphone and back to the camera we'll see how good the Bluetooth is right now I'm just handholding the mic and we'll just head down here I'm going to try to continue talking as I do this video right now I'm facing the camera so this should be good to go now let's turn my back testing one camera now facing the camera how does the audio sound testing 1 2 3 4 5 remember this is Bluetooth so I don't know if this is going to have any range do you see do you see the bars moving the bars are moving all right so the bars are moving my back isera I moving now but we'll see all the way again to stage now I am facing the camera way over here and I don't know if it's uh if it's going to connect but this is going to be crazy if it connects via Bluetooth that is going to be awesome but turning my to the camera testing 134 1345 how does the audio sound and let's work our way back that would be awesome if uh this thing does work at that distance with Bluetooth and see if we have any cutouts so coming back up how does the audio sound coming from this little tiny guy hooked up to that right there which you're seeing is a DJI action 5 Pro all right so the DJI mik or Mike mini is H up to the action and I think this is where you're going to see a lot of benefit if you are just trying to keep things nice and simple using an action camera and you want crispy audio and you want to get that camera away from you how does the audio sound SD sign in the background represent we are here in San Diego of course but this is what it looks like and this is what it sounds like if you're just going to walk and Vlog with a wireless system definitely going to have a lot better audio compared to the onboard audio here so how does the audio sound testing 1 two 3 4 5 this is the audio coming from the DJI Mike mini hooked up via Bluetooth with the doggy right here hooked up VI a Bluetooth to the DJI action 5 how does the audio sound we are on the boardwalk over in the Harbor Marina District over in San Diego downtown and with my son I'm going to actually mount it to the B botom of his helmet one on her chest right there I'm going slow wa this is so fast now one thing I didn't notice on the Mike mini which I actually really like is that they did change how you sink it now on the mic 2os you'll normally have to press and hold to get a green light for you to sink it to the actual receiver and then if you're going Bluetooth you have to press and hold it wait for the blue light now when you sync it up which I like press and hold the linking button on the mic mini press and hold the linking button on the receiver and it'll automatically switch between the Bluetooth and the standard connection so that you don't have to pick one of the other it will automatically find it so once you have linking turned on on both of the uh devices then they'll find each other and I really like that because then it takes out the guess workor of how to link them up so that's something I noticed on the mic mini that I hope they bring over to the DJI mic 2 on one side of the mic we do have the power button as well as the linking button and on the other side we have the light indicator LED light indicator letting you know what mode you are in you do not have a USBC Port here on the mic mini like we do on the mic 2 the USBC port on the mic 2 you're able to do things like firmware updates on the actual mic itself also if you wanted to download your audio from the DJ mic to to something like your laptop you're able to do that through that Port the one thing here on the DJI mik mini is that you do not have any onboard storage that's definitely one of the biggest advantages of the DJI mic 2 is that you do have internal recording uh storage here so you could basically just use this as a standalone mic you actually don't need a receiver it doesn't need to be hooked up anything you can actually just turn it on hit record and now you can record all of your audio directly to the microphone now not only is that internal recording option on the DJ Mike 2 really nice to have but that also gives you the ability to have 32-bit float on the DJ mic 2 something we do not have here on the DJI mic mini now even though we don't have 32 bit flow on the Mike mini they did add in that automatic limiting feature here to prevent the clipping another feature that the DJI Mike mini has is the automatic clipping control which means if I were to yell really really loud or talk really really loud into the microphone ideally you'll probably hear some clipping right now it actually is set to off now I'm going to turn automatic clipping on and see how much of a difference there is and just like that in the settings turn the automatic clipping on now let's do that test one more time testing 1 2 3 testing 1 2 3 how does the audio sound I am pretty much yelling into the microphone and is there any clipping compared to when it was off a nice feature that they brought over from the DJI Mike 2 is that we also have noise cancelling on the DJI mik mini all right so let's see how it sounds right now there's noise cancelling is just off so this is what it sounds like I'm going to crack these windows just so you have a little bit of that wind noise coming into the car and right now noise cancelling is off we are in basic mode right now so let me switch it over to noise cancelling on all right noise cancelling is on and this is noise cancelling in basic mode so how much difference was there uh from having noise canceling off to right now this is noise cancelling in basic mode now in order for you to change the setting you just have to hook up the receiver to the phone and you're able to go to the settings on the receiver and change it from basic to strong so right now this is what the audio sounds like without any noise cancelling got my windows cracked open here but I did switch it over to the strong noise cancelling settings so let's see how this sounds all right we switched it on to noise cancelling is on but is set to strong so how much of a difference is there between the two between having the noise cancelling off between having it on the basic mode and now here we have noise cancelling on strong I have noise cancelling turned off at the moment and now I'm going to turn on noise cancelling right now there you go we have noise cancelling on the yellow light is on here on the side how does the audio sound with noise cancelling busy road right next to me let me turn it back off noise cancelling set to off how does the audio sound this is the DJI Mike mini hooked up to the iPhone 15 with the receiver plugged into the bottom the runtime on the mik mini a single transmitter can go for about 11 1/2 hours compared to the DJI mic 2 transmitter this has a runtime of about 6 hours the one thing that's nice is that when you drop your mics into this case it'll actually charge it back up and when you charge it back up you're able to now get up to 48 hours of runtime when you charge it up with the case when you charge your mics with a case you can get about 18 hours of runtime after charging it through this case the one thing you will notice here on the DJI Mike Mini case is that we are able to now keep the cord here at the very top if you were to put on a wind muff here on the very top all you have to do is press this on the back and then onto the top once you have the the wind muff on here you can now put it back into the case and close it up and you can transport it with the wind muff on to the mic I know may sound pretty silly but if you had the DJI mic too and you pop it on like that and if you wanted to drop it in here you are not able to close the case up now when this kit does come the two transmitters as well as one receiver and the one receiver also has a USBC now the case does not come with a lightning cas C it only comes with a USBC however you are able to purchase a lightning cable if you have the older iPhones and you have a little slot here to put it at the very top now comparing this receiver to the DJI Mike 2 receiver of course smaller we don't have a screen here on the front of this one it showing us any of the menus the only thing we really have on the mic mini receiver is the ability to adjust the gain from zero to POS 6 to 12 as well as -6 -12 so this is how the audio is set at zero how does the audio sound as far as volume goes testing 1 2 3 4 5 this is the gain set to zero let's switch it now to -12 going down to -12 right now testing 1 2 3 4 5 how does the audio sound this is the gain set to -12 how does the audio sound testing 1 2 3 4 5 and let's go to -6 this is the gain set to -6 how does the audio sound testing 1 2 3 4 5 testing 1 2 3 4 five let's go all the way up to positive 6 all right this is the gain set to positive 6 how does the audio sound testing 1 2 345 testing 1 2 3 4 5 and let's push it all the way up to gain at 12 testing 1 2 3 4 5 how does the audio sound with the gain on the DJI Mike mini receiver set to 12 how does the audio sound testing 1 2 3 4 5 on the very top we have one and two lit up here to show you which one is connected to the receiver on this side we have the link Button as well as 3.5 to hook up to your camera so if you wanted to hook up the receiver directly to your camera you're able to do that we have a builtin cold shoe here at the very bottom which is also a clip on this side we have the power button and on the back we do have the uh connectors for you to charge it up as well as hook up the USBC one thing I was really hoping would work but unfortunately it does not this is the adapter for your Sony camera unfortunately the adapter size is larger than the size here on the very back so this does not slide in to the mik mini now when it comes out to compatibility with some of the other DJI products what's really good is that they will work with the DJI pocket 3 and if you do have the two mic mini combo you can hook up both mics to the pocket 3 as well as the new DJI action 5 Pro this one does accept two different mics the action 4 it will work with the wireless mic as well except the action 4 only accepts One microphone hookup and then if you have something like the DJI action 3 this doesn't have the wireless linking however you are able to then plug in USBC to the side of the action three and you can actually use this now as your wireless system just like that now if you didn't have any of these products but you still wanted to have better audio with your phone you are able to connect your DJI Mike mini to your phone via Bluetooth now the only downside of hooking up Bluetooth to your phone is actually the same issue we had here with the DJI Mike 2 is that you're not able to directly hook it up to the native video photo app that you have on something like this iPhone 15 however you can download other thirdparty apps like the Black Magic app and that's actually a free app to use and when you download that app you can hook up the DJI mic via Bluetooth to that app all right the one thing that's pretty cool with the DJI mic mini is that you are able to hook up the mic by itself to your iPhone right I have it hooked up right now to the iPhone 15 and I don't have the receiver hooked up to it so this is hooked up directly via Bluetooth now of course this is the receiver here you are able to hook it up with the receiver you'll get better quality as well as better reception but if you just have the mic by itself you are able to hook it up straight through Bluetooth and this is really cool because you don't necessarily have to have the receiver on it you can just use the mic by itself hook it up via Bluetooth and how does the audio sound let me actually move back a little bit further I'm going to have my back to the camera so you might not be be uh it might have the best reception but once I go line of sight like this ideally the reception should be really good and the reason why I'm shooting right next to the street is because I want to see if the noise cancelling works now there is noise cancelling on the mini mic or mic mini all you have to do is press the power button just like that and then the yellow light will turn on on the side and this is with the noise canceling off I'm not 100% sure if it works with just the Bluetooth alone so how does the audio sound next to we busy road here in San Diego testing 1 2 3 4 5 how does the audio sound this is with the noise cancelling on now let me turn it off and this is with the noise cancelling off now overall my thoughts on the DJI Mike mini I am super impressed with the quality you're getting for this tiny little size and not just that the tiny little price if you wanted to buy just the transmitter by itself this comes in at only $59 and like I said if you have the action 4 action 5 pocket 3 or just your phone and you wanted to hook it up via something like a third party app like the Blackmagic app you are now able to hook up this microphone to all of those devices then if you want to step it up and have even better audio you're going to want to pick up the receiver and this receiver combo with the transmitter comes in at $89 of course you will need the receiver if you're planning on using your microphone setup with your camera like I said this is just a cold shoe you're going to hook up your 3.5 cable here on the side to the camera and now you're able to use your mic with something like this the Sony A7 S3 and for $169 you're able to get this right here which is the full setup the two transmitters one receiver comes with the case all the accessories and of course you can charge it in this case so you're able to get a lot more runtime with this package they are going to be selling the case separately for about $49 but if you are going to get it you might as well get this whole thing for1 169 I think one of the biggest advantages of the DJI Mike mini will be when using it with something like these cameras right here I think having that smaller footprint and also having just crispy audio and keeping everything kind of more compack for the price of only 59 bucks definitely the DJI Mike mini though packs a punch has a ton of features and you guys tell me how was the audio quality coming through as always if you guys got some value from this video a big like would be much appreciated this is ultra sasio with flight path.com I'll see you in the next one take care