Wireless Microphones for Video Production

Looking to add wireless mics to your video rig? In this guide, you'll find wireless microphone systems and components that are well-suited for shoots. Most video-focused wireless mic systems include at least one battery-powerable wireless receiver, and at least one wireless transmitter/microphone element.

Wireless Receivers:
For shooting video, you'll want a portable receiver that can be mounted on a camera, roll around set in a sound cart, or hang out in your audio bag and feed a portable recorder. Unlike larger receivers that are meant to be rack-mounted and plugged into a wall, wireless receivers made for videography are lightweight, mobile, and most importantly battery-powerable.

Wireless Transmitters and Mic Elements:
On a film/video set, you'll find a wide variety of wireless transmitters and mic elements. There are lavalier microphones that clip to talent's clothing, often with a tiny mic element connected by a thin cable to a bodypack transmitter about the size of a deck of cards. There are handheld mics with a wireless transmitter built into the handle, which an interviewer can carry and easily point toward themselves and their subject. And there are plug-on XLR transmitters that plug onto the output of a standard XLR mic, turning a wired mic into a wireless mic -- you can even put one on the end of a boom pole, and free the boom operator from wrangling a long cable.