Way back in April at NAB 2016 Tascam showed off this beauty, the Tascam DR-10SG
This on camera mic is a little different from the rest as it also houses an inbuilt audio recorder, headphone socket for monitoring, dual record mode which is useful for those times on a run and gun assignment where sound levels may suddenly jump. It basically acts as an onboard audio recorder with attached microphone for those who want to keep things simple or a one man band who doesnt want to have to deal with separate audio recorders. It will also be great for bigger shoots as b-roll audio capture as you will get a higher quality audio recording as its not being recorded through the cameras onboard pre amps, making it far more useful if the main audio recorder has a problem.
The DR-10SG also has the following:
- Built in clock stamp of time of day to audio files
- Ability to record at 44.1/48khz 24bit
- Limiter and Eq settings
- Low cut filter
- Slate tone
- Automatic file closing for prevention of loss of data
- Headphone output for monitoring audio
Now if you are sat there thing ‘hmm this all sound familiar’ then you would be right. Back in2012/13 Rode put out a press release showcasing the ‘Videomic HD’. Based on the popular Videomic pro and ntg microphones it incorporated an sd card slot, audio recorder, audio monitoring and audio out to record to camera. Unfortunately it never made it in to production. It looked pretty darn good though (as you can see below).
Tascam may not be the first to come up with this idea, but they are the first to bring it to market, so I will be intrigued to read how it performs in the field once it is released.
For more info check out Tascams website http://tascam.com/product/dr-10sg/