A few weeks back I began playing around with a set of wireless mics sent to me by the team at Boya. It’s the Boyamic2 Wireless lav. Let me be straight with you; initially I didn’t have much interest in this mic set because there isn’t much one can say about mics. But of course the buzzword of AI was thrown into the description. So I took a look for kicks and giggles at the very least. I’ve not been the biggest fan of the label “AI” getting slapped onto EVERY DADGUM PIECE OF TECH today. Most of the time it’s a bunch of bunk that’s not very helpful or useful. Just marketing buzz. Well, I can’t say that in the case of the Boyamic2.
Boyamic2 lavalier mic
Like most wireless lav mics today, you get a pair of mics (transmitters) and one receiver to capture the sound. The receiver allows you to pipe the audio into your camera or smartphone. Just use a TRS cable or a dongle. Pretty easy to use.
Boyamic2 lavalier and receiver
Nothing new here. So what’s the deal with this mic?
So Boya has touted having much better noise-cancelling in these mics to help provide a better listening experience. Granted, one must also consider other recording variables with a bold statement like that. Variables such as mic placement, what the actual ambient sound is, where the ambient sound is coming from, wind and more. In my testing, the environment was pretty tame. Some wind here and there, but even with that in consideration, the Boya2 did offer pretty effective noise cancellation on the fly with its AI.
But I have to give some additional credit. Even without the active noise cancellation activated, the mics do a pretty nice job with picking up the audio you actually want instead of the whole environment. Here’s a screenshot of room tone captured by my professional, studio mic - the Heil PR 40*. Notice the room tone is coming in at about 1kHz in the spectral display. And I mean BARELY at that because you can barely see the purple color in the spectral display.
Now take a look at the Boyamic2 in the same room with the same spoken word. It’s doing a really great job as it barely capturing room tone at 2kHz in the spectral display. So yeah, credit where credit is due.
The Boyamic2 is available now online* with competitive pricing. As previously mentioned, they’re very easy to use with either your camera of choice* or your smartphone. The key is you’ll spend a lot less time in post-processing trying to clean up your audio for your podcast or other content.
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