10Feb Is the Aspen lav really a JK MIC-J 044?
I was looking at low price lav mic’s on amazon and came across this guy. The strangely named “JK MIC-J” is a $29 lav mic that’s been shipping under a few different names on ebay and Amazon over the last few years. I hadn’t really paid attention to it until just recently.
The JK MIC-J lav mic comes with a Sennheiser style thread on the 3.5 mm jack and sports a mic capsule that looks suspiciously similar to the $54 Aspen Mic I was testing earlier this week. Heck even the shirt clip looks similar.
The specs listed for both of these microphones are also extremely similar. I wonder if this is a case of same mic, different branding. Not sure what the story is behind the JK MIC-J lav mic and Aspen Mic, but I think i’m going to attempt some A/B testing between these two this week.
I wonder if the $25 price difference between the two mics is really just better branding and a tin case. Should be interesting to test the audio and listen to the results. These might be using the same mic capsule.
February 10th, 2015 at 4:10 pm
Posts like this are why DSLR Film Noob rocks so hard.
February 10th, 2015 at 4:54 pm
Maybe so it will be interesting to find out, and it would not be the first time, so many things these days are just re-branded versions it seems just look on both Amazon and Ebay and you will find many items the same under dif brands.
February 11th, 2015 at 12:26 pm
Wow, it looks the as the Aspens I bought. Can’t get them to work with my DR-60D.
February 11th, 2015 at 4:10 pm
There’s a setting in the menu to turn the “3.5mm Input Plug-In Power”. I haven’t used it, but it’s most likely what you need to get your mic working.
February 13th, 2015 at 11:38 pm
Thanks for the help. I went to page 46 of the manual. I turned on the power for the 3.5, but I got nothing. Maybe I’m doing something wrong. Could you try it out on your end? I would really appreciate it:)
February 11th, 2015 at 12:54 pm
I was wondering that myself. I have 2 JK MIC-J lav mic’s. Black and beige. The mice sounds really good. The one problem. You can pull the outer ring of the Sennheiser connector petty easy so it is not too secure on the transmitter. Very cheap design.
February 11th, 2015 at 4:11 pm
Cheap design, cheap price. 😉