After the big success of RØDE NTG3 Shotgun Microphone, Rode has challenged themselves for smaller and more affordable, and here it is – read our RØDE NTG5 review. Smaller, lighter, better? RØDE NTG5 The RØDE NTG5 is a short shotgun microphone from the Australian microphone Manufacture RØDE. In comparison to the NTG3, the new NTG5 is about 50mm shorter than the NTG3, in total it’s 203mm long. It weighs only 76g, that’s almost half the weight of NTG3. But surprisingly, it costs 20% less with a whole accessory kit included. These factors make the NTG5 seem too good to be true, so we took a closer look. The new NTG5 in its black coating looks very robust, it feels very good in the hand and well built. The Aluminum body helps to reduce weight. The new design of the acoustic tube looks advanced and should provide better frequency response to the microphone. Besides that, the black design matches with the RØDE VideoMic NTG, the NT-SF1 Ambisonic and the RØDE TF-5 Pencil Microphone perfectly. I guess this is a new image that Rode wants to show to the customers: black, cool, simple, and robust. New NTG5 microphone with accessories. Source: RØDE In the Box is also a pistol grip shock mount and an XLR cable with “connbox” design, a simple microphone clip mount, a foam windshield, a WS10 “softie” style windshield, and a small pouch bag to protect the mic from transport. All these accessories are well built, feel very robust...
Published By: CineD - Tuesday, 18 August, 2020