GoPro Hero 3 Black Edition, w/ Remote Mount Microphone
 

Got tired of the muffled sound with the GoPro, and decided to go with a remote mic setup that m4a1mustang came up with. Nothing fancy.

Hardware:

GoPro Hero 3 Black
Audio-Technica PRO24-CM Microphone
16' male-to-female audio cable
Fat Gecko "Mini" camera mount (with suction cup)
GoPro's USB-to-Female audio cable

Here's my one (and only, so far) test video I quickly made today, in the miserable cold and wet weather.

Sounds good. You get to hear the car and road minus wind noise.

What settings do you have your hero3 at?

I just had it set to 1080 at 24 FPS, nothing exciting.

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sounds amazing man.. I am gonna have to do the same definitely.

I was planning to do the same when I got home lol

thats the exact same setup i have lolol actually.

where did you mount your Microphone btw?

im planning on mounting mine rear bumper just above/between the exhausts. keep it outta the wind.

Halfway in between the exhausts wasnt a good location for me. There wasnt enough meat to use my suction cup mount there. I ended up putting it directly above one of my pipes, and I'm happy with that location. It'd be nice to get that stereo effect I suppose, but I reasoned that the sound would likely be almost identical lol.

LOLOL damnit thats the exact reason i havnt actually done it yet. there isnt enough of a flat area for the suction cup to mount there.

im thinking of doing a lil bracket that bolts up to where the license plate goes. So the plate would still be showing 100%.

Or just KISS and mount it where I did lol

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I mount my go pro mount to the fog light area, I'm not sure if that's the area that you were talking about but if it is there's just enough room for a suction cup mount on top of it

The problem is mounting it so the Mic isn't hitting wind though. That area is a bit low, and may pick up wind noise.

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do they sell special cable for allowing simultaneous power and mic input for hero3?

from wat i saw a few months ago, it's either power or mic. my hero2 is mounted inside my car 100% of the time, so i need power and mic input.

Uhhhh, It's likely one or the other. GoPro's own cable is only a single Mini USB to Female connector, with nothing branching off.

How would you intend to power the GoPro AND feed it an audio feed?

Actually, better yet...how are you feeding power to your GoPro in the car?

yeah go pro messed up a bit on the design with that. Might need the extended battery and power that while using audio mic.

but thats wht im gonna work on a bracket for the license plate. It seems to be the best area to void noise and central to both exhausts.

i actually looking into a system with multiple wireless mics that feeds into a single source to feed into go pro.

this is so i can get the side exit exhausts too, but need a way to avoid wind noise.

I agree FWIW, that license plate spot would be best. Another thing to try is to simply aim the microphone upwards, and stick it to the fog light spot. That may work, too.

yep, that's wat i saw a few months ago.

i have a dual usb power adapter in the center console which it routed under the console, behind the passenger seat, to the gopro headrest mount. i also have an external stereo mic feeding into it from around the rear glovebox area. it's quite good.

cant post picts because the upload feature at this site is broken right now. and thanks to some arse last year, i deleted all my albums.

Just wanted to let you know that im deployed overseas and I watch your youtube when I get that urge to drive and it helps a little.... :driving:

Mic sounds so good man the z note puts me at peace :tup:

^^ which mic are you talking about? the hero3 built-in mic?

played around some with my second microphone last night just to see how it would go.

Glad to hear. Enjoy your stay in the sandbox, I was there til July of 2011 :)

Just curious about the GoPro Hero 3. At the higest resolution, what size would the file be for about 10 minutes of recording? I just tried an experiment with my Motorola RazR Maxx HD phone in the 1080HD+ mode. I have the windshield mount for navigation, and the camera is pointed directly out the window. I did about a 10 minute video, and the file size was a little over 1GB. So, I figure with 20GB left in my internal SD card, I could get about 200 minutes of recording. When I played the recording back on our HD TV, the sound and picture were pretty stellar. I really don't want (or need) a GoPro (although they are amazing), I just may use my phone during this years ZdayZ "Dragon Quest".

So how much did this setup cost?

go pro = 400.
mic = around 80 i think it was on amazon.
audio cable for go pro = 16.99
skeleton frame for go pro around 27.
microphone stereo extension cable around 5 bucks.
Mount for microphone around 25.

SD Card = whichever you buy.

Damn that's more than I wanted to spend on it. Maybe I'll just borrow Rob's old one again :icon17:

Must feel good to be all done with that.

.... Maybe good enough for a nice 1080p drive :stirthepot:

Unknown off hand, I'd have to muck with it. But the Black does 4K resolution at 15 FPS, so it's probably be quite large. It also does 1080p at 60 FPS.

The GoPro and your phone are very, very different tools, though. Only one will survive being chucked like a football in its protective case :). Or, like in my case over 3 years ago, being rammed into a metal safety barrier and still functioning just fine.

My GoPro was $350 and included a 32g memory card, along with a free spare battery.

That is the big thing for me, my GoPro is used for many things.
Many of which my phone could not survive, being thrown around, water, mounting on the outside of the car.

this is very true.

for my application though, i should've just bought a small handicam kinda thing from panasonic and a wide angle lens since only record from inside the car (passenger headrest).

I might just get the camera without the mic setup.

damn you got a deal.

Mine was free....:stirthepot:
Thank the misses for that one.

and bonus hottie at the end of the video.. lol ^^

I sure did

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That quickly becomes a pain in the *** to work with. I use my point and shoot for inside the car shots

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