How to TRANSFORM your Hero 7 Audio with three mic settings!
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 26. 08. 2024
- We're diving deep into the hero 7 black to show you all the settings for the best possible sound! We'll go through all the best settings for internal or external mics. Plus some professional audio settings that are hidden in the menus!
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What GoPro setting did you find the most interesting? Want me to dive deeper into a camera related subject?
Also, I *DO* know of one gimbal that'll work with the hero 7, but I'm sure you can't guess what it is. I'll cover that in another video. ;)
Great and exceedingly helpful. Thanks again. RIP to the Hero 7 you used for the autopsy đ. Question: what sound level do you bring your audio down to while editing/rendering? -3, -4??
If I'm using my pro gear? I record in -12, edit in -3. This video I edited in -6 and left out music because i didn't want people ears getting fatigued since the topic was all about sound quality.
Was going to say, my 7 and Karma work very well. Which is a huge leap, compared to my 5. Because I can hear the motors and button presses, whenever I used it. It was very annoying.
Cant wait for a video showing all your Gopro mounts, attachments, and accessories you own and use often on your adventures.
Thank you for showing
I'm blown away by the production value and all the information in this video! Thanks for putting this out!
Dude... Major props for being able to keep me entertained through a 20 minute video! đ
Also...seriously tho... We all appreciate you for this đ€đŒ
Hahaha! The benchmark of a good video!
thank you for doing this for me i just got a go pro and this video was really helpful for me
Glad it was helpful!
This is really helpful! I use the G6 with hero7 & mic adaptor & have spent loads of time trying to find the best set up re audio/motor hum etc. You've given me some fresh ideas to experiment further so thanks!
great one. I have the 7 and not even thinking of switching soon. Thank you
Whoa, Lake Pueblo. No matter what mic, you can never mistake the sound of riding on shale..
Great vid! For a Hero7 + gimbal solution, what about recording in stereo raw and only keeping the left audio channel (the one on top of the camera). If the camera doesnât throttle the gain over to the right hand side mic for whatever reason, you should be able to dump the right side audio track and be left with a decent sounding mono track with little to no motor noise, no?
I think Iâm gonna have to go try this today đ€
You can try that, but I'm pretty confident you're going to lose a lot of fidelity. You run the risk of the audio being pretty flat.
There is a simple fix for this, and I've messaged EVO about it, so the ball is in their court now. đ
@@TrailFeatures a new Gopro bracket with adjustable placement perhaps?
If using the evo, unfortunately, the mount/clamp from the gimbal covers that mic hole perfectly...
I do exactly this, and you can get a feel for what happens from my latest vids (czcams.com/video/rs6rp7NP6y/video.html skip to halfway to get some footage without music overlay).
Yeah the gimbal noise is killing me its not just the evo that has the problem my ghetto gimbal does too a lot worst with a Dead cat on it too I didnt even think about killing the right channel though thanks for that.
Thanks for the video. Really helpful. Have a good one!
Hey that was great going through all the settings and stuff.
Much appreciated!
Excellent video! I was so bummed when I purchased a gimbal for my session 5 and found out the noise issue first hand. I do a lot of hiking and its dead quite so you hear everything! I ended up doing separate audio with a sony digital audio recorder and the mic you use in this video, but it was a pain to turn on and off both constantly and editing was no fun at all having to sync every clip.. I just bought a hero7 and am adding an external mic and this tutorial really helped me understand the characteristics of the hero7 audio both with and without a external mic. They need to design a gimbal with a built in microphone that is isolated from the motor vibration some how.. Thanks again!
Appreciate the helpful tips, top notch production quality.
This is a very good video. I went and bought the audio adapter and mic as well. I mainly use my GoPro for metal concerts. But with the mics I have used the audio is terrible and unusable. Sounds like cracking and popping the whole time. Just using the onboard mics sound ok I guess. But once you explained raw audio; i set it to high. And it opened up a whole new world. Thank you so much for this video
Ive been using the evo and hero 4 myself... But I think with this new setup I would be willing to switch it up next time. Unless they come out with a waterproof/smash proof gimbal for a reasonable price.
Thanks! I live here in N.Italy đźđč and just got a hero 7 for my mt climbs, road and trail rides. These tutorials will be helpful. So Iâve subscribed to your channel. Thanks!!!
You have mastered the audio settings... KUDOS.. Thanks a lot for helping us for knowing all these audio things....
Just stumbled onto your channel and have to say I really appreciate all the information you shared here. I personally am very weak in the area of audio and this was very helpful
I have a feeling VanCan isn't going to sell his karma grip..... but I'm sure I can convince him to give it up đ- Great video Joseph! I love how you help us audio noobs and go to the next level for the pro-sumers!
Hahaha! The most valuable thing he owns at this point! đ
Thanks! I like to give scalable knowledge so people can get going fast but dive deeper when they're ready to get more advanced. đ€
Nice vid! Jist got the GPH7. I appreciate the info. Being a musician it's good to know about the frequencies on the raw settings. All the best!
So thankful you're a member of the 9 year old army. Awesome video!
Excellent info. Thank you!
Super well done Joe, there's a lot of good info here!
Thanks, man!
this video help a lot. Thanks man
VERY INFORMATIVE.. !! Loved it man
This is really great information Joesph, I actually bookmarked this for reference! Cheers!
I hope it helps a lot of people!
Really great stuff Joe. Super in depth and quality content as usual. Iâm still not 100% sold on the audio of the Hero7, but boy does it make the Hero4 look old. Canât wait to get your thoughts on the ideal gimbal design.
I've actually been pestering the folks over at EVO, but they aren't returning my messages. đ
Trail Features Iâve got to imagine they are working on something for the Hero7 right? I mean this has been an issue since the Hero5 so theyâve had time to come up with a solution better than smash the audio to ignore gimbal noise like the Karma. Iâm not saying itâs an easy problem, but it should be surmountable.
excellent
Very good and helpful video, thank you...
Well thank you for this kind and understandeable explanation how it works and what kind of microphones does GoPro has.
Few days ago I get GoPro 7 Black and I knew that on road (mine is hybrid, not electric) bike wind makes horrible noise, so I went in fabrics store and got 0,7 m square of some close to rurry looking fabric. Later I made a wind killer for my GoPro and actually it works very well. You can see it on my latest video I uploaded yesterday. Fabric price was about 4âŹ
Thanks for the great video. Just got a 7B and am getting everyone's opinions on audio, low-light hypersmooth, etc. Thanks!
Nice Video. It confirms what I was thinking about the sound on the GoPro Hero Black 7.
I don't even own a hero 7, but found this intriguing. I have a couple questions as I am thinking of going that route. With the windslayer did you experience any overheating? I'm guessing not as it looked chilly, but summer in Texas has me concerned. In the past I've run a lav mic into my phone to avoid buying the GoPro adapter, and synced the audio later. Have you had any luck with that type of setup? Appreciate this video! Should help a bunch of people.
It's been way too cold to do any good heat tests. đ„¶ The back screen isn't covered so hopefully that acts enough of a heatsink to cool the camera. I try to avoid syncing extra audio when I can, it becomes a pita for longer clips.
@@TrailFeatures I hope the Texas heat won't completely destroy this thing lol. The software I use has an automatic sync by audio feature and it's an absolute game changer! Saves me so much time when I use the lav. Hope to see you at Spider Mountain!
thank you for making this video helped alot
A great in-depth
review. It convinces me that the improvements are still not really that great for a motorcycle without
an external microphone. My current hero
5 black is not up to scratch and I would not outlay the asking price for the
hero 7 without monumental audio improvements and I am now convinced they are
not there yet.
Great info. Just invested in the mic adapter. Still silly expensive for something that older gopros did out of the box.
Just a minute correction. The frequencies are not 1000kilohertz, they're 1khz or 1000htz. 1000khz, or 1mhz, is wayyyy outside of the human audible range. ;)
Old video but priceless. Just got my Gopro H7 as a second camera together with my H8 and waiting for the gimbal to arrive. This saved me a lot of wasted effort to tune the sound. Now I know that I won't be getting any good sound from the gimbal-attached H7. Instead I need to rely the H8 and probably external mic & raw audio.
Great job with this, dyude, super-INFAAHMITIVE.
Haha! Thanks!
Been looking for a video about this for a while now to improve my own videos!
Thanks for making this video man!
No problem! Glad it helped you!
Awesome investigation in a geeky way. now figured out how they do with wind noise without shield . Reverse phased gimbal noise could mask the noise:)
Thanks,great video
Have you heard of an app called *MYK* ?? It basically turns your _phone_ into a _wireless mic_ for your _GoPro._
Then you could run a lav from your phone and get some killer audio with a gimbal.
Great Video! Thanks! đ
Very informative. Really helped when setting up my gopro thanks!
Glad it helped!
Very interesting! I've been using the wind setting for audio. Its not great but I think I might try a windslayer and stereo. I'm not sure how its going to do in heat. I've noticed the Hero 7 Black gets hot even in the cooler months. Worst case, it overheats and I have to just take it off and have crappier audio haha.
You could always cut away some of the front section. You just need to make sure the mics are well covered.
But for sure, stop using that wind mic!
I have a go pro 7 and windslayer. The windslayer makes a big difference and audio sounds pretty good in stereo mode. It does over heat on a hot day, not much you can do about it. But the trick I do is have the Slayer in a cooling pack with ice in a bag to keep the Slayer cool for a while before I use it and it helps keep the go pro at a good temperature. It works. I wouldn't recommend cutting sections off the front of the wind Slayer, doing that will just allow more wind noise to squeeze through. It's best left the way as it is as a complete sleeve.
Excellent video on the topic. Thanks!
Very informative. One question: Once I've set the camera to Protune On and enabled Stereo mode, if I disable Protune will it hold the Stereo audio setting? I think that's what you said, but theres no real way of knowing without doing some testing, which I'm hoping you've done.
Thanks!
I assumed Protune has to stay on, surely if you turn protune off all setting you had set will go back to what it was before.
Thanks for making this video
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Awesome informative video. You are the man.
Greetings from Austria!
Thanks for this! Really great video with lots of good info. My experience with the hero 7 and a lav mic is that I and the trail noise sounded pretty good but the mic didn't pick up any of the conversation around me. Your mic seemed to do a better job of picking up conversation so I'd chalk my experience up to using a cheap lav mic. I'm still not sold on hyper smooth footage vs the gimbal so I think I'm going to be sticking to the evo SS and hero 4 setup for my main pov camera and try to use the hero 7 for other interesting but secondary shots.
A good mic is worth the money. It may have been a directional mic as well, so that could have been another cause.
The hyper smooth is the best application of digital stabilization I've seen in a while, but it's still not up to par with a good gimbal setup.
@@TrailFeatures I agree, Hypersmooth is amazing and makes totally watchable MTB POV footage. I just prefer the feel of gimbal footage.
Just found your channel.
Fantastic and informative - thanks for making this video!
No problem!
my guess about protune quality is that the internal encoder profile is just tuned for file size rather than raw data, as protune would be for better post processing / colour grading. it does this by storing a higher bitrate stream. thoughts?
Good on you mate đđ»
Thanks!
This video helped an awful lot. Thank you. Can you get a raw audio track for the external mic too?
Great video love your videos, I would love a goro hero 7 but I'm broke so I'll stick with my Amazon V50 pro
Make the most of the camera you've got!
Interesting, i will try your setup. I turn on stereo on mics and high on raw setting, lets see how it's work.. btw thanks for the tips
great vid as always. I love geeky stuff like this.
Thanks, man!
Hero 4 black indeed sounded better! Thanks for this, we have the gopro hero 7, gonna vlog with it, donât need a mic now. But i have one question, iâf you tap on to the cam do you hear that in the video? Else, i would like to have the rode mic.
You were recommending a windslayer (black foam cover) under protune stero only for the Hero 7 black, correct? I got a little confused if you were talking about the hero 4 or both at that point. Really nice video. After watching this I looked into how the "wind mic" works more and could not find much info. I take it when you use "stereo only" the wind mic is essentially getting turned off? Also really interesting how you can use stereo only, and if i understood correctly record raw sound to get information from all three mics as a form of backup when doing something perhaps more critical.
Awesome video
Thanks!
Great video. Can't wait to get my son out on the trails so he can start experimenting with his 7black!
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks Joseph, your videos are always helpful and educational, oh and entertaining! I'm still thinking the 7 Black its the way to go.
Glad you found it helpful! The hero 7 isn't terrible, it just needs a little more setup than we're used to.
Thank you so much for this video and for what you do. Although it did not help me resolve my problem I still did learn quit a bit from the video, thatâs you for that. Iâm hoping you can help me with the problem I have? I have a GoPro 7 black. Want to do a motovlog, purchased a purple panda mic, and purchased the mic adapter. Not getting any audio when I use the mic, if I record without the mic no problem. Returned both the mic, and adapter even though they checked our during my checks. Still no audio? I do believe the problem is something simple, thatâs why I got excited when I say your video, I thought ooh maybe it has something to do with the mic setting, or recording in raw. Well I was disappointed to find out neither was the problem. So if you have any suggestions it would be greatly appreciated. Again thank you for what you do, I will from now on be a regular watcher of your videos, and yes I did subscribe.
THHANK YOU... I have a small vlog and I use the GoPro 7 to vlog. Thanks alot for the tips
Your thumbnail said "turn your Gopro audio level to 11", is there really such a setting? Thanks
Tks for sharing
Glad you liked it!
Awesome video! Very informative. đ
Glad it was helpful!
Hey Joseph, nice job on this. Always informative.
Glad it helped!
Newbie CZcamsr here! Thank you for an excellent detailed review.đđŸđ I have shot a couple videos with my new hero 7 Black . And i was looking for the mic function and location info. So i have been using the wind setting and a windslayer. Useable but not good audio. Im also experimenting with the feiyutech wg2x. Unlike the Evo ss , the wg2x seems to be designed with the hero 5,6,7 model in mind. The evo ss was not designed with the newer gopro heroes in mind. So the Evo ss motor has to work extra hard and is, as you know noisey as heck. So evo created a "coin hack" counter balance that they sell to be placed on the side of one of the motors to balance the 5,6,7,đđœ...i will see if i can schedule time to my review of the WG2X with the hero 7.. thanks again.
- Sam
Link to Evo SS video about counter balance. Smh czcams.com/video/e5rO_jsqE_A/video.html
Maybe/ Hopefully Evo will make a more compatible gimbal BUT as you know . The stabilization on the 7 is daam good.
-Sam
Yeah, there is a lot more that needs to be done to the Evo SS to get it to work well with the Hero 5-7.
We have the new IDOLCAM VlogStar V2 shotgun/Lavalier microphone in one, small size, perfect for GoPro, can we send you one to you to play with?
Hi there ,is there no input out put on the seven silver?
Have you found any better work around for the audio with Hero 7 and the Evo gimbal?
Really great information! I'm thinking if I really need to purchase a mic or get the most of the gopro audio itself? What do you reckon?
It comes down to if the audio sounds good enough to you out of the camera. If you can comfortably afford the adapter and mic, then itâs worth it. If not, get the most out of the GoPro while you save up.
This is great! I really want to try out that sony mic and rode lav mic. I know you saw my purple panda one and I appreciate your tips regarding the raw audio. I'm excited to give that a shot and it should help me improve my audio further, but the ore I lsiten to the purple panda it just has this quality I'm not sure I am a fan of. Thus why I'd like to the try the others. However, I might just try the windslayer and raw audio with the internal and call it a day. I just need to get those mics first and see if those give me what I am looking for with the external audio quality.
I was impressed with the windslayer + stereo mics. It's not perfect, but ~80-90% of what the Hero 4 was.
Alright from the kids table. I have the hero 7 black and I love the ease and setup as opposed to my old 4blk and EVO SS. Iâve never been concerned with audio quality but after watching this video itâs making me wonder.
I have a go pro 8 fresh out the box. I recorded a video and the volume was very very low.. is there a way to turn up the volume on the GoPro itselfđ€
Will the GoPro Hero7 Black support a bluetooth microphone?
This was fantastic! Feel like you covered all the bases. Been looking to do something with the audio setup on my hero 7 because I just haven't been all that happy with it. I've used a windslayer but had considered getting the audio adapter and using a lav mic. Do you think that's worth the upgrade or do you see a bigger benefit in just really getting the audio edited properly in post production once you have the right protune settings? Thanks man, keep it up!
Protune really takes a lot of work to get it dialed. I'd say that if you never plan on using a gimbal, the external mic is the way to go.
@@TrailFeatures Right on! Thanks again!
nice
Nice.
I have an external mic but I didn't understand what option should I use. Should I use stereo mod for external mic too ?
nice video, im trying to get rid of my motor noise flying my paramotor any suggestions?
I put furniture pads on the case covering the mics, which works, as long as you don't knock the pads off.
Great Job Joseph - very extensive!
Where do I pick up my Diploma?
Just seed $100 to my PO box and I'll ship it out! ;)
Thank you.
I have Hero 7 Black (version 01.70) and when I go to Preference.input/output.audio input says N/A? (This question is posted 9-29-19)
Nice job -- very interesting --
Can you use it for asmr videos? Can you set it to 3D audio
Hi, some very informative info in your video regarding hero 7 Black audio, overall the audio is ok for me, the main issue I have right now is when I use the hero 7 on my motorcycle, I use the Ulanzi cage so I can mount the external mike adapter neatly and near the camera, my mike is Lavalier ,basic model, my sound quality id good until I start riding and I have a fair amount of what sounds like clicking which obviously is not good, connections are all sound and mike is good as used the set up on my Hero 4, would appreciate your input re this issue? Many thanks, Derek
That could be a lot of things, very hard to troubleshoot without putting hands on it. It could be that vibrations are traveling up the cable to the lav mic. Some more affordable lav mics donât have good vibration dampening built into the cable shield.
Thatâs honestly the most I can think of. like I said really hard to troubleshoot that without seeing it in person.
Do you - or anyone reading this - know the proper settings for a person trying to motovlog with GoPro7 and the audio adapter? I've tried changing the raw setting you mentioned and no matter what combination of settings I try, there is no sound when I plug in the sound adapter. Thanks.
I feel silly for asking this, but to me GoPro settings and the way they are labeled confuse me. I watched another video that seemed to suggest using the wind mode is best for combatting wind noise while riding a motorcycle. This video made me rethink what the settings actually meant. To reduce wind noise while recording on a motorcycle do I actually want to select Stereo mode in the GoPro audio settings???
The wind setting will indeed reduce wind noise. However, at a big sacrifice to overall audio quality. The best thing to do is use dead cats patches or foam to cover the microphones. This will let sound through, but greatly reduce the wind noise.
do you leave the case on?
can i do this on the hero 7 silver?
Is it just me... Or does the stereo setting work better in the wind. vs the actual wind setting?!
The less you let the GoPro decide for itself what settings to use, thee better results you get.
Hi Joe, hope you are coping with this rather strange covid situation? My issue as a motorcycle blogger using Hero 7 and 8 Black, doing ground tests audio is excellent, so out on the Motorcycle hero 8, mic set up with dead cat inside my helmet, record and replay, as good as I need, go out again, record replay, ouch, were has that static noise come from, no changes to anything, so sometimes good then bad, help me please Joe it would be great to have audio that works every time? Thanks, stay safe, Derek
Damm that PewDiePie got me .
why, when I turn RAW Audio on (even on High or Medium or Low), I can't found the separated .WAV files in the gopro folders ? I get only the videotrack but no WAV audio files :/ Can you help me ? Thanks
When you use the windslayer, do you have the audio set to auto or stereo?
I pretty much leave it in stereo all the time.
Trail Features Thanks! EVO SS just crapped out for the last timeđ€š Iâm going with the 7 Black for simplicity. Awesome video! Thanks for the adviceđ
Thanks for this tutorial. Nice. So, what if I was using the Hero 7 in the rain and I don't want to get popping sounds in the top mic would the rain sound be ok with only the front wind mic? Or is there a better way to do it as in some cover or foam or the like?
I would use the internal microphones with a foam wind slayer over the GoPro. This will give you good sound in the rain with minimal peaking due to raindrops hitting near the microphone.
@@TrailFeatures I see. My fear with the slayer was that with the slayer wrapped around the H7, it would get literally soaked like a sponge and definitely not pocketable.
It's the lesser of evils at that point. Anything that will keep wind noise down will soak up water. You could throw it in a ziplock bag if you want to keep the water from soaking a pocket.
@@TrailFeatures gotcha. ima try it with turning to the front (wind) mic only and see if that does it and if not and worse comes to worse, I'll just record via an outdoor mic and the zoom h6. thanks for the input.
Is it real stereo recording? How is it possible if one microphone (right chanel?)is on the top? I have Gopro7 and stereo sound is strenge. Sound sources on the right is difficult to locate. What's yours expirience with stereo picture?
You have a valid point, but it technically is stereo; just poorly implemented. To be honest, I've gone back to the Sony lav because the true stereo is so immersive with headphones.
do you mind sharing the best audio settings for when you are on a fast trail on your mountain bike? (including wind slayer) should i fiddle with low raw audio file?
Pretty much the same settings. After a certain point, it's impossible to block wind noise. I personally think it adds to immersion of the video. Jordan Boostmaster used an add-on mic on his hero that had a great wind cover on it, so when you heard the wind rushing by you KNEW he was hauling!