Microphones

Takstar SGC-598 On-Camera Mic Rental in Surrey, BC

A budget shotgun mic that sits in your camera's shoe and plugs into its mic input, a clear step up from the built-in mic for vlogs and run-and-gun interviews. It runs on one AA battery and has switches for +10 dB of gain and a low cut. Its cardioid pickup is fairly wide, so keep it close to your subject. For tighter pickup, put a shotgun like our Rode NTG4+ on a boom.

In the case

1xFoam windscreen
1xAA battery

$10 / day

$18 for 3 days$25 for a week

Weekend rate: out Friday from 12 pm and back Monday by 12 pm is 1 day. An earlier pickup or later return is 3 days.

Plus GST and PST.

Questions first? Call 778-244-4333

Before it leaves, we check every item against your booking, power it on and photograph its condition.

Questions about deposits or insurance? Call us and we'll walk you through it.

Good to know

It runs on one AA battery. Bring a spare for a long day.
It plugs into a camera's 3.5 mm mic input and sits in the camera's shoe.
It has no XLR output. For an XLR-only recorder, take a shotgun with an XLR output, like the Audio-Technica AT897.

Takstar SGC-598 or RODE VideoMicro II?

Both are on-camera shotgun mics with a 3.5 mm output. Here's what changes as you go up.

This oneTakstar SGC-598$10 / day
A budget on-camera shotgun on one AA battery, with gain and low-cut switches.
Step upRODE VideoMicro II On-Camera Microphone$15 / day
Smaller and lighter, with a tighter supercardioid pickup. It runs on the camera's plug-in power, so there's no battery.