Comica BoomX-D2 2.4G Wireless Microphones Review
I picked up the Comica BoomX-D2 microscopes last week with the hope of improving the sound quality on my videos, and I haven’t been disappointed! Retailing at £225 these are very much a premium product and feel like it as soon as you open the box. They certainly won’t be my go-to mic for all future video projects without serious doubt.
Unboxing, Setup, and Design
Included in the package you get two microphones, a receiver, external lapel mics, ‘dead cat’ windshield accessories, a USB C cable, 3 connectors (for various phones/cameras) plus instructions. Getting them set up is as simple as charging them, turning them on and plugging them in. The controls are nice and simple: the transmitters have mute buttons that show you their current volume level and battery levels whereas the receiver shows its own battery level along with volumes for both channels.
The design of these devices has really been thought through; they’re small, compact, and work exactly as one would expect. Comica claim a 50m working range although this will depend on whether you are indoors or outdoors whilst I don’t think I’ve actually reached 50 metres from the receiver yet, the range is certainly impressive when audio remains clear.
They also say they have five hours battery life which seems about right in my experience. The controls allow you to adjust volumes by up to 12DB…which makes balancing audio between channels great for ensuring everything matches perfectly regardless of placement differences.
Sound Quality Testing
In order to really put these through their paces I tested the sound in four distinct scenarios each time contrasting it with native phone recorded audio and they excelled here are my results. Outdoors: Using both wind-shielded lapel mic setups, one external unit plus just the built-in option, I performed tests outdoors at various distances where quality was great in every case but better obviously when using the dedicated lapel microphone.
Wind Performance: Rarely do we see nice weather right now so I made use of an electric fan and recorded some audio with both options including a built-in mic alongside a lapel mic wearing the dead cat. The result showed that while you could still hear wind, it was nowhere near as bad performing incredibly well when compared against other mics.
Indoors Spoken: Testing the built in microphone and lapel unit for indoor spoken audio with limited background noise gave me very similar results where both sounded great but there wasn’t much difference in quality between the two specific configurations available.
Indoors Music: For this segment, I connected a second wireless mic attaching one device to myself and another across the room then playing guitar while singing. The recorded audio results were crisp and clear proving versatility beyond just speech capture needs for general content creators looking at professional gear options.
Finding
So what is the verdict? Sound quality can be subjective in many ways but here there is very clearly a difference between standard phone mics versus these wireless units. You will certainly find this one works as my primary microphone for all future video content creation projects.
