Zoom M3 MicTrak | Portable Integrated Shotgun Microphone and Recorder for Camera Mounts
The Zoom M3 MicTrak is a camera-mounted microphone and portable recorder designed for video creators, vloggers, and field interviews. With focused pickup, built-in recording, and camera output capabilities, it captures clear vocals on-camera while preserving separate audio files for postproduction, providing a reliable, easy-to-carry audio solution for solo creators and small teams.
Key Product Features
- Camera-mounted shotgun microphone design improves focus on front-facing sound sources and enhances speech clarity.
- Built-in portable recording lets you record directly to a memory card on location, improving backup security and flexibility.
- 3.5 mm analog output can connect to a camera's Mic In for a sync reference or as the final audio track.
- Provides a headphone monitoring jack and volume control to check audio live.
- Supports common recording settings such as gain adjustment and low-cut filtering to reduce wind noise and low-frequency rumble.
- Intuitive buttons and display interface enable one-touch recording, shortening the time from power-on to capturing audio.
- Lightweight body with standard hot shoe/cold shoe mounting, compatible with most mirrorless and DSLR cameras.
- Ideal for vlogging, travel shoots, event coverage, educational training, and news interviews.
- Files can be exported and maintained via wired connection (actual specifications subject to manufacturer's announcements).
System Specifications
- Product type: Camera-mounted shotgun microphone and portable recorder (hardware device).
- Storage media: microSD memory card (capacity and compatibility subject to manufacturer's announcements).
- Audio connections: 3.5 mm analog output (connect to camera Mic In), 3.5 mm headphone monitoring jack.
- Power: Portable power design (such as batteries or USB power, per manufacturer's specifications).
- Controls: Gain adjustment, low-cut filter, basic recording controls, and display interface.
- Applications: Indoor and outdoor shooting, interviews, vlogging, teaching, and event recording.
- Dimensions and weight: Refer to manufacturer's published data.
Plugin Format
- Not applicable (this product is hardware, not a software plugin).
Supported Applications and Workflow Integration
The M3 MicTrak centers on hardware recording; after shooting, audio files on the memory card can be imported into common DAWs and editing software (such as Pro Tools, Logic Pro, Cubase, Adobe Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro) for postproduction, editing, and mixing. It is recommended to use the camera's onboard audio as a reference and align tracks by waveform matching or a slate/clap to synchronize the high-quality onboard recordings, creating a reliable dual-track backup workflow; postprocessing such as noise reduction, EQ, and compression can then be applied to complete the final product.
