Simply turning a dial on the rear of the microphone allows easy, intuitive selection of pickup patterns and a lock button in the center prevents accidental changes. Other controls are also straightforward and easy to understand and operate.

The ECM-M1 features a complete digital pathway, from beamforming control, to noise filtering and interfacing with the camera. The result is the clearest sound possible, for everything you capture.

Continuous background noise is effectively suppressed by a digital noise-cut filter for clear sound recording. A low-cut filter is also provided to reduce wind noise and other low-frequency vibration noise. Suppressing noise at the recording stage reduces workload during post processing.

The digital audio interface offers an all-digital signal path from microphone to camera, avoiding the noise and distortion associated with analogue transmission and retaining the full benefit of the digital signal processing in the microphone.