Rode NTG4+ Shotgun Condenser Microphone with Built-in Battery

The NTG4+ is a line-gradient condenser shotgun with a supercardioid pattern, built to pull dialogue out of a room and leave the walls behind it. It reaches from 20 Hz to 20,000 Hz with 16 dBA of self-noise and a 135 dB max SPL, so it stays quiet on a whispered line and does not fold up in front of a loud one. Three capacitive switches on the barrel select a 75 Hz high-pass filter, a high-frequency boost that restores the top end a furry windshield eats, and a -10 dB pad. The settings hold when you power it down, so a boom op is not re-dialing the mic between setups.

What separates the NTG4+ from the plain NTG4 is the internal rechargeable lithium battery: roughly 150 hours per charge, topped up over the supplied micro USB cable. That frees it from cameras and recorders that cannot supply phantom, though it still runs on 48V phantom over its balanced 3-pin XLR when phantom is there. At 22 x 278 mm and 176 g it balances well on a boompole or a pistol grip. It ships with the RM5 mic clip, a foam windshield, a ZP1 pouch, and the micro USB cable.