I was watching my in-car footage and what annoys me is the wind noise. I had an instructor along for a session and I couldn't remember everything he said to me. So I went to review the tape and all I can hear is wind. How do you guys have such great in-car footage with no wind noise? I can only hear what my instructor is saying in a turn where I don't get as much wind noise in the car.

 

Never tried it, but I'm told you put a piece of Scotch tape on the mic and that will do the trick.

 

I use a rubber band around the camera and a 1" thick piece of foam rubber wraped around the mic and held in place by the rubber band. My mic is on the very front of the camera. This almost eliminates wind noise and you can hear what is going on in the car.

 

I taped a doubled over piece of fleece pile sock over the mic. Cuts the wind noise to where you can hear the motor.
Barry H.

 

Make sure your camera is mounted as centrally on your roll bar as possible. I think most of the noise people get it because the camera is right by the open passenger window. I moved mine to a more central location and haven't had any problems since.

 

Get a cheap corded microphone and ziptie it under the seats or dashboard. A pair of headphones plugged into the mic jack also works.

 

The tape/foam works somewhat to get the wind noise to a tolerable level. If allowed, rolling up the passenger side window helps too. As WRXRacer111 mentioned the best would be to remote mount a mic under the dash.

 

one guy at an autocross event gets a piece of plexiglass or other thin plastic.

covers the lens with it, covers the plastic with a thick sandwich bag. uses rubber bands to hold the bag and lens to the camera.

works very well... you can kinda see it below...

 

The best way I found was a tissue folded in 1/2 in 1/2 and 1/2 again and taped to cover the microphone.

I have my camera mounted in the middle of my car and I do not get wind noise on my videos.

 

Foam WindScreen

 

i used to run an external mic somewhere low so that you can hear engine and not wind.

actually waht i wanna do now is find out how i can hook up the camera to my communications with my crew chief. now that would be cool to hear clear as day!!!

 

The best thing I did was run a mic to the rear of the car pointed at the exhaust of my NSX. It makes the video less boring when you can hear the revs better. Also, wind isnt an issue at the rear bumper. Unfortunately you cant hear anything in the cabin.

For the race civic, I dont need to run a mic since its so loud... the wind cant compete.

 

I'm using a Sony camcorder with an internal mic behind a perforated opening on the front face of the camera. I ended up putting a small piece of double-sided tape over the mic and puncturing it at each perforation. Then, I applied a small piece of foam I cut from an old set of headphones. The wind noise isn't completely eliminated, but it's MUCH quieter, and the rest of the sound comes through great.

I previously tried a piece of tape over the perforations, and it did eliminate the wind noise, but it cut out a lot of other sound, and it caused the mic to pick up a lot of noise from the tape transport.

 

I've used an external mic tucked away behind the dash with very good results. It picks up the engine sound, and little to no wind noise.