It also has smart sound, an automatic gain control thing, which automatically adjusts the volume to the optimal level.

ENGADGET: The Engadget Interview: Paul Griffin, CEO/founder of Griffin Technology

Additional tweaks include a manual volume adjustment (as opposed to the automatic gain the cameras usually employ), a brightness or RGB histogram display (this function, like some of these other features, has been available for a while as a hack), shutter and aperture priority modes have been added for movie shooting, and the audio sampling ramp has been bumped from 44.1KHz to 48KHz.

ENGADGET: Canon EOS 5D Mark II firmware 2.0.3 arrives at last to free us from frame rate hell

Now featuring both Automatic and Manual gain settings, users can enable Mikey Digital to intelligently adjust to fluctuating volume levels or manually set low sensitivity for extremely loud sources and high sensitivity for quieter sources.

ENGADGET: Blue Microphones Mikey Digital portable microphone for iOS devices hits shelves, offers mobile tracking for $100