I've been on a quest to find the perfect audio cable for this setup. We've got
this Boya microphone to the M50. It's a certain length, and this specific cable
is the best one yet. This is a Boya MM-1 microphone. They're not super
great quality wise with the audio, but I'm no expert so I just use what works...
This one came with the Boya microphone. It's got a nice kind of
springy action to it, but it's very long. What I can do sometimes is wrap it
around this red part of the microphone connection and that works okay. But the
negative here is that it has a normal connection on one end that's straight.
So it either is gonna pop out of the microphone or pop out of the side.
It's just not ideal. My other attempt is this very small one. Riipoo 3.5 millimeter
auxiliary audio cable. Super thin. It's convenient, but the negative is that with
the connection itself... comes out straight, right from there. And the strap lug
on the M50 is an issue. On this end where the microphone goes into the camera. What can
happen is that this can rotate and it basically comes out. It's just not a good design
for this specific camera. Came as a 2-pack.
This is not an issue in this case.
It's not gonna come out and it's flush. I like this cable with this setup...
And just generally quality wise, I don't see any issues as far as I can tell. And they
are pretty unique. Pretty custom, super thin, easy to use. If your case is
different than mine. These are just fine probably. One thing I learned with the
M50, you might have seen the other video about audio levels, is that you want to
check them before you start recording. There's always an issue potentially with
the connection from the microphone to the camera. The worst one that I've found
so far are these SinLoon ones. See it's very similar to this one. It's longer, of
course, but the negative is there some weird thing about these connections that
make it very easy to mess it up with this specific microphone. Maybe your
stuff would work better, but I have noticed also these feel a little looser
than the other ones. So just in general I'm not a fan of this cable. The length
is okay because I can wrap it once and that works just fine, but I don't trust
these at all with the audio. Now, you check your levels of course. Maybe it
will depend on your specific case, but I would not go for these ones. Just nope!
That works okay. It seems like, but it's never gonna change with this microphone.
That's the main issue with how this connects to the microphone. The SinLoon
one did come as a 2-pack, which I guess value, but if it doesn't work then
there's no value to it. When you're trying to do things like this the main
goal is to get the gear out of the way so you can make a story or make a video.
And if your gear is causing you problems... Causing troubles... Making it harder to do
things, then you definitely want to look for something that works better.
The ones that I like the best so far are these Valley Enterprises ones. Appears to be
working pretty nicely. I don't have any issues with the connections so far.
They come as a single pack, so they're pretty pricey. When you consider some of them
came as a 2-pack, which was nice, but if they're not gonna work they're not gonna
work. So in this case I would not use this one that I like with this setup.
In this case with the phone flipped around I'm gonna have that down there, but then
the selfie screen would be over here. It could work just fine. I haven't noticed
any issues with the connections, which is one of the big things. And it's
relatively short. One negative is that I can't wrap it around the connection here
from the microphone to the camera because it is too short. But in general
these are my currently... "most perfect unless there are issues I find later on
audio cable" for my vlogging setup with the Boya microphone and the M50.
Little things like this make a big difference, in my opinion, with being efficient.
Not having issues. Making sure your stuff just works how it needs to work to get
what you're trying to do accomplished. So with simple things like audio cables. My
budget is mostly zero for all this stuff a lot of the time, but I will spend
some money on things like this to really improve little bits and pieces
here and there. To get... it... stuff working easier and better.
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