how's it going guys it hasn't even been a month and I'm here for another review
I get to work again with one of my favorite companies to work with and that
company is Fifine, shout out to you Tony so what they sent me this time is
the wireless system as the k038 and it's packed with a few features that
I'm excited to show you so you might remember a couple months ago I reviewed
one of their lab mic systems that was just a receiver and a transmitter and
you could wear the little thing and then plug it into your camera and was record
your audio wirelessly and it was a pretty nifty little system but what this
does is a little bit more not only can you record one but you can record two
lap Microsystems and we'll talk about the quality a little bit later but
spoiler alert it's a little better than it was last time so let's talk about the
box what you do need to do is power at this time with a wall outlet an AC
outlet is AC to a DC input and what I would definitely recommend right out of
the gate is to get a power brick if you're gonna be doing video creation
stuff like I do it really helps to be able to go mobile so get yourself a
power brick that has an AC outlet in it there aren't too many of them out right
now but there's a few make sure you do your homework and do the reviews I
bought one it did not hold a charge but it worked long enough to test this out
in the field so more on that later but yes if you want this to be a mobile
station get battery brick it is imperative otherwise you'll have to be
stuck in a studio setting with this which isn't bad it's just mobility
anyway so the construction of this is all metal
it's very nice very sturdy it's about the size of a smart phone about the size
of mine a little bit bigger and the antennas are
also really nicely made they're metal with little rubber tips at the end and
they fold down so that you can store it a little easier maybe in your camera bag
or equipment bag or backpack or whatever now just make sure it isn't shaking
around too much and in the back you have your power in and your audio out ports
what they afford the audio out they supply you with a few different wires to
work with different systems so for example if your camera has a 3.5
millimeter headphone jack or micro to check a three-point the 3.5 jack you
know what they're called this goes from the quarter inch to that and Converse it
but they also provide two other wires that's quarter inch to quarter inch in
case you are using a amplifier or whatever they got you covered with a few
different cords and then in the front you have two ports for Wired microphone
so they're also quarter-inch jacks and then you have the other volume Mouse's
so volume a to mic a and volume D to mic be obviously so if you turn those down
the rest of the time and then the wired mics are for the volume B and volume see
those control the input of the volume from the transmitters when you're live
recording it also has an echo dial for what they say is karaoke for the reverb
effect I mean sure you can use it for that but I think more people are going
to be using this for professional things than for karaoke but maybe it's just
different market I don't know but I tested that a little bit not in any of
the videos because who wants to hear that but the echo does work as a little
interesting reverb effect there is a music volume knob and that's for if you
input music through this so example karaoke the other example would be if
you we're doing a presentation of some sort
and you had music for the presentation like maybe it's a slideshow or or
whatever may be your DJ anything music goes in you can adjust the volume for it
there and you can adjust your volume to go over it so you have a little bit of
tweaking that you can do so that's cool so the indicator you have the power
button in the middle you have the power indicator at the top and then to the
left and to the right of it you have indicators for your lav mic systems
whether they're on they're powered on or not the lights will tell you if it is
receiving a signal from them which is very helpful I'm glad they put that on
some would choose not to and that would be a bad idea but they got a cover so
now that you are familiar with what's on the Box let's let's test it out yet you
guys give me the you got to get one of the clickers and sing action so I'm here
with Damien he's hooked up to a microphone and I'm hooked up to a
microphone oh we're showing our clips off is that what we're doing I'm stuck
you stuck guys I'm good now so the alright I'm clipped back in Syria so
Damien why don't you take a tour over to the dumpster and show them that you're
not just feeding into my microphone now so advantages to that around here so
Damien obviously he owns a roofing business and new thing is very noisy so
if we were to film all this with a shotgun mic it'd be picking up all that
sound because that's what a shotgun mic does it takes all the environmental
sounds around and records it which is good for some cases but if you're trying
to get --crisp --crisp --crisp evils or as Amy likes to say cripsy say crispy
this is about my country Damian
mapley different inflections on mapleleaf it's like Chinese you know I
think there's 40 different ways to say things with maple leaf it's just
depending on how you reflect it all right this this this interview got
derailed so the advantage of this is that it really only takes audio from a
very tight environment around it so I could be over there he could be over
here and you can hear all of us just well because we're clipped in so it's
it's pretty cool little system so anyway this needs an AC power supply which
typically would be a problem if you were trying to do things outside but what I
bought was enough brought bought what I bought was an alien what I may believe
what I bought was a battery bank that had an AC out so it was a 2400 milliamp
hour battery and that can power this system for a good amount of time I felt
throw that million what'd I say 2400 I am stupid
24,000 thank you Damien I keep Damien around to make sure he tells me how
stupid I am because I need that reality check I'm very good at yelling at people
and things that's why he owns a business yes I just yell at people and they do
things and then he gets money I do so why don't we unhook this thing and take
a little trip around and test the range on these dad yeah it's supposed to be
about 150 feet which is more than the last unit I tested so that's that's
pretty good so I also conveniently have a measuring wheel so we can go exactly
how many feet it is actually a great idea prepared let's do that alright so
I'm about five feet away from the setup now with a wireless mic receiver as well
as the camera so what I'm gonna do is test out the range measuring will here
I'm still wired in so you can still hear me about thirty hopefully as clearly as
Mike shouldn't have had no problem picking this up
sixty-five the funny thing is they're probably gonna hear that car twice let's
just turn around gonna be a little tricky can still hear me which is right
here are we good how far are you still good good that's a
hundred feet I clearly can't hear Mike the buck permit you look so far away
here let's see how are we doing and we still have some audio feed still
audio feed let's see five hard to tell which because it he's signaling me
something I can't hear our each shot and I can't tell on the good I can't tell on
the meter if it's still working or not
but there's nothing not building blocking it's 200 feet there that's a
straight shot
let me turn down my volume so that I can tell if it's just him yell something I
think that's range where did it cut out yeah here all right it can pick an area
really my my earring is definitely not as good at the microphone how far did
you get total last time I got a confirmation from you was 175 at the end
I will hit 200 really yeah because I stopped seeing it move up and down at
that point alley 175 or when I stopped they start backing up um that was pretty
much when I noticed it stopping where 50 is safer yeah you want me to just run it
out again to get an exact measurement yeah what I'll do is I'll turn my volume
down completely so I know at first that was what was tripping me up I couldn't
tell like hey like huh okay so we did the range test now let's see how it does
in a more cluttered environment down the street you know it's a clear shot so
loot no interference but this is an old house it's solid it's built back when
they used solid things to use solid materials so Damien's going to go around
the house and see how well it does with the audio with the things too
interfering got a metal dumpster around couple vehicles so the brick in the
house all the things that should say hey this shouldn't get through here so we'll
test it out I'll stop you guys no sir we'll try there and then I'll go on the
other side of the house and I'm gonna try to loop right around
see how it does all right I'm gonna stay here by the camera right I am going
should be able to work anywhere now in the middle middle rectangle in this
apartment a lot of obstacle for the signal to go through
and I see him moving to the back now he's probably saying the same thing
has been taken he's going so what that tells us is I cannot leave him alone
for more than 20 seconds yep yeah no he's gone the ninjas got ya
thanks Vanessa oh hey man that was a client for us
so stop okay so I'm pretty happy with the test we have so far
demons were interested in this phone but that's okay because I'm not very
interested in they just didn't do their jobs it's like it's a shame I'm not
there's supposed to be the power all right thank you and then walk away but
yeah so I'm gonna go back to the office review the audio I did a little bit it
sounded great but let's see how the range did and everything Thank You
Damian for help me out all right I swear I can't ever do a serious video with
that guy you might remember Damian from my
blowing up a tablet video Oh anyway so closing thoughts on it the quality was
actually remarkable I was very happy with it I I feel like it's step up from
the last system I reviewed from them the lively root system the quality just
sounded a lot clearer and I was really happy I got to test this on a
construction site because there was a lot of noise going on in the background
that would have been picked ups if I used a shotgun mic or something similar
but it focused all the audio and just the immediate area around it which is us
talking so did a great job of not only picking up us up well but kind of
removing the background audio from it but you didn't really remove it it just
was more sensitive to the area that was immediately around it which is kind of
the point of blat mics the range was interesting
we got signals up to it seemed about 200 feet or so and the clarity sort of went
out somewhere between that and a hundred feet hundred feet it was a-ok very clear
even past that aways but somewhere in between there was started
to break up a little bit more and more but that's more reliant on the area that
you are recording or transmitting in so some areas offer a little more
resistance or interference and then other areas are just more clean and open
like if we were out in the field without cars or anything like that it probably
would have gone a little further but since there was a lot of people in cars
and objects around it even other signals because you know pulls electric poles
and wires and cellphones and all that stuff there's more of a chance for
interference so it's really reliant on that if you really want to get a good
idea of how far it can go test it in the environment that you're
going to use it in yourself before using it but it does have a good range it
really does I don't see too many people going too much farther than the system
in most cases so I wouldn't worry about it too much and like I said before
having a power brick makes it super super important but if you're gonna be
doing anything in the field like this you're not always gonna have an outlet
so make sure that you have a portable one with you so final verdict can I
recommend absolutely it's a fantastic system that I think most people who are
wanting to step up their game a little bit and you know including more people
in their videos and having you know better audio it's just it makes sense to
me definitely recommend this product I think you should pick it up especially
for the price I mean being only eighty seven dollars it brings a hobbyist level
price to a professional quality system so definitely yeah I can see myself
using it more in the near future in fact I have projects planned because I have
this project I wasn't really able to do as well before that I can do better now
so a big thanks to firefighting again and Tony my main connection there it's a
good guy I guess I'll be seeing you in my next video