Hello i'm Graham Houghton and welcome to my review of the audio adapter for the feiyutech
pocket 2 gimbal. Now there's very little information available on youtube for this
particular device i have the pocket 2 gimbal and i wanted to get some better audio for vlogging
now the actual device does have a very tiny microphone but when you're using it at arm's
length it's quite probable your palm will cover that microphone port and you get very poor audio
even if you use a slight extension stick on here but one of the tripods you're still going to get
poor audio from this device especially outdoors where it's going to be subjected to quite a bit of
wind noise so i thought i'd try the audio adapter i think it's 19 pounds if you buy it directly from
feiyutech it took about a month to arrive obviously from china post or whatever it did
take a month to arrive so this is the little adapter and give you an overhead view of it
now you can see the device itself is quite small probably postage stamp size
has a type c connector which will go into the type c port on the side of the gimbal here
now there are a couple of issues with this particular adapter that you must
be aware of before you consider purchasing one so i'm now using an external microphone
with the new audio adapter now the first thing you must be aware of is that the fact that device
will not work with unpowered microphones so if you're expecting to use it with these small
electric condenser shotgun microphones and have it so close to your camera
you can forget that it will not work with these non-powered microphones it does need
a pod microphone such as this rode videomic or what i'm using now is a Comica v30 pro which again
is a powered microphone these are too large in my opinion to act as the login setup because you
need a handle and you need to mount this in some way to allow you to use it as a vlogging source
Ideally i would like to use a wireless lavalier microphone system such as i've got here this is
the new Wireless system from the company Joby. I'm going to be doing a review of this product
very shortly but i thought i'd test it out today with the pocket 2 just to see what sort of volume
levels we get and what sort of audio quality we get from the inbuilt condenser microphone
or with the supplied lavalier microphone which i would preferably use so at the moment this is the
audio from that comica v30 for comparison purposes i'll switch over to the rode video mic and you can
hear the difference i want you to speaking about six inches away from the microphone at a normal
volume level so this is audio coming from the original video mic i think it's about maybe six
to eight years old now this particular microphone i don't use it all that often it looks far too big
sitting on the top of my dslr and mirrorless camera so i've tended to leave this for studio
work when i have to so this is the rode videomic audio i'm now going to change to setup for the uh
joby Wavo wireless microphone system and we'll hear the quality of that with first of all
the internal microphone followed by the external lavalier microphone so let me set that up
so first of all i set up the new joby Wavo system i'm using this Boya BM1 mic
um which i know will be externally powered from the port on the Joby transmitter because that
powers a external lavalier microphone so it does provide bias so it should be provided enough
bias for the boya bm1 microphone and we should be getting some really decent audio from this device
as a shotgun microphone again about six inches away from my mouse so we should be getting some
good audio levels so i'm going to disconnect the Boya MM1 and we'll run on the internal mic of the
joby transmitter and then i plug in a external lavalier microphone i've now unplugged the
boya mm1 and we're now running on the internal condenser microphone of the joby Wavo so this
is the audio from the joby wavo from the internal condenser microphone i'll now plug in the external
lavalier microphone and i'll keep it at the same distance that you would normally have
the lav mic on your shirt so we're now using the lavalier microphone plugged into the joby wireless
transmitter all other parameters are the same so we should be getting some consistent audio quality
and we'll be able to tell from each of these devices which one is the best
so this is a test of the jubilee wild air system in conjunction with the fair tech pocket 2 and
their fairtek audio adapter and finally this is a test of the sennheiser ew 100 system
quite an old system now it runs on vhf it's a legal frequency band in the uk
and using the same lovely microphone as we use with the joby system to test that out so
this is the sennheiser ew 100 feeding into the fairtek pocket 2 by the audio adapter