welcome back everyone to another video I just got this microphone from fifine
the K025 wireless microphone it is a handheld mic and inside the box we get
their little welcome message as each of their microphones has and then the user
manual inside it has some fairly detailed but simplified instructions and
I'm just gonna fold that up and toss it to the side like I do with all the
manuals and inside there we go behind the foam is the k025 now this is a what
some would consider a roving mic or performers mic and it's got a nice feel
to it a little rubber back let's open up the top and look inside at the
microphone itself and ya know enough about microphones to tell you details
about that but yeah and on the back here we'll screw this off and that's where
the batteries go just two doublea's simple as that get yourself some good
batteries it doesn't come with batteries just so you know not that you should
expect that but in case you were wondering and there's just the
protective foam there and then underneath it is the receiver now it has
the standard Jack there it doesn't come with a adapter for 3.5 millimeter
headphone jacks and it does take triple AAA batteries just to very light it's
just like the wireless lavalier mic I had the same receiver except this one
didn't come with the adapter so you're gonna have to pick up one of those it's
just that put everything back in there alright let's test this thing
there we go and now I'm speaking wirelessly I see this microphone having
two purposes really one is the obvious for live performances or live over an
amplifier something like that then obviously this is what it's for but thus
the the original plug that would plug into an amplifier but if you need it for
videos it doesn't come with the converter for the 3.5 millimeter jack
which I would suggest that they change just for versatility purposes the
wireless lavalier mic did it did come with that I'm not sure why this one
didn't if it was a cost thing I mean
expensive I mean if I had to pay one extra dollar just to have it in there I
would gladly do that but that's the thing I already had that converter
because I had the other level ear mic so that's so far one of my one criticisms
but the other reason you would have this mic obviously for videos would be for
interviews and I think to properly test that I got to go interview someone
they're useful
and of course we certainly can't forget to test range since you're dealing with
a wireless microphone you're gonna be concerned about how far it can go and
you don't want to be tied down by wires so range is important so let's test that
out so right now probably me 20 feet or so let's go to 25 move a little ways
down of course I'm not going to be able to tell how well this is working until
afterward all right so we're probably 50 feet or so right now I'm guessing it's
going pretty good let's move a little ways down to 75 feet I'm gonna make
noisiness until then now you can get easily some wind filters for this the
little foam things all right we're probably 75 feet maybe even close to a
hundred but somewhere in between there I can't gauge it exactly so this is
probably the maximum range but I'm gonna go even further and see what happens I'm
gonna keep talking this whole time and see if this all works out
so I mean within reason this is about as far as anyone would you know even dare
to try to go so I'm gonna walk my way back assuming that the year audio has
cut out and see what what point it comes back in if it's even cut out at all
anyway I'll be real curious to see how this all sounds afterward and I'm coming
back easily into 50 feet and probably about 25 feet and there we are close to
the camera again so that's the range test so upon reviewing the audio quality
in post I was very surprised how good it was and it's kind of a horrible thing to
say but I just thought it was gonna be as good as the wireless lavalier mic
since there are similar receivers and all that not that that was bad it just
wasn't amazing I mean these are cheap microphones but the audio quality is
surprisingly really good from a $30.00 wireless microphone color me impressed
one of the biggest things I was actually really surprised that was just the range
the range was crazy I went upwards to a hundred feet and it I think may have
like crackled like once maybe at best but help the quality really good it
didn't fade out or anything like that so value wise I do believe that this is one
of the best microphones it's kind that at least I've run across keep in mind
that these types of microphones can go you can they can also get really
expensive so once again five line provides a pretty awesome value they get
you the best quality you can get for the price that you're paying which is more
than a lot of other companies are doing anyway so I might be keeping this thing
around for quite a bit more using it in some of some more of my videos let's sum
up the pros and cons well the pros are definitely just how lightweight it is
and inexpensive it is the quality is much more than you bargained for at the
price point it is easy to use and from what I can tell has a pretty decent
battery life throw a wind filter on this thing and you're good to go
the cons I'd say would be the lack of 3.5 millimeter adapter that it comes
with I had to use one that I got from another one of their microphones the
wireless lavalier mic I use that one because it fits to the transmitter
because it's the same I don't know why one wasn't sent with this I think it
would be good to have in all of them because for this type of thing it's just
it's just good to have for the adaptability I mean they're not that
expensive if you have to tack on an extra dollar to the price tag then I'd
be fine with that but again that's not a huge deal because that's something
that's easily fixed and then also being a UHF band there is a bit of static in
the back or a little bit of hissing it's not too bad it's easy enough to clean
out but that is also something you should probably be aware of and to and
this goes for all their transmitters like this
I I wish that they had a mounting system for cameras to fit on top of the rail
that'd be really cool and be a little bit better for the camera because with
the the adapter hanging out the side