welcome to the channel folks my name's shane in today's video we're checking out a wireless
solution that's in direct competition to that of the rode wireless go 2. i'm using a rode wireless
go 2 right now so it'll be interesting to see how well the Synco g2 a2 holds up
now when it comes down to it this is basically the same type of pack except it's a little bit less
expensive i'll leave prices and all that kind of stuff in the description as they change over time
so you can check the links down there but this is essentially two transmitters to one receiver
and i'm going to show you what we get in the box and then we're going to hook it up
now before we get going i just want to let you know that Synco have sent this out for the review
they're not paying me in addition to letting me hold on to this pack so all thoughts about
this will be my very own at the end of the video and i'll timestamp it i'll give you my thoughts
about this pack and how it holds up against the competition so let's see what we get in the box
let's do a quick unboxing and then we'll hook this up and compare it to the audio that you've
been listening to the rode wireless go 2 so inside of the box here we can open this up
we get this rocking little carry case here and we also get some instructions i'll talk about
the specs in just a moment and if you want to skip ahead again i'll leave timestamps in the
description below so let's open this up all right here we go this is really cool one of the biggest
criticisms i have of a lot of dual transmitter one receiver packs is that you need three individual
charging cables to charge everything this just requires this one usb a type connector and then
it goes to all three of the units to charge so this has provided awesome stuff additionally we
get two lavalier microphones and these just connect straight into the transmitters and
i'll show you that in just a moment now when it comes to each of the transmitters they have their
on-board microphone built directly into the unit which is awesome it means you don't have to use
a lavalier microphone to get these packs to work and i really like that but it does come with an
optional port on this side here we'll get a trrs to trs connector for using it with a mobile phone
and we also get a regular trs connector which i'll be using directly into the gh5 mark II
including the accessories we get a couple of these dead cats which kind of clip on and
also velcro onto each of the transmitters these help drastically cut down wind noise
i'm using one right now it's really windy out here included we get a couple of cable management ties
and clips for the lavalier microphones this tool helps hardware reset the units thanks to
a hidden button on the side of the units and if you choose to use a lavalier microphone you also
get a couple of pop filters now when it comes to my initial impressions of build quality of the
transmitter and the receiver these are easily on par with the rode wireless go just in terms of how
they feel in the hand i'm yet to test the audio quality out but just in terms of build quality
these feel really good they're right up there as well with the blink 500 pro
just in terms of their build quality again they feel great the clip feels nice and robust on the
back and it doesn't feel like you're going to have any issues with breakage or anything like that if
we take a look at the transmitter as you can see we have the built-in microphone on the top this is
where we can also connect that dead cat accessory that i'll be using in the video oh i almost forgot
let's do that on this side of the transmitter we have our mute button and on off button so
to hold it down turns it on and off we can also charge the unit via this usb-c port over here
we also get our lavalier microphone connector port here on this side of the unit we have a
high pass filter which rolls out a little bit of low end this is especially useful if you
got a lot of traffic noise or a lot of wind noise and you want to knock that low end
boom down you can push this button in you also get a pairing button that is if it doesn't pair
automatically when it comes to the receiver this is just as well built as the transmitter we get an
output audio jack which goes to your camera or smartphone we also get real-time headphone
monitoring over here so this is great we get the ability to turn up and down the output volume
to our source so whether that's going into a camera or a smartphone for example you can turn
these up and down using these controls on this side on this side of the unit we get our monitor
stereo switch and power button this is great being able to switch from between stereo and mono
this is a stereo pack so that means you can have two transmitters going into individually the left
and right channel of the audio or you can have it do a mix down to mono so depending on your
situation this is a really great option and then we get our charge port over here
up until this point in the video you've still been listening to my rode wireless go to i've got the
transmitter just in my jacket here so what i'm going to do now is switch it over to the cinco
i'm going to see if there's a huge difference in terms of audio quality and now listening to the
audio from the Synco g2 a2 wireless transmission system can you hear a huge difference between this
and the rode wireless go to you're listening to before to set this up it was nice and simple i
turned them both on they synced perfectly the dead cat actually stays attached really well to
the transmitter and i've got it in exactly the same spot i had the prior unit on so hopefully
you can hear a very comparable test between this and the previous rode wireless go now what i'm
going to do is do a distance test coming up where i like to test just how well it works
when i'm facing and not facing the camera this is one of the achilles heels of a lot of these
packs so let's head over there before it starts to rain up next we're doing a distance test now cinco
rate this pack up to 150 meters line of sight but what i'm going to do is start walking backwards
and every now and then i'm just going to turn around and see how it handles when i'm not line
of sight with the actual receiver so right now the line of sight is true between the transmitter and
the receiver i'm going to turn around right now and talk and if it cuts out or does anything weird
i'll leave annotations on screen i'm hoping due to this 150 meter line of sight that it
still works here but i've had some packs cut out really early when you're not facing line of sight
so i'm going to keep walking backwards here and keep talking again if anything cuts out i'll let
you know now i'm walking up a pretty steep incline here so if i start huffing and puffing you'll know
why i'm not as unfit as i look or maybe i am who knows but anyway i'm going to go back to about 25
meters here maybe 30 meters and turn around and talk and if it cuts out or does anything weird
i'll leave some annotations on screen i'm just going to keep walking backwards this way
i'm going to see how it handles this as i walk away from the camera still line of sight again
i'm going to turn around and keep talking and if it cuts out i'll leave some annotations on screen
and how did it go how did it handle that if it still handled that okay this might be one of the
best packs out there i've never had any pack work at that distance when i'm not facing line of sight
so we'll see how this goes and for the final test i'm probably i don't know 30 or 40 meters away
camera looks pretty small in the distance i'm just going to walk back to the camera briefly
or as quickly i should say and also just talk on the way back down i've had some packs cut out when
i'm actually on the move which is a bit weird so this will be a bit of a real world test a lot of
people may be shooting a show outdoors will be walking towards the camera from time to time we
might be doing you know a two-person interview for example on the move and this will give you
a representation of just how well this works in a kind of walk and talk situation so if this worked
or if it had any issues i'll leave them on screen and i'll comment about all of this at the end of
this video it's about to rain again as i mentioned before this is a true stereo pack and i'm going to
show you just how that works in stereo mode so if i talk into this transmitter right now it's
coming out of your right side if i talk into this transmitter it's coming out of your left side and
of course if i talk into both of them it's going to sound kind of funny until i click the stereo
to mono switch which makes them both mono so if you're doing any type of live streaming and you've
only got one camera and you don't want to do any special audio mixing run it in mono and that means
it doesn't matter which one i talk into now sound is going to come out evenly between both now in
terms of usability so far so good with one small exception that i need to mention in this video the
lcd screens on these units are really tough to see outdoors when the sun comes out when it was
overcast and raining i had no problems but as soon as the sun came out i couldn't see anything and it
made it worse with polarized sunglasses so if you kind of have to see the screens you're going to
have to cover them up a little bit with your hands give it some shade so you can see what's going on
so if you like me and you like to wear sunglasses outdoors because of the glare or if you wear
polarized sunglasses and you're shooting on bright sunny days seeing the screens might be a little
bit tricky but it's definitely not a deal breaker on this test you're listening to the provided
lavalier microphone with this little windsock now there's no dead cat in the box that works
with the lavalier mic right so if you want one of them you have to buy one of those separately
but again that's not a deal breaker i love the flexibility of having a lavalier microphone set up
over that of having something clipped onto my shirt especially if you're wearing a t-shirt
the clips can sometimes or the transmitters can sometimes sort of drag your t-shirt down a little
bit so having a lavalier microphone like this will appeal to a lot of people you can also conceal
them under your t-shirt if you know what you're doing as well but just for the sake of this test
i've got it sort of tucked in my jacket because it is quite windy here right now and i guess you'll
also hear whether or not this works with any sort of wind because it is extremely windy out here so
hopefully that location works now let's talk a little bit about some of the specifications in a
practical sense because i don't feel like reading from the spec sheet is of any use to anybody so
when it comes to the transmitters we get a full range microphone this is 20 hertz to 20 kilohertz
which is the entirety of the human hearing spectrum which is fantastic now as i mentioned
earlier there's also a high pass filter which cuts the low end and being that it's extremely
windy here i'm going to click that in right now i'm going to see if there's a difference in the
audio can you hear a difference there's cars going by it's extremely windy hopefully the dead cat
is doing the job and hopefully the hype the high pass filter is actually working so high pass means
allowing all the high end to pass you can look at it like that way and it also cuts
out a little bit of the low so this should help tidy up the sound if there were any issues with
low end traffic rumble another huge benefit of this pack is that both of the transmitters and the
receiver only weigh 39 grams which means they're awesome for travel i can't believe how light they
are while still feeling really great in the hand additionally each of these packs are loaded with a
500 milliamp hour battery and it's a rechargeable lithium-ion battery as well so you'll get many
years of use out of each of these packs after reviewing all the footage in editing and also
listening to the audio quality i'm going to give you my final thoughts about this pack so some of
the stuff i love about this the distance test this passed with flying colors i haven't tested another
pack that works this well at distance so if you're looking for something with really reliable
outdoor transmission that doesn't break when you turn away from the camera
this would be the one to go for now i've tested so many packs that work great up to about 20 meters
but any further than that and that's where stuff starts to go wrong some go wrong before that so
the cinco gets that right i would have no hesitations recommending this for someone who does
a lot of outdoor work at a distance away from the camera let's talk about audio quality because this
is what matters the most do these sound great yes do they have more bass than the rode wireless go
yes at the expense of one thing these have a little bit more hiss in the signal now
i haven't been able to fine tune that with any of my cameras and i've tested it now with three
this is my panasonic gh5s that has awesome preamps we tested it in the field with something
with better preamps the panasonic gh52 and i also have a panasonic s5 now panasonic cameras
have great preamps and i've just noticed that these are a little bit more on the noisy side
not the preamps but the actual packs than the rode wireless going should be pretty evident in the
video footage itself so go back and listen with headphones and you'll know exactly what i mean
but you do get an enhanced low end which really does sound kind of nice and if you've got some
background music on or if there's traffic noise and all that kind of stuff you're probably not
going to notice it that much it's definitely not a deal breaker considering the price and performance
of these units the only other small critique i have is that the led screens on the front of
the units are a little bit hard to see outdoors they're easier to see indoors and outdoors so
just keep that in mind lastly the setup process was as easy as it gets and switching between
mono and stereo is one click on the receiver i love that being also able to easily change
each channel a or b on the receiver's volume is nice and simple as well and that'll allow you
to get the right mix between two people overall this pack is really good i'm going to say just in
terms of functionality and what it can offer it's right up there with the saramonic blink 500 pro
but it's not quite a rode wireless go to because they also have internal recording on the actual
transmitters now not everyone's going to need that and i would almost say if you're going to be
buying this pack you probably won't need a given these works so well outdoors so overall this is a
really great pack let me know your thoughts about the audio quality and if you've already got one of
these let me know your thoughts about them in the comments below thanks again catch you soon see ya