In this video I'm having a look at SmallRig's wave w1c it's a microphone a wireless microphone
specifically made for Android devices and I have successfully been able to get it working on my
iPhone as well with a little adapter. g'day my name is Gary and on this channel I create video
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subscribing throughout this video you'll be listening to the audio from this particular system
I'm just going to have that clipped onto my shirt here and of course being so small you
can actually clip it into all sorts of places I think before I was just seeing if I can place
it up in here so you can even place it up underneath your collar it's so small
so let's have a closer look at what you get in the little case. In this little charging case
it's quite unique and honestly the whole package is so small. There's a little indicator light on
the front here which shows you either 25 50 75 or 100% charged in the little battery pack that
charges the a transmitter on the back you have a little USB-C port and the hinge on this lid seems
to be quite sturdy so I don't think you'll have to worry about it breaking off it's quite sturdy
in the inside the case you've got it nicely fitted the little wind sock just sits in the
top there and we'll talk about that a little bit later on but the transmitter you can see
it's already charging in the case with the new red indicator light now it's looking for
the receiver at the moment so I'll just turn it off the little power button is on the side there
okay so the transmitter switched off now you have a little gain control on the side which is a plus
positive and negative and that gain control is for the microphone that's mounted on the top of the
unit there this little 3.5 millimeter Jack is for headphones, not an external lavalier microphone.
on the back of the transmitter you've got a nice little clip and look I've used it for a little
while now and it seems to be fine it's look the whole unit is delicate anyway so you're not going
to be wanting to clip this onto the side of your Ute or something like that it's like it's made for
your shirt or your collar or something simple so all right let's have a look at the receiver
the receiver does not have a battery built into it it actually uses the power from your device
on the side you've got the little pairing device there and you've also have the ability to bend
this at a 90 degree angle which is quite handy because instead of this sticking out the bottom
of your phone you can wrap it around to maybe balance it a little bit better on a gimbal
I like it again it's quite small you know it's the size of my little finger so it's it's very
unique in that sense it's one of the smallest ones I've seen so it'd be interesting to see how
it performs now let's have a look at the windsock to see how it fits on the unit the trouble with
a lot of these wind socks they don't fit real well over these like pencil type microphones
they often slip off but what small rig have done is they've designed this so that it has a little
stalk that goes into the 3.5 millimeter Jack so that means that if you've got the windsock on
you can't use the earbuds so you just line that up nicely and it should clip on the top fine
there you go that's not going to blow off in a breeze at all okay
almost looks like a little cartoon character I love it let's um have a listen to see what
it sounds like outside uh in the open at distance I'm only about five meters away
from the actual camera so I'll move a little bit further and we'll try a distance test
a six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen Seventeen eighteen
nineteen now I'm 20 meters away I'm facing away so the actual transmitter has to transmit through my
body I'm going to turn around now and I'm at 20 meters so that's at 30 meters 30 meters away now
facing away from the camera so the transmitter has to transmit through my body I'm turning around now
I can feel that breeze A Little Bit Stronger on my face here I have the microphone just clipped
in onto my shirt here I might just put that little wind sock on the top see how that sounds
there we go get the little wind stock on and fluffing it up a little bit make it look pretty
so that should settle any wind noise down I'm going to go a little bit further 31 22 33 4 35
36 37 38 39 40. so I'm 40 meters away now and uh be interesting to hear what that sounds like
there's still a nice little breeze blowing so you get an idea of whether it's going to be able to
reject that wind I'm sort of trying to put a trail in between myself and the camera as
well just to give you an idea what it's like behind obstacles 48 49 so there's 50 meters
now my thoughts are that if this little tiny stick microphone that's the size of your little
finger can actually go 50 meters that's pretty impressive anyway heading back to the camera now
I don't know whether that's even recorded or not so so I'm getting back to around five meters away
from the camera now and uh hopefully that's given you a better idea of how the little microphone
performs over 50 meters and also with a slight breeze blowing over the little microphone as
well I'm going to actually record a little bit of sound in the car as I'm driving so you can listen
to the difference between the microphone on the mobile phone and then with the small rig wireless
microphone attached one of the biggest problems that we have when we're recording audio in the car
is the proximity to the microphone I've got the mobile phone set up on a mount on the other side
of the car and there's a fair distance between myself and the microphone and of course there's
a lot of cabin noise that creates problems inside the car as well so what I'm going to do is just
record a little bit using the microphone that is already built into the mobile phone and then
I'll switch over to the small rig wireless microphone and you can hear the difference
I will just clip it onto my shirt here. so let's have a listen to
see what that sounds like as we're driving along
I'll get the cabin noise up in the vehicle you can have a listen for yourself so um most videos that
you're going to be doing inside a car you want to try and get the microphone as close as possible to
your mouth because there's going to be a lot of cabin noise in here as well so be interesting to
hear the difference between the two I'm just going to give it a try I'm turning away from the camera
but the actual microphone is not too far away from my mouth here it's just just on my shirt so
it actually give you an idea of how close it is I just needed to mention to you that there is a
big difference between this particular microphone and others because normally both the transmitter
and the receiver have a battery built in but this particular unit by small rig it has got a battery
built into the transmitter and there's no battery in the receiver now how does it work well when you
plug in the the receiver into the mobile phone it actually uses the power from the the actual
mobile straight up there were warning bills and I thought to myself how the Dickens would it not
drain the battery in the mobile phone well you know interestingly enough I did a test over one
and a half hours and found that there was only a seven percent difference in power loss on the
mobile phone from using it video recording for an hour and a half and then recording for an hour and
a half with receiver into it so you know I was pretty impressed by the fact that the receiver
really didn't drain much power from the mobile phone and it seems like small rig have really
got this worked out now I don't think I have to convince you about the difference between
the cleanness of the dialogue when you're using the wireless microphone when it's close to your
mouth it's much much clearer and I think I in the car I only had it clipped on to my shirty
or in my top pocket a couple of things that you must be aware of with this microphone is that
it's not stereo it's a it's a mono microphone you don't have the ability to be able to plug
in a lavalier microphone into it but if you only want a simple plug-and-play system it's ideal if
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