hello it's Patrick here from the GarageBand guide.com in this video I'm
checking out the cheapest microphone on wish I'm always asked Patrick what's the
best microphone for the least amount of money I get those questions all the time
and it got me thinking the other day as I was leisurely perusing the virtual
cheap tat jumble sale that is wish calm I wonder what the cheapest microphone on
wish goes for if you're not familiar with wish its without sugarcoating it a
site and app that aggregates a lot of online traders who sell cheap all
Chinese knockoffs you've probably seen the ads by now showing the world's worst
actors attempting to look enthusiastic about the cheap crap from wish that's
been delivered to their door
anyway the cheapest microphone that I could find on wish was a shure sm58
knockoff listed as the Zakhar clear sound handheld wired karaoke microphone
but the images on the listing make it pretty clear what they were going for
here since I bought this the price has gone up by a couple of pounds but when I
got it the microphone was just eight pounds that's right eight pounds which
works out to about ten eleven dollars us now upon receiving the Zaku clear sound
handheld wired karaoke microphone and opening her up it was immediately
obvious that it wasn't the real deal that this wasn't a real shure sm58
despite the manufacturer's shameless recreation of this sure branding and
it's light as a feather it really weighs not much at all and if you've used that
genuine sm58 you'll know it's a heavy microphone it's built like a tank so all
the signs are pointing that this was definitely definitely no question about
it a cheap knockoff the real question that
I'm sure you're wondering is does this eight pound shure sm58 knockoff suck
well buckle up and let's find out
so this is how the Secours clear sound handheld sm58 knock off microphone zones
with just me talking into it I've got about four or five inches away from my
mouth at the moment one thing I'd want to draw your attention to is if I turn
the gain on the interface up you can quite clearly hear quite a lot of air
background noise from the microphone some electrical noise so
that's the king at 100% and that's it back then to about 60% so quite a noisy
microphone this one
to find out if this microphone sir
we're finding out if this microphone sucks
We're finding out if this microphone sucks
We're finding out if this microphone sucks it's a cheap knockoff knockoff it's a
cheap knockoff knockoff we're finding out if this microphone sucks
so yeah maybe not quite as bad as I thought it would be still not great and
still not a patch on the real thing but you could almost get away with it any
super low budget studio environment or as a backup mic as part of your live
setup maybe at a push so there you have it that is the cheapest microphone that
I could find on wish do you think you would use this microphone is this what
the eight quid that I paid for it let me know in the comment section below this
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