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Are these $20 Bluetooth microphones amazing.
Let's find out.
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The may best of professional wireless lavalier lapel microphone for iPhone,
iPad cordless omni-directional condenser recording mic for interview
video, podcast of vlog YouTube.
I just let on the video just for that.
It's a wireless microphone.
In fact, two of them, this one specifically is for the iPhone and you
can record yes, anything that needs audio.
Basically, uh, it's plug and play, which it definitely is.
It says it has a 65 foot recording range cuz that's Bluetooth range.
Um, but.
Not, you would wouldn't really be able to hear it, cuz the microphone
probably couldn't pick up that far.
We're gonna test the iPhone versus this versus, uh, another XLR type of lapel
microphone that you might pick up off of Amazon for a few bucks with the I rig too.
But let's get into this and see what it looks like.
So when you open it up, it's a very simple packaging.
I purchased this for 23, 20 $4 myself.
This is not sponsored at all right now as I'm recording this.
It's on sale for $20, so I paid a little bit too much, but you get
everything including this little dongle, which I'll talk about here in
a few seconds with an extra port on it.
It comes not only for the iPhone, but they make one U S B C uh, capable and also
one with both, which is kind of weird.
You get a U S B C cable, of course, to charge these lapel microphones and these
little clips for the lapel mic as well.
So you get two of them.
They both need to be charged up because they have a little, uh, battery plugged
into them, and there's a little power button that you can see right there.
Now all you need to do is simply slide in this little clip and you are good to go.
Now, I guess you don't have to use a clip if you don't want
to, but you probably should.
Uh, so let's go ahead and see what it looks like to set it up, simply plug
in the lightning adapter cuz I'm using an iPhone and it just basically works.
That's correct.
And you can use two of them at the same time, which is really cool.
Here you can plug in a lightning adapter or a charging cable and
you can listen back if you want to.
And that just all works based on whatever you're gonna record your audio with.
There's a little instruction manual here, but literally you just turn it on.
And it just turns on, they say that there is like a reverb mode, which I
didn't really get to work very well.
But yeah, again, you just literally turn it on and it just kind of works
and that's the most amazing part.
There's a little debug info, but let's go ahead and test it out.
Okay, so the first thing I want to do is just take a simple video
clip here using the built-in.
iPhone.
This is the iPhone 11 prose built-in microphone, uh, here.
So my dog is over here snoring.
Maybe you can hear who snore, maybe you can't.
Depends how good that is.
Now, of course there are some different audio modes on different
iPhones and different noise cancellation, different other things.
But if you're just going in, setting down your phone, this is probably
what it would sound like right here.
Okay, next up is going to be the I RIG two.
This is using a lapel microphone that are kind of cheap off of Amazon, almost about
the same price as the entire lapel setup.
That's wireless.
However, with the I RIG two, it is using 48 volt, uh, power Here.
You can obviously hear it back, you can adjust the gain.
You have a lot more control over what's going on, but it is, of course, plugged
in via wire going into my iPhone.
So that's gonna be one thing that's there.
Now, of course I can adjust the microphone, maybe put it over here.
Maybe put it a little bit over here.
How about right in front of my face?
How about really close right here.
So that's gonna be with some of the audio coming off of this lapel microphone.
Okay, last up here is going to be the tiny little wireless one.
So not this one, but this one right here.
So these little wireless Bluetooth microphones that are gonna be plugged
in, I just simply plugged in the adapter, turn it on, and ideally the camera and
everything picks it up automatically.
So this is kind of nice cuz I can place it anywhere on the body.
There's no cords, obviously.
That's really nice.
Of course I have it clipped in here.
So let's put it over here to the right hand side.
The left hand side and maybe in front of me here.
And of course right in front of me here too.
So that's kind of nice.
I can kind of easily move it around.
No wires.
I do like that.
Of course.
So let's see what this sounds like at the end of the day and compare and
contrast everything now up against my actual podcasting microphone that maybe
you'd wanna bring or even use an I rig if you took it on the road with you.
So let's see.
Okay, so I don't really feel like it's fair to compare it
to my blue microphone here.
All right.
You know, I do have this on a nice road arm.
I have this pop filter on it.
I have the shock amount.
I have it hooked up to an audio interface.
I have some filters inside of O B S.
So is it really fair necessarily to compare these tiny $25 little
Bluetooth speakers to this.
Well, no, but I'm also not gonna be recording all my podcasts.
Now, one thing that is obviously very, very nice is like, look at this.
It's absolutely tiny.
You can just like throw these in your pocket if you want.
Bust them out and you're ready to record.
I also do love that they're u s BBC chargeable.
So anytime I'm carrying around U s BBC cable, which is a majority of my products
besides my iPhone, I'm good to go.
Now one additional thing that is a huge bonus that I didn't really point
out or task, but I wanna make it clear, is like you get two of these.
So if one breaks, you got another one.
Or what if you have two guests, you're interviewing somebody, right?
You can just give them one, put it onto their shirt, boom, boom, boom.
You're totally good to go.
I think that's a huge perk.
You're literally getting.
Two microphones for like 20 to $25.
And there are a bunch of these on Amazon here.
I'll just literally scroll through all the Amazon things for you.
And there's stuff with like, like little filters on top of it.
And this thing, they're all basically the same.
Now, these ones I got, they were $25 because my good friend Frank Krueger,
who I do merge conflict with, which is right here, I'm a YouTube channel.
I bought these same exact ones.
So when we travel, we wanna sound exactly the same with our iPhones.
Having two.
I also like that they give you three little clips cuz they know
you're gonna lose these, uh, is kind of genius in general and I
feel like this is a great investment just to have with you at any time.
You're not gonna be like taking phone calls with 'em or things like that
or, or having other conversations, but what you're gonna be doing,
if you're doing any recording or you're doing like Twitter spaces or
clubhouse, you can easily hook it up.
No wires, anything like that.
And you can still additionally charge your iPhone or actually listen back to
it as well, which is really, really cool.
So anyways, there you have it.
That are, The $25 Little gems of joy that you can get on Amazon.
What did you think?
What about the different audio?
I think overall, listening back to it, everything sounded pretty good.
I mean, like I said, I'm not gonna compare and contrast to this blue
microphone that I have here, or if I can get really close and adjust it.
The downsides are that you're not really adjusting the audio level that sort of.
Um, audio interface where you plug an XLR into, you have a
lot control back over the gain.
It's phantom powered.
You have more control over the actual microphones that you're putting
in, but if you just want something plug and play, these are not bad.
I'll put links down in the show notes below to not only these specific ones
I bought, but to the entirety of all of the Amazon's listings where they range
anywhere from like $18 up to 30 to $40.
But this is the $25 ones that I bought.
Anyways, if you have some of these, let me know what you
think down in the comments below.
If you have something else you want me to test out or give a go, let me know.
I did some other reviews like webcams and other audio equipment, so put down
what you wanna see in the comments below.
But that's gonna do it for this review of audio presentation, YouTubeing
interview, podcast equipment.
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