oh my god if this is the sound quality that you want and the video quality that you want
I've got the perfect setup for you I've motovlogged a couple times now with this
helmet and I've tested the sound quality to make sure that it works every time and lo and
behold it freaking works every time i am almost embarrassed to say how many years it's taken me to
find a setup that will work for me that will not crap out on me i'm gonna have different chapters
to this video so if you want to scroll around and figure out what part you're interested in
you can go ahead and do that but i'm gonna be talking about everything including the helmets
including the camera including the microphone including the mount including literally everything
okay i'm gonna go in order and talk about the helmet first that i'm photo vlogging with
this is the Sedici Strada II helmet i got it back in may when i was at the get on moto fest down in
texas with revzilla so i've had it for about three months now and i've been motovlogging with it for
about two of those months so full disclosure our friends over at revzilla did give me this helmet
as like a gift for being a part of the get on moto fest which i very much appreciate because
i didn't bring my helmet down for that entire weekend so i couldn't have done any test rides
but regardless of that i really do enjoyed it before i was uh vlogging with the AGV K4 Evo which
is no longer in production the one that i had the helmet mohawk on yeah that one uh that was no
longer production it's kind of old so i was really due to get a huge walking helmet so revzilla
really came in clutch in terms of the Strada II i'm wearing an extra small and this is the
carbon fiber version of it they have two carbon fiber versions of it a matte one and a gloss one
i have the gloss one and if i do say some it looks a really badass the styling of it kind of reminds
me of something like icon would put out we're going to talk more about it after this corner
yeah buddy that's how they said to do the MSF course get real well down here
i messed that one up a little bit but that's all right so the outside looks sweet i really like it
with the smoked visor i know a couple weeks ago i had a poll out on my instagram and on
here on youtube i asked you guys to decide if the spoke visor or the mirror advisor looked better
with it and in the end i think the majority of you said go with the smoke visor on the inside
this helmet actually feels really premium oh yeah scrub those tires Lali oh no i scared the birds oh
they're so pretty okay um i love birds in terms of quietness it is uh i don't have a lot of helmets
to compare it to because i haven't ridden with a crapton in the helmets but uh it is quieter than
the AGV Corsa R which is like kind of my daily helmet that i will wear when i don't motovlog
and it is lighter it feels lighter than that helmet i'm not sure what the actual gram specs
are i'll put them on the screen to like compare the two because they're both extra small but this
one just feels lighter than the other one which is surprising because i have a gopro strapped
to it i have the cardo on it um so i know that adds a little bit of extra weight it feels nice
so on longer trips i would rather honestly take this helmet than the Corsa R in fact there was
a time when i motovlogged with the Corsa R and uh i promptly stopped because wow that was annoying
it was really annoying to motovlog with the Corsa R it was extremely heavy and putting the gopro on
it just made my entire neck hurt i was not about that uh but this one i've had no issue with so if
you're looking for a moto vlogging helmet honestly i would recommend finding a helmet that is on the
lighter side because you are going to be putting a bunch of stuff on it for your motovlog setup
i do think this the airflow on this helmet is less than what it is on like the AGVs which
tend to be like pretty heavily aerated uh but yeah i'm not really complaining about that because um
i like that it gives me good sound quality on the inside of that like it's not going to mess
my microphone up right now and i don't have like a dead cat or anything on this microphone at the
moment it's just like that little foamy thing that it comes with and it's like tucked behind
the cheek pad so very happy with the airflow on it the pads inside are really comfortable
no complaints about the pads three months into it they haven't like uh recessed or
like battered down to like the point where it's too loose on my head or anything like that it
still feels fine uh they do give in a little bit and when i first got it it was like a little bit
tight on my head but now that i broke it in after a couple of wears i feel very comfortable with it
all right so this is the helmet that i'm using for motovlogging let's talk about the actual
setup that i've got going on so let's start with the camera i'm riding with the gopro hero8 with
the media mod that gopro sells for it this is not the hero 9 i don't know anything about the hero 9
uh except that it kind of looks the same but it has like a way bulkier media mod than the hero 8.
so i kind of didn't like that so that's why i went with the hero 8 i wanted like a smaller media mod
if you're trying to get clean audio out of this camera you are going to need the media mod you
cannot just get the gopro you need the gopro plus the media mod the microphone oh my god do
i have some stuff to say about the freaking microphone what a pain it has been to try
and get a microphone that will work every single time that i go moto vlogging without fuss i had
the purple i can't even say the name the purple panda and that's what i was using before because
i saw that c2w recommended it and uh for a while and by for a while i mean three motovlogs it
worked just fine and after that it stopped working randomly it would cut in and out there would be
crackling noises and i ruined hours and hours and hours of good motovlog footage on the purple panda
maybe people who are using it initially give it a good review because they don't ride with
it long enough and initially that's also what i thought like i got it and i was gonna do a review
on it and i gave it like a stellar review i just said that you needed a different microphone
adapter with it because the one the flimsy one that it comes with didn't work uh okay i take
back everything i said EVERYTHING do not use the purple panda forget it don't bother with adapters
if you have to use an adapter to plug into the media mod to make it work you do not want to
do not buy that microphone and this has been the holy grail that has saved my motovlogging
experience so that i could stop crying over the hours of lost footage and audio that i've had to
deal with in the past. It's $20. Not $40 like the freaking purple panda freaking overpriced
marked up white labeled aliexpress piece of junk that that microphone is oh it makes me so mad
that you can think about it don't don't buy the purple panda get this one instead it's $20 bucks
it works like a charm there's no adapter and the sound quality is clean it's so clean it's just
as good as the purple panda if the purple panda actually works like i said i just have it tucked
behind the cheek pad of my helmet it's like not a big deal at all uh you could also put it just in
the front of your helmet here like around here it just it works there's nothing more to say about it
thinking about a motovlog setup you need to be mindful of like trs or trrs or trss connections
in terms of microphones that's why you sometimes need adapters like this one does not
this one has it just plugged into the medium on and it's great so to recap they're going
to get the hero8 with the media mod and the microphone that i linked down below it's the Movo
ACM something like that it's got some letters and numbers in there that i don't fully remember
but it will be linked in the description best 20 purchase i ever made honestly i might just
go back and buy a second one just in case they stopped making it although why they would stop
making this holy grail of a product i don't know the other camera that is technically i guess part
of my motovlogging setup is the one that's here on the bike this is an old camera i don't even know
if it's being sold on gopro's website anymore i don't think so it's just the hero session
the regular hero session if you want the angle that i'm getting um you can like macgyver your
own gopro mount with 3m tape sugru or any kind of like JB weld whatever material but if you want
to be a little bit more professional and clean about it and not damage your helmet i suggest you
check out the website chin mounts chin mounts is a small business uh one guy like basically 3d prints
mounts that are specific for every motorcycle helmet i'll put a photo and a close-up of the
one that they made for the Sedici Strada II helmet that's the one that i have on this helmet right
now and this is the angle that i get with it it's been on here for a couple weeks uh now it's
fine it sticks i did have to uh go in with like a hair dryer a little bit and like push it down
to make sure that it got a fit on the helmet correctly i will link my affiliate code with
uh with chin mounts down below uh if you guys are interested in getting one also look this
is the sound quality on this microphone even when i have the visor up not that i want to
keep the visor up for a really long period of time because it hurts my eyes to get all this wind in
in it but uh yeah this is it the sound quality is good even when the visor's up i really recommend
the microphone the rest of the nuts and bolts that you need for this photovlog setup like
j mounts or like those little gopro thingies that you have to screw in to hold the camera in
place like go on amazon or something and just buy yourself a bulk pack of different types of shapes
of mounts and screws and you'll be fine you'll find something that works
yeah but that's literally and i'm so happy that i finally found a motovlog setup that
works that i have a helmet that's not falling apart anymore to motovlog with
i feel like i'm moving on up in the world in terms of in terms of a motovlogger i've literally
had so many cameras where i've gone through four different cameras since i've started
motovlogging on this channel that have all just disappointed me in one way or another so
finally finally found the uh the setup that works properly for me if you enjoyed the video give it
a thumbs up i appreciate you guys being here and i will see the spicy squad in the next one