hey guys Zahkman here bringing you the church audio life. today we're
unboxing and then reviewing the Sennheiser EW 100 g4. boom. let's see
what's inside the box nice always like the way Sennheiser does their
packaging but this is the handheld mic
they actually separate it out from the head now in their packaging used to have it
together that's the 835, e835, mic clip of
course a couple of antennas the EM 100 receiver instruction manual of course
that's a few other little paperwork's
Sennheiser branded batteries and of course the different kind of power plugs
one thing that's important when you're unboxing this is if you lift this up you
notice it's actually a metal plate here this is actually included now in these
is the rack mount kit but you only see this part the rest of it is actually
underneath this deal as well as the power so eventually of course you would
find that but this is actually the rack mounting kit that used to be a separate
purchase and of course the power adapter so that's one nice thing already with
the generation 4 that the rack mount kit is now included although the latest
I'm sure it's add to the price but anyway it's nice to get it when you get
the mics alright so I'm gonna put this into use
ok so we've had the system now for over a year I meant to make this video a
little sooner so that yours give me a really good amount of time to get to
know this system first thing I want to talk about is a mic itself so the mic
included in the e w100 g4 kit is the skm 100g for this whole kid it's very
similar to its predecessor the the g3 with a few noticeable changes now let's
talk about the things I like first of all I love the way these mics sound they
have a nice full kind of pushed forward presence without being muddy they have
enough detail without being like they're not like a studio condenser mic which is
like really picks up the tiniest little transients but it's detailed enough to
have a clarity and openness without being a harsh or overly SD I mean of
course if someone is very SC person it's gonna pick that up but this mic by
itself doesn't enhance that I think it sounds similar but even touch better
than the sm58 I actually would prefer this tone substantially to me this
sounds a little bit less money than those can tend to get at times and a bit
more a bit more polished we've had other mics that are a bit more even higher-end
yet even costing like three or four times as much that had a bit more detail
but actually it's a lot of our singers preferred these so that could they feel
like they pushed through the mix better so played they were a preference thing
but I just love the way they sound another thing I love is that they have
interchangeable heads so I mean if this one came with the e 835 head which is
just a cardioid pattern if you want it to swap out for a super card you
literally just buy the head and just spin the whole head off and it comes
apart and if you also want to change the pattern or if for some reason someone
you know drop the mic and substantially damaged the head instead of having to
replace the whole mic you can replace just the head also it's got a nice way
to take off the top really just fin and grill off if you want to clean that out
so this one's still after a year is a very little DNA unit so that's pretty
good if you've a little bit of food particles so if you're a person who
regularly cleans out your mics think you'll appreciate how easy this comes
apart you do that just to clean I also like that it uses double A's instead of
nine bolts that pops open in the back here so you spin out of park boom two
doublea's and I just find a double ace for wireless mics will always last
longer you nine volts we've had previous system with nine volts
they always took they took the batteries down really fast and they were less
reliable these will go quite a while on on two doublea's there is color-coded
rings you can get further back I don't have one on this one it's just the
standard black but if you like to color code your Mike you can buy a package and
put like a little ring it's still fairly discreet it's not as obvious has some
big ugly piece of tape or something like that but it's obviously enough that from
the sound where you can tell which color it is people use different methods but
if you like the color code method you can buy those rings and literally just
pops off and pops back on that's a nice feature I also like how the sensitivity
is easy to set and I like how it's in six decimal increments instead of ten
some previous generations of these mics I think the version two went in ten
decimal increments as simple as just you know pressing in the button whatever
menu comes up as hit case half authority on sensitivity push it in and then beat
up arrows up and down you can change that to higher or lower numbers and then
push it back in to a story and then just tap the power button he owed that menu
and get really nice the only thing that I really dislike about this my comparing
this is other mics have the same problem is that when you grab the antenna you
lose significant wireless reception the declared it dumb starts to drop off and
even I recently had a conference and the speaker wanted a handheld and he kept on
grabbing the bottom of the antenna and sometimes his mic was cutting out
entirely for like a split second and coming back sometimes it gets fuzzy I
think it sort of depends on which frequency you're using and the room
because most of the time when someone grabs the antenna just gets a little
fuzzy for a second in this case it was cutting entirely out I gave another
exactly the same mic on different frequency and it only slightly got
static Hindon I should cut out at also I think some degree depends on all those
thousands of factors that makes wireless so complex but the previous generation
two of these mics didn't have the extra antenna at the back
it was just like flat cut off here and didn't matter where you grabbed it you
would never lose your wireless not sure what changed
why that's now worse and that's one thing I really had hoped they would have
fixed on generation before and instead it's exactly the same no better at all
the whole mechanism is probably is the exact same mechanism hasn't been updated
at all so that's a shame I hope you hope for
generation 5 they they fix that and of course other mics do it as well it's
really kind of an annoying thing really would be nice that if you have the
antenna clearly it's possible because it could do it in generation 2 so if they
get people back to that at some point so as I mentioned we have had this for
about a year we actually installed it in a room we call our theater it's also
where we installed a second one as well as the AAS a 2-14 antenna splitter and
it's really a nice combination especially when you use that antenna
splitter you can power up to four receivers through the antenna lines so
that all you need is the one wall wart for the AAS a 2:14 the antenna splitter
and then the rest just to get power through the the antenna cable so you
don't have to have four wall warts just taking up your whole whole power bar
actually really really quite like that I like the way they've done a kind of a
new white look I like how the ga3 rack mount kit is now included it used to be
an extra purchase but if you look at the price actually from the generation 3 to
the generation 4 it's almost the same it's at least where I'm from it's about
$35 more but then it includes the rack mount kit which used to be around $35 so
I really think the main motivation for this generation 4 from Sennheiser sine
highs was just to accommodate for all the new frequency ranges they needed
because of the new law that was passed and I think they took that opportunity
just to update the look a little bit at a couple little buttons because not
actually in a lot of ways a huge upgrade from the previous it's got a couple
extra buttons the screens an extra color it's got a nice new white look but much
of it is much the same which I actually kind of like I really liked the previous
system and it like that nothing has changed to make it now somehow a
different way to work it's if you if you know a generation 3 you just put the
generation 4 in and you're off to the races so yeah I love how these have a
logical button layout I like how they have an escape button it used to be that
you have to press the power button to go back in the menu and a lot of people get
confused by that wouldn't know that's they would know how to go back in the
menu so it's nice we press escape you know we're gonna go back to the previous
menu I really like how the squelch is easy to
set it's very simple little procedure there I like how they're very easy to
sync you basically press the sync button hold the thing up to it that's a really
nice easy feature I really like how the generation 4 mics will work seamlessly
with the generation 3 or even generation 2 with Sennheiser so if you have any old
Sennheiser stuff that's still in legal ranges you can still use it with with
these modern ones there's a port on the back there's one like a small negative
things that they have an RJ 10 port on the back instead of an rj45 so you can
plug these directly into a network where you can with the 300 series or 500 or
above this is just so that you can do a easy setup and you just tie them in to
each other with these basically it used to be like a kind of a phone cable and
they would then talk to each other figure out each other's frequencies so
when they do easy setup you can just it will set all four of them but you can't
have it like on your network on a computer screen like you could with them
the 300 and 500 and 2000 series but of course you know there has to be
something they do to make these a little cheaper compared to the other ones as
well I do like the new color on the screen that's a kind of a white in the
black I like how you can see the AF and the RF and the battery level and the
name and the frequency nice easy to see for even from a bit of a distance so for
my final verdict I would say that I would definitely recommend this mic if
you're looking for a new wireless mic system it has a great reliability I
think it sounds awesome I like the layout of the buttons I like the menu
system I like the way it's a nice invisible I like the way that you can
see the battery level from the back and also the RF & AF level that you're
getting as well I like how they're easy to to set up and
really a great system altogether the only negatives like I've mentioned
already is that there is the problem when you grab the antenna of the bottom
of the mic you sometimes lose wireless reception and then the fact that I only
have an RJ 10 port on the back to talk to each other but you can't actually put
them on to a network like you can with the higher series of Sennheiser systems
but those are all pretty minor things I still think compared to what's out
there in the competition I would always buy these instead of other ones
I think a good recommendation for you or your church all right if you like this
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God bless.