Ahoj! This is Zdenka. When you are starting videography or when you're
brand new on youtube, your budget at the beginning is very limited and you have
to go through a lot of struggles not only that you have to bring your picture
quality up but you also need to bring your audio quality up as well and I know
it firsthand. How many times I've received a comment where people are
complaining about echo in this room, the number of emails I received where people
were actually suggesting which type of microphone I should get and the budget
is still an issue. Luckily there is a lot of options on the market these days. I do
have one of the budget options here right now actually. You're listening to
sound from it and today I'm going to be reviewing microphone Boom XD which was
sent to me by Comica. This is not a sponsored video, product was sent to me
to try and review.
And if you are new here, welcome. My name is Zdenka Darula. If you want to learn how
to take better photos and videos with the latest gear and possibly participate
in creative camera challenges, consider subscribing. Comica BoomX-D series uses
the 2.4 gigahertz wireless bandwidth and it just adjusts its frequency to the
strongest available signal. According to Comica, the working range is 165 feet
which is 50 meters... which we will test for sure. Very easy for beginners, simply
turn it on and go. What you will get in a package is small receiver which is
compatible with smartphone as well and 2 transmitters and yes you can connect up
to two transmitters to one receiver. What is also included in the package is lav
microphone, two of them actually, wind muff for each microphone, 3.5 millimeter
TRS to trrs audio cable, TRS 2 TRS audio cable and charging cable. As you can see,
the units are extremely small and extremely light so you can easily hide
them and they are not gonna give you any extra weight. What I also like is that
you don't have to buy extra batteries as it has built in a 300 million per hour
rechargeable battery. Each unit is charged via USB and gets you up to 5
hours of working time. I used to have other wireless microphone before a long
time ago and one thing I really didn't like about was buying those extra
batteries which are not necessarily the cheapest. There are very little settings
to play with, no channel selection or frequency, that is why it is plug in and
play which is great for beginners. So let's look at the transmitter first. When
it comes to microphone, it has two options. You can either use the built-in
microphone so what you do, you just attach the unit by this clip directly on
you as close to your mouth as possible. It is not that visible and because it is
light it's not really pulling the fabric that much down. If you want to use the
lav microphone, you can connect it through 3.5 millimeters TRS
microphone port. What is nice is that there is a
special lock so the microphone doesn't get pulled out by accident. It did happen
to me many times before with other microphones. If you're gonna be filming
outdoors and you want to get rid of any of the wind sound, then you can just
use this wind muff and pull it over either built-in microphone or this
lav microphone. There is also a screen on the front of each unit which shows
your remaining battery life, audio levels and all the other info. You can also mute
microphone if you need to. So let's go ahead and do the first test. Now you are
hearing sound from this built-in microphone so this is how it would sound
and I'm gonna do a floor test so I'm gonna get very quiet....
and now you're hearing me again from the lav microphone which is attached to me
and this is how it would sound that's the option number two and I'm gonna get
very quiet and do the floor test again....
It's time to look at the receiver. It has 3.5 millimeters Jack output
3.5 millimeters headphone jack. You can clip it to hot
shoe on the camera or attach it to smartphone without a cover though.
Normally I have this Moment case on my phone which is not that thick actually.
It's quite thin but I found out that if I'm gonna be attaching it, it's just
gonna fall out, it's not wide enough to attach it but if you take that cover off
then you can clip it on a smartphone. You would use TRS - TRS cable for camera
like canon M50 and TRS so trrs for smartphone for iphone. You also need an
adapter. You can adjust volume of each microphone and you can also switch
between mono and stereo. You can do one microphone left and the other right or
both to both channels. And now it's time to do the other test and that would be
how far actually I can go with a microphone. Let's do outdoor test and now
you're listening to the sound which is coming from the left microphone. I'm
holding actually the transmitter in my hand which should be in the front
if I would hiding behind me as I will be backing up I might be losing the
connection so I'm gonna do a little test. I'm gonna be backing up to see how far I
can actually go with this microphone and I'm gonna try to talk as well. Quite far
now and again I'm turning around and turning again and I hear a little
bit birds here. I'm not sure if you hear the birds as well... and I'll keep going..
keep going.... even further.. still going and let's see if you can't hear me over here.
And still going and keep going... still hearing okay... I'm gonna... get.... The distance
is actually quite good. I know I'm gonna be using it if I'm gonna be filming on
location. One of the things when I was showing some how to film b-roll when I
got far away from the camera I could not really make commentary because then the
microphone which I had on the camera, the Rode was not catching my sound so
with this I know that I will be able to do more interactive videos when I will be actually
saying what I'm teaching there. So for that reason I'm pretty happy with this
microphone. I also love the fact that it is so easy to use. I'm a huge fan of just
turn it on and go. And for those interested to see what the current
pricing is, the link is located below the video in a video description. This is
international link. It will show you the price in your currency depending on
where you live. Well, hit the thumbs up if you liked today's video and subscribe to
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say hi or Ahoj which is Czech, you can leave it in a comment section below
and I will see you all of my friends in the next video. Cau.... Ahoj...