I'm excited to open this so a few days ago a company called fifine
technology reached out to me and wanted me to review their wireless lavalier
microphone so that's what I'm gonna be unboxing today so first before I do my
review let's see what we get inside the box okay as we step into the actual
unboxing of this video I will note that I am recording all audio with the
headset that this wireless microphone comes with so here we have the white box
it's got a nice looking box nothing overstated about it just their logo on
the top of our coat on the back but not bad-looking at all we lift off the first
protective piece of foam and in it we have a welcome message from the company
itself written in comic sans odd choice and the user manual which looks like it
has a good bit of useful tips on how to use this thing but I'm just gonna toss
that out like most people and the first thing that we open up and find is the
headset itself now this would be used mostly for presentations or if you're
trying to an event and want live audio amplified at the very end of the wire
you see the three pin socket next in this little baggy comes the actual mic
that I think most people are interested in this is definitely what interested me
was the actual lav mic with the pop filter in the clip now this is excellent
for hiding in jackets or anywhere else you want to hide a microphone and don't
want it to be clearly visible now the first impressions I had when I held this
receiver was just how ridiculously light it is it is crazy light and the plastic
is a very kind of chintzy material but that's not that's not a terrible thing
because this is going to be hanging off your camera it does not have a clip on
it - or a mount for your camera so it just kind of hangs out the audio jack so
for something that's light it's definitely a better idea because you
don't want it pulling on
3.5 millimeter jack if that's what you're gonna be using next we have the
actual transmitter which has this very lovely antenna sticking out the back of
it and it's also incredibly light on the top you have a channel changer in the
front you have the on and off switch the back you have just a wire clip that
would clip to your pants or your belt there you have the 3.5 millimeter jack
inverter from the standard plug now let's see how well it works so setting
up it's pretty easy you just put the thing clipped with it wherever you want
and then run the wire down plug it in the top of the transmitter make sure
it's spot-on at both ends and that's pretty much all you need to do now you
may have to play around with the channels in case there's other
interference but typically they're shooting now the first thing I tried was
to plug it into my phone which didn't work yeah I guess my phone didn't
recognize it as an as a external mic and that's that's probably more just the
recorder on my phone it is a good one but it could be just a problem there
right the next thing I wanted to try was the range and how well it did in outdoor
environments so let's see how well it did there and we have uh we have audio
just like that I've got the microphone tucked away in my shirt I have the
microphone at minus 12 decibels and it's an extremely windy day if you can't tell
already by my hair flapping around but yeah let me be quiet for a second okay
it's not terrible but we'll we'll review the audio and post online that says
about 40 to 75 feet well let's test that especially because I want to test to see
how good the quality is at those ranges so right now I'm about 8 feet away
let's go 25 feet this is approximately 25 feet let's go
50 here we are take it a little bit further
all right approximately 75 feet away I don't know how good this quality is at
this point but keep in mind it is windy but will give us a good range especially
a little further let's see what it looks like at about 100 feet now I'm at about
a hundred feet and that's a Corky there aren't multiple ports on here so you can
run headphones or earbuds in to check your audio quality so there's that and
it doesn't have support for multiple mics to transmit to one receiver in the
camera itself but I have heard that some people will get audio splitters I don't
know how well that works but that is something I might investigate a little
bit further later on so after about a good day or so of testing I feel like
I've got me a pretty good idea about how well this microphone works so what's the
rundown what are the pros let's start with the pros well one it is very light
now some of you might think of that as a con but really when you're carrying
something in your pocket like that you don't want it to be too heavy or bulky
and if you're worried about dropping it's it's the type of light where if it
falls I don't think it'll shatter it's not like that if anything it'll have
less impact on the ground and probably stay even safer - is that the batteries
are easy the transmitter the transmitter itself takes two double-a batteries and
depending on what kind of batteries you buy what will affect the battery life
that they have so if you buy a nice quality battery so the lasts a long time
I just put batteries that I had in my xbox controller already it had been
using for quite a bit that were very great batteries and I have still
have an almost full battery indicator on them and I've been using it pretty well
so I think the battery life is actually really good on them it did say that it
comes with batteries and it didn't so when you order it make sure that you get
those and the receiver does take triple-a so it's double-a and triple-a
so make sure you also have those and besides it's a good idea to always have
extra batteries in your camera bag at all time anyway
and three I think it's very easy to use this thing it's basically you just
turned it on on both the receiver and the transmitter make sure it's plugged
in and you're good to go it's already doing its job there's no setting up
anything there's no fiddling around oh well there is a little bit the
microphone I noticed was very sensitive when I plugged it into the camera so I
had to put it at minus 12 decibels in order to have good audio otherwise it
was like just peaking and cracking and it was it wasn't good so you will have
to adjust the audio but then that's fair I mean I think everything you have to
adjust the audio anyway what are some of the cons well keep in mind as it was a
$35 microphone so the quality wasn't fantastic it sounded it was good for
well let's let's back that up a little bit who is this microphone for well it's
originally designed to be used as a live event microphone whether you're
directing some sort of conference or speaking at some sort of venue or
something like that that's what it's originally intended for because without
the adapter it just plugs straight into an amplifier real simple just easy like
that and that's that's what it it's really designed for and it does a good
job of that because as for live audio it does it does a good job but that's where
it becomes somewhat of a con as for as far as for video and cameras unless
unless you're just doing some sort of review video or some sort of light
documentary suit and film or anything the quality has to be played with a lot
for it to sound good again I'm not trying to knock it
but it is a cheap headset so it's not gonna be the superb AC or punchy or
super clear it is slightly muffled slightly tinny and it sounds like a
really high quality phone call and when I was recording the audio for the
unboxing segment when I was testing out the audio to straight to the computer
there was a little bit of interference I believe it was from my computer so these
are things that you have to keep in mind when working with it it is UHF so UHF I
think has a little bit more interference with radio but for the most part I was
impressed with how clear it was if you're good at editing sound you should
be able to get the sound to where you want it to be therefore if you are
starting out a YouTube channel you're starting out making films and you need
something to start with I think this is a great microphone to buy for that
because it'll get you to where you need to be with a little bit of cleaning up
and post you can get decent sounding audio you can get some decent sounding
sound I've got a learning English it a little better but that's just it as far
as entry-level goes I'm impressed and I think I'll even be using it a
little bit more myself especially shined outside things that my normal shotgun
mic I usually depend on when I'm outside and I'm not super close to the camera I
think in my last video I posted I was up on the roof and there was a lot of wind
that got in the way and made a lot of the audio a little bit hard to hear
which isn't good but with the lab Alire Mike you could be far from the camera
and since it focused mostly on the sound that's around around it it will do much
better job at that and being hidden under a coat will protect it from wind
and other noise so it has a good use and it's definitely something that a starter
content creator would do well to have and keep in mind too that a lot of times
the professional versions of these microphones run to be ten times the cost
of this one so if you keep in mind the value that you're getting
what you really needed for that will help you make a decision on what you
need so for 35 bucks what do I give it mmm I
give it five out of seven dolphins well anyway guys thanks for watching and
thanks to fly fine technologies for sending this out to me
I really appreciate it I enjoyed using this microphone and I'd be curious to
try out some of your other products in the future got my eye on you guys anyway
that's it for me today I I need coffee I just got sent a free coffee voucher to
Dunkin Donuts so they think I'm going...