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Think that the only way to get really good audio is to have a microphone with a long wire plugged into your camera or amplifier? The Hollyland Lark M2S Wireless Lavalier Microphone will prove you wrong; a compact unit with two balanced transmitters and two receivers, it works with smartphones, tablets, computers, and just about every other device that can work with a mic! As a bonus, it's small enough to fit in your pocket and has enough battery lie that you can fuggetabout charging for days of shooting. Tech expert and professional videographer Dave Taylor checks out the latest from Hollyland and finds it a terrific solution!
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a wireless dual mic system let's check
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this
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out Dave Taylor here and I have my wired
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lavalier microphone connected on my
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clothes and then there's a wire running
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all the way over to the camera which
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works pretty well in some situations but
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if I want a little more freedom and
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autonomy or if I want to record outside
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or I want to be further from the camera
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it gets to be a real pain and you just
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don't want that wire stretching super
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far enter wireless microphones it is a
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technology that has long since been
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perfected and now you can get wireless
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microphones with en normous range that
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have all sorts of circuitry to make sure
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you don't have any interference or
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Dropout like this this box contains let
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me open it up and show you one of the
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transmitters this this is the hollyland
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Lark m2s Wireless lavalier microphone
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now a while ago I reviewed the lar M2
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which was a great little microphone if
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you imagine that it's just this button
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part here it's easier to see in a
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closeup what this looks like and so that
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was really great but this one has a
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built-in clip so I can clip it onto my
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clothes as easy as that and as you can
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see it's B basically invisible it's a
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tiny little black dot that just sits
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ideally pretty close to where your mouth
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is or your noise or music or audio
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sources and then there's various
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receivers so this is the one I use this
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is the receiver that's
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USBC and it just plugs right into the
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bottom of an iPhone or Android phone
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and I'm not sure what's happening here
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someone's texting me but suffice to say
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it's that easy and I'm ready to go and
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not only that but they've been smart
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enough with their engineering that if I
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use this to record video I can play back
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the video and hear it through the phone
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speakers without having to unplug this
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now those of you that have tried
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wireless microphones know what I'm
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talking about because generally you have
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to unplug it to check the audio plug it
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back in hope that it worked they've
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solved all of that really nice now now
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let me start with some specs so these
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transmit let me pull this one off so
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they transmit 48 khz at 24 bits with a
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signal to noise ratio of 70 DB and a
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sound pressure level of 116 DB they do a
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really nice job it's a really clean
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audio signal this set that I got this is
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the ultimate combo comes with two
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transmitters it comes with a
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USBC receiver which is suitable for
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Android iPhone tablets pretty much
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anything you can plug it into and then
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it also comes with a camera receiver so
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to use microphone
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terminology this gives you a dynamic
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microphone so it also has in here
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there's a USBC to lightning adapter you
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can sort of fiddle that around and get
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that to work because there's USBC on the
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end here so you can use that even with
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an old iPhone and then this one this
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camera one is known as a condenser or
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Phantom microphone and you can get it in
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mono or stereo mode in other words you
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can choose between those and not only
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that but you can also use a wire if like
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with my Sony camera that I'm using right
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now I have to plug in a 3.5 mm for an
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external microphone so all of this is
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included it comes with a couple of wind
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socks or there's all sorts of funny
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names in the industry for them there's a
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usba to USBC charging cable you know
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really lovely box helpful documentation
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there's an app there's so much to like
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here I have more I want to talk about
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but let's just jump into some demos so
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first I'm going to demonstrate this
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using my iPhone as a camera and then
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we'll switch to actually using my Sony
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as the camera so we're going to we're
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going to do the dynamic microphone and
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then we're going to do the condenser
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microphone let's get into those demos
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hey there so I'm about 30 ft away from
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my iPhone right now and you're hearing
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me because of the hollyland microphone I
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assure you if I didn't have a microphone
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and I was just yelling I would be
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hollering my little heart out and you
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still wouldn't be able to hear me very
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well so as you can hear it does a really
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great job gives you an enormous amount
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of flexibility and the transmitter so
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small that you can't even see it on my
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clothes so a win all around now let me
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jump back on my regular camera hi again
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I'm still about the same distance but
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now I'm using my Sony camcorder so it's
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a totally different technology but
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obviously I'm using the same microphone
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the difference here is that I've turned
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on environmental noise cancellation so I
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don't know that we'll be able to hear a
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difference I'm in a pretty quiet
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environment but let me turn it off and
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I'm going to do that by pulling the
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transmitter off and then pushing the
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orange
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button and now it should be without ENC
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and I'm not sure it's going to sound
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very different but in either case you
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can tell the audio quality is great and
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this distance makes it super flexible
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pretty impressive isn't it now let's
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real quick go through the app itself
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this is called lar sound it's Android or
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iPhone but I want to tell you that the
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little clip on that you can't even see
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on my shirt it's actually titanium and
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it weighs 7 G which is
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to clip it on and absolutely forget that
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you have it this is the future of
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microphone so nice and I will note
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there's no visible logo so if you're
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using this for commercial work you don't
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have to worry about hiding any of the
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logos from the company or anything so
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let me go ahead and plug in this we're
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going to launch Lark sound and it'll
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take a moment or two but it will see the
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transmitter again this is the dynamic
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phone
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transmitter and it will then hopefully
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let's see I'll press plus there we go so
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I can do that either way it works it's
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loading and you'll see there's not a
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huge number of controls but honestly how
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many controls do you need you can see
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that it is pretty loud right now with it
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being this close to my voice or to my
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mouth so I can just adjust that down a
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little bit or if it was way too soft I
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would adjust it up but you never want to
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see that red because that red means
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you're getting clipping which just is
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the opposite of really nice audio um I
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can use the phone speaker I can turn on
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ENC which is what that NC level is and
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channel Mode's interesting so you can
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switch between mono and stereo so if I
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do that here then the other microphone
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is in the charging case so it's not
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getting any signal so now I would
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suddenly be left Channel only or right
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channel only but then I can go back to
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mono and it merges the stream and not a
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huge lot else you can do here the most
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important thing is with the gear on the
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top right and then go into version
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information and then you can check that
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you have the latest version of the
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firmware that's pretty darn important so
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that's pretty much everything in this
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demo turn this recording off so I do
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want to tell you it has an impressive
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300 meter or 1,000 foot range
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unobstructed so that means that
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certainly if you're in a big room and
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you want to do some yoga demonstrations
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or something your camera can be in the
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far corner and you'll never have an
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issue the Clips stay on really well so
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you have tons of range it has 9 hours of
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working time and you can put it any or
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all of the pieces into the case and then
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they will charge again and the case
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gives you two and a half extra charges
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giving you a total functional time of 30
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hours of battery life and you're
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thinking hm when you run out of battery
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how long does it take to charge and
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that's a good question it would be the
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perfect amount of time for you to have a
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lunch break and give people a chance to
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go over the script and double check
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their lines so hour and a half to go
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from zero to 100 but you might not need
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that much time right so if you're like
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got most of your film in the can and
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you're just like we just got to reshoot
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that one scene you can charge it during
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lunch and then you can come back and you
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can have another couple hours so super
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cool as I said it has environmental
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noise cancellation or ENC and it is
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compati able with Android and iPhone and
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iOS and iPad OS and cameras and
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computers your PC your Mac your
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Chromebook you can plug this into this
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is the one I think you would use and you
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can use the wire and now it comes in as
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a 3.5 mm microphone so you could use
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this on zoom and then be walking around
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in the front of the class using the
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chalkboard whatever you need to do so I
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really really like this now let me show
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you as I said everything that comes with
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this is that USBC to usba charging cable
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the USBC to lightning adapter cable the
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3.5 mm cable so you can use it with
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inputs that are requiring 3.5 mm and
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there's the two wind socks there's a
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carrying
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bag lots of stuff and then let me give
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you some closeups so you can see see
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here are the transmitters you can see
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they're so darn small it's really an
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impressive piece of engineering and then
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this is the phone receiver and it is
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small enough you could leave it plugged
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into your iPhone and just not even worry
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about it it certainly doesn't make it
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any less portable or handheld and then
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finally this is the camera receiver also
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known as our condenser or Phantom
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microphone receiver and that one you can
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use typically with that wire and then
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just plug it in and just let it dangle
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down all of this stuff is so
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ridiculously light and then finally
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here's everything in the charging case
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so you can see what that looks like
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here's that charging case and that has
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everything that you need to go and be in
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the field and record so if you're a
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vlogger if you're a hardcore tick tocker
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or whatever the next Tik tok's going to
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be then this is a great piece of
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Hardware I'm so impressed that the next
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video I do I'm just going to use this
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I'm going to bail on this wired lavalier
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mic why go through the hassle when I can
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just do it wirelessly so nice really if
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you're using any video this is
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definitely something to check out and
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two microphones means two of you can
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have a conversation and it's all just
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magically going to be captured how cool
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is that great now I am going to invite
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up really appreciate that sweet this is
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the hollyland Lark
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m2s Wireless lavalier microphone and it
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comes in various combinations with
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various adapters and various cables this
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is the ultimate combo and it is
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$149 at amazon.com if you don't need all
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of this hardware and if you don't need
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all of these cables there are various
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combinations that will let you lower the
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price as you need less Hardware please
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take your time and double check that
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you're getting the right one however
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because it's a little complicated but
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honestly whether you're using a phone or
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a tablet or a computer or a full-blown
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camcorder or professional camera then
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there's a lot to like here with this
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device and this is really one of the
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best smoothest and easiest to use
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wireless microphones I've ever tested
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that's what I got hope to catch you in
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my next video
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