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Tired of having to stay within a few feet of your phone or other video recording device to get good audio? Not with the LensGo Wireless Lavalier Microphone (model 348C). With its tiny transmitter and receiver, you can be over 200-feet away from the camera with clear, perfect audio. Tech expert Dave Taylor checks out the wireless lav mic and offers up a fun and effective demo with his iPhone 13 Pro too.
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Can something this compact be a good wireless microphone
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Let's check it out. Dave Taylor here, and I'm checking out this
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This set is the LensGo 348C Wireless Lavalier microphone, and it's actually pretty slick
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Now, this is the receiving unit, so it has gain up and down, and it has out
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So you plug in one of the included wires, and now you have 3.5 millimeters
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So you can plug this into, for example, a computer or a camera or with an adapter, typically, a phone
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So I happen to have an adapter, which lets me plug 3.5 millimeter into lightning
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So what I've done is I plugged it into my iPhone 13 Pro, put this on a tripod, and then stepped outside for a demo
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So let's just jump into the demo right off the bat. Hi, there's really no better way to demonstrate a wireless microphone than getting pretty far
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away from your camera. And I'm doing this using my iPhone 13 Pro on a tripod and I'm using the microphone transmitting
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from me and receiving on the phone. And you can hear the audio quality is really good and it is not adversely affected by me
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getting further away. Pretty cool. Now, let me jump back on a closer camera. Aren't the colors
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lovely on my street? It's just, it gets really beautiful in autumn. But that's not what we're
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talking about. We're talking about the microphone. And I have to say that microphone sounded mighty
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good considering I was standing, what, 30, 40 feet away from my phone. Obviously, if I would have
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just been using the built-in microphone on my phone, you either wouldn't have heard me or I would
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have been screaming my little heart out. And you still wouldn't have been able to hear me. So it works really well
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Now, this is the transmit unit, and you can tell it has different things on the edges So let me give you a couple of close So on the right hand side is power And then on the top is the ability to plug in an external microphone if you want to use
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something else. Or it has that built-in microphone, which is that little silver circle
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And then on the right-hand side, you have a slot for microSD or a TF card. And you have USBC
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for charging it. On the front, there is a record button because I can record audio directly
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onto that microSD card. So I don't even need the receiver. I don't need anything else. I can just
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use the transmitter as a recording device. That's pretty slick. Now, both of these units also charge
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via USBC, but what the company does is they ship this really cute little storage container that's also
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a charging container. So you open it up and I have all the other accessories in here, but basically it has
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space for two transmitters and a receiver. Obviously, this setup only gives me one of each. There is a
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different model from LensGo that gives you that two transmitters and the receiver, but you put them in here
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you close it, and they charge. So this is actually a tiny little charging base, which is pretty
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slick, and then you plug it in in one place, and it charges all the different units. Now, what
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wires does it come with? Well, there's 3.5 millimeter to 3.5 millimeter. There is this, this
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3.5 millimeter to 3.5 millimeter. They are useful for different situations. There is USBC for charging and let's see which one's their transmitter. So the transmitter has a clip but you can take the clip off. It's a magnet and it's a pretty strong magnet. So you can also use it with this other one and then you can use this with clothes. So you can put this behind a piece of clothing and then actually have the clothing between and now you have
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have the microphone on someone's blouse or shirt or the lapel of their suit, whatever
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So there that Then there also a wind cover You can snap on the top which gives it that sort of traditional furry head which I think is always really cool looking And there also a little clip you can put on the top
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and that gives you different protection and a little bit more flexibility
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in terms of the things you can do with attaching it. So all of this super easy to work with
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You push and hold the power button for three seconds on both units
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They automatically pair. You can record directly off the truptych. transmitter or you can have the transmitter on the person you're trying to record, the receiver
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plugged into whatever device you're using, and you're good to go, right? So no hassles, no fuss
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So let me give you some specs. So the whole thing works on 2.4 gigahertz, which gives you up to
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225 foot range. It's pretty impressive. And it has two input modes. You can do mono or stereo
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There's seven levels of noise reduction if you're in a really loud environment. Although
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Most people will probably do that in post. That's another story. Each one has a 400 millip-a-amp hour battery, which gives you up to seven hours of use when it's just doing transmit, receive, or four hours if you're doing a recording
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So you can plug this in. As long as you have space on your little card, you can record four hours of audio with this, and it might even just be behind something, so you don't even actually see it
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That's pretty cool. And let's see, what else can I tell you about it
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So the maximum card size, they say, is 32 gigabytes, which is a little small, but experimentally, I'll tell you, I tried a 64 gig card and it seemed to work fine
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Obviously, I can't guarantee your results might be, you know, somewhat different
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And that's the whole setup. I'm pretty impressed. I think that this is all about audio quality, and that demo showed you that this gives you really good audio
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And I just was using the built-in mic on the top of this thing, really good audio
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and good range. And that's a great combination. I did have to B-Y-O-A, bring my own adapter
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And this is I don know about 10 bucks on Amazon the 3 millimeter to lightning adapter You need something similar if you have an Android phone that doesn have a 3 millimeter jack too But once you get that you now have so much more flexibility
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If you're doing vlogging or just video or TikTok or YouTube, whatever the heck you're doing
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if you want to record your audio on a device, you now are freed up from having to be really
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close to it or wired to it. And that's a pretty good deal
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All we have left to talk about is the price. But before we get to the price, I'm going to ask if you can give me the benefit of your attention by clicking on that subscribe button
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Okay. This whole setup, all of this, is the Lensgo-348C Wireless Lavalier microphone
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It comes in white or black or yellow, and it's 168.07. But as I looked, just before I did this recording
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there was a $30 discount available, making it 138.07 at amazon.com. That's a pretty darn good deal for something like this
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that's so flexible and gives you so much more of your own flexibility when you're doing any sort of audio recording
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Definitely one to check out. The case might not be to your... to your favor but it's actually super easy to work with it might be kind of cute but it is functional
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and no the record button doesn't do anything i pushed it many times trying to ascertain that
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it's just a prop otherwise really great deal really great gear definitely wanted to check out
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and i'll hope to catch you in my next video
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