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Tired of having to stay within 18" of your phone for good audio on your recordings, or dealing with complex multi-unit microphones? Then you'll ❤️ the RICHCHIP Wireless Bluetooth Microphone [model RC100]. Tech expert Dave Taylor demonstrates how it works with both iPhone and Android devices, including how to make encrypted audio recordings with the app, and shares his conclusions with you in this detailed and demo-rich video review.
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This wireless microphone will work with any Bluetooth device
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Let's check it out. Dave Taylor here and I'm checking out this
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This is the Rich Chip Wireless Bluetooth Microphone and as you can see it's really
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easy to work with. Now, I'm using my Android phone to capture this bit of video and using this wirelessly
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so you can pick up the audio component of it. And I'll take it off
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I know the audio has gone down a little bit but you can see it's really small and it
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works really well. So, let me switch back to my regular camera setup so we can actually look at it a little
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bit more safely. My Android phone did a pretty good job but this microphone was really the shining star
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Now, before we go too much further let me give you some specs
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It actually has two microphones in the unit and it works with any Bluetooth device
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It's specifically designed for Android and iPhone and I'll show you in a minute that
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the Android phone actually has an app that makes it even easier to work with and it even
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allows you to do encrypted recordings which is a pretty slick trick
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But the unit can also serve as a remote shutter so you can push the button on your paired
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device and take a picture. That's a pretty handy feature. Features noise reduction
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In fact, there's a bunch of settings but first let me give you another demo
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Let's jump outside. Hey there, so here I am up on my porch and there's no way you'd be able to hear me in
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this video unless I was using the Rich Chip clip-on microphone. But this gives me sufficient range and flexibility and you can hear the audio quality is really
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quite good. So, it's a definite win. Great, now that we've done that let me give you some other demos
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First off, let's jump onto my Android phone and I'm going to launch the Rich Chip app
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and you'll need to download this obviously. But once you have it and you have the device and you've paired it to your phone you can
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then go into settings and you can see that there are lots of different settings here
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and there's control settings where you can say when I push that button what should happen
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What I particularly like is I like I'm going to go back to microphone
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I like that I can adjust things like the noise reduction and the mic sensitivity
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Takes a little bit of practice to figure out exactly what you want to do there
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And then for system you always want to make sure you have the latest firmware and the
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latest version of their app. So, let's go back to microphone and I'm going to go ahead and clip this on
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So, now I have two microphones working. Let's see, I'll just put this here and if I tap the left button then I'm just recording
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my voice and it's just a regular audio recording. Now, I will note that you can use any audio recording and in fact since it's a Bluetooth
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device I just use the regular built-in Android camera for those video sequences
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But I want to show you this. This is the encrypted one. So, this is an encrypted audio file that I could save and that no one else could actually
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access unless they actually know the password. So, here I can enter my password to encrypt and save this audio file
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That's a pretty slick trick. I'm going to go ahead and cancel that because I don't want to do that
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And then I'll just show you that you can get a little summary of what's going on and you
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can see I'm at 100% battery level. That's pretty nice. And you can see all of your recordings and you can organize things and share them
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So, pretty basic app but actually entirely functional because that's really all you need
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So, I'm going to stop the recording. And so, I've given you demos of it at a distance
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I've given you a demo of it doing audio recording and encrypted audio recordings
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You've had a chance to hear it. So, there really is a lot to like here
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Let me grab off my lapel again. And just as a close-up here you can see there's a lapel clip to make it easy to work with
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And otherwise, there's really not a lot here. There's a USB-C charging port at the bottom and then there's that button on the top that's
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sort of a multi-function button that gives you on and off and remote shutter and lets
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you go into Bluetooth pairing mode as needed. So, one thing worth mentioning is that it comes with this pretty nice little travel
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case and in here are a lot of accessories. So, number one, it comes with two luggage tags
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Not sure why they include them, but I guess you could slip this onto it
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So, in a pinch you could, yeah, you can do that. So, you can actually have this on, I don't know, on the jacket of your ski vest or something
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or the zipper of your ski jacket or something. So, two luggage tags and then there is a wind filter
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A lot of people in the industry call these rats. And it's just sort of this furry thing that you can put over the microphone and that actually
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gives you a little bit more protection against wind noise. Helpful. And it also, in addition, includes, let's see, we have a small adapter because you can
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use this and you can monitor it. So, plug this into the USB-C on the bottom and now you have a 3.5 millimeter jack so
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you could have earbuds or headphones or, you know, otherwise you can use that as an
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audio monitor. And there's also USB-C to USB-A for, you guessed it, charging
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So, all of that comes with this unit and it makes it very portable and very easy to work with
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And it, in addition, has instructions as you would hope. So, not much else I can tell you
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I think we've gone through all the specs. It's Bluetooth 5.2. What really differentiates this is that there's no receiver required
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There's a lot of very small wireless microphones on the market, but almost all of them require
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a separate doohickey you plug into your receiving unit. This one just is just Bluetooth, which makes it a lot more flexible
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In terms of power and charge, you charge it via USB-C and you should get six to eight
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hours off of a charge. And that makes it super flexible so you can get it fully charged, hook it onto your shirt
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or your blouse, and then just walk around. And if you have someone else doing the camera or you have it on a selfie stick or something
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you're going to get really good crisp audio even if you put the phone down and you actually
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go and step 10, 15 feet away because you're going to do a bike stunt or you want to show
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a ski jump or something that you're going to do. So, very fun
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Dimensions wise, it's 2.4 inches by six tenths of an inch by six tenths of an inch
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And weight wise, it is maybe an ounce or two. It is so light that you will forget you have it on actually when you clip this onto your body
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So, it has really everything. This is really one to check out and I hope you found those demos useful
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But we need to talk about the cost or the price. And before we get there, I'm going to invite you to subscribe to my channel
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As I hope is obvious, I put a lot of effort into my reviews. I really want to show you, not just tell you
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And I really try to make it fun. So, hopefully, that's enough that you'll want to subscribe
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In which case, you can just click on that subscribe button. Give me a thumbs up if you found this particular video helpful
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And this is the Rich Chip Bluetooth Wireless Microphone and it is $79.99 at amazon.com
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And if you've been trying to stay really close to your phone or talk really loud to
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compensate for the fact that you're a little further away, this is an absolute game changer
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This will make things so much more fun and give you such better quality results that
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it's really like a night and day experience. And as for me, I think I'm going to go back onto my porch because it is so lovely out
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this morning. I'll have to catch you in my next video
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