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Ready to upgrade to an easy-to-use wireless lavalier microphone, but still have gear that uses a Lightning connector? Moudou has you covered with the new E1 Wireless Lightning Microphone Kit. Two clip-on mics and a tiny receiver that you can use either with a Lightning device or a USB-C device, and it sounds terrific. Tech expert Dave Taylor offers up all the key details and an informative demo both!
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this tiny clip-on microphone will give
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you better sound with any device let's
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check it
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out dave Taylor here and I want to talk
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about wireless microphones again i keep
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talking about these and testing these
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out because it's such a revolution for
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audio and so many of us are now
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producing content and we want to have
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good audio and be a have people be able
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to understand what we're saying and have
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really good clarity of if we're singing
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or playing music or we're out and about
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and we want to catch ourselves doing a
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stunt on our bike or skateboard or
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something enter little wireless lav mics
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and the secret of this one is this
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little device what I'm looking at today
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is the Mao E1 wireless lavalier
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microphone set and I say set because it
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comes with the receiver and it comes
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with two clip-on transmitters and
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they're super easy to work with there's
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literally a single button on them so the
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amount of fuss and hassle is absolutely
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minimized and what you'll notice is that
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the receiver unit is actually lightning
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so it's a lightning connector but do not
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despair if you're poised in the near
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future to go from lightning to USBC
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because you're upgrading your device
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because in all the other stuff they
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include somewhere in here see if we can
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get that last piece out there we go so
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in all of this they actually include the
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tiniest little USBC adapter so you can
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plug this into the lightning connector
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and now use it as a USB receiver so USBC
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I should say and so it gives you a lot
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of portability and flexibility now
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because the base is lightning this is
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definitely one that I recommend for
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people with older Apple devices and the
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very very latest generation and they've
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all moved to USBC but you might be like
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me and have an iPad and my iPad has you
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guessed it a lightning connector so this
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is super easy to work with all you do is
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plug it in and interestingly it does
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have an orientation so plug it in so
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that the light is facing you and then
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you can see the little green light is
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flashing at the bottom which means it's
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ready to pair with one of these remote
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devices and I push and hold on it to
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actually turn on the microphone and now
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the green has gone solid which means
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that it's ready to go so all I have to
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do now is clip this somewhere on my body
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and the way these work is they're
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transmitting through 2.4 4 GHz and it
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gives you about 130 foot range so you
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can be pretty far away and talking all
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the way as you come towards your camera
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totally no problem and I want to say the
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charging case is a bit big but it is
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really helpful because these have a 6 to
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7 hour life on their batteries but if
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you put it in to charge you'll actually
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get a couple more charges which gives
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you a total running time of about 30
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hours
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as I said it is a lightning connector
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with a USBC adapter and comes with two
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microphones and the microphones you can
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see here in this shot have one button on
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the side and that button also lets you
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enable environmental noise cancelling so
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if you're in a noisy environment once
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you have it paired and you can see that
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your light on your receiver is solid so
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once you have that paired you can
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literally just push a button slowly and
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then this little green light just turned
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blue so now I have noise cancelling on
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really helpful but what I want to do is
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give you a quick demo so I took my iPad
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upstairs and went into my kitchen and
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here's my quick demo i'm in my kitchen
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and about 15 ft away from my iPad and
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you're hearing me crystal clear because
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I'm using this microphone so it gives me
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a lot more range than this but then I
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just get smaller and smaller right so
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the important thing is because it's
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wireless it gives me complete freedom of
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motion which is great so I could easily
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set up my iPad or phone or whatever
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device I want use this and then do for
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example some meal prep so I could do my
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own food blog anyway let me jump back on
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my main camera one of the things you
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noticed in that demo is that there's no
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latency so there actually is latency but
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it's less than 25 milliseconds because
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there is some time that's required for
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it to encode your voice send it to the
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receiver and then feed that into the
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device but 25 milliseconds is really
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undetectable i think you experience that
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all the time and you don't even notice
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so I had absolutely no issues everything
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seemed very much in sync as you heard
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the audio quality was really nice my
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kitchen's a little echoey you probably
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heard a little bit of that but this did
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a really nice job and one of the things
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I like about their design is that there
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aren't any logos or graphics so it's
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very neutral and I think that if you're
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in a more professional setting you don't
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want people zooming in and saying "What
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brand is that?" You want to have them
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focus on you what you're saying and what
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you're doing and I will also add that it
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does come with two different styles of
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wind screens these I haven't taken out
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of their bag yet but
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um they do open up and they do come out
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and these are the ones everyone really
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likes so they're the big fuzzy
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ones and you can just snap that on the
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top of the
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device like that and the idea well if I
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put it on correctly the idea is that if
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you're in a windy environment you have
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that environmental noise cancelling
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feature which you can enable but you can
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also put one of these on and it will
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absorb some of the wind sound rather
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than it being on the microphone and I'll
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tell you I do record in windy
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environments and it's really kind of
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annoying sometimes I have to just throw
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away all of my audio because it's just
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there's so much wind background not
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great so let me tell you that the
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charging case also has a little tiny
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display on the front that shows you the
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current charge level and when you're
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charging it it will actually just flash
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slowly and actually give you the current
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charge so I'm at Let's see when I open
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and close it i did before let's try
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again i'm at 69% so that's pretty good
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so I'll probably plug it in and the USBC
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for charging is on the very bottom so it
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charges with USBC but the receiver by
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default is using lightning so there you
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go we're again at that transitional
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point with Apple products and I don't
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think anyone other than Apple uses that
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lightning connector and frankly as I
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said Apple's moving away from it too
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which is cool this is just sort of how
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things go so dimensions wise 4.4 in x
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4.2 2 in by 1.5 in and you know I don't
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think those dimensions are correct
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because this is wider than it is tall
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but in any case you can get a sense of
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the size it is 7 oz when I put both of
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the microphones in and I put the
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receiving unit in and close it this is
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all I need to be on the road and rocking
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and rolling and you know out and doing
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my thing with really good audio on a
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wireless basis and of course I've been
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talking about taking like an iPad or an
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older iPhone out but you can use this
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with other devices too and in other
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situations if you have a lightning
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connector or you use the adapter so you
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have USBC then you could use it with a
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computer and be on a Zoom call so so
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many options and I think they've done a
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really nice job with all the engineering
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comes with a little tiny booklet so it
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is ready to go the biggest thing I would
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say is question whether you need
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lightning because that's the base
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connection here and if you do need a
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lightning connector device and you're
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willing to use the adapter when you need
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it then this is a really solid option
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and I think the sound is really good and
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of course the range is terrific so
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that's what I got i am going to ask you
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and if you found this of value I always
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appreciate a thumbs up great this whole
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setup is the Modu E1 wireless lavalier
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microphone set and remember that's two
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transmitters two microphones so you and
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your buddy can be out doing crazy things
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while you're recording yourselves cuz
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you only need one receiver so you're
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recording yourself and you and your
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buddy are out doing that with the two
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mics and it's just going to blend it and
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merge it perfectly so really nice it is
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let me give you the product name again
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the Modu E1 wireless lavalier microphone
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set and it is
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$45.99 at amazon.com if you're looking
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for a lightning connector wireless
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microphone setup this is a solid option
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it's what I got think I need to go back
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to my kitchen and actually go and maybe
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do a little bit more cleanup but it's
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what I got hope to catch you in my next
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video hey
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everybody
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