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a lavalier mic that plugs straight into
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your computer let's check this one out
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Dave Taylor here again and this time I'm
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looking at computer audio now your Mac
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or PC has a built-in microphone just
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like it has a built-in webcam and that
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works fine for something like Skype and
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I sometimes record mp3s and that works
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for that too but it's not great audio
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quality and you typically get a lot of
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echo not so good especially if you're
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trying to make a really good
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professional impression so enter
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third-party microphones and that's what
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this is this is a USB USB lavalier
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microphone from a company called 15a
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tech or five fine I'm not sure how you
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pronounce their name but you can see it
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written there and you can decide for
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yourself anyway I'm gonna call it for
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Feeny cuz it sounds exotic so this is
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the k05 three and it is a lavalier
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microphone that just plugs straight into
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your computer with a USB 3.0 sort of
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connection super-easy works with Mac's
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works with pcs if you have a USB see
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only you'll need an adapter it'll work
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with that so it's just a little bit of a
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drag to need the adapter not a crisis
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but of course the real question is what
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does it sound like so to find out I
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actually plugged it into my macbook and
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checked it out with audacity so let's
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switch to some of that footage for the
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demo we're gonna use something called
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audacity it's a free piece of software
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that makes it really easy to work with
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audio files here you can see I've chosen
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the built-in microphone and I've gone
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ahead and specified that I want a stereo
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recording now it's as easy as recording
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this example of using the built-in
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microphone on the Apple Macintosh now
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let's do the same thing using the USB
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lav mic and then you'll be able to hear
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the difference the second example we're
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gonna go ahead and use the USB lav
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microphone now you'll notice in audacity
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of chosen it but it only records in mono
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so that's something definitely worth
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knowing but let's go ahead and record it
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and hear what it sounds like
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so this is a second audio example and
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this time I'm using the fine Tec USB lav
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microphone hopefully you can hear a
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significant difference so not too bad
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actually let's go ahead and take this
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back off so I can talk about it a little
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bit but it's really significantly better
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audio quality than just using the
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built-in microphone on the computer and
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that's really nice now there are some
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trade-offs number one it's pretty big
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even compared to the lavalier mic that I
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use for my videos this is a big
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microphone head so some people have said
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that it makes them look a little amateur
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I would suggest to them they think of
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darker clothing so that it blends in
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right so that's easily solved the other
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issue that might be more important is
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that there is no on/off and there's an
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audio out but it's a little tricky to
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figure out how to use it so for example
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on the Mac just plugging something into
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this doesn't mean that becomes the audio
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out so you'll have to go into your
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settings on a PC you have similar issues
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and on a PC read the instructions very
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closely because you always want to
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install a driver before the first time
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you plug in a new device but you
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probably already know that so no worries
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but it is pretty straightforward and
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easy to use and they say it has a
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frequency response of fifty to sixteen
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thousand Hertz which is pretty good
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that'll work good for singing for
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playing guitar if you want to do your
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oboe solo and practice it you can use
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this well I guess you can clip the
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microphone get a little lower down for
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your oboe you figure that one out also
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has a windscreen so if you want to use
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this outside though I'm not sure how
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that would work because frankly if
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you're outside you're probably not using
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your computer you're using something
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else for your audio recording the
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company says there's a little tiny sound
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card in here and there's obviously some
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sort of signal processing going on
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because the outputs pretty clean so
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that's good to know particularly on a PC
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on the like a PC laptop this will work
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very easily and you just plug this in
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and rock-and-roll has a two foot
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I'm sorry two meter or six foot cable
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which is a nice long distance so you can
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plug it in and then you know since it's
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a good microphone you don't have to have
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right here you can actually even like I
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could plug it down here or something and
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if you read some of the reviews people
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talk about having this literally just
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clipped to their television or something
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just to give them better audio input
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worth experimenting if that's what you
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need now only thing left is the price
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but hold on before we get there let me
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now the 15 a tech USB lav mic also known
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as k05 3 will set you back this is
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staggering $17.99 on amazon.com $17.99
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for 18 bucks you can have a significant
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boost in your audio quality for whatever
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you're doing that's using something that
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has a USB input whether it's a Mac or PC
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or there are even some Android devices
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that have the USB worth checking out and
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this is dave taylor and i'll catch you
