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iRig MicLav Mobile Lavalier Microphone Review
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May 30, 2025
I demonstrate and review the slick new iRig MicLav lavalier microphone that's compatible with both iPhone and Android, talking about why it's great for vloggers and videographers who travel or head outdoors. Includes sample footage so you can hear its quality too, from IK Multimedia. Review by Dave Taylor of http://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/
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hi Dave Taylor here again and this time
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I'm shooting in my kitchen and it's
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maybe a little cleaner and than normal
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but you know we'll roll with that
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because like everyone else that does
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video I shoot in all sorts of improbable
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places so that's why having a really
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good mobile rig is really important and
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you can see I have this little no-name
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tripod that I just get to smack my phone
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into and works really well it's super
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light super portable and that's not what
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we're talking about though cuz the
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challenge is to get good audio and
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that's where the iRig Mik laughs I guess
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that's how you pronounce it turns out to
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be really cool it's this device so what
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it is is it's a wired lavalier
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microphone for your iOS device turns out
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it also works for Android devices so
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it's super helpful and basically all you
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have to do is you plug it in and let me
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undo some of the wires here so we get
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some length here but you basically plug
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it into whatever device you have
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smartphone tablet whatever and you're
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going to get significantly better audio
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quality than if you were just using the
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built-in mic so for example here I am
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and it comes with a handy little clip
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which is definitely useful and I can
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just go ahead and clip it on to my shirt
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a second here so I'll do it the easy way
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and I can just go ahead and clip it onto
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my shirt and now when I do a video then
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I'm gonna get much better quality audio
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out of it and it's a really really nice
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little device because one of the things
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it does and let me just show you this is
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it has this little switch box alright
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and there's a little switch on the top I
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know it's kind of far away but what it
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does is it lets you hook two of these
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microphones up so you can daisy chain
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them and you can use it for an interview
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that's really nice now if you don't want
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to do that you can also use that as a
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headphone jack so you can actually
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monitor what you're recording and if
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you're in the field and you're doing
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audio you know that it's really
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important to get that little monitor
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going on to make sure everything's
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hooked up right and working right now it
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comes with the omnidirectional little
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mic and it's a condenser mic and it has
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32 16 thousand Hertz and that's a really
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nice that's a fly can you believe it if
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those of you that record video this is
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such a great example there is a fly
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bugging me as I'm making this video so
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if you're seeing me like gesture and
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stuff that's what's going on but this
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mic actually is 30 Hertz to 16 kilohertz
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which is a nice dynamic range which
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means it's going to do a nice job of
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picking up things like music or singing
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in addition to just regular vocals comes
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with a mounting clip works with Android
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and iOS but you know what
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that's all talk let's cut to me showing
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you a recording that I did using this
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stand my iPhone 6s and the iRig mik live
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Nick laughs lavell ear microphone so
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let's switch over so high again this
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time I'm recording on my iPhone 6s using
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the iRig Mick lav and this is on the
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selfie side of my phone so this is the
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smaller resolution camera but the point
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being that this makes it really easy and
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super portable for me to be able to get
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decent video with audio recordings off
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of my own iPhone and of course you could
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do the same thing on your Android phone
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too cool huh so what do you think I
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think the results are pretty darn nice
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and considering that all of that
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represents a very small investment on my
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part and is very very transportable even
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if I'm backpacking you know you really
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have in your hands now the ability to
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produce very good video and the most
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important thing so the mick lab is 49.99
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so it's also a very well priced
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reasonably priced product too so it's
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really just such a huge win
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and $49.99 you can pick it up at Ike a
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multimedia comm it's the company that
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makes these I came multimedia and you
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can also find it elsewhere online of
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course so this is Dave Taylor and I need
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to go fly hunting cuz it's still bugging
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me and I hope you will check out this
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product from Ike a multimedia and see
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you in my next video