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The Budget Pro Comica Wireless Lavalier Microphone - Tested & Reviewed
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May 30, 2025
Tired of the tyranny of a microphone wire when you're recording video and wish you had a fancy wireless microphone that worked great with your camcorder? Now you can get just that with the surprisingly affordable, pro-level Comica Wireless Lavalier Microphone. Tech expert and videographer Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ tries out the Comica Wireless Lav Mic - in rather windy conditions! - and finds it works great with his Sony HD Camcorder. Learn more at: http://amzn.to/2hKTUmb
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a wireless lavalier mic for under 200
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bucks let's check it out Dave Taylor
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here and as you can see I'm pretty far
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away but I'm using the Kimiko wireless
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lavalier microphone it's working pretty
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darn well
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so the receiver is hooked up to the
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camera and the transmitters in my pocket
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it is however super windy so I'm gonna
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switch and tell you more about it
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indoors whoo that was a lot of wind it's
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nice to be in a little calmer
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environment so let's get back to the
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kaamika wireless lavalier microphone
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because it comes in this really nice
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carrying case and everything's in here
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so let's have a look first off here we
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have the receiver and no surprise the
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other one is the transmitter and what's
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cool is they actually work across forty
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eight different UHF channels so you
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should always be able to find a
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frequency that doesn't have any
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interference and they have two different
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RF power levels so on low RF level it's
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10 milliwatts of power and on the higher
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level it's 30 milliwatts of power
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so what Kimiko recommends is that you
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use the lower power if your microphone
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and your transmitter and receiver and
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stuff we're all pretty close together
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and then only use the higher one if
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you're gonna have them further apart the
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logic being that the higher RF is
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actually going to generate more power
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needs and so your battery won't last as
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long speaking of batteries let me show
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you each is powered by two double-a
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batteries and what I have seen from a
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number of people and I agree with is
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that the batteries are a little tricky
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to put in because of the way they
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designed the little carrier but you know
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you put the batteries in and you should
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be good to go for a while I would
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recommend if it's an important job
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always carrying extra batteries because
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you never know when you might have a
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problem or if you want to be really good
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right before that big keynote speech
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from the CEO or something put in new
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batteries just one less thing to worry
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about so that's half the carrying case
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let's look at the other piece which is
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all that
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different wires oh and by the way this
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is in case you want to get the model
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number this is the cv m WM 100 and it's
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rated up to a hundred meters between the
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transmitter and receiver which is 300
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feet in a pretty long way and let's see
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what else can I tell you it's designed
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for DSLRs and other devices that take
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the little 3.5 millimeter jacks it
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doesn't work with your iPhone you need
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an adapter for that to work and it's
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kind of a drag but you can pick up an
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adapter for about 25-30 bucks so not the
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end of the world as a signal-to-noise
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ratio of greater than 65 decibels the
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UHF frequencies are between five hundred
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and twenty and five hundred and
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thirty-four megahertz transmit power as
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I said on low power it's 10 milliwatts
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on high power it's 30 milliwatts and the
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sound delay is less than 20 milliseconds
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and that's super important because you
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don't want to have a wireless system
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that puts a lot of delay in because then
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your lips are out of sync with the sound
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and that's just not really how you want
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it to work so let's see what else comes
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with this we have the receiver and the
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transmitter this is the first wire and
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this actually connects the receiver with
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the camera it's just a 3.5 millimeter on
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both ends nice short easy this is the
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more interesting one this is the
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microphone and so this is a clip-on
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lavalier mic and I have the wind shield
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on top of it which makes it look a bit
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like a Tribble you should know what a
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Tribble is right and it's easy enough I
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could actually pull the mic out of this
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if I wanted to but it's kind of fun like
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that and you just clip it on when you're
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ready and then the other end plugs into
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the transmitter and you're good to go
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but there's more they also include an
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XLR microphone adapter if you want to
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plug this into something for example
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maybe you want to use a standard studio
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microphone instead of the lav mic or
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perhaps more likely you want to hook
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this up to some sort of an amplifier cuz
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you're a rock band so rock on man you
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got XLR nice also comes with the little
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clip doodads that you can use to turn
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these into things you can easily clip
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onto
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Belt it's probably a good idea and it
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also has little tiny screw mounts that
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you can use to attach the receiver to
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any of the complicated stands you might
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be using for your camera or you can
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actually put these directly on to a
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stand because they are standard tripod
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mounts and that's about it i also carry
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spare batteries it's always a good idea
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and it all fits in this case it's all
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very nice very easy to work with and I
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really like it I mean I've tried
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different wireless lavalier microphone
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setups before and none of them really
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worked very well but this one as you saw
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in the earlier sample it's pretty good
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it's not fantastic but it's also not
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thousands of dollars like you'd see if
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you went to a concert or a live
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television performance or something I
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mean those are really expensive this is
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actually much more affordable and I know
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you're asking how affordable is it Dave
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and before I get there I just want to
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say that there's a lot of controls on
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these devices too so there's two
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connectors on the top there's the power
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switch and then there's a whole front
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display and on the transmitter it's nice
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because the front display includes a
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little bar graph that shows you as
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you're talking so you can see the
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microphones hot and it's working on the
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receiver side you can actually plug in
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headphones or earbuds or something and
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you can use it as a monitor so you can
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make sure that the whole transmission
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system is working and you're not picking
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up interference all very well designed
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now the only other thing is the price
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but before we get to the price let me
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ask click on that subscribe button if
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you don't mind
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thank you appreciate that now how much
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would you pay for this well these are
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pretty darn nice and professional gear
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at this level usually runs into the four
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digits or more but these are very
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affordable Comique has done a very nice
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job of making these accessible to even
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an amateur who just wants to experiment
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with this so in fact the whole set up
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receiver transmitter all the different
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microphones and cables the portable
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traveling case all that stuff 189
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dollars even at
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so pretty nice setup definitely a great
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entry level for this sort of device and
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with an adapter you can use it with
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probably the wide variety of smartphones
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and it certainly is going to be great
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for your DSLR if you're using that or
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for a standard camera that can handle
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the 3.5 millimeter plug on its
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microphone so this is Dave Taylor and
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I'm gonna go wireless again so I'll
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catch you in my next video
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