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is this your best choice for a new
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lavalier mic let's check it out
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Dave Taylor here and I want to talk
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about microphones today now I use a
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lavalier microphone for these recordings
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and it's some audio technica but that
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doesn't mean that's the only company
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that makes really good lav mics this is
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the kaamika lavalier microphone known as
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the CV mv0 3 and it's pretty sweet
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so it's the little clip-on mic and then
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there's a cord that gets you to the
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little power unit and then there's a
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ridiculously long cord that goes on and
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on and on and on and on it is just a
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super long cord and that gets you to the
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plug which you can then plug into a
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remarkable number of different devices
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now it turns out that there actually
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have little adapter plugs too so this
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one is the adapter so you can plug it
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into a smart phone and have it work well
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and it also comes some of you will be
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very enthused to know with this which
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actually lets you plug it into a GoPro
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so all of this is all well and good and
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it's nice to have all these options but
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let's actually test it out so first
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thing I want to do is I'm going to use
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the smartphone adapter plug it into my
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computer and make sure it's turned on
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and I'm gonna use audacity to record
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some audio on my computer through this
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microphone now it's gonna be a little
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confusing but what I'm gonna do is I'm
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actually going to splice in the audio
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from this into the video sequences so
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let me get audacity running and easy
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enough I'm just gonna hold this here as
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if I actually had it clipped to my lapel
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I don't want to interfere with my other
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microphone and this is an example of the
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audio that I'm getting directly out of
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the microphone and there's also a +10 DB
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setting so let's switch to that and now
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it's the same thing but now actually the
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microphones giving me a little 10
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and as you can hear it sounds really
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crystal clear okay now let's switch back
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and talk about this because whoops
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preferably without eating the cord in my
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computer because one of the things I
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really want to do is I really want to
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use this microphone with my video camera
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so hang on I'm gonna switch it around
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get rid of the audio technica and we'll
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live demo we'll test the coma collab mic
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with my camera so hang on and okay
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we're live with this microphone what do
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you think how do you think it sounds
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compared to my audio technica now one of
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the things I really like about the
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kaamika is I like this little control oh
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and let's go ahead and I'll put the +10
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to 10 dB now how does that sound better
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worse should be a little louder and I
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really like this control this is of
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course where the battery goes and it
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uses a nice big cr2032 so it's a widely
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available battery and it has a little
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tiny power light which is really nice to
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know is your powered microphone actually
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powering up so there's a lot to like
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with this it is a clip-on
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omnidirectional microphone like I said
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you can optionally put in a +10 DB
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adjustment it's compatible via these
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little doohickeys with smartphones and
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with GoPros and it comes with a
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windscreen that I haven't really figured
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out yet I actually think it's a teeny
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tiny little Tribble but you might not
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know what I'm talking about also comes
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with this little thingamabob that you
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can actually wrap all the cord in
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because there's a lot of cord it's a
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really long cord and then it actually
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has a little carrying case so all of
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this it's super handy it's really
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well-thought-out frequency response is
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20 to 20,000 Hertz with less than 0.3
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percent total harmonic distortion it has
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a hundred and fourteen decibel dynamic
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range so it should go from really loud
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and work perfectly well and the battery
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on this it's just a single battery it'll
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last over 200 hours of use and
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with a nice easy obvious on/off switch
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you'll know when you turn it off the
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battery's gonna last basically forever
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so this is the aam light from kaamika
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lavalier microphone CV MV 0 3 and before
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I tell you the price do me a favor and
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click on that subscribe button
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fantastic now this how much would you
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pay for this with all of this
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compatibility with all these different
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devices and everything
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it's crazy reasonable it's actually
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$23.99 at amazon.com so even if you just
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want to experiment and see how it would
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work with your iPhone or your Android
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phone or something this could be a
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really fun addition to your gear set and
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at $23.99 it's definitely not an infant
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so this is dave taylor using the new
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microphone live in this video and i'll
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catch you in the next video
