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Review on 🎀 Wireless Lavalier Microphone Lav Mic System - Sokani Tiny Twin 2X Transmitters and Receiver for Camera, Smartphones, iPhone, DSLR, Mirrorless, YouTube, Tiktok, Facebook Live Video Recording by Bud Crabtree

Revainrating 1 out of 5

Good idea, terrible product

I wanted to love this product. I checked dozens of Youtube reviews about this Rode GO alternative and bought based on them. Reviews didn't say decent or good sound quality, but that was okay. For this amount I didn't expect anything more than "good". However, I'm not sure if I just received a defective item (I don't think so) or if this is inherently awful. Like many Revain reviewers, I hear too much hissing background noise that I can't remove in one post. It's so noisy that FCPX had trouble removing it, as did other tools. remove so I don't have to touch the audio in post) and no matter how I adjusted the camera's microphone settings and receiver's transmitter audio levels - the hiss was very loud. Luckily I haven't used this in a production environment or tested it at home - but if I hadn't tried it first - it could have messed up my stuff. I had read about the hiss before - and I said ok - I think it's probably due to cheap mics, so if I plug in a quality mic (like a Rode GO) I'll be fine. But that's not the case. The hiss comes from the receiver. Sound quality, noise aside, is good for what you pay for: OK. It would do me good. So even if you can get rid of the hiss, the sound won't be very good (but better than a pistol mic or built-in mic for some purposes). Another problem is the battery life: After 15 minutes of testing, I see that 1 bar has dropped. from fee. So I think 3-4 hours of work is hard to achieve. In any case, return the product and try a slightly more expensive product before investing in Rode GO.

Pros
  • Microphones
Cons
  • Bad instructions