COMICA sent me their higher-end dual wireless lavalier mic system, the all-metal, 400 ft range CVM -WM200 . Join me and Sean Marc Nipper to see how it sounds, what kind of range we get, and how it works!
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today's show we're talking about this comic dual mic pack this allows two people to have a microphone like me and me there you go and there's a lot of really neat features about it one of the things that I really like is that I can actually go in here and switch off his mic from here [Music] Tomica is a dual microphone single receiver pack you can see the receivers got two antennas on it and we each are on a microphone there is the receiver and here is one of the transmitters that's the one off of my belt on here so you've got a couple of buttons and switches on here not a whole lot it's pretty simple interface input on the top for your microphone obviously the antenna and a belt clip on the back on there and to control it you have a power slash mute button a direction button and then a set and when I hit the set button it's going to light it up on there and you can see the commands that I've got so the first thing I can do is I can choose between a mic input level or a line input level which is kind of neat if you want to plug in say an iPhone or a iPod surfing broadcast music through one of the channels the fine option you can do that would be the line level use on there and then you have on there a low-cut filter off low or high and theRF power that's the broadcast part you notice it's set to low right now what I found with these mics is that they're in close proximity like we are here right you got to have them on low otherwise they're gonna you're gonna get some weird statics weird interference but you're not gonna get as much range so when we do our range test make sure I don't mind it yeah I gotta set that to high and then we'll make sure we get a proper you remind me I'll remind him sounds like a good plan but you're not gonna be looking at the chat oh that's not really we'll figure it out and then this is a really nice setting so muting enabled media is currently enabled which means I can push this button on the top to mute and you can see it went red and you don't hear me as well because you're only hearing me through Shawn's mic when that music I'm but you can disable that so if I don't want the talent to be able to do that I can go in here long press on the set button till it highlights and now it's able to be changed and I can disable that so now the talent can't accidentally mute themselves I think this is super powerful it's a really good feature because I know on mic packs the Sennheiser huh you got this and I switch on the top but if your talent knocks it and if they do it accidentally they're on stage and you're like I'm done or if somebody goes to the restroom and they kindly mute them which is always nice with people do that but then they forget to unmeet when they come back and then we're carrying on with our process and then we go oh my god we lost half the right when you left us yeah so you often want to take that control away from it right and I noticed this is kind of you know easy to depress and so someone could yeah knocking and not realize that they're muted right it is a little bit on the easier side oppressed not as easy however and this is one of my complaints on here is this switch on the side so you have this a B switch and what that allows you to do is make this transmitter and a transmitter or B channel transmitter it's a little too easy to hit and if I accidentally hit this I'm now on now offline I'm you're good I was acting like I was up like you know I'm still online I know it now back to a and and eventually it's gonna there we go now it's synced up and where we go so that is one complaint on that so I think if you're gonna use it in a critical situation you might want to tape that over make super star that you don't know make any mistakes in there and then let's take a look at the receivers side one nice thing on the receiver actually super nice let's do a close-up on here notice that it has upside down it is upside down well I can do that if that makes you happier that does it has an output and that's what's we're plugged into now and it has a headphone monitoring port and you might think okay well why do you need that you just plug the headphones into your camera except not all cameras that have mic inputs have headphone jacks which is one of those kind of differentiators between a more consumer grade and more professional grade camera whether it has a headphone jack on it or not yeah and this is great cuz that bypasses that need you can use this with a lower end camera and still be able to monitor your audio I remember Mike canon
like 75 bucks and able to you know that was that was my work around back then but this is nice you can it's so important to monitor when I don't monitor that's nice right no absolutely other controls that we have in here power button on the top of course so you can see now group a and Group B are both on there and you can see the audio level meters and the battery power which I really like so up here I'm seeing the battery power for the receiver and then here I see battery indicators for a and B to be able to monitor that so as the camera operator you go ooh Mike B's getting a little bit low you know that you're gonna have to swap them out when you have when you have a moment now on this pack just like with the transmitter we have an a/b switch here you also have a switch but this is an a switch of B switch or an A plus B and so that's where I was earlier where when I switch this I'm up to a that's only me now and so Shawn is now often you can see that the B channel has gone red on there so I know that he is offline I'm switch this back to a be put in the middle there and they're both gonna be on just like the other switch it's maybe a little bit easy to bump but for most cases this is gonna be mounted on your camera so it's not really not really an issue other studies you have in here so it tells you what channel it's on so we got channel 93 and channel 19 on there those are basically just presets frequency presets but this will actually do a channel scan let's just quickly run through these options in here output mode stereo now this is really really neat and this is one of the things that makes this type of a pack so useful currently it's outputting stereo which means that I'm on one channel he's on the other it's gonna put I believe that I'm on left me is on the right channel which I'm always use the joke to really bring oh do you have to get the joke yeah I got it it's the only joke I wrote we need new writers that's for you you're not hearing us in stereo now because this is connected to the XLR input which is being mushed into a mono signal for this broadcast however we are going to do two other demos with this where you will see us in stereo and then here is some stair and Osuna some stereo so is really we're I can that way if I don't but you'll experience that so we will we do have that capability but if that's not what you want if you don't want to want two separate channels you can go in here and switch this over from stereo to mono so the case for that would be let's say that I'm doing a live broadcast I don't want the live broadcast like this right now you wouldn't want to be hearing me I don't want channel him on the other that would be weird for the live show however if you're recording the show then you really do want to have them on separate channels because that would allow you to mix those levels independently and so what'll happen is your camera will record one mic on the left channel one mic on the right channel and then that allow you to do that mixing in post a but again while watching live you'd have in one ear in the other that would be we have the option which is really great now here's where this menu gets a little bit kind of funky just as setting Group a and as I go through the next few options is group a setting for volume group a setting for the Auto scan so I can scan frequencies group a setting for sync you keep going you go away what happened to be setting so what you have to do is you have to go back to the setting for group a hold this down and go okay change that to group B and now I have Group B options in here Bhuvana change a I have to go here change this to a and now go through it's a little bit clunky and weird but you know it works here you've got your individual volume control so each mic is controlled on its volume levels from the receiver the transmitters do not have a volume control so the only volume control you have on the transmitter is mic position and then telling people to speak up I actually like that because messing around with the Sennheiser where you've got output DB and you've got you know incoming DB and trying to match that and we've had that channel we have a vengeance so having it in one place and I also like the fact that it's increments of one two three four instead of minus 3 dB another minus 3 DB on it's kind of a simpler yeah this is kind of weird if you're not an audio professional you see something that's broadcasting at minus 60 B you're like what wait what - that doesn't what yeah it's ok I'll give you that I think that's kind of cool and then as already said you can scan for the frequency scan for available frequencies and then it will automatically sync by pointing with each other and pushing the sync button this does come with a nice little case love little of the case open that up there oh you've got this case and part of what's in there is the clip to turn this thing from a belt mounted clip on to a camera that's probably super hard to get on there though right it's like a leading question so I wouldn't normally I wouldn't demo something like this except it's actually really really good so if you have ever worked with the SennheiserPAC before you know that when you attach this thing getting it back off again it requires like tools gloves and band-aids it is not an easy thing but what this is I'm just actually super impressed at this I'm just gonna slide this guy under here so you know a little wiggle in and get it in place there there we go snap snap there just now it snapped into place so now like you would expect on any kind of on camera mic you've got a cold shoe adapter other than just plug that in walk it down where you go but now to get it off watch this just push and slide out and that's it it's actually really easy I know like seriously Sennheiser you're watching take note cuz this is easy yeah you should be kinda sucks I think our next step is to connect us thing to the iPhone now if you watched the video that I did last week and if you haven't won't link to it at the end this is a new cable from a company called Sarah Manik that allows you to connect basically any microphone to your smartphone this is the Lightning version there's a USBC version as well and in that video I talked about how one of the features / problems because it can be a problem depending on your mic setup is that this is stereo most cables like this are dual mono this is actually stereo and on most microphone packs it makes no difference on the Sennheiser it can actually be a challenge again watch that video to understand why but in this case it's actually an advantage so what I'm going to do now is connect this mic cable into this mic pack and plug it into my iPhone which means I have to pull this off line [Music] [Music] we're looking at filmic Pro my iPhone and going to the options here and audio and there it is it's set to the LC 35 so that's good there's me on the left channel and there's me on the right channel so you can always right I got the oh look alright one more time today oh yeah I got sure maybe twice so in this case in the iPhone you would have that dual channel recording which is great for recording not so good for going live for a situation like this but if that's your setup then that would actually be very very handy the final thing we're gonna do is an actual range test and for that we're going to use the Lumix s1 it's hooked up to my wireless pack on there and I'm going to just take your standard camera cable that also comes with this and plug it into there [Music] [Music] and you should be hearing us now left and right channels separately let's go we're gonna set up in the street out here go-go boy here there we go and yeah this is a beautiful white van I wouldn't mind having one of those for something a new idea what he's talking about at this point I hear me now sir yeah we're guns up oh yeah yeah we're getting the thump OH excellent this is this is impressive it is impressive some precipices beautiful Cadillac ok now we're starting strong right okay yep now he's starting to drop how about now didn't hear me alright he's given me the wave that I am too far away we go okay so he's coming back I think that's actually pretty good well there you go was I talking over you the whole time yeah pretty much but that's okay because it was about you not about me Thanks finally yeah hey bets didn't work out pretty well you got all the way down to that quarry gonna have to measure the distance I thought we'd just take that drone and just like see how far the drone is away if I was gonna give you my ruler and ask you to go out there and flip it over 400 times one foot at a time what do you think that range was dented uh well that's probably what a good hundred feet I've had to be more than - I don't know I can't gauge that stuff okay isn't there an app you can just like probably whatever get up yeah we'll figure it out so that was far we don't know how far but we'll put that in this room right here but this wouldn't be the edited version right when I do that yeah it'll show okay Wow hey that was kind of cool that was fun thanks for helping out absolutely I'm friend did you bring anything to drink today uh not yet but I haven't had a chance to make it over the bubbly I well I'm gonna bring you something special oh yeah yeah I was talking about the Burnside whiskey but there's actually something else I want to get you yeah that is gonna be pretty phenomenal well know what it is we don't know no key okay price all right bring on the show we'll open it here I like that 9:00 a.m. we will do an evening show I'd probably be able I mean it's it's mine somewhere yeah that's right there's always that alright folks thanks for tuning in we're gonna jump into the Q&A right now if you're watching live stick around for not watchin live it's gonna appear all right here I'll momentarily [Music]
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