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Sound, Lights and Video
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Добавлен 5 мар 2022
Eventually the channel will feature help videos about Sound, lighting and video, but we're concentrating on audio to get started. Based in Lowestoft, on the east cost of the UK -we do music and events.
Episode 141 - Shure NEXADYNE NXN8/S or the Beta 58?
The Nexadyne mics are designed to be an upgrade from the cardioid SM58 and the Supercardioid Beta 58 - but are they really worth nearly three times the price? I like the sound, but am struggling with the price. I figured I'd test them on a few more unusual sound sources - typical of live sound work. How about soprano sax, a clarinet and acoustic guitar. I even tested putting them on less ideal positions on the sax and clarinet to see how they compare?
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Episode 140 - New fake Shures on Amazon and Ebay - Counterfeits - but good ones
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We've seen good and terrible SM57's and 58's - and recently a Beta 58 that was very close, but I have seen loads of Beta 87A mics now on Ebay and Amazon. I ordered one to see, and I'm finding it difficult to tell real and fake apart. They sound pretty good, but there ARE a few small differences to help you identify them.
APX 8000 - JMTech or HamGeek
Просмотров 893Месяц назад
This radio seems to have been reviewed very negatively, so intrigued, I bought a couple to play with, and I like them! No idea what people hated som much? Theyre odd looking but with some neat features!
Episode 139 - Beyer M58 and MCE58 Reporter Omni Microphones
Просмотров 72Месяц назад
The Dynamic M58 I first bought around 1994 when I changed jobs and it's been useful ever since. A chance to comp0are with it's condenser 'brothyer, the MCE58 - which is no longer available.
Episode 138 - Wireless microphones. Are cables really better?
Просмотров 592 месяца назад
I mentioned that the most expensive wireless system is nearly as good as a ten pound XLR-XLR cable. I got an email asking me to explain? I put Sennheiser 865 wireless version up against the cable version. I think there is a difference. What do you think?
Episode 137 - A fake Shure GLXD4 'Digital' Wireless Mic system with TWO mics!
Просмотров 1,9 тыс.2 месяца назад
Well - if you want a two mic system for less than 40 quid, is this worth looking at? It is NOT diversity and it is NOT digital, and of course it is NOT Shure, but could you get away with it? I think it's unlikely. It doesn't sound very good, operates on the 620-670MHz band - so NOT legal for the UK, and as it is not diversity, it splutters and pops and cracks as you move away from the receiver....
Episode 136 - Chinese Headphone 'Amplifier' that isn't!
Просмотров 1012 месяца назад
Described as a headphone amp, I thought I had a Behringer P2 for £10 - a bargain. Sadly, it isn't an amp at all, has no internal power supply and is just an in-line volume control! That said, it's quite a nice one, and probably worth the money.
Episode 135 - Audio Technica AT2022 Stereo Microphone
Просмотров 962 месяца назад
A really nice X/Y stereo mic, but often found for sale faulty - but they are NOT! It just connects a little differently than people expect. Plug one into a standard mic cable and things don't impress - they come with an easy to lose Y splitter, that can be made with just two male plugs and one 3 pin female.
Episode 134 - Warning New fake/counterfeit Chinese Microphones - Beta 58
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Most people know that the vast amount of Shure SM57 and SM58 mics on EBAY and Amazon are fakes, but until now I had never seen a fake Beta 58. It was cheap (less than 20 pounds) and it's very, very hard to tell the difference - but I found a few give aways. Watch the video and you can check if you have a fake or not.
Episode 133 - Audix OM2 Dynamic Hyper-cardioid Microphone
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The OM2 is a totally new mi9c to me, and I am impressed. I had no idea if it would be dreadful, boring or just different, but I quite like it!
Episode 132 - A £6 audio interface! Good? No - Truly Dire!
Просмотров 783 месяца назад
A throw away purchase with no real use at all. £6 but line level optimised, on XLR input, but it says suitable for dynamic mics? Is it? No - frankly it's just not!
Episode 131 - 8 different hand-held mics
Просмотров 773 месяца назад
A sort of challenge - 8 well known hand held mics. Is there a 'best' or a 'worst'. Do not get too excited, it's a blind test with the identification at the end. I could not tell which was which from the audio, so have a go.Warning! This is 20 minutes of your life you will not get back! Mics include Shure, SM58, Beta 58, SM86 and a Beyer M69, plus Sennheiser 835, 855, 865 and 945. Can you tell w...
Episode 130 -Chinese £20 podcast/Youtube Microphone
Просмотров 863 месяца назад
Another very cheap Chinese mic, and again, a really great one if you have little money. Dynamic, similar to SM7B design but a little smaller. It's a really great performer considering how cheap it is!
Episode 129 - Another Chinese TLM-103 but not a bad one?
Просмотров 2063 месяца назад
I saw this TLM-103, but it doesn't say Neumann or 'TLM' - so is £20 for a condenser mic worth even looking at? Oddly, yes - I think it is! It's fake, as in a look-alike, but it is NOT counterfeit - so quite legitimate. The advert is just wrong, of course. NOt Super-Cardioid, NOT 26mm, but it works fine! Even stuck it up on a soprano sax with a real 103 - that's not an easy test - but it manages...
Episode 128 - Do you really need am in-line microphone pre-amp?
Просмотров 803 месяца назад
The 'Rule' is that with low output mics like SM7Bs and similar, your pre-amp will run out of noise free gain, so an in-line pre-amp is essential. I thought so too, and collected a couple of cheapies to test. I scrapped video 1 because my presonus preamp with no extra pre-amp in the cable worked fine? I tried again, this time with a Zoom H6, and while there is a difference, it is much smaller th...
Episode 127 - Fake Sennheiser e865s Microphones watch out!
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Episode 127 - Fake Sennheiser e865s Microphones watch out!
Episode 126 - Can you get away with a very cheap interface and dynamic microphone?
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Episode 126 - Can you get away with a very cheap interface and dynamic microphone?
Chuckle Brothers - 2012 Britannia Pier Theatre Great Yarmouth
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Chuckle Brothers - 2012 Britannia Pier Theatre Great Yarmouth
Episode 125 - Hearing loss through age or damage. How it impacts your mixes
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Episode 125 - Hearing loss through age or damage. How it impacts your mixes
Episode 124 - A Chinese Neumann BCM104 Microphone
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Episode 124 - A Chinese Neumann BCM104 Microphone
Episode 123 - Studio Adjustable Mic Arm - Gravity TBA 01
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Episode 123 - Studio Adjustable Mic Arm - Gravity TBA 01
Episode 122 - A really horrible fake Shure 545
Просмотров 855 месяцев назад
Episode 122 - A really horrible fake Shure 545
Episode 121 - Microphones for BBC Radio - What are they using?
Просмотров 4965 месяцев назад
Episode 121 - Microphones for BBC Radio - What are they using?
Episode 120 - How good or bad are the different analogue and digital formats?
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Episode 120 - How good or bad are the different analogue and digital formats?
Episode 119 - 5 AKG Microphones - D202, D222, D190, SE300, C451
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Episode 119 - 5 AKG Microphones - D202, D222, D190, SE300, C451
Episode 118 - 4 Beyer Microphones - MCE90, M201, M69 & M300
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Episode 118 - 4 Beyer Microphones - MCE90, M201, M69 & M300
Episode 117 - Video Studio Gear - Vinten Dolphin Jib and other things
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Episode 117 - Video Studio Gear - Vinten Dolphin Jib and other things
Episode 116 - Beyer MCE90 Condenser Microphone
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Episode 116 - Beyer MCE90 Condenser Microphone
Episode 115 - Neumann BCM705 Microphone
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Episode 115 - Neumann BCM705 Microphone
Episode 76 - Neumann BCM104 vs Shure SM7B (re-uploaded)
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Episode 76 - Neumann BCM104 vs Shure SM7B (re-uploaded)
How hard is it to program? Im used to chrip
They're pretty straightforward for a fairly simple dual bander
The serial numbers are the counterfits will be repeated as well and not unique, the fake one I got has the same serial number as the one I just recieved nearly a year later
I made my living playing a pedal steel guitar for 45 years and know most of the people that play them and I can tell you most don't know anything about theory and I never used it for pedal steel even though I have a college degree in music but my school instrument was the piano. They and myself mainly learn by all the tricks pedals and knee levers do. They identify chords and notes by what they hear often imitating what they have heard like you said. There is so much going on at once that if you have to think about it you're way behind in the song. The best pedal steel players are on automatic. They don't even think about the music while playing. They can carry on a conversation while playing. Paul Franklin calls it muscle memory. I call it just doing what a country boy like me does best. Lol! It's pretty much all I've ever done besides being a recording engineer. Keep pickin'!
at4033 vs wa-14?
It appears you have a C3000b, not a C3000.
Hardly a fair comparison with the buzz in the background. You should have scrapped it and repeated the test.
sorry about that - I should have noticed!
Nice singer but not even close to Karen
my beta 58A looks different, mine are matte grille and slightly different shape on the grille. Also, my beta58a's have much less handling noise. are you sure your beta58a is not a fake?
I took great care with the recent comparison I did with the fake one, and made sure to mark the fake I bought? Have you seen that video, there's a close up of the insides of the one I've had for a while vs the fake? All the Beta 58's I have are circa 2019, or possibly 18? I'd be interested in seeing yours? that could be useful? I think mine came from Thomann - but 4/5 yrs is stretching the memory.
You are very, very skilled. One thing I noticed was you seem to use some very undercooked monitor speakers - are they the desktop Bose ones with a single "twiddler" cone of about 2.75 inches? If so, I'm kind of puzzled; they are very good compared to basic 2.0 desktop speakers - but just by their nature cramped in the bass. I'm just surprised I guess that you don't seem to be using even a modest pair of "near field" monitors.
There are usually a pair of adam 7’s. The video was done in a transition time and in later videos you can see the Adam’s. From memory the d as pace other side the big screen actually had a pair of 12”/1” pa speakers as the project before would be using them. That studio is really the video studio. The audio recordings are normally in the other studio which does change if I can avoid it. Sorry to confuse
Hello, can you tell me the weight of the fake microphone???tanks
235 grams - the real ones are a tiny bit more.
ok..thanks....Thank God..mine is real
Many people are buying these mics from aliexpress than putting them in the boxes with another purchase from amazon or other sites who will not go check the mics inside when they return them. What is happening is these returns are then repurchased again by legitimate buyers who are getting duped. Amazon and other sites need to start checking these returns to see if someone swapped the mics with the cheaper aliexpress ones. Watch out for these!!!
The other thing that irritates me about this radio is it has a USB C charge port on the battery, Except it doesn’t charge with a standard USB C charger! Only charges with the supplied charger! Stupid stupid stupid!! Come on people! Get it together
I vastly prefer this AKG to the Shure for video podcast...I hate the warmth of thr SM7b
I was wondering about the different shades.
Biggest firmware bug on these radios is scan operation. The PL detect takes a quarter to half second to decode the programmed PL and unmute. Problem is the radio scan stop delay doesn’t hold the radio on channel that’s receiving long enough to correctly decode the PL and unmute the audio thus stopping the scan until the carrier drops for a few seconds. You must use csq receive for any channels you want to scan. Also doesn’t seem to allow simultaneous upper/lower band receive as most other radios of this type do. Otherwise not a bad radio, if these issues are fixed it’ll be a decent radio for the price.
Thanks for this. I will check and report back. P
I had a phone call from a fella who just bought one and he thinks like me, it's actually a really great radio and we are both amazed at the crazy negative points. He also pointed out they are very sensitive and that makes them even more useful.
Its certainly a interesting radio
This content is golden
Razlika se najvise vidi kqda se pjeva glasno. Tu original dodje do svoje moci jer ima ljepsi ton i lakse pjevati
Sounds like what Monoprice does. High end company has product made in China, once tooled up to make it and original order filled “fakes” are made.
IMHO in terms of best sound to worst: REAL 57 > Hybrid 57 > thomann 57 > Chinese 57 (AVOID) Thomann - Slightly higher Noise floor Hybrid - Sounds very clean in terms of noise. Apart from having the higher output vol it sounds pretty good Cheap Chinese 57 - is the WORST. No thank you. Sounds like crap.
Do you have a copy of the full show?
I'm sorry, but this was all I found from the GoPro - I did have it all, but no idea now where it could be. Sorry.
Did the Behringer fare well on your Mac once you hooked it up and is your Mac running Apple Silicon (M1 or higher processor)?
The latest Mac is a decent spec mini Mac - and it is seamless - I have discovered one small annoyance. Cubase keeps forgetting it! Every time, no matter what boxes I tick in various menus, the INPUTs auto connect to the Behringer, but I have to manually set the outputs to it - every time. No idea what has changed, but I suspect it's not the interface - as adobe audition AND Steinberg Spectral Layers pick it up automatically, but Cubase Pro 13 is resisting me! I really like it. In any meaningful test, if it sounds different from the old Presonus and Tascam before it, I cannot hear it!
@@pauljohnson4590 good info, thank you. Price just dropped to $189 on it so I’m going to cop it.
like night and day...
can i ask a question? at what frequency was the 45° shift? Will you please tell us the real delay (in samples) between your ribbon and condenser mics?
I'll revisit the original files and report back when I can access them.
The "something unexpected" happening at the end of the video should have been the _first_ thing to be checked, since notoriously most of the fake SM57 come in transformerless version. And moreover, I don't know how reliable is the test of a mic capsule, however cheap it may be, that has been subjected to phantom power for an extended period of time...
Interesting phantom power on mic circuits has never been a problem I have experience since my first BBC interview in the 70s - loads of circuits with permanent phantom. Certainly with modern designs, even the transformer less ones, it's never been an issue?
Not dad yall
Do you have a link to the software? Can’t seem to find it anywhere.
When you google you find the one being sold at a modest price which has better facilities - worth the price.
I am really worried for Shure. Their flagship products are being extremely aggressively counterfeited, and the counterfeits distribution is very broad and effective.
I don't hear a difference
So many reflections in that room I can hardly tell where the bass stops and the room starts.
Fakes, are you shure?
I see what you did there!! 😂
Is this considered fake because Shure didn't sell it or because Shure didn't make it? We've had a lot of cases of "fakes" lately where its just a case of the factory who makes a product selling it directly to the consumer
I have experience of that but here it seems the capsule has identical capsule but different wire colours? Only a guess but I wonder if Shure source the capsule from an OEM source and they just made a pile more with enough difference to be 'not' Shure? Would different colours be enough? I think I have detected another small difference in the threads the basket screws onto. Slightly less turns? The fake one needs about one turn less from where the thread begins?
It is a counterfeit the instant it says Shure on the product while not being sold by Shure. I also don’t think Shure manufactures in Asia (I believe only US, Mexico, and Germany), so this wouldn’t be an OEM going rogue.
@@ThemFuzzyMonsters not quite. Tesco sold jeans made by wrangler but they bought them diverted from another country. Technically that makes them a grey import, but genuine. If you build something from spare, genuine parts is that a genuine product?
The fake one has horrible handling noise and electronic interference as well as a more tinny sound
Are those Chinese interfaces durable? I got a LokChonk recently, it works pretty well, but Im afraid that it will stop working in some months... Just a question that i have, do you still have your interface? Its working well nowadays?
As it happens, unlike most of the things I review, which just get put on a shelf, this is in daily use. I changed the video studio a bit since then and added a new editing PC, and this interface was sitting there, so I used it. The computer, when not on still supplies power to the interface, so it has been on 24/7 for months and works perfectly. In fact as I am using it to bring in two channels and output two channels, I forget it's actually doing something. My experience with Chinese gear is failures tend to be dead on arrival, or heat related, as in lighting power supplies and LED drivers. Audio interfaces are such low current devices, if they work, they stay working.
Darn good fake
I bet loads are out there with unaware owners - The difficult bit is the castle, and it is identical as far as I can see, and the mounting I just can't see a difference.
I don’t think there is a “good” fake. 😅
I prodded one of the rubber mounts too hard ns it split but a dab of ca glue was fine
Ex BBC Sound Recordist here, one of the current scams affects the security of Kit when on Location. Neumann U87s swapped out for poor copies whilst in secure Hotel locations. Decades ago this was common for 16 and 35mm lenses, 20 years ago I saw it once with a Sennheiser hyper cardioid when the Mic had been sent to us in the NEC from a Football Game. Also beware of Company Accountants buying cheap Kit.
Quite ironic, the design of the c3000 is theoretically to prevent it falling out of the mount like the 414 - the shock mount is internal and theres a flange on the stem to stop it slipping out of its mount. You might be overlooking the mount somewhere as its not a shock mount, just a simple collar
Indeed - I have a dump bin with the assorted mounts and cradles over the years - perhaps I was imagining something totally different - but I had not picked up on the internal suspension - cheers.
Wow ... substantial difference in sound - the fake is much more sibilant and sharp at a distance, and, as you say, more alike in loser in sound up close. Substantially more puffing and chuffing from plosives on the fake one. You should not buy fake products - that gives money to product identity theives who are too lazy, cheap, and greedy to do their own design and marketing research and development. Buying cheap knock off copy cat products are both inferior and allows a low grad person to make money off another man's hard work. Just don't buy knock offs as it cheats you and the original manufacturer. And, if you think they sound the same ... you have little discernment. They do sound different - the fake is thinner, less full, and way more subject to chuffing from plosives - your hand held test shows this dramatically, but you fail to notice it, yourself. That really degrades your review. JHT
I’ve just noticed a new fake mic on ebay lots of them. I’ve ordered one to try against my original. I suspect that what could be happening is these really ARE Shures but the rejected ones from the Chinese plant. This could explained why they’re very, very similar. I’ll compare them when it arrives!
@@pauljohnson4590 No. They are NOT rejects from the SHURE plant. If they were rejects, they would be exactly the same as the original products in all respects, but for a blemish in the paint or some other minor flaw. Very similar does NOT make them EXACT copies ... Moreover, they are NOT rejects because A) SHURE does not sell rejects to anyone, and B) the knock offs are clearly different in several respects, and you only identified a few of these differences in your video - there are other differences as well, easily discovered if you do a full forensic comparison - I am a retired forensic lawyer for industry- while I appreciate your suggestion, I am confident SHURE does not sell rejects in retail packages with no indication they are seconds, which is illegal and enforced by the FCC in the US. All in good fun - thanks for the reply. JHT
@@JR-lx8nn Sorry - I didn't mean Shure sells them, but a number of well known manufacturers seem to find production fails being sold. Even worse, the system allows an OEM company to manufacture branded items that can then be sold as made in a totally different country. If you were making Brand A parts, and somebody else wanted some 'production overuns' I bet they happen. Things like capsules. They'd go on the test jig and a percentage would be in the out of spec bin - throw away, or sell them. I doubt there is an American rep watching the factory 24/7
@@pauljohnson4590 You are missing the big elephant in the room. The big give away is you and others clearly demonstrate in your videos knock off copy cat versions are physically different from legitimate products in several salient respects, proving they are close, but not exact copies. If cheap copies contained OEM parts, those parts would "surely" look like original parts because they would actually be original parts. But the fake products are clearly physically different - the handles are different size, shape, color, thickness, with different markings from real OEM or legitimate handles. Fake grilles are also different size, color, shape, from legitimate parts. Rejected microphones and parts, and OEM parts, would all look exactly like legitimate microphones and parts - they would not bear these obvious differences. Moreover, shipping boxes and packaging all bear obvious differences from legit products - so they are NOT OEM parts or SHURE factory rejects. These differences clearly belie any notion they are factory rejects or comprised of OEM parts. They are clearly fakes made from fake parts. Happy trails. All in good fun. "Take Courage" old man!! JHT
I also like this radio for the price. I purchased the RT Systems software which allows for moving memories around. I like the fact you can view the memory channels by alpha name and also the frequencies are displayed on the bottom of the screen. My radio would only put out approx. 6-7 watts measured on my Aeroflex 3920B, the RX sensitivity is on par with other chinese radios. There are some false advertising stating the radio is capable of more than 128 memories. I could not get more than that programmed. There was another article stating the radio could be "jailbroken" to accept 700/800/900 mhz and 220. I tried this and found that the radio is deaf on RX except for 220 which is slightly better, but the radio will only put out 5. watts on these bands, plus you would need at different antenna to cover the range. As a note, I do have a Motorola APX-8000 which admittedly looks very similar.
Yes - totally agree. I tried opening the range up and was quite disappointed by the performance - but here there is very little in the 'extra' bands anyway.
Very useful information, thank you!
Hold down home button and turn the radio on, that will put the radio in FULL mode now you have 800 & 900 bands "F" top left corner.
Neat - although we don't have access to those bands here - full of celllular!
Thanks very much for sharing such nice, inspiring harmony though i can't understanding the theory 😂😂 Just show my utmost admiration ❤❤❤❤
Can you check the fake for if it has the transformer or not. This makes a huge difference in the response curve.
I purchased one last month, along with an extra battery, and I love it. It's easy to program via the keypad, it has great audio and most of all I love the size. The build quality is actually pretty good. I can't complain for $109 USD.
That is what I thought. I cannot see why people seem to hate this radio - one review said a pile of garbage? I'm rather the other way - it is a bit strange looking but that is fine for me.
you can here that the real is clean vocally when you have them back to back a clearer top end, but this has me worried that my Beta 58 might be fake, it is close
In terms of Price difference which one is a SCAM?🤔
I totally see your point!
Could you not try taking the squished capsule out of the sure grill and putting it back into the copy grill. Also have you tried looking into fixing the genuine shure 57 capsules. You mentioned the thin wire, maybe it is broken somewhere and just needs bridging.
Good points - if I get some time I might have a go, but I have a dump box for mics, and every now and again, get a bit savage and pop them on ebay at a bargain price. I'd rather the less successful ones go to a good home. P
I put an offer on EBay for a Shure GLXD24 with 2 B58A’s before watching this. I put a low offer of $200 and I was surprised that they accepted it. I am 100% sure that it’s fake (says Shure in green on the receiver, no battery charger on the front, and packaging looks wrong). I reported to EBay and they denied my claim SMH. When I contact the guy he just responds with 30 day refund over and over. He will not answer my questions about authenticity. No way I’m paying this now but its going to hurt my EBay account 😢
I’ve been burned a few times but shure and sennheiser mics on ebay are very risky. I hope you get it sorted
whats up with the noise on the sm7b and the 202 ? thanks for the video
I’m not sure what happened here? The 202 and the sm7b are on totally separate systems? I must have done something in the final stage before rendering.