 How's it going guys? Welcome back to another JHR view. And today we're going to be looking at the Kamika Professional Microphone. This is a micro directional shotgun microphone or I believe it's a Carterade microphone which records in a single direction kind of like a boom mic. This is the CVM VM10 II edition and it comes with a hot shoe mount which is a mount that goes onto the top of a camera kind of where the flash goes so that's pretty cool. If we look at the bottom right here and zoom in a little bit it says that it works with a smartphone or a camera and this kind of gives you an idea of the range that it kind of picks up so if the camera was like right here in the center it gets a little bit from the back but mostly everything's from the front so like if you're interviewing somebody or something like that it gives a little example of it on a camera too and if we turn it to the side and focus in on this it says that it's Carterade for a smartphone slash camera it's shock absorbing and it's super anti interference and it is mini and full middle which I like that gives an example again of what it looks like at the bottom and if you want to pause right here you can get a good look at the specifications but without further ado let's go ahead and unbox this and see what it's all about so it has a little bit of tape right here so this is what the inside packaging looks like go ahead and turn it this direction and it should slide out pretty easily let's go ahead and pop that to the side there we go so as we see on the front it already comes with a bunch of cool stuff in here so let's slide this extra piece of plastic out of here so we can actually get a good look at that looks as though I just dropped the instruction manual move that out of the way and if we tilt this down you can see that it comes with a few different connectors the first one it looks like is a standard one that goes into any kind of normal headphone jack and then this one right here looks as though it has a three on here once for a microphone and then I'm not sure what this one does I think one goes into here and then one goes into the smartphone and then we have this really nice kind of fuzzy muff right here and this is used for when it's really windy outside also has a little plastic ring too so it's not just the fabric it'll slide inside of there there's also foam in there as well so if you're having like a really windy day or something and you want to take this outside you can actually do that with this little uh what my mom would call poison packages or silica and then right here we have the microphone itself which looks really nice and has a decent weight to it it's not really cheap feeling this feels like it's made out of a plastic which is springy to shock absorb I believe we can also take this off right here and take a little bit of a zoom in and then this is what the microphone looks like it has a little bit of a grill right there on this side and then the other side as well it says right here video microphone and gives the model number and then it says comica looks as though you can mount it via a standard tripod or you can also mount it using the hot shoe mount which is really nice very versatile in that way because a lot of the stuff that I use requires that so yeah let's go ahead and slide this little uh foam protector on here the huh and this kind of blocker and let's go ahead and attach it and see if we can get some good sounds out of it all right so I'm recording with the comica microphone I'm about the same distance as I would normally record using my blue snowball so this is about uh I'd say about 10 inches from my mouth about 10 to 12 inches from my mouth and now I'm going to lean back in my chair talking at the same volume leaning back in my chair and now I'm going to talk really close up to it as well but this microphone is usually used to um get a pretty farther distance away so if you're like sitting maybe a few feet away um I'm going to go ahead and put on the wind muff now and see how it sounds so this is the sound with the little uh furry wind blocker on um not a super fair test giving the fact that it is um inside and it's not windy outside even um but yeah I think that uh it looks pretty nice on there looks pretty professional and I'm excited to see how the audio turned out all right so I'm back on my blue snowball a little cool thing that I did is I have mount it's a tripod mount and I actually put it on this uh a little clamp amount that is super strong has a nice uh spring in there and you actually can clamp it pretty good against your desk or anything else and it the the bull and socket it's pretty solid once you tighten it up but yeah the quality is not too bad getting up close you do get some pops and stuff I think that filter that I have on there kind of helped with that but all in all I think it's a good quality microphone for pretty much what it's going to be used for which would be kind of like interviews or a little bit you know a few feet away kind of situations but for recording how close I do I kind of need that extra bit of uh flexibility very nice I like it a lot and uh yeah I'll be putting this in the link in the description below so you guys can check it out as well a huge shout out to my patreons thank you guys so much for your support you guys are awesome if you enjoyed this video don't forget to comment rate and subscribe 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