 okay guys these are the brand new wireless microphones from hollyland this is the lark m1 they were just released today and i'm really excited to try this out this is based on the 2.4 gigahertz frequency and it has a bunch of features that i'm excited to show you on the right hand side those two boxes that you saw come with two additional cables one is a usb c to trs cable and one is a lightning to trs cable for iphone and android let's go ahead and take a look at the carry case very nice carry case in fact to store your microphones so here you can see the microphone charging case here let's go ahead and peel this open this is a very lightweight charging case it looks very nice you'll notice there's four led lights there that show you the charging status you have the usb c port right there at the bottom let's go ahead and open this up this is the microphone so you have two transmitters to one receiver and i'll dive in a little bit more about the design of that in a second else in the box you have two wind muffs for each of the transmitters and just at the back here a couple of more cables of course you have your standard trs to trs cable for dslr or mirrorless cameras and then if you wanted to connect to your phone without getting those two additional cables separately then you can use the trs to trs cable here and use an adapter for your phone if your phone doesn't have a headphone jack then you also have yourself the usb c charging cable and a quick start user code if you did want to connect the microphone to your phone then you can get the lightning and connect this to the transmitter which is so much easier or you can get the usb c adapter to trs and use this on android phones and that is simply just plug and play various different options and i think that's just great now these are extremely lightweight so when you do wear this on your shirt it's not going to feel like you have anything heavy on and just to give you guys an idea of what each of these different led indicators will show you here's a screenshot for both the charging case and the transmitters and receivers depending on what color light they are and if they are blinking what they would represent now if we take a look at the transmitters you've got the led indicator there on the front you have a nice solid microphone mesh at the top there on the left hand side you have a couple of buttons this is a power button and a noise reduction button also a pairing button noise reduction is the technology that they have in here which is a very useful algorithm so if you have a lot of background ambience noise that you want to eliminate on the transmitter just press this yellow button once and that goes into noise cancelling mode and what that does is focuses directly on your vocal voice and it just eliminates a lot of the background noise and i will be testing that outdoors to give you an idea of how clear it would still sound if i have that on then you have the usb c charging port at the bottom if you want it to independently charge that separately if for any reason you do lose the pairing with the receiver then you can manually pair this by just holding the yellow button down for a few seconds and get it connected to the receiver on there now by default the transmitter the receiver is automatically paired out of the box and it's automatically powered on and off as soon as you take it out of the box it powers on as soon as you put it back into the box it powers off and if for any reason you didn't have the box with you then you have the option to manually power these on and off by using the buttons on the side and just a quick run through for the receiver itself you have two led indicators there the buttons on the left you have yourself the plus and minus which are actually the volume gain by default this is on medium volume but you can adjust it to go to high volume with the plus or down to low volume with the medium and i will be showcasing some examples for both you also have the pairing button if you press that for a few seconds with the plus that will pair with the transmitters then you have this button here m which is mode you can switch this from mono mode to stereo mode so when you hold that down for a few seconds the light indicator will change and it will go from green to blue from mono to stereo and likewise on the right hand side you have yourself the power button and this is the port for the trs cable all together the battery life combined with the charging box gives you roughly around 20 hours individually for constant shooting these transmitters will give you around eight hours of recording time which i think is fantastic for a microphone of this size and overall it can give you a coverage of around 200 meters distance which i think is absolutely great especially for lightweight tiny microphones like this that have internal antennas and i will be going out and testing that range just to see what the sound quality looks like now that i've given you an overview of some of the key features of this microphone let's go ahead and see how these sound okay so up until this point you've been listening to my audio coming from my shotgun microphone which is just off to the side outside of the frame and now i'm going to be switching the audio connected to the hollyland lark m1 and let's go ahead and do that now this is the audio coming directly from this microphone you guys can probably hear that it's super clear and you know i am quite close to this so i'm going to clip this onto my shirt in a second but just to give you guys an indication this is on the default settings on mono audio which is medium volume gain i don't have noise cancellation turned on but i will test that by pressing the yellow button on the side of the transmitter but before i do that let me click this onto my shirt there we go these are the default settings when you connect this directly out of the box and you don't make any adjustments so i think that's a very good test to show you guys how this would actually sound if you were in a hurry and you just wanted to connect it to your camera or your phone and you wanted to get you know really clear audio this is what it would sound like i've had a playback of this as well and i think it sounds great and to be honest i've been a huge fan of holly land microphone products in the past i have reviewed one of their products previously and i'll leave a link down below if you guys wanted to check that out i've used plenty of holly land products and i think they make really high quality premium products for your cameras and all different types of accessories for filming and shooting now to give you guys an idea of the different types of volume gain settings and how that will improve your audio let me go ahead and then switch this from medium volume game by pressing the plus button on the receiver and put it up to high okay now i've gone and set it to high by pressing the plus button on the receiver and you guys can probably hear that it's a little bit louder and you can hear me a little bit clearer having it set on high it would probably be best if you are in slightly more noisy environments whether that is you're filming outdoors or whether you're maybe in an office where there's a lot of people in the background or you're filming you know with a production crew then this is something that will be very useful for you guys if you're in a very quiet studio like i am now then i think medium would work fine and if you're in you know complete quietness where you have maybe the microphone a little bit closer to your mouth then maybe the low volume gain would be better for you but now just to give you an example i'm going to press the minus button on the receiver twice to go down to the low volume gain and see how that sounds okay this is the low volume gain and you guys can probably hear especially compared to the high volume gain how much of a difference that makes in my voice so this may be suitable for some of you depending on the scenario that you're filming in but if you wanted to keep it low then this will be a great option for you guys especially if you wanted to maybe hold the microphone and you have it a little bit closer to your mouth then that's something that you guys can do this next test i'm going to put it back to medium settings but i'm then going to turn on the noise reduction mode and maybe i'll turn on that fan in the background there just to see if it does eliminate some of that noise and how well that sounds so let me do that now okay so just before i go and turn that fan on i don't have noise reduction mode turned on yet and i've turned the receiver back to medium volume gain so let me go ahead and turn this on and i wanted to showcase to you guys the difference between turning the noise reduction on and off by having something like this in the background okay you guys can probably hear there's a lot of noise coming from that fan and it's a pretty loud fan even though it is quite small so i'm now going to press the yellow button on my transmitter there we go noise reduction mode is now on you'll know it's on because the light turns from blue to green on the transmitter itself which means noise reduction mode is on and that's a very good indication to have as well so in case you're filming and you wasn't sure if you accidentally pressed the button that light indicator for me is a great thing to add to something like this but you guys let me know has it reduced a lot of that background noise from that fan and can you guys really hear just my voice i've played back some examples of doing this and i think it's done a really great job and if i was specifically going to be filming outdoors most of the time i will always have this noise reduction option turned on now that you've heard that example the next test i want to give you guys is to switch between mono audio which you've been hearing up until this point it's a stereo audio and i'll do that on medium setting again and i will turn noise reduction off just to showcase you guys the default settings how that sounds on mono and stereo okay so right now it's on mono mode medium volume gain and i don't have noise reduction set to on what i'm going to do now is switch over to stereo mode by holding down the mode button for five seconds the light will turn from green to blue and that will give you an indication that stereo mode is on on the receiver but because stereo mode is two channels left and right i'm going to be taking out the second transmitter and showcasing to you guys how it sounds with both of them playing voices directly from me so now this is stereo mode you can probably hear my voice from this microphone that i have on my shirt it's coming from the left channel of your speaker let me go ahead and take this off now i have the second transmitter and this is coming from the right hand side channel so you can see you know this creates more of an immersive audio so if you maybe have two people that you wanted to speak onto your filming or you're doing a podcast or an interview or anything like that this would be quite useful for that as well just to give you an idea of how this sounds how you guys are hearing it the audio is probably coming from the left and right side of your speakers or your headphones and by the way i do recommend that you use some headphones to listen to these audio tests because that will give you the most clarity on how everything sounds in this video and this is the right channel so left right left right if you hold them both closer together then you can probably hear that you are merging the noises to kind of like a single channel but the audio itself sounds more fuller it sounds cleaner than it does for mono audio if for any reason you accidentally left it on stereo mode for maybe just one of the transmitters and you put it into post editing then there is a way that you can set it back to dual mono mode and convert it from just one of the channels to dual channels so hopefully that gives you a good indication of how these sound if you are the person that likes to use stereo mode quite often let me go ahead it now and step outdoors and give you some tests of how this sounds outside with the noise reduction mode on with various different volume gain settings and also let's go ahead and test that 200 meter distance to see how good the connection retains with the receiver all right guys so now i'm outdoors and it is a little bit windy today just to my right side there is a road and you might hear some cars going by so this will be a really good test to see how much noise isolation i can get with two things i've now got the wind muff on the microphone here on my transmitter see how good that eliminates a little bit of the noise i've got the volume gain set to high because that's what i mentioned earlier that if i was outdoors i would set it to high especially if the microphone is a little bit lower down i haven't turned on the noise reduction mode just yet but whilst i'm doing that i'm going to test walking along this part here and the 200 meter range i'm going to try and push it because it is 200 meters right down to the end there but at the same time i'll give you some updates how far i've already gone because i have measured it out but likewise i am also going to turn on the noise reduction mode and see how that sounds including with the wind muff on and lastly it's always recommended that 200 meter range is always in a straight line of sight so if you do go around any corners then the audio may break but this will be a really good test if you do want to shoot at this distance so before i start i'm going to turn on the noise reduction mode it's now on and this is how the audio sounds with that on including the wind muff and i'm going to continue walking backwards and give you guys updates as i go along so i have my back turn to you guys hopefully the audio is still coming out i'm pretty confident that you won't be hearing the cars that are driving past on my left hand side right now this is about 40 meters coming close to 50 meters now and if you guys can still hear me clearly then for me personally i don't see myself shooting any further than this for whatever scenario but if you are really going to push it to that extreme of 200 meters let's continue testing so this is just over 100 meters i would say about 110 i'm going to continue walking a little bit further okay this is about 150 meters now it's always recommended that if you do have your back towards the receiver it might cut off the audio one thing to remember is that this doesn't have any headphone monitoring on the actual receiver itself so the person controlling the camera might not be able to give you any indication that the audio is cutting off or anything like that okay guys this is 200 meters not sure if you guys can still hear me clearly i'm going to start walking backwards and if you can hear me then this is a great microphone for shooting at range as well because it is so light it's so tiny but not just that it just shows you how powerful it actually is as well so let me come back 200 meters very impressive i still have the noise reduction on i've got the volume gain set to high and if this sounds perfect for outdoor shooting then this definitely is the microphone for you so guys i've just had a playback of the recording and the audio came out perfect and i was so far away you know i could just about see my camera in the distance you know that's how far that 200 meter range actually was and the fact that it still came out clearly for me personally what better value for money can you get for a microphone kit that can get it for your DSLR mirrorless cameras for your iphone for your android then this entire kit as well so for me it's two massive thumbs up all right guys hopefully you found those sound tests very useful especially if it helps you make a decision if you like to buy the lug m1 this was just released today and if you are interested in buying this i have a discount code that you guys can use within the next two weeks from the time i've published this video to get this a little bit cheaper than everyone else so make sure you look at all of the details down below i'm super impressed with this and i can honestly say i'm going to get rid of all of my previous microphones that i've got ones for my phone ones for my camera all separately this one just does it all and it's so easy to use it's plug and play of course if you are the type of person that does prefer a microphone with a level air microphone just because it's easier to connect to your shirts or whatever then this one doesn't have that connection it is purely just this clip that you put onto your shirt if you don't want to show this maybe you can just hide it from the inside of your shirt but honestly it's super lightweight and i prefer something that's plug and play and you don't need to fiddle about getting your wires to go around from underneath your shirt with low layer microphones and those kind of things but holly land products for me have been my favorite products especially for my camera accessories so take a look down below for all of the links the descriptions the specifications the pricing and the discount codes if you guys have any other questions about this then do drop a comment down below i review plenty of wireless mics for my cameras and i have a complete playlist of microphone reviews so if you want to check out my playlist i'll leave that down below as well make sure to subscribe new videos out every week for cool gadgets just like this one and i will catch you guys at the next one take care