 Welcome to the Crimson Engine. My name is Rubidium. Today we are looking at the new Samonic range of microphones, wireless audio transmitters and lavaliers. I met the Samonic guys at NAB this year. They had all these new products and I said, oh well tell me a little bit about them. And the guy working there, Jesse, said oh, I'll just send them to you and you can check them out yourself. So here we are. The new range consists of a very cool wireless mic pack, the transmitter TX9, the TXXLR9, and the RXXLR9. And these are XLR transmitters and receivers. So essentially they take the place of an XLR cable and this very long condenser supercardioid microphone, the SRTM7. So we'll start with the mic packs. Almost everyone needs a wireless lavalier on their film shoot. But once you start adding multiple inputs, it can get overwhelming pretty fast. Samonic have solved this by having a stereo pack that transmit to a single receiver. So you have two of these. I'm wearing one. The other one is what you can hear. And they become the left and right channel of a single receiver on the other end. Because lab microphones are mono, there's only one of them, you can transmit this into the left and right channel of a stereo signal. The pack on the other end then puts that into the respective channels of your recorder and you're able to get two labs, the left and right, onto a single stereo signal on your camera. So if you're shooting DSLRs, these are absolute lifesaver. If you're shooting XLR, like I am on the C200, you're able to break them apart and put them into separate XLR inputs and then control the levels independently. It's a real boon for independent filmmakers who want to have two labs and a shotgun microphone without a mixer at all. It can all go straight into the camera and you can have a pretty complete audio setup without a dedicated sound mixer. They were totally plug and play for me. I turned it on, they were synced up, the sound sounded great. They can also link via IR so they can infrared, they can sync to one another line of sight. If you're in the market for a dual lab pack and you don't want to pay the $700 that Sennheiser or Sony charge, these are a really cool alternative. Moving on, we have the TX XLR pack. So instead of an XLR cable between your shotgun or whatever microphone you have, you can plug this into one end and this into your camera and suddenly your beaming XLR stereo through the air. So you can use a mic like the SRTM7 here, plug your receiver into one end. Now you just plug this into your camera and now you're getting sound from your microphone. These guys both run on AA batteries. Like the lab kit, they have infrared synchrosia, that's what it's called, where they link up with one another without having to actually set the frequencies and they give you really good audio without having to have an XLR cable. Something I was particularly interested to find on the receiver because the XLR port on different cameras in different places, this actually rotates 360 degrees. So once you plug it into your camera, you can find the best arrangement for it. So it's not going to get in the way. So the XLR transmitter receivers aren't much good without a microphone. This guy is actually, can be run on both phantom power or an internal lithium-ion battery. If you look through the XLR port at the bottom, it has a little USB plug. You plug that into computer or power and you can charge this. It will last 150 hours off a single charge. So it might be something that you charge every six months. The reason that this mic is so long, it's a supercardioid pattern. So it's very directional. It also has two different stages of high pass filter, low pass filter, a minus 10 decibel pad and a plus six decibel boost. This will give you pretty awesome directional sound from a couple of meters or what is that, six feet away. So if you, for some reason you're doing a wide shot, you can't get your boom mic close to the character who's speaking. You can pick up pretty great sound from pretty far away. As far as best practices go, if you really want to get great audio for your films and documentaries, you should have both of these things. You should have someone wear a lab pack and also have a shotgun microphone on a stand or being held by someone swinging in boom so that if the lab gets muffled like this or the boom isn't usable for some reason, you can get between the two of them and get the best audio or you can combine the two signals for a much richer fuller sound. Now this stuff is very competitively priced. I'll leave links in the description so you can see what it's worth at different places, but it's significantly cheaper than the industry standards and definitely has comparable quality. That's my look at the new Samonic range. Thank you very much for Samonic for sending it out. I'm going to get a lot of use from this. I really appreciate it. They really have upped their game as far as the quality, the build, the audio coming out of these boxes. So if you're a new filmmaker or looking to get into audio, this is a really good place to start. Thanks very much for watching. Links of course to all the stuff in the description. Leave your questions in the comments and I will see you next time.