 In this video, I'm going to be telling you about the Elgato Wave Low Profile Mike Boom Arm and showing you how it's set up and all of the features of it. So if that sounds interesting, stick around. Hello, welcome to Take One Tech, my name's Alec, and you will notice that there are going to be a few more videos coming up over the next few days and weeks about new additions for my studio because I am in my new studio space. And one of the things that I invested in as well was a new Mike Boom Arm. I had been using up until now one of these typical sort of $10, $15, are they? I don't know, bog standard Mike Boom Arms, which it's actually served me very well, to be honest. It's just that the mounting of it is a little tricky with my new setup. And previously, when I was in my little basement studio, I had it sort of mounted to a cupboard over to the left of me. So it is still, in effect, a low profile just sort of coming down under the shop with the Mike sticking up, much as it's doing now. It's just that with my new setup, I needed something a little bit more versatile. And so this was the ideal one for me. The Elgato Wave LP, standing for low profile, Mike Boom Arm. And I did have to wait for quite a while because they weren't available in Thailand for so long. And then when they did become available, they were rapidly out of stock. In the end, I just bought it from Amazon on the UK and got it sent over here. So one thing that I do like about it, there's lots of great features, but one thing that I especially like is the minimalist packaging, because basically that is the box and they just slapped a label on it and sent it all the way from the UK to Thailand and very well it came to as well. So I like the fact that they're not, I do hate it when you get an Amazon package and it's 10 times the size of the object inside, packed with a load of extra unnecessary packaging. So very refreshing to see this. The actual box that the product comes in is the postal box as well. And then if I open it up, you'll see similarly minimalist inside as well. So we've got a little instruction booklet like that. And then we've got the arm itself and then just one extra little packet, which has got a few fixtures and fittings, namely an Allen wrench, which I'll explain shortly, and then also two little adapters so that you can fit different type of microphones onto the end of the boom arm. So first of all, we've got two components really, main components. The first one is the clamp to clamp it to the desk, which as you can see has just got a little winder here. It's really quite deep. So it will go up to nearly two and a half inches, so 60 centimeters. In fact, I think that might be slightly more than two and a half, but you can just sort of obviously unwind this round. One problem that you sometimes have with these fittings that clamp to desks is this bit getting in the way and not being able to actually wind it round. So some of the lower cost versions would have a sort of bar through it so that you can sort of turn it round and push the bar through. This has got a really neat little feature, which basically is on a little release catch here. So if you just sort of push this down, then this then becomes sort of free turning. And what that means is if you are up against the sort of side of a desk or something like that, you can just sort of tighten it, release it like that, tighten it a bit more, release it and tighten it. I thought that was just a really novel little way to get round that problem. And the whole thing, this is all metal. This part here is plastic and then the plate itself is metal as well, I think. But it just all feels really solid and certainly doesn't feel like it's going anywhere. It's got this sort of long piece here, which is essentially what the actual boom arm itself fits into. It's got a real heft to it when you lift it out. So it definitely feels sturdy and quality. You could probably drop it and it would certainly survive if not crack the tiles on the floor, but that piece just basically slots in there. So obviously you fit this to the table first to the desk and then that just slots in the top. Before I do that and actually show you what it all looks like, just want to mention a couple of other points. There's a hole here in the bottom and it actually comes all the way through to the top. So depending on where your cables are coming, you've got a way to get them into the into the boom arm. And then this is basically just a metal plate that just pops off really nice little solution that. And again, the metal feels nice and solid, nice and sturdy. And once it's in there, it certainly doesn't feel like it's going to come off anytime soon. And so you've got the hole at the front. The cable would go up say in the bottom in my case along inside and then out of here. And then it would pass down into the top and you've got the same sort of arrangement on the top here with a second plate and the cable would pass through there and then come out to the end. There is a couple of tensioning nuts. So there's one here to adjust the height. So the idea is this being a low profile arm that this sits on the desk and then this bit can move, this bit can move. But then also this one can move up and down to adjust the height of the microphone. And so you want to be able to adjust the tension or tighten it once you've got it right. That is actually plastic, but it still feels pretty sturdy. And then you've also got this one, which can adjust basically the friction on how free this is to move. And that is basically what this allen wrench is for here. So you can use that to tighten up this. If you feel like it needs to have a little bit more tension and you just tighten that up like that. You can obviously keep this somewhere nice and safe. Maybe attaching it inside close to the magnets might be a good idea so that you don't lose it and always have it with the arm. And then on this end, we've basically got the actual mic attachment. Again, you've got a little clump and this is plastic and this is plastic. In fact, actually the ball part is metal, but this clump on the outside is plastic. But again, it does feel like pretty quality. It certainly doesn't feel cheap or tacky or anything like that. So this basically gives you the different degrees of motion. So you can rotate it and then also move the ball joint in any direction almost. And then you've got the place where you actually attach the microphone and you've got a little tensioning wheel there as well. So this is where the little adapters that come with it would come in. So often mics would have a larger screw thread. And so this one you can just add onto here. In fact, you would actually screw it into your mic first and then screw your mic on. But similarly, you can also use one of these adapters if you need to make it slightly bigger or smaller as well. So that is basically what it looks like. So let's just actually get it all set up on the desk and I'll show you what it looks like in situ. Well, as if by magic, I've now got it set all up on my, whoopsie daisy, on my desk. It's got a mind of its own at the moment though. Just making sure I have actually on paused it. So what I'll do is I'll just switch over to another camera. There we go. And now you can see, well, first of all, you can see my lovely Ecom Live mug. But then you've also got the monitor arm here. And if I come over, you can see how it's clamped to the desk. Excuse the cable management. It still needs a bit of work on that cable management at the moment. But as you can see, it is clipped to the front and the side. Obviously, you can have it coming from underneath the monitor if you wanted. But I've gone with this option. Just got to figure out which way to turn it so that you can see. And there you can see the mic attached to the end. So I am using the Shaw MV7. And I think the weight limit is something like two kilos. I'm just going to have to move this out of the way of it so that you can see. There we go. I'll come around this side. And so, yeah, I've used that little adapter on the end there, just in there, for the microphone to attach to it. And then, yeah, it's just really neat. The cables run up through the middle. So this is what I was talking about with the cable management. They just feed in there and then these just pop on, like I say, really nice little elegant solution. And then for me, this just folds out of the way when I don't need it. And apologies for the fan noise. I've got to get an air con up there, but it's not in. That's what the empty wire is for. So for the moment, I'm just cooling myself with a fan. So apologies if there's a little bit of extra blowing the normal. But yeah, that is basically the setup, how it all looks. And I'm really pleased with it. It certainly does exactly what I need it to do. One of the things that I do need it to do is for most of these videos, I am standing by do some stuff sitting down on Zoom calls and things like that. So I've got my camera setup now. I've found the sweet spot that I can either stand up and do these videos like this. But then I can also sit down and with a slight different cropping, I can do regular Zoom calls as well. So the thing about the mic, this mic arm is it does have that sort of up and down function as well. So I can move it down to a lower level rather than having it in my face like this. So I highly recommend it. It's a great boom arm. And the only thing to watch out is if you do have stuff on your desk. So if you were to have it mounted in front of the desk, then you'd have to bear in mind that it's basically sort of two inches off the desk for the sort of first section. So with that sort of sweeping across the desk, you just have to be careful of that. So if you're doing crafts and things like that, just bear that in mind that it might not come over the top of them all. However, if you do mount it over to the side, I don't see that there's much of a problem. If I just sort of flick back to this view once more, where was it that one? You can see that I've got the mic on there. It's still way out of the way and yet I can still sort of fold it back like that. So it's only really this small corner that down here that is getting affected. So I think it's a really, really good for a lot of use cases really. So I'll leave a link obviously as always in the description. 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