 This is Amit Dan of AmitDan.com. Today I'll have another episode of unboxing and review video and I'll be opening a compact shotgun mic for smartphone which is BOA BM3011. If this is your first time or a repeat visit, thank you for your support. On this channel, I'm always trying new and different ideas. If that is something you're interested in, please visit for more. If you're only interested in review videos, there will be links in the description box below. So I have been recording some live stream with my smartphone lately and what I noticed that the sound quality is really bad. So I was looking for a compact shotgun mic or any type of mic to attach to my smartphone to get better audio quality and after you know looking at lots of them, this is what I have decided with. So this is not a paid or affiliated review. There are no links, no nothing. I purchased this with my own money and actually I also have the RODE VideoMicro Pro but you know looks like it's going to be kind of overkill for a smartphone. So I decided on the one which is compact and it's easy to carry. So I'm just going to open up quickly and we're going to take a look what's inside and then I'm going to touch some test clips and we'll see like you know how bad or poor is the audio quality. So let's look at some of the specs right here. So here's the model number BM3011 and you can see that, let's bring this a little closer. Okay so this should, so here shotgun mic for smartphone camera, camcorder, compact, directional, condenser, microphone, higher signal to noise ratio, integrated shock mount. So there should be a shock mount and this is quarter inch socket included and 3.5 millimeter output. So here some of you know some more specs but I'm not going to go through over all of them but if you need to look at them definitely you can pause and you know just look at them later on. So let's start opening the box and let's see how fast I can open this. Okay so it was looks like it was not bad and I'm going to just take out what we have inside and here you can see that the box is empty so I'm just going to put it here. Okay so here we have a sticker, I don't see any use for that and here looks like we have a warranty card and warranty card. I'll just set it aside and then here we have a small you know brochure which is a good thing but I don't see any need to use that. Now just one thing to mention that this uses a battery and you have to put a battery and I don't see what size of battery it uses. I don't see any mention of it but we'll check and see if they included anything. So here looks like they have the you know TRS to TRS cable which is right here so you don't have to buy that. This can be you can actually buy this on Amazon.com it could be like you know sometimes $10 or could be $20 so they included that which is a good thing and then we have the audio output jack and this is to connect it to your camera and mainly this is connected to your smartphone and then let's put it here and then here we have the actual mic so this is really lightweight and this is not you know a bulky or big one so that's what I was looking for and even they touched a wind foam which is a good thing and I'm just going to quickly remove this and this is what it looks like so you can see that you know this is really a small and it's not you know too big so if I'm comparing with my smartphone you can see that you know it's a small size and it would match with the smartphone I didn't see like you know up to see more bulky so I'm just going to put it back and put it here and then here we have I'm not sure exactly what is this this it just looks like a product has been tested and qualified okay just to spend a certificate and then oh this is actually something additional and they use another wind screen which is a dead cat I didn't expect this one because I thought this is only they're going to give the foam wind protection but looks like they actually included another wind screen or wind protection which is right here so the accessories are pretty good you know nothing to complain about and what I'm going to do now we'll just you know go through the testing and everything and then I'll attach to this part of video and then I'll you know provide my opinion how good or bad it is hello this is the second part of the video so I have had a few good days to use this microphone Boa BY BM 3011 compact shotgun mic and I'd like to give you my opinion and I would like to again mention that this is a non-affiliated unbiased opinion and you're not going to get this type of reviews anywhere else because there are no affiliated links I didn't get money from anyone so you're going to get totally honest and unbiased opinion so the first thing you can notice that you know this is very cheap plastic and whenever you're changing the battery I kind of like you know shows and it's a bit scary for example if I just take this out and try to change the battery then you can see that you know it's kind of very shaky and it's not like you know even firm and you're gonna be scared to change the battery because it feels like that you know it's going to break anytime but you know fortunately it didn't break when I was changing the battery but that's a very like you know bad quality battery compartment and then the other problem I had is that whenever I was recording the audio from this to my smartphone then there was a noise and that noise actually was not consistent it was not there all the time but there was a like you know clicking noise once in a while so I was not sure why it was making that noise whether it was from a strong wind or it was just the signal you know interference with the cell phone but there's that there's the noise there but you know it doesn't appear all the time so another thing is that they gave to WinMuff so one is here and one is here and the designing is so poor that this one even doesn't fit in here so for example if you just like you know try to put it in here then you're going to see that this is kind of you know just comes off and if you have a bit wind then it doesn't even stay on it and then it just like you know kind of shakes and makes noise so that's another like you know very poor designing of the product and then in terms of the sound quality I was not too happy about the sound quality but I'm going to like you know let you judge by yourself so what I'll do I'll record through this mic on my cell phone and then I'll just record without the mic on my cell phone then you can hear and compare and then I'm going to attach another cell phone or another video using this mic so there you can hear like you know how it sounds outdoor so in terms of everything I'm not happy with the product and this is about $40 Canadian a little bit more or less but I believe that you know this shouldn't be even that much because of the quality and everything so I regret you know buying this but good thing that you know I bought it and I'm because of my review if you're looking to buy this definitely I think you better think it more about buying this because you may not be happy after all at the end due to the like you know product designing and the quality of the sound so I'm going to let you hear the audio and on this channel there are more reviews and all of them are non-affiliated and unbiased and thank you for watching there will be more videos coming up so I'll see you shortly thank you hello hello audio testing 123 1 2 3 through my phone recorder this is a test this is a test hello hello audio testing through the buah shotgun mic this is a test this is a test one two three hello hello audio testing through the buah mic this is a test this is a test one two three so what you're listening right now is through the mic and you know you can compare later how it sounds comparing to the smartphones on mic and you know you can judge it by yourself didn't use the windmuff because we are inside home and you know if you just wanted to see how it sounds like with the windmuff then let's audio testing via boar shotgun mic through the windmuff hello hello this is a test this is a test audio testing with the boar shotgun audio testing with the boar mic the windscreen is on hello hello this is a test this is a test so I'm going to just put you know this one right now the foamy and let's try again audio testing via boar shotgun mic the foamy or foamy windscreen is on hello hello this is a test this is a test one two three one two three thank you