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so it's time to take a look at the simple lavalier microphone from a company called Stoney edge and we're not just gonna be stopping there we're gonna be comparing it to all the other level ear microphone I have around here on both the zoom h1 and also the onboard camera audio itself ladies and gentlemen welcome back to tech est this is brian coming to you guys today with the lavalier microphone it's gonna be like a shootout as well but we'll quickly talk about this lavalier microphone and water features and also what it costs and then we'll go to a microphone shootout and you guys can be the judges for yourselves so getting on straight to business here with the simple lavalier microphone it comes packaged pretty well in a small box you also get a little carry pouch included there and you get 2.6 meters of cable length which comes to an end of a four prong connector which will work with smartphones and the like however if you do get a splitter or a connector you can then use it with three prong devices although that is not included with the lavalier microphone moving on to the actual microphone itself comes with a little pop filter there and you also get what they say is a point seven millimeter diaphragm microphone now that is connected to a metal base and you also get a metal clip there which is attachable and detachable so you can use it depending on your usage scenarios now the simple lav microphone comes in at forty nine ninety-five and that includes shipping you can order it directly from the Stoney edge site however that being said let's move on now to the biggest part of this microphone review and that is the audio shootout here is what the onboard camera audio mic will sound like probably the worst of all these comparisons so first up here we have the simple lav here from stony edge this is how this will sound like from the Canon EOS ms onboard audio directly now we have here the nice one lavalier microphone from a company called nice labs this is what this will sound like plug directly into the canon eos m this is what the sony ECM cs3 lavalier microphone will sound like plugged directly into the Canon EOS m camera and lastly we have here the zoom h1 z-- onboard stereo microphones and you can probably see what they sound like compared to the rest of the audio I've been using here as well this time we have the nice one lavalier microphone plugged directly into my zoom h1 so here's a little bit of a test of what this microphone will sound like plugged into an independent audio recording device so here we have this stony edge simple lavalier microphone plugged directly into my Zune each one this time so this is what this will sound like plugged into that independent source and the last of the lavalier microphone tests is the sony ECM cs3 plugged directly into my zoom h1 so you can see what that sounds like compared to the rest of these so in conclusion I was just quite simply disappointed with this lavalier microphone the audio going into it was decent although it was much more insensitive compared to the Sony cs3 that I have here and also the nice one from nice labs and now the Sony cs3 is about 15 dollars so it's a lot cheaper than the simple lab microphone in my opinion it sounds a lot better as well and it's also a stereo microphone also on that note to get the actual audio level around about the same as the Sony cs3 and the nice one I had to give it a 10 decibel boost in post-processing software and this meant that it decided to induce noise when I did that so overall I wasn't happy with the audio quality but one thing I was happy with was the build quality and on this note I'm going to be giving this product 2 stars out of 5 because the only good thing is going for it really is the build quality and also the cable length is pretty good although the other things are the most important thing there the audio quality is just simply missing so unfortunately I'm not going to be recommending this product to practically anyone out there unless they cannot get the other two microphones that I'm using in this video or I'm sure there's other better lavalier microphones out there especially for the money so guys that's about it for me today if you have any questions or comments about this video then please drop a comment in the comment section below and I'll get back to you as soon as I can and also if you haven't raised subscribe the tech guess City all the best tech news and reviews and I'll catch you in another video peace out for now bye