Godox WMicS1 Dual Channel Wireless Microphone System - Budget Consumer Grade System

In this episode, we have a look at and listen to the Godox WMicS1 UHF wireless microphone system. This budget wireless microphone system features a dual channel receiver and you can buy it in a kit with two transmitters. You can also add a handheld wireless interview microphone later. What differentiates this from the slew of other dual channel consumer wireless systems is that the Godox WMicS1 transmits over a Wideband range of frequencies (514 -596MHz) This frequency can, in theory, transmit through barriers more readily than the 2.4GHz used by most other consumer wireless systems. And perhaps more importantly, you can tune each transmitter to one of 96 channels. You cannot do that with the 2.4GHz consumer wireless systems. Let’s have a look at how it works in real-world conditions!

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Godox WMicS1 Dual Channel UHF Wireless Microphone System (2 TX kit) - B&H, Amazon https://geni.us/ARtAAVB
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Godox WH-M1 Wireless handheld microphone/transmitter - B&H https://geni.us/Mp3Jaf
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Index:
00:00 Start
00:16 Summary
00:28 Introduction
00:52 What is WMicS1?
02:05 Raw audio samples
03:04 Noise floor samples
03:16 UHF tune 514 - 596MHz
03:49 Power & battery power time
04:13 Line level input
04:36 OLED screens
04:49 Output level settings
05:01 Mono or Stereo Modes
05:29 Output level settings
05:50 Included with kit
06:18 Practical noise floor measurements
06:46 Firmware, warranty, & price
07:03 Latency
07:44 No gain/input setting
08:08 XLR mono output
08:25 No frequency scan feature
08:50 No sync feature
09:19 Build quality
09:29 Indoor distance test
11:24 Outdoor distance test
12:43 Noise floor electronic noise
13:27 Conclusion and recommendation
15:31 Please buy my courses