- So the average smartphone
today has the capacity to grow
your business, grow your brand
and increase your influence.
But, there are a few accessories
that are kind of important,
especially if you wanna to take things
to a professional level
regarding your audio.
That's where the Shure MV88+ comes in.
And in this video, we're
gonna be breaking down,
what looks to be the ultimate video kit
for your phone, coming up.
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- Hey what's up? Sean
here with Think Media,
bringing the best tips and tools
for building influence with online video.
And we're here at CES
looking for the best tools
for creators like yourself.
And we're checking out
the Shure MV88+ video kit.
A brand new video kit that's
just dropped, from Shure,
it's out now, we'll link to
it in the description below,
and really what it is, is a
professional sound solution
for vloggers, filmmakers,
musicians and podcasters.
And you can see in here
that they've thought through
the mount, even a collab
with man Froddo on a tripod.
And then, of course,
the microphone itself.
So let's look at some of the details.
So here's what's in the box.
First of all, you get the MV88
digital microphone itself.
On the back of the microphone,
you've got a headphone jack
for monitoring your audio,
and then you also have a USB connector.
And in the box, is a USB-C cable
so you can connect this
to your android phone,
or a lightning cable
if you're using iphone.
Next up, you get a man
photo pixie mini tripod.
And this is really nice.
Because if you wanna be
shooting YouTube videos,
capturing them on your
phone, or going live,
you can just set your phone
up, you have a way to mount it,
with good audio and stable
video, and just start capturing
right out of the box.
Then you've got a widely
adjustable phone clamp,
that looks like it could fit
really phones of any size,
and your shoe mount, which
the microphone mounts in
and then can connect in the cold shoe
of the phone clamp.
There's also the windscreen,
which is optional.
You could take that on
and off the MV88+ itself.
And then finally, it comes
with a cool roll-up case
to keep all of your gear organized
when you're not using it.
Now the next important
thing to know is that this
microphone and all of the
other Shure mobile microphones
work with a really cool app
that Shure has designed.
So that comes on Android, as
well as iphone, entirely free.
And that gives you the ability
to adjust the microphone pattern,
you can add high-pass
filters, compressors,
adjust all of your game levels,
do a lot of micro-nuanced
adjustments regarding your monitoring;
whether you want to hear playback audio or
just a passthrough
audio of the microphone.
A lot of functionality that's super nice,
included in the app.
Now because we've got the units here,
of course we wanna test them out.
But first, let's look at different modes
that you could use this in,
and the first one is selfie mode.
In selfie mode, you can
adjust your mic settings
to be in a shotgun kind of just a pattern
that would capture the audio
in front of the camera.
And this is really nice,
coz if you think about
it in an event like CES,
or something like that,
there's a lot of noise around.
It's really gonna boost
your audio performance,
for walking around, running gun,
or just setting your camera up on a table.
The second mode would be field audio.
In this case, you wouldn't
be capturing video.
You can just have your
phone and your app open,
and you could be capturing
whatever audio is happening
in the field, with a
little unit like this.
So maybe journalists,
anybody that wants to
just record a seminar.
You don't care about the video,
but you're at a conference
and you just wanna capture everything.
Boom! You've got it in audio field mode.
The third mode would be videographer mode.
In this case, now the mic is
flipped on the cold shoe and
it's pointing towards whatever
is in front of the camera.
I can monitor all of my
video and all my settings,
with my phone pointing back at me,
and the more powerful
camera on the phone, front,
capturing whatever is in front of me.
And so, definitely from content creating,
whether even at concerts,
and there's different settings
on the app to even adjust
what kind of audio you're recording,
whether just voice, whether
singing, whether instruments,
or whether loud, meaning
really clamorous places or
something like concert audio,
in videographer mode you
also could make use of
the headphone jack like I am here.
And so you plug it in your
phone, you get the headphones on,
you capture whatever
content's in front of you,
and you've got a sweet kit to do it.
And then the third mode
would be bi-directional,
almost interview mode,
whether you wanted to do just
the audio or also with video.
In this case, you go into the app,
and you can shut down
basically the front facing mic,
and just get the mics
out of either side here.
So, if I was to be asking
questions of someone,
I could have them on camera,
in front of my phone,
they could hear me, the
interviewer, asking the question,
and then the audio would be captured
in front of it this way.
Because you can adjust mic
pattern, it allows for a lot of
functionality in interview mode.
Or, if you then, again,
just wanted to do a podcast or something,
you can just set the mic
in front of both people,
without having to use
it like a shotgun mic.
Put it in that bi-directional mode,
get your audio settings right,
and then capture the audio
coming in either side of the mike.
Alright, so I'm on my iphone and right now
you're just hearing the
onboard iphone audio.
We're here at CES, a lot of clamor.
So let's check out the MV88
and see the difference between
just your on-phone audio.
Okay so you're now
hearing the MV88+ audio,
we're at the Shure booth at CES.
Definitely a lot of noise around here.
But it's really easy to
adjust our gain in-app.
And I'd love to hear in the comment
how you think this sounds.
But I'll tell you this, just from playing
uh there's two apps,
there's the Shure Motiv app
and there's the Shure Motiv video app.
It's really cool because it gives you
a lot of video customization,
and the ability to adjust
all your mic settings,
right from the app right here.
And so, one thing I can
tell you for sure is
Shure is very serious
with all of these things.
Like really thoughtfulness
in the app distinctions and nuances;
love the product thoughtfulness
with the headphone monitoring
and everything else.
And so I'm very excited
about this product.
But I'd love to hear, how do
you think the audio sounds?
So obviously, that was
just a quick raw test.
But so what my final thoughts are
I'm very excited about this product.
And it has started to dive more into
its various applications.
You know Shure is such a renown brand
for their audio quality,
especially for musicians, podcasters
and people where the nuances
of audio really matter.
I think a kit like this
is something to pay a lot of attention to.
And I'm excited that it's out now,
so we're hoping to get
our hands on one soon.
And if you're looking for
an audio solution right now,
for your mirrorless camera,
your DSLR or your smartphone,
we actually have an entire playlist
of all of our favorite microphones.
So to check out some other videos,
we'll put a link on the YouTube card
as well as in the description below.
Question of the day:
are you using your
smartphone to create content,
and what kind of content
do you create with it?
Let me know in the comments section below.
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