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Best Handheld Mics for YouTube | Chamorros Reviewing Tech
I buy a lot of Fifine products. They're low cost and have a solid build quality across the board. This mic is an improvement over the previous model in both aesthetics and sound quality...all except for the redesigned USB dongle. I'm not a fan of the larger dongle, fans, or the glossy plastic and the new logo. That said I'm sure the fins help with heat dissipation and the larger size probably makes for a better sound card. The gun metal color and black mesh are a vast improvement over the cheaper looking silver mesh that was on the last one. The digital display is nice but I don't know how useful it is to the average home user. I would definitely buy a few of these mics for karaoke night!
Budget Voice Recorder for YouTube| Yemenren R5 Digital Voice Recorder Rev...
This recorder packs quite a punch! I buy budget recording equipment all the time, but until now I have always needed to use my phone to record interviews and ambient noise for my YouTube channel. Well, all it takes is one dead battery right before an interview to teach me my lesson. I needed a voice recorder and I needed one now. The biggest hurdle for me was cost and convenience. I needed something that I had a price point that was consumer friendly (Translation: Cheap) and convenient...meaning it has to easily be transferred to my computer.
The Yemenren did all I needed in spades. The quality of the recording is awesome! The VOR mode actually worked except when the voices are too similar, and playback sounded really good. And at the end of the day, these are the biggest promises a recorder needs to deliver on and it definitely does.
There are a couple of drawbacks. The first is that it lacks any audio inputs so you can't partner it up with a lapel mic. Second, the menu isn't as intuitive as I'd like and lastly and the worst offender is that, often times I had to change the file extension from .WAVA to .WAV in order to import it into my software which was a big nuisance.
For what I paid for my recorder I couldn't be happier with my purchase. I will certainly be buying other products from Yemenren in
NBC's Powerless | Nerds Reviewing Television
Hafa Adai! It's me again Island Boy Manuel Reviewing NBC's Superhero Comedy, Powerless, so is it good? Bad? Maybe a little of both? Let's find out as we review Powerless.
For those of you not in the know, Powerless was supposed to be the DC version of The Office... an office of regular ol' insurance agents dealing with the clean up of super battles. Unfortunately, after Bruce Wayne witnessed this first hand after the events of Man of Steel, he decided to take that into his own hands in BVS...or at least that's the best guess I have as to why scrapped the pilot that creator/showrunner Ben Queen debuted at Comic-con and decided to replace it with this new concept by Justin Halpern & Patrick Schumacker.
The cast is a dream and they really are doing their best to be slightly different versions of characters from better shows - Hudgens has a great demeanor as the Leslie Knope type, Tudyk is perfectly suited to play the Michael Scott character, Pudi is always fun to watch and even though it's the polar opposite of Abed he should be able to excel as the slacker April type, Funches is definitely the lovable Andy Dwyer of the bunch and Wendy is the socially awkward one.
For those of you not in the know, Powerless was supposed to be the DC version of The Office... an office of regular ol' insurance agents dealing with the clean up of super battles. Unfortunately, after Bruce Wayne witnessed this first hand after the events of Man of Steel, he decided to take that into his own hands in BVS...or at least that's the best guess I have as to why scrapped the pilot that creator/showrunner Ben Queen debuted at Comic-con and decided to replace it with this new concept by Justin Halpern & Patrick Schumacker.
The original concept was grounded, funny and would easily fit into the void left behind by The Office and Parks & Rec; Instead, the new concept focuses on Wayne Security, it's like giving a show to Q from the 007 movies or making a companion film focusing on Bruce and Lloyd from Get Smart, and nobody would ever greenlight that film...right? At the end of the day the cast now gets to make gadgets and give a few Batman themed shout-outs here and there... sounds good right? No I don't think so either.
Vanessa Hudgens stars as the naive and like-able Emily Locke, the new head of R&D who has to get slackers Teddy (Danny Pudi), Ron (Ron Funches) and Wendy (Jennie Pierson) cranking out new ideas to combat their rivals at Lexcorp. Her boss is Bruce Wayne's hapless cousin Van, played by Alan Tudyk. The unsung hero of the cast is the mean spirited Jackie, played by Christina Kirk doing her best Jane lynch impression.
The cast is a dream and they really are doing their best to be slightly different versions of characters from better shows - Hudgens has a great demeanor as the Leslie Knope type, Tudyk is perfectly suited to play the Michael Scott character, Pudi is always fun to watch and even though it's the polar opposite of Abed he should be able to excel as the slacker April type, Funches is definitely the lovable Andy Dwyer of the bunch and Wendy is the socially awkward one.
The writing in this is...well lazy. None of the characters seem to have any depth and none of them stand out at all. Van is too aloof and lacks the heart that Steve Carell brought to his boss role. By episode 5 Van gets a tad better but he's still very one note. Pudi is given absolutely nothing memorable or quirky or that takes advantage of his physical comedy skills. The rest of the cast is serviceable, Ron is a plot device to throw in the ol' "you people" type shtick (again lazy low hanging fruit), Jackie gets to be mean and crude by delivering every line super fast and under her breath a la Jane Lynch, and Wendy is essentially Fat Amy from Pitch Perfect meets Chloe O'Brien so her one trait is that she is blunt and overly sexualized and that's supposed to be funny because she's not a typically attractive person...never seen that joke before...ever.
The theme of laziness carries into the comic bookiness of the story...I don't know why this in the DC Universe...seriously apart from a few name drops and the appearance of Crimson Fox...don't worry you can wiki who the eff she is, I'll wait...this could take place in a spy themed world or any other genre and it wouldn't change a darn thing.
At the end of the day it's a pleasant show with some easy jokes thrown in here and there. It's not offensively bad, but it's not anything you'll miss if it goes away. It's just good enough for the network to sandwich between better shows so you don't change channels...Strangely it's after Superstore and before Chicago Med..so the strategy seems to be start funny and ramp it down before the drama starts. Anyway, let me know what you think about Powerless airing Thursday nights on NBC.
The theme of laziness carries into the comic bookiness of the story...I don't know why this in the DC Universe...seriously apart from a few name drops and the appearance of Crimson Fox...don't worry you can wiki who the eff she is, I'll wait...this could take place in a spy themed world or any other genre and it wouldn't change a darn thing.
At the end of the day it's a pleasant show with some easy jokes thrown in here and there. It's not offensively bad, but it's not anything you'll miss if it goes away. It's just good enough for the network to sandwich between better shows so you don't change channels...Strangely it's after Superstore and before Chicago Med..so the strategy seems to be start funny and ramp it down before the drama starts. Anyway, let me know what you think about Powerless airing Thursday nights on NBC.
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