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0:00 if you've watched a review of a wireless mic system in the last couple of years you've probably heard a comment like this I would still love to see these with a matte finish and less obvious branding on them well Holly Land listened to all of those comments and came up with an answer the Lark m2s it retains the simple to use features and affordable price of their popular lar M2 kit but they redesigned the mic transmitter to be discreet and as small as possible with no visible branding or lights but they made have solved one problem and created another one let's take a closer look before we dive in I want to mention that Holly Land did not send me the Lark m2s I purchased it myself I do have a couple affiliate links in the description if you're interested in
0:46 picking up the m2s or any of the other mics that we're going to talk about and you'd like to support this Channel all right to get started let's talk about what you get with the m2s the audio that you're hearing right now is the m2s 3.5 mm output running into Panasonic Lumix s52 recording a 24-bit at 48 khz no postprocessing has been applied other than normalizing the level to min-6 lfs and I did use a limiter to prevent clipping I will give you a processed sample in just a little bit so you can hear how it cleans up the lar m2s is available in a few different kits the one I purchased here comes with a tiny USBC receiver for use with smartphones tablets and computers as well as the camera receiver which has a 3.5 mm output and a USB output put it comes with two transmitters the charging case
1:32 for everything wind Muffs for the transmitters a USB cable a 3.5 mm TRS cable and a carrying pouch the cheapest kit as you would probably guess is the one with just the USB receiver which is $119 and the most expensive one is the one that comes with all of the receivers which is $159 the audio conversion is 24bit with a 48 kerz sample rate and I will put up the rest of the audio specs here on the screen so you can check them out the transmitter battery life is up to 9 hours and the camera receiver is up to 8.5 hours the USB receivers are powered by whatever device you plug them into and they don't have a built-in battery they do however have a USBC power pass through Port so you can keep your phone charged while using them the transmitters weigh only 7 G and they
2:17 have a titanium clip that holds the mic in place so that the little microphone capsule is the only thing visible while the larger part of the transmitter with the indicator light and the control button as well as all of the internal Electronics that stays concealed the single button Powers the transmitter on and off initiates pairing mode when you hold it down and it also turns the noise cancellation on and off with a quick press the stated range of the transmitter is up to 300 M or 1,000 ft from the receiver the camera receiver is plastic and it has a small dial with three output gain levels and a cold shoe Mount the battery life of the receiver as I mentioned is 8.5 hours Holly Land States you can get up to 30 hours of Total use time when you recharge the transmitters and receiver in the charging case before you would need to
3:02 recharge the case and everything else now there are some settings you can control in the hollyland lar sound app when you have the receiver connected to your device via the USB receiver these settings include the recording mode which is mono or stereo and the stereo mode does work over USB meaning you can record each microphone separately onto the left and right channels using the USB receiver in the app you also have the noise cancellation setting which is either high or low once you set it to high or low in here that's the level it will use when you turn the noise cancellation on or off using the buttons on either the transmitter or the receiver you can't change it to high or low using the transmitter and receiver you can only do that in the app you can also control the gain level turn on or off your phone's speaker playback and
3:48 the power timeout setting there's even a custom setting feature that allows you to do a few different things with the uh receiver and the transmitters as far as how they behave when you press the buttons for example you can set it to identify transmitter one and transmitter 2 with different LED colors when you double press the button in case you really need to know which one's number one and which one's number two and of course you can also update the firmware using the app as well which I did there was an immediate firmware update available right after I received it and powered it on and it worked just fine so how does the Lark m2s sound with everybody's favorite pocket sized travel gimble camera the DJI pocket 3 I'm in the car which is not the greatest environment for capturing great dialogue because of the like deep boomy terrible sound that you usually get kind of like
4:35 you're in a submarine or something and here is how it's sounding compared to the built-in microphone on the pocket 3 here's how that sounds in the car in this environment compared to the lar m2s now to do this I've got the little USBC receiver plugged into the backs side of the battery grip that usually makes it a little bit easier to attach anything from a USB standpoint having that on the back versus having to plug it in on the bottom so let me know what you think down in the comments which one sounds the best with the pocket 3 the built-in microphones or the m2s all right so we're going to do our range test for the lar m2s we do have the wind muff installed because it's kind of a breezy day here noise reductions not on no post-processing or anything we're just going to start out at 10 m away from the camera and go out
5:20 as far as I can go here all right we're starting at just 10 m away from the camera shouldn't have any problem here honestly this is as far as I ever need to be away from my camera but uh that's not what we're here to test we're here to test the manufacturer's stated range and whether it works within that range not whether it's reasonable to use it that far away from the camera all right now we're 25 M away from the camera we still should have no problem at this range this is super short compared to the max stated range but I am going to turn around turn my back to the camera put obstruction site that is when you start to get signal breakup so while I was turned around there did the signal break up at all all all right and now we are at 50 m away from the camera once again still should definitely be working at this distance the camera already looks
6:06 super tiny and I'm uncomfortable leaving it this far away from me but we're only at 50 m away I'm going to turn my back and see if turned okay so while my back was turned did the signal breake up there camera's still well short of its stated range but how is it working at this distance this is pushing the boundaries of what would be reasonable for everyday use cases but how's it working all right I'm now all the way out at 150 M away from the camera this is just about as far as it can go here how is the signal working at this distance the manufacturer T them in like perfect L conditions and these are here's a quick sample of the m2s running into my iPhone 16 Pro Max I'm using Black Magic Camera to record this have the audio set to Mono don't have noise reduction turned on yet but we're
6:51 going to test out the noise reduction here I'm going to start playing some traffic noise through the speakers that are behind me on my desk all right so here's the traffic noise playing with no noise reduction turned on we've got a combination of constant and transient noises here and now the noise reduction is turned on on the low setting so this is how it sounds with the noise reduction on low and the same level of traffic noise playing how's it handling both that constant noise and those transient noises once again here is the noise reduction turned off and now here is the noise reduction on the high setting noise reduction is turned on and it has been changed to the high high setting so same thing does it remove more of that traffic sound there was a pretty loud horn there did it remove
7:37 transient sound of that horn once again here's the noise reduction turned back off and now the high noise reduction is turned back on so once again here's what that sounds like I'm guessing I wouldn't use the high mode unless I was in a live setting and had no choice but let me know in the comments did you hear a quality difference between the low setting and the high setting all right now I just wanted to point out something about the original Lark M2 and also give you a sample compared to the original solution for discret on Talent audio the lavalier microphone first let's talk about the original lm2 because we shouldn't discount it as being not discret here one thing you can do if you're going for that discret appearance is to turn it inside out and put the magnet on the
8:22 outside which I have done over here on my left side your right side as long as your subject is wearing a clothing layer that's not like a big thick coat you can put the mic on the inside and then you could always cover the hollyland logo on the magnet and now you've got a very discreet mic as you can hear it still picks up sound quite well this way as long as you don't have that really thick layer of clothing because of the magnet you also have good flexibility with where you can place the mic more flexibility than where you can place the m2s because you don't have to clip it on the edge of something and now let's talk about the solution for discrete audio that's existed for decades the lavalier microphone I'm actually wearing a lav mic that you can't see I'm wearing a DW lav Pro under my shirt it's stuck to me using a little sticky felt pad that protects the mic from the rustling of
9:09 clothing and I've got it connected to the transmitter from a road Wireless Pro microphone kit it's recording internally in 32-bit float so I don't even have to use the receiver here if I don't want to there's a huge variety of lavalier mics on the market both affordable and expensive as well as extra small options that are great for hiding under clo or under hat brims or even in longer hair there's just tons of places that you can put a lavalier microphone besides the usual you know clip it onto your shirt kind of like the way you do with the m2s all right now we're switching over to a processed audio sample of all three of these microphones now so that you can hear how they sort of clean up in post I'll be applying some noise reduction a highpass filter some EQ adjustments and compression in post to the audio from each of the microphones as we continue
9:56 switching back and forth if you consider your options here both original lar M2 and the lar m2s are very simple to use just take them out of the case connect the receiver to a camera or phone check your levels and hit record you don't get a backup internal audio recording but you do get very high ease of use with a kit like the road Wireless Pro the DJI Mike 2 or the road Wireless go Gen 3 you do get a bigger transmitter but it accepts a 3.5 mm input from a lav mic or any 3.5 mm mic and you get the 32-bit float internal recording which is great to have in in case your signal breaks up to the wireless receiver however you do sacrifice a little bit in terms of ease of use because you have to take a little more time to get wired up with a lav mic and of course you have the price difference but the point here is that if
10:41 you're looking for a discrete mic to wear the m2s is not your only option however both it and the original M2 are one of the more wallet friendly options out there that won't call too much attention to themselves all right now before we talk about my overall impressions of the lark m2s let's do a little more comparing to wireless mic options that are targeting a similar use case for Content creation I'm currently wearing transmitters for the lar m2s the original lar M2 the road Wireless micro and the DJI mik mini I'll put the prices of all of these up on the screen so you can see the price ranges that we have here they're all within a relatively tight price range I'm recording all of these at the same time by connecting the receivers over USB to my MacBook and I'm
11:27 recording them all using an app called audio hijack all right starting with the original lar M2 here this was one of the first mik kits to offer the tiny button style transmitters that are super easy to use and have become more popular they also offer multiple versions of the kit just like the m2s in fact I think it's the same versions of the kits where you can get basically just one receiver exactly the one you need or you can get a combo kit that has everything the pricing on it has come down a little bit since it originally came out probably you can find it a little less than the lar m2s which is newer the difference here is that you can record the stereo 2 channel uh output over USB with the m2s not the original lar M2 you can only do that with the lar M2 original over the camera receiver's 3.5 mm output so
12:15 that's the one significant difference between the two next we have the road Wireless micro which comes in just a little bit higher price at $149 however the difference here is that it has the smallest charging case of any of them because the only way you can get this is with a USB receiver either USBC or lightning there is no camera receiver available that has a 3.5 mm output so it all fits right in this teeny tiny little case that's not much bigger than an an apple airpods case because of that tiny receiver now it does come with two transmitters it does have some of the same features and some not of the same features the road was really going for ease of use here it does have Auto gain assist which helps control clipping it also brings up quiet audio which means you don't need to worry about setting
13:00 the gain which is nice it does not have any type of noise reduction and the transmitter is a little bit bigger than both the lar M2 and certainly the m2s and then lastly we have the DJI mik mini which is the most full-featured mic kit here while also still being a relatively small transmitter it is significantly smaller than dji's mic 2 which has internal recording the DJI mik mini does not have internal recording just like the rest of these it is priced a little bit higher at $169 it's the most expensive option here however it also has some features that these others don't have it has clipping protection it has a clip guard feature which you can turn on and off it has a low cut filter which you can turn on and off in addition to the noise reduction which has two levels plus it has a safety track that you can turn on it also has a direct Bluetooth connection
13:46 that you can use with dji's cameras like the pocket 3 the action 4 and the action 5 so it's just got some more features to it which sort of I think do justify the higher price point so let me know what you think of all of these microphones that are sort of competing in the same realm as the lar m2s let me know which one you liked the sound of best down in the comments all right now for some pros and cons and my overall recommendation first up in terms of Pros we have the obvious one here Holly Lin gave us what we asked for the transmitters are discret they have no visible branding and they are tiny now that's not something you can say about a lot of the 2.4 GHz content creation focused mics on the market at least not the ones that have transmitters with built-in microphones at the same time they've
14:33 also kept the m2s very simple to use it's basically the same as the original M2 it's also a pretty good value for the price for $139 for this kit version you get both of the receivers and that's less in terms of price than the road Wireless micro which does not have a camera receiver only a USB receiver and it's also much less than the DJI mik mini which does have some more features and everything but it's also not as discreet it's not this tiny next I love that they added the two channel recording over the USB receiver this was a significant missing feature in the lar M2 which you do get in both the road Wireless micro and the DJI mik mini so having that now it sort of levels the playing field now the controls they're all simple nothing is over complicated in terms of pairing or changing settings however I do have
15:20 kind of one con about the controls but we'll get to that in a minute I also like that they've included the pass through Power delivery port on the USB receiver for your phone or your tablet because that was a missing feature on the road Wireless micro now the last Pro is kind of a soft Pro here it's the battery life of the transmitters at 9 hours it should definitely last long enough for a day of content creation however it is worth noting that 9 hours is no longer Cutting Edge for these wireless mic kits in fact the original lar M2 is rated for 10 hours of use time for the transmitter and the DJI Mike mini transmitter is 11 hours however I'm still counting it as a pro because 9 hours is better than the six or seven hours of life that mics like this used to get just a couple of years ago and it's still up there in terms of ranking against the competition it's just not best of the best all right before we
16:06 move on to cons I have a few things that I consider to be in the neutral category meaning you might count them as a pro or a con depending on your point of view or your priorities first just a quick comment about audio quality I'm not counting this in the pros because honestly I didn't find the audio quality of the m2s to be significantly better or significantly worse than the original Lark M2 or the DJI Mike mini in terms of of General quality it's not like one of them sticks out as the worst or the best I think in most cases they're all perfectly usable in terms of sound quality so it's going to be very subjective as to which one you like the best next up in the neutral category we have the range performance at first this is going to sound like a con in my testing the range performance of the transmitter was only kind of so so
16:51 compared to Hol land's claimed 300 met range and especially competitors like the DJI Mike mini check out my reviews video of the DJI Mike mini if you want to see how that performed in the range test but to sum it up the Mike mini just worked better at longer distances than the L m2s but the reason I'm not saying this is a con is because for a lot of creators out there you're never going to be 100 meters or more away from your camera you're probably never going to be even 50 m away from your camera if you are then the range performance would be questionable here honestly but for most people it performs fine within 50 m and that's going to be plenty of space for the vast majority of content creators out there all right now let's talk about a couple of cons for the lar m2s first let me get back to something I alluded to earlier about controlling the
17:37 settings while they did keep the controls on both the camera receiver and the USB receiver and the transmitters very simple there are settings that you have to control in the app which is okay if you are recording into a device that you can use the app on meaning a phone or a tablet however if you're using the lar m2s with the camera receiver for example the first thing you have to do before you actually record is plug one of the USB receivers into a device that has the app go into the app change your settings then you can connect it to the camera receiver you can't just you know kind of go straight to your camera which that could be a little frustrating now related to the features another con here is that there are actually some missing features in the lar m2s and also actually in the original lar M2 that
18:23 other wireless mic kits provide first of all there is no safety track or clipping protection feature here both the road Wireless micro and the DJI mic Mini have features to help make sure you don't encounter Distortion in your audio the lar m2s doesn't have any feature like that so if you set your gain level too high and you don't realize it you're going to have Distortion in your audio and it'll basically be ruined and it does nothing to help you prevent that so you really just have to make sure you always double check your audio levels before you hit that record button now it's not the end of the world cuz again this is coming in at a lower price than those competitors that have those features but it it would be nice to see and one other feature that it does not have which competitors do have there is no low cut filter for removing low frequency noise like the rumble of traffic or something like that again
19:08 this isn't a huge deal especially if you don't use these mics in any type of live situation as long as you're recording a video that you're going to edit later you can always apply a low cut filter or high pass filter in post now the rest of the cons I noticed are all related to physical attributes of the m2s and they may or may not be a big deal to you with the camera receiver for example it's not Totally Secure in some cold shoe mounts because it's not a clip style it doesn't apply any pressure to the actual mount it just slides in and which means if the coldw isn't tight it also slides right out and it did slide right out of a few cold shw mounts that are on my camera cages when I was trying it out so that is one little Annoying downside this wasn't a problem with the original lar M2 because the camera receiver there was actually a clip so it was applying its own pressure now with the transmitters
19:54 there are two physical things here that come at the expense of being so dis Reet the first issue here is just kind of a small annoyance as well it's the button on the transmitter it's on the part of the transmitter that goes behind your clothing or whatever you're clipping it to so if you start recording and then you step away from your camera like I am now and then you decide you want to turn on or off noise reduction you can't press that button that's on the receiver cuz well now you can't reach it and now I got to take the mic off press the button make sure the light turns green and then put the mic back on you can't just like glance down and press a button that's on the of the transmitter cuz that part of it's not on the outside like it is with the original lar M2 Probably sounds like it's not a big deal it's not a big deal it's just one of those things that the more times you have to do that the more annoying it
20:40 gets now a slightly bigger con related to this physical design is the limited placement choices that you have with the m2s I know this Probably sounds like complaining about the main feature of the m2s is something that we even asked for because the point here was to make it discret but because of the clip style design it limits where you can place it I can't put it on the outside or inside of my shirt further down away from my chin unless I'm wearing a shirt like this that buttons up if I was wearing a t-shirt it would have to go up on the collar you just don't have the same freedom of placement with it that you have with the original lar M2 because that has a magnet that you can put anywhere now to be fair generally speaking there's pretty much always somewhere that you're going to be able to place it that will work fine in most scenarios you just can't be quite as creative with where you can put it now
21:26 when you're Outdoors you also really don't have a choice but to use the wind muff because you can't turn the mic around if you did turn around first of all the big part would be on the outside but also the microphone capsule faces outward it doesn't face up so that means if you did turn it around it would be against your body all right so with all of those Pros neutral things and cons considered who is the lar m2s for well realistically you would have to be okay with the placement options that's priority number one if you want to be able to stick your microphone anywhere using magnets than the lar m2s it's not the best Choice out there of course you do also have to be okay without having a backup recording in the transmitter that's not a feature that's generally available at this price point so I'm assuming you're okay with that if you're looking at microphone kits like the M2
22:11 or m2s now beyond that you really just need to consider if the features meet your needs or if anything I mentioned in the neutral items in the con section would be a deal breaker for you and your use case nothing I experienced would make me say definitely don't buy this it's just a matter of whether anything would rule it out for you you so that'll do it for this video let me know what you think of the lar m2s let me know if you picked one up for yourself and how you're liking it don't forget to subscribe to the semipro teeken gear Channel and while you're here check out one of these videos I know you'll enjoy it thanks everybody see you next time
