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when I heard that senheiser was building an underwater microphone for the GoPro

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Hero 4 I nearly lost my shirt are you

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freaking serious you mean all the

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recordings of me screaming like a whiny

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hairless infant can continue after I hit

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the water what does highquality

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submarine audio even sound like dreams

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of dialogues with dolphins danced in my

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Dome L bro you can't bring your computer

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into the water we finally got one but at

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$200 does it offer enough Under the Sea

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Adventure to wet your appetite let's

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dive

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in hp's New Omen X lineup comes equipped

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with Intel's 7th generation core i7 processor check it out at the link in

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the video description excited about owning a piece

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of History I ripped open this technological breakthroughs box

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liberating the high quality foam that encapsulated the device and I'd be lying

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if I said my uh audio file parts weren't

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tingling a little bit the most obvious

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physical characteristic of the MK2 elements is the a dead cat style

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windscreen so clearly then this thing

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isn't just made for underwater use and

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if you're just dying to touch it at this point you're not the only one it ended

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up though being a little less fuzzy and a little more prickly than I expected

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turns out that's because much like me

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it's meant to be rugged resistant to dust mud and snow when you used above

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the water's surface the microphone mounts to a shell that will soon become

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the back half of your gopro's waterproof housing snap it on to the hinge of the

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stock front piece then this little cable

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managed wire and this tiny PCB are

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responsible for connecting the mic to your hero 4's mini USB port they can

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safely be removed later by the way using this tab you then tuck the whole thing

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discreetly into the back plate and bring the two halves of the housing together

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to form a holy Union of hermetically sealed happiness I have to say I was a

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little surprised to see an exposed PCB

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but if you look really closely you can actually see that the housing is ever so

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slightly thinner where it rests which should give you then some idea of how

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tight the space constraints were for this product the whole package is very

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light at just 45 GRS and setup is easy

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you don't have to change any settings or turn the mic on separately it just

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works but how well does it work well we

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could have done all of our testing in the local pool but that costs 375 for

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admission and since it wasn't going to be me doing the test anyway we decided

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to send the new guy to run some tests in the temperate Waters of the Canadian

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Pacific I mean what better underwater

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AAL experience to capture than the screams of a panicked LMG riter being

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subjected to temperatures low enough to store your

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leftovers we started by running some highly conventional tests using both the

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hero Force internal mic and the Sennheiser elements microphone including

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the B air test oh this is the story all

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the now this is story all about

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H and the extreme

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closeup but then we got a little confused the hero 4's basic standard

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waterproof housing obstructs the internal mic resulting in muffled

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distant sound especially when recording

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speech safe to say I'm a little salty oh

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I'm salty so then the elements kicks ass out

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of the water especially considering it's at the end of a stick 5 ft away oh this

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is already a bad

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idea but that's not what we were amped

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about when it came to this product and when it comes to the difference under

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the water well I'll let you guys be the judge of

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that

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finally at that point then that we fired up the review guide and realized that

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the elements isn't really meant to be

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some epic James Cameron level underwater

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camera in fact it's only rated for

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pressures of one bar for up to 30 m i

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mean what does that mean one bar that's just sea level

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here so practically speaking then it means

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you can probably take this thing snorkeling for about a half an hour

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which is okay I guess but I really wish

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that it was rated to the same depth as the waterproof housing that it's

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replacing I mean am I even going to be able to take this thing next time I want

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to go cliff diving though at this point you guys are probably thinking come on

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cheer up lonus focus on the other points

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remember the windshield yeah I remember and you know what it

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actually does do a really good job above

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ground we took our hero 4 on a little bike ride comparing the sound quality

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between the GoPros standard closed back housing the open-backed housing and the

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elements mic and with the closed back housing the internal mic basically only

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picked up noise from the bike's front tire almost nothing being said by the

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rider

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the open back housing started off doing a pretty reasonable job at capturing

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voice but this is normal talking

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volume but soon encountered its arch nemesis wind once the bike started

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moving and coming back to the elements

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both of these were complete non-issues yourself on a bike and you're riding by

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things that of noisy like

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that the windshield completely cut out

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wind noise during our bike test and it even worked when wet not only that but

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it doesn't capture a lot of The Creeks squeaks and other handling noises that

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the internal mic does because it's mounted using a flexible shockproof

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standoff so bottom line then right now

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this is the only works with GoPro

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certified mic can't believe it took this long you can use it with mostly the same

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mentality that you would your GoPro and it sounds great compared to the onboard

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mic so while it isn't the magical

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