when I heard that senheiser was building an underwater microphone for the GoPro
Hero 4 I nearly lost my shirt are you
freaking serious you mean all the
recordings of me screaming like a whiny
hairless infant can continue after I hit
the water what does highquality
submarine audio even sound like dreams
of dialogues with dolphins danced in my
Dome L bro you can't bring your computer
into the water we finally got one but at
$200 does it offer enough Under the Sea
Adventure to wet your appetite let's
dive
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the video description excited about owning a piece
of History I ripped open this technological breakthroughs box
liberating the high quality foam that encapsulated the device and I'd be lying
if I said my uh audio file parts weren't
tingling a little bit the most obvious
physical characteristic of the MK2 elements is the a dead cat style
windscreen so clearly then this thing
isn't just made for underwater use and
if you're just dying to touch it at this point you're not the only one it ended
up though being a little less fuzzy and a little more prickly than I expected
turns out that's because much like me
it's meant to be rugged resistant to dust mud and snow when you used above
the water's surface the microphone mounts to a shell that will soon become
the back half of your gopro's waterproof housing snap it on to the hinge of the
stock front piece then this little cable
managed wire and this tiny PCB are
responsible for connecting the mic to your hero 4's mini USB port they can
safely be removed later by the way using this tab you then tuck the whole thing
discreetly into the back plate and bring the two halves of the housing together
to form a holy Union of hermetically sealed happiness I have to say I was a
little surprised to see an exposed PCB
but if you look really closely you can actually see that the housing is ever so
slightly thinner where it rests which should give you then some idea of how
tight the space constraints were for this product the whole package is very
light at just 45 GRS and setup is easy
you don't have to change any settings or turn the mic on separately it just
works but how well does it work well we
could have done all of our testing in the local pool but that costs 375 for
admission and since it wasn't going to be me doing the test anyway we decided
to send the new guy to run some tests in the temperate Waters of the Canadian
Pacific I mean what better underwater
AAL experience to capture than the screams of a panicked LMG riter being
subjected to temperatures low enough to store your
leftovers we started by running some highly conventional tests using both the
hero Force internal mic and the Sennheiser elements microphone including
the B air test oh this is the story all
the now this is story all about
H and the extreme
closeup but then we got a little confused the hero 4's basic standard
waterproof housing obstructs the internal mic resulting in muffled
distant sound especially when recording
speech safe to say I'm a little salty oh
I'm salty so then the elements kicks ass out
of the water especially considering it's at the end of a stick 5 ft away oh this
is already a bad
idea but that's not what we were amped
about when it came to this product and when it comes to the difference under
the water well I'll let you guys be the judge of
that
finally at that point then that we fired up the review guide and realized that
the elements isn't really meant to be
some epic James Cameron level underwater
camera in fact it's only rated for
pressures of one bar for up to 30 m i
mean what does that mean one bar that's just sea level
here so practically speaking then it means
you can probably take this thing snorkeling for about a half an hour
which is okay I guess but I really wish
that it was rated to the same depth as the waterproof housing that it's
replacing I mean am I even going to be able to take this thing next time I want
to go cliff diving though at this point you guys are probably thinking come on
cheer up lonus focus on the other points
remember the windshield yeah I remember and you know what it
actually does do a really good job above
ground we took our hero 4 on a little bike ride comparing the sound quality
between the GoPros standard closed back housing the open-backed housing and the
elements mic and with the closed back housing the internal mic basically only
picked up noise from the bike's front tire almost nothing being said by the
rider
the open back housing started off doing a pretty reasonable job at capturing
voice but this is normal talking
volume but soon encountered its arch nemesis wind once the bike started
moving and coming back to the elements
both of these were complete non-issues yourself on a bike and you're riding by
things that of noisy like
that the windshield completely cut out
wind noise during our bike test and it even worked when wet not only that but
it doesn't capture a lot of The Creeks squeaks and other handling noises that
the internal mic does because it's mounted using a flexible shockproof
standoff so bottom line then right now
this is the only works with GoPro
certified mic can't believe it took this long you can use it with mostly the same
mentality that you would your GoPro and it sounds great compared to the onboard
mic so while it isn't the magical
product we wanted it to be if you've got $200 to blow on better GoPro audio until
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