Modmic Unboxing & Installation Guide
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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So, why is Lionus wearing a pair of headphones right now? How is this an
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unboxing of a of a headset? Because these are clearly headphones. These are
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old headphones. These are not even like new and interesting headphones. Because
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I have something really cool to show you guys. This is the Oh, he says, "Good
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luck, Lionus." Thanks, Jimmy. That's always a good sign when the manufacturer
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says, "Good luck." No, I'm just kidding. I'm sure it's all good. Um, so this is
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the Ant Leon Ant Lion Mod Mic.
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www.mmodmike.com. Designed and assembled in Portland,
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Oregon, which is actually pretty much uh neighbors from here. The instructions
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are actually right on the outside of the tube. So, the packaging is pretty simple. It's a toilet paper roll that
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has both of the ends bent. It's not quite a toilet paper roll. It's a little bit more rugged than that. Okay, I'm I'm
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just I'm just teasing Jimmy here. Okay, we're going to get serious now. Find a
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flat spot on the headphones to place the adhesive circle. The pad will stick to
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smooth and mesh surfaces just like this one that you see right here. Okay, put
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your headphones on. Make sure the Mod Mic will reach from the point of attachment to within 3 in behind the
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corner of your mouth. Clean the surface with the provided alcohol swab. Let dry
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and stick it. And then angle and location 30 seconds adhesive, whatever.
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Okay, let's open this bad boy up. So this is the way to solve the problem
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that I personally have had and that I think many people have had where by and
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large the head the the the headphones
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included on gaming headsets are not necessarily the best thing out there in
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terms of a high audio quality gaming experience. Now, I switched from my um
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from my HD555s that you see here to my Steel Series 7H's quite a while ago when
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I basically just was like, "Okay, well, I'm tired of hanging a microphone around
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my neck. I will accept that the 7H's might not be quite up to the same
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standard as 555s uh for the convenience of having an integrated mic. Now, with
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this guy right here, I no longer have to compromise. So, here we go. We've got
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alcohol swabs, which you use to apply the mod mic. Apparently, there's uh
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apparently you're going to have to like bend this thing pretty good. Put your headphones on. Bend the boom until the
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mic sits behind the corner of your mouth. So, they do want you to bend it.
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There's uh not much in terms of
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Oh, okay. There you go. That's pretty flexible. Okay, that's not bad. That's uh that's not not actually what I was
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what I was expecting there. All right. You've got Here we go. included magnetic
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pieces here. So, you've got uh you can actually hook it up to two different
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headphones. So, these have magnets and adhesive strips on the back. So, maybe
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what we'll do is we'll actually go through the whole process here. I'll just mount the thing to my HD555s and
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we'll call that an unboxing. So, consider this a mod mic installation
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guide. Which side does the microphone usually go in? This side, right, left side. Yeah. Okay. So, here we go. So,
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we're going to take our mesh spot here. We're going to use our alcohol swab.
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This is really important because otherwise the adhesive stands a really good chance of not adhering correctly if
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there's any kind of grease residue. Adhesives do not like that. So, we're
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going to go ahead and do that. Then, we're going to take one of these two
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spots. So, you can see the uh the magnetic piece clips onto there really
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nice. So, we're going to take one of these two and we're going to mount it
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kind of I mean, normally we'd try this before we actually go ahead and stick it
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to it, but whatever. So, we're going to go with You know what? I'm going to at
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least try to do this properly. Okay. So,
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we're going to go with right about I'm going to test that spot. Make sure it
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doesn't look stupid. Yep. So, we're going to go with that spot right there.
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Press on it for a little bit here. In fact, they probably have instructions for how long they want you to press on
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it. Uh, press it on for 30 seconds. So, we, you know, we'll finish pressing it
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on after. Okay. Then, the next thing you do is you take the Mod Mic, which has,
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see a little cable managed wire here. So, you can Okay, you know what? I'll
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show you that part later. So then you take the mod mic and you put it into
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this piece right here. So this unscrews. There we go. And then can go in either
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this way or
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Oh yeah, that goes in pretty tight right there. Okay. So it goes in just like
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that. Sits in there pretty good. Then you
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screw this on. Okay. That holds it into place. And
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voila. Hopefully this works because like I said, I haven't tested it at all. So,
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you just make it so that this sits right by the corner of your mouth here. You
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can adjust that the way that you want. And oh, I don't think I got the angle
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quite right, but we can compensate for that. And there you go. So, it has a
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little What' I do? Oh, it's magnets, right? So,
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it's basically magic. Uh, so there we go. So, then what you do is you take the
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little included cable organizer doodad here. You clip that to your existing
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headphone cable. If I had to criticize something about the product so far, I'd
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say that it's a little bit small, the clip for the other cable, but what I'll
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what I would probably end up doing is attaching them in a more permanent fashion, even using a piece of braided
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sle and covering the entirety of both of the wires together so that it's uh
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pretty much one cord. Because the mod mic is interesting from a, you know, oh,
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I can detach it from my headphones perspective, but as a gamer, I think
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most people are going to be using it as more like a way to attach a high quality
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mic to a pair of headphones pretty much semi-permanently. So, the way that these
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connect is actually by a screw-in connector. So, I have pretty good
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confidence in the ruggedness of that connection right there. And I think
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that's pretty much it. So, I'm really excited to actually try this out, guys.
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I wish I had taken a little bit more time to get the angle right because the
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angle that it comes out here is dependent on the way that these Oh,
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that's smart. Look at that.
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Oh, so you can either detach it completely or you can actually put it up
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like that just by using magnets. See, magnets are basically magic. It's
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amazing. Now I'm like I've lost completely lost
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my train of thought. I just want to get this I want to get this about right before we wrap up here. And I'm having a
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little bit of trouble doing that. Once you get it in place, I don't think it's
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going to move because it's actually quite stiff. So, thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the
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Antlian Mod Mic. Don't forget to subscribe to Lance Tech for more
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unboxings, reviews, and other computer videos. And I'm really glad they include two because my original perception that
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it's so that you can have two different headphones you can use it with might have been wrong. Maybe it's so that you
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can have a a doover on the uh the setup
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process there. Thanks, guys.