Would this work better than a paint stick for my lav mic at a shoot?

10:40Next question. All right, next up from Paul Vahos in Austin, Texas. Would this work better than a paint stick for my lav mic at a shoot? I also just want to briefly make a comment that I love David's question and how quickly and accurately it was answered. And that's like peak office hours, I just want to say. Alexander, let's talk about the paint stick.

11:09Yeah, this is the paint stick. I hate these products. I hate these products so much. I hate that people buy tiny lav mics. I hate that they put them on stupid little sticks like this. If you want a handheld microphone, buy a real one. And I'll tell you which one that I would suggest. If you want an interview mic, get the classic.

11:33And especially, you know, considering that you're putting a lav mic that's omni-directional on that anyways, if you want an omni one that's actually good, the Electro-Voice RE50, which is a classic handheld microphone with an omni-capsule there and an extended handle as well. Put mine on a boom pole. I don't know about you guys. I mean, this is a really nice microphone, and it's very inexpensive.

11:54And it's going to sound a lot better, and you won't blow the diaphragm as easily because those tiny little mics, especially the cheap ones, they're not good unless it's a DPA. Courtney? Yeah, but it has a wire on it, Alexander. Oh, no wires. Oh, no. You don't have to have a wire. Where do I plug that RE50 into my iPhone, though? They do make plug-on transmitters.

12:21You can get a nice, sure plug-on transmitter. Yeah, looks like a little cancer growing on the bottom of the microphone. microphone. Of the ones you mentioned in his little link here, I kind of like the one on the left because it accommodates a mic flag to be put on there, and it looks more like a conventional microphone. You can cover up the whole wireless transmitter body so that

12:45you aren't shamed for sticking a wireless on a piece of plastic, you know, and it puts Put a pop filter over the top of it. And generally, those pop filters and windscreens don't work very well on that little condenser microphone that's in most wireless mics. Jason? Oh, Paul, I'm surprised that you don't have the Rode Reporter, which is what I call the Bob Barker mic because it is comically long.

13:10And, you know, if you were to hollow this one out, and I don't remember it costing very much, but it sounds okay. you could actually stuff all the cabling all the way in there. It's not the Gene Rayburn? We're going Bob Barker? I call it the Bob Barker mic because Bob Barker, like, you know. Price is right. Yeah, I know. You went old game show reference.

13:36I went older game show reference. Oh, I just got one up. I didn't even know it. 50 on a stick. Pain stick. So yes, I do have one of these jokey little pain sticks. And I got it because I think it was... You were painting your back porch? I was painting my back porch. You had it within arm's reach though. Like that was...

14:00Everything is with arm's reach in this room. That's true. That's why the shot is so tight. No, the, I found it useful because I didn't have another, like, I was using the DJI, you know, lav to record something. It wasn't for live. And then I found, I was, we were trying to do an insert for NAB or something. I was trying to record and I didn't have any other microphones.

14:29And then all of a sudden I wanted to talk to somebody else. and I didn't have something like this and I was like man in that situation it would have been nice to dress this up and put a fake little wind muff on it so that it doesn't look like I have a little DJI mic clamped into the top of this and it's just more natural to be able to have that back and forth because