Tonor TC30 USB Mic Microphone Review with Kittens and Blaise

0:00 Of course that's Blaze, no, the cats

One. Alright guys, my name's Jonathan Ellaskins, The DJ Tutor and I have my helpers with me today. And apart from literally locking them out of the kitchen, there's not much I can do. Of course that's Blaze, no, the cats. Here we have Shemin and here we have Cosmo. Who is biting my hand. Yeah, there is a third kitten but hopefully Smokey will leave us alone. Anyway! I'm going to do a review on this. This is the Tonar TC30. Now, last year I did a review on the mic from them, the TC20, which comes with a boom stand. Now, again, with reviews when you're using microphones, it's very difficult to... I'm going to show you the proper quality because even if I plug it in, you're going to be listening to audio from the mic which is going to be very slightly different from a normal mic I'd use anyway. In other words, what I'm trying to say here is that it's very similar to when I do speaker demos. I can turn the speaker on but it's very difficult for you to understand the quality of the sound

It's down to how the microphone picks a sound up and how it's transmitted through the web and so on. But what I can do here is show you this. This is the TC30. Now apparently there's about sort of 8,000 reviews on Amazon and there is a link in the description where you can get this from Amazon and that is for I believe the UK and the USA so make sure you do check and click the relevant link for wherever you are around the world. Anyway this is A condenser microphone. Now, that's slightly different to a dynamic microphone because a condenser microphone, basically what that will do is that will pick up practically any sound. So being directional means that once you've set this up, you've got to be pretty close to it. So if I open this up now, so we'll open it up. Your spit is flying all over my face. Is my spit flying? Yeah.

2:15 Overall quality of items and

I do apologise. Okay, so what have we got? We have the destruction manual. Would you like to open it up for me? What have we got in there, Blaze? We have got the mic and we have got the stand that comes with it. Yeah, just well we're gonna check something out in a bit. All right now first things first is I try and look at the overall quality of items and the stand itself is metal and also what we've got we've got sort of three rubber feet so I don't think that's going to sort of fall down or again with the rubber feet that's probably going to help with vibrations from the surrounding area um and you've got the mechanism here that you fit hold on let me turn that on there we've also got um this okay that is called a pop stand okay so basically what what this is for what if we're not pop singers not probably pop singers okay what this is for um has

Blazer explained earlier on me spitting everywhere. I do apologise. That's going to help, you know, when you're sort of doing your P's and your Q's. In other words, it's going to stop a lot of, you know, just the unwanted sort of sounds getting into the microphone. Yes, Blazer? I thought we were doing a mic review, not a toilet review. Toilet, OK. The P's. The P's, right. OK, fair enough. All right. So the microphone itself. There it is. Now, this is USB-C into a basic USB plug that you put into your computer. So if we open it up, let's have a look. There is the cable and I believe this is two meters in length. So I'm going to open that up and... There is your cable. Two meters? Yep, two meters. Now setup is really simple. It's just a question of plugging that in. Now again with USB-C as opposed to the micro USB. Micro USB you can only plug it in one way and I think a lot of items now are going to be USB-C because there's no problem there of...

4:48 Plugging the microphone or the cable, should I say, in the wrong way a

Plugging the microphone or the cable, should I say, in the wrong way around. So it's just a question of plugging it in and batting me on the head. Thank you, Blaze. Right. So I'm going to turn that like that. Could we review sparkling water? Let's just... No, shut up. Let's just unplug that. And this is also a side review. It's my review on sparkling water. Sparkling water, right. You have a drink of the sparkling water. There you go. Okay, right, Blaze is now having a drink of sparkling water and getting it all over the place. Right, I'm going to put that... They do say, seriously, they do say, right, never work with children or animals, so I am like doing everything. I'm doing both, yeah, exactly. Okay, alright, so the stand itself, there you go, set up with the mic. My review on the sparkling water. I'm going to plug in the USB.

6:20 You're doing Skype, maybe Facebook Messenger, something like that

And now I'm going to put the pop protector front. We call it a pop protector. Yeah, why not? And at the moment, like, I'm making this 100% more enjoyable. Yes. Before, Dad would just be like... Yeah, in other words, Blaze is adding, hopefully, the humour to it. OK. So what would you use this microphone for? Well, let's say, for example... Pop singing. Let's say you're doing podcasts. You're doing Skype, maybe Facebook Messenger, something like that. Now it's not expensive at all. I believe it's around about £37 99p UK. Why do they have to add that 99p? They're just so pence hungry. Like they really want a lot of pence. Now being cardio as well, what it will do It will pick up practically any sound, so you have to be very careful there. So again, if you do want to do some kind of podcast and you just want people to hear you, then make sure you're in a relatively soundproof room. And again, being cardioil, you need to make sure that you talk directly in front of it because if you move from the side to the side, it's probably not going to pick up your sound as much as it would do

I'm going to take the mic out of there and what I'm going to do now is I'm going to see if it will go inside here. And yes, it does. There you go. So we can put that in the boom stand. Alright, so I'm just going to check the box, make sure there's nothing else in there, which there isn't. Oh wait, no, no, no, I want that. Can I have that bit? You can have that bit. Don't break it! No, there's no gloves. Yeah, don't break it. I know, I'm not supposed to break gloves, I'm supposed to wear them, the darn thing. You're supposed to wear them, alright. Right, so basically guys, this is, hopefully we're going to do another video on this in the near future. So again, what we've got here is we've got a relatively inexpensive microphone for the likes of podcasts and so on.

Now again, you know, maybe you're a mum or you're a dad and your kids are desperately asking for a microphone. Thank you mate. They're desperately asking for a microphone and you're thinking you don't want to spend thousands. Well again, technology moves forward and also kit gets better and better and while it gets better, it gets less expensive. I have to be careful about saying cheap because it's not getting cheap as in crap quality. It's just getting more Let's say there's easier access to you getting it and not having to spend so much money. Instead of maybe 20 or 30 years ago, a microphone like this would have cost you an arm and a leg. So there you go, it's from Tonar, it's the TC-30 USB condenser microphone. And you buy something like this, you give it to your young teenager...

9:19 I apply whenever I want to sing a part

And if they do end up breaking it after one or two years, then you haven't broken the bank. And again, proof here is that... Well, no, that won't work now because it needs to be on here, doesn't it? No, I know how to make it work. But then also, if you remember with... Hold on, shush. If we undo that and then... No, no, no, no, no. If you remember with the boom stand mic... It actually had its own... Stop singing, Greg. So I apply whenever I want to sing a part. Yeah, alright. Where is it? Look at the cameras over there, mate. Anyway, alright, so the website itself is www.tonemike.com and also their support which is support at tonemike.com as well. Also look at this. So there you go. So in the box, also very quickly as well, you have a two-year warranty. And a whale.

And the whale, yeah. And the whale with an afro, look. Yeah, I believe the whale is their emblem. A whale with a mohawk, look. It's a whale with a mohawk. Alright, anyway, ladies and... Yeah, right out of the way. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much for watching. And again, generally this channel is sort of a DJ channel. But again, microphones is part and parcel of becoming a DJ. You know, you need to use your mic. Now what I will finish with... A lot of DJs that I teach are very scared about using the microphone. So a good tip for you to get used to using a microphone is maybe just sit at home and have something like this and talk into it, record yourself and then listen to yourself back again. So it's just a great way of getting used to the microphone and I highly recommend as well when you do videos...

Thank you for watching.

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