The $60 lapel mic that made my livestream sound like a potato

Everyone raves about cheap wireless mics for live videos, but mine picked up every echo and dropped audio right during a news blooper clip I was reacting to. I spent 60 bucks on it after seeing it in a few streamer setups, and it kept cutting out every time I turned my head. The weird part is the built-in phone mic worked better for the whole 2 hours I tested both side by side. Has anyone else had worse luck with budget wireless gear than just using the default setup?

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zara_sanchez1mo ago

Cheap wireless mics cut out like crazy, check the frequency bands or just stick with your phone mic.

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rileyprice1mo ago

My third take with that same style of mic had the audio lag like half a second behind my video, so I looked like a badly dubbed kung fu movie while trying to react to a clip of a cat falling off a shelf. I ended up pulling the whole thing out of my pocket mid-stream and just held my phone up near my face like a caveman. People in chat kept saying the phone audio was way clearer, which honestly stung a bit. Also my neighbor's wifi router somehow made it buzz whenever I walked near my office door, so I had to do my whole stream sitting in a weird crouch by the window. The cable on that thing also broke after like two weeks, so I just use my wired earbuds now. I feel like cheap wireless mics are only good if you never move and live somewhere with zero radio noise.

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