Coles Watch Batteries

The lip mic does its job as well as any tool I've used in broadcast journalism over 23 years. You need high quality narration track in a noisy environment? Like a war zone? Go back and watch file of Ted Koppel sitting atop a tank turret as the US marines rolled into Iraq--reporting with good audio as the invasion started--while using a Coles lip mic. This Coles 4104B Lip Microphone never lets me down and it is worth its weight in gold...but please don't raise the price because I wrote this. I have these mics in all of our ENG and SNG trucks for tracking packages in the field. Wouldn't want to work without them.

Biased Brit I may be, but I came to love this fine mike at the BBC where it was designed in 1953. I'm now a voice actor, and use an NT1A capacitor to punch through music and effects, but turn happily to my Coles for narration and anything else that needs smooth, warm, natural repro 'with a smile'. Because I know producers are used to capacitor sheen, I use a touch of high-top EQ with the Coles although it is flat to 15k. It does come with a very odd fifties plug-base, so you are wise to buy the adaptor that fixes it to a modern stand, but I managed to wedge mine into a standard cradle. A surprise was the ribbon's ability to minimise external traffic rumble. Musician friend highly impressed by rendition of his saxophone.

I had to watch a few Youtube clips to figure out the remote and technique and workflow for good time lapses. Overall its a simple easy to use set up well made rail and I am happy with it. My only annoyance is some of the settings have to be redone if you power off . Example if you forget to reset the start stop positions and don't watch it complete the sequence you find it tying to drive though the end stop with the belt slipping and if its not switched of damage to the pulley and belt. It really should loose 1 star for that. They do have a spare belt included. A pleasant surprise is the battery life is great and the batteries a common fitting so I can use Sony style batteries from my LED light.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] We put the batteries in and were able to watch TV no set up required we love it! It was nicely packaged using non plastic wrap around the remote very impressive. My 4 yr old granddaughter's using it now.

This bumper is the best I have seen, you cant even tell its on the watch.

apple watch I like. very good.

Nice watch for a price.

I can now control what, when, and how I watch video.

good watch

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