April Behind The Scenes, Mailbag, & New Wireless Mic Test 

If you have a mono source, you have to duplicate it for both channels in your video editor. Thanks for the awesome video!

"Threw them out." Ha! You stuffed those wireless mics into a drawer, didn't you?

I like your fuzzy rabbit audio.

It made my day to see that you have a lot of Arthur Ransome books. I still love them even as an adult.

Enjoyed the glimpse at your book shelf 😁

Oooo... those battery packs are from Voltaic Systems, they make nice stuff!

The random junk videos I like the most ;)

Mics are weird around other radio sources. It has to do w the polarity of the mic. And the thing is that you can't tell unless you hook it up. They can be changed. However I would suggest a ground cable on the receiver side of the mic.

This makes for a good repeated theme. "What Goes In? What Goes Out?"

Oh those mouse robots are gonna make for some really interesting cat toys!

Off-note here but people with your type of skills really do well in networking, technology and audio in concert touring/events - so I was really surprised that you said you had no audio knowledge! The amount of signal transmission, reception and processing at concerts or events is almost like your own little galaxy of satellites haha.

Everyone needs more junk. Good luck with all that.

For example, if you want to remove the hiss and background noise on that wireless mic you should check and see if there's anything in the settings for a noise gate, or if it has a built-in denoiser. If neither, you'll have to remove it in post when you're editing.

Compared to your vast knowledge of crazy topics, this video comes across very relatable and makes our other communications make sense. Yes, one of these days I will get you a weight on the lamp. 😁

The mousebots are delightful. I want three to just program to drive around my house aimlessly

Best man on this planet 😊

i think the mic ur using rightnow sounds great, cant complain at all ,sounds fantastic to me! Keep up the good work!❤

maybe the hiss is the limiter, or AGC in ham language so you get always same level of audio. Mostly used in places with background noise as it eliminates the background completely as long as you're talking.

Very interesting items thanking you from UK

For your 3D printer, you could look into octoprint on a Raspberry pi with camera. So can you seee whats going on and control your 3D printer.

The camera for the printer is very important in my opinion, because 3D printers sometimes act up. And the camera for the telescope, I hope they will also show us some of the images they have taken. Did you also watch the solar eclipse live yesterday? I watched it live on NASA's Twitch channel.

That wireless mic sounds like you're on the local news in bum f middle of nowhere rural alaska, or wyoming, or south dakota!

Enjoyed watching what you deemed a ‘pointless’ video

Im deaf in one ear so... 👍👍 The hiss is prolly all the satalite rf triangulating on your location 😂

spam bots back at it againn

Interesting wireless mic, hopefully the sender can help it be set up. Sounded like the units pre-amp was amplifying the noise floor to easily audible levels. On the other hand it could have been some kind of ground loop between unit & camera or RF getting coupled to the audio thru proximity. Crossed fingers, after all it would be nice to be working without issue. Your standard jack in mic sounds good which reminded me it is typically an electret and you would think it has some pre-amp applied before digitized by the rest of the electronics. I wonder if that is the case perhaps it needs adjusted to its lowest setting?

Thanks for the video .. glad you uploaded

the terrible audio I considered a feature, not a bug

Great vid 👍 your random behind the scenes vids are always cool 👍 thank you 👍

That little tablet thing looks so cool, a shame if you cannot put another OS on it or at least use it as a dumb serial terminal.

If there isn't I feel there should be a junk trading discord . I would join for that.

thats a nice mischief of mice you have there ! exciting times ahead, interesting video as ever.

@4:00 i think your audio wire acts like an antenna and the static is like on old tv's and caused by the microwave background radiation (remnant of the big bang), or it is badly grounded.

I think the audio that you have normally sounds good to me that cam mic that you have works fine I’ve gotten used to hearing what you sound like on that and there’s nothing wrong with that audio

Great update. I have a blue yeti usb microphone. It is quite fancy and it still produces noticeable white noise. I end up having to clean it in several passes in audacity. It is about 1/3 as loud as the noise from your mic. I have tried everything as well. Maybe it is something that needs filtering externally. Not really sure.

Very interested in that Honeywell Thor VM1. Can you point me to those two videos? Thanks for sharing.

In the diy satellite tracking video you said that you wanted to use the lcd display but your Arduino did not have enough pins. You could fix that problem by using a i2c module for the display. If you use that module , you only need 2 pins for data

Did you happen to snag any weather satellite images of the shadow of the eclipse crossing the country? Those would make for great trophies.

04:30 could it be interference radio from gear you run at your place? That was seriously awful sound , weird.

Good fur baby dad got them some robots,cats will have to battle Sky net now

Okay, I will ask: *_"Mouse Robots"?_*

I thought the mic sounded good? You sounded fine and clear to me? No hiss on my end? Good luck.

Audio guy here. I can field most any questions you might have for setting stuff up. I'm way easier to get ahold of on Discord than in RU-vid comments. I'm RandoRog on there.

That telescope webcam is cool.. Do you know of any live telescope webcam IP addresses.. I need a live feed I can test on something I am doing..

Not related to the video but are you planning to cover Meshtastic?

If you don't end up getting those Deity Mics working, I'd take them off your hands!

Audacity old school enough for you to know

A while back I bought a PortaPack spectrum analyzer. But I never caught on or got into it. Could serve educational purposes in better hands?

How does the mic connect to the camera? I want to buy a new camera if I can get inspired to film something good with it. Can't believe it's 2024 and we're still doing the clapper thing.

When every day😀 is your birthday

Although it is very against this channel's motto, it's best to leave those old 3D printers be. They belong in the past with all their flaws causing nothing but wasted time, wasted material and lots of frustration. If you care mostly about creating parts rather than constantly tinker with the printer itself and hope that a part will come out good: I strongly recommend getting a Bambu Lab P1S which is a 90 % perfect parts producer. I'm saying this because I've had very little frustration with my own P1P and the P1S at work. Both are absolute workhorses cranking out part after part with minimal care.

'A Day in the Life of Gabe' is a nice way to start the day

2.21 / 2.22 minutes in the video = look at the top of '2312' book in the bookcase?

Uhh....if I read the logo on that wireless mike correctly it said Deity Connect. That hissing sound may well have been a demon trying to speak to you. I'd be careful.

I dont mind the audio quality as long as I dont hear the bus driving by or anything really disturbing my inner peace. THe personality counts more imho.

em interference?

im curious about your genetics. do you know your ancestry?

@saveitforparts >>> Great video...👍

haha wireless mic is crap oh well it was free! Pure hiss the whole time. Too many automatic features processing the audio I'd say. If you can turn all of the audio processing off on the mic and do all that later on the computer that would be better. I would suggest transitioning to more narrative style voiceovers with b-roll footage while you're talking so you can record the audio in an Echoproof box as created by @nighthawkinlight. Otherwise a directional mic with the fuzzy or a boom just out of shot would be your best bet for your onscreen time. You have a random dome floating around you could turn into the directional mic to reduce background noise.