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Tonor Wireless Handheld UHF Microphone Reviewed
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Jun 22, 2024
Thought about upgrading your karaoke microphone, the mic plugged into your amp for your garage band or even just want a handheld microphone for interviews for your podcast or video channel? You probably never realized there's good gear out there for under $50. Under $40, even. But does it work, and how does it sound? Tech expert and videographer Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ checks out the Tonor UHF Wireless Handheld Microphone and finds that while the packaging and features are a bit confusing, the core functionality works remarkably well... Check it out on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2LhjMnU
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A wireless microphone with 80 foot range? Let's check this out
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Dave Taylor here and I'm trying out this microphone and as you can tell
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it works from a long way away. So let's walk a little closer. Obviously it is wireless
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If this was a wired microphone, this would be a really long wire. Anyway, let me get a little
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closer. Let's sit down and let's talk about what this thing can do and how it works
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Okay, I made it back to my house and what we're looking at, by the way, is the Toner UHF wireless
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handheld microphone. Now, I can't actually demonstrate the microphone and show you the
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receiver at the same time, so I'm going to switch again and this time I'm going to use my regular
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lavalier mic and then we can go through both parts of this microphone. So give me just another second
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Okay, we're back. Now, this is the Toner UHF wireless handheld microphone and receiver unit
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Oh, hang on. I actually, there's a story behind this. The company is trying to figure out exactly
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what features to include. So this is actually the second generation of microphone I've received from
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them. The first generation had a quarter inch to 3.5 millimeter adapter, which is fantastically
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useful because anything that you can plug in a little microphone plug to, you can then plug in a
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big microphone plug to. Now, as is, this works perfectly fine if you want to plug it into a
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guitar amp or a karaoke machine or something and then you have this great wireless microphone that
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you can sing and dance and do all sorts of stuff. So that's really fun. Add this little adapter
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however, and it gives you a lot more flexibility. But this version of the microphone doesn't
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actually include that. So here's the good news. You can pick up a quarter inch to 3.5 millimeter
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adapter for four bucks on Amazon. $3.99. So you can get that and then get this whole setup and you are
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in really great shape and it's super flexible. So I'm going to just leave this on here, even though
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you now know that this actually has a quarter inch connector and this is a separate adapter
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Now, let's talk about this because this actually works on UHF and it's a 10 channel system. So if
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the channel is giving you a little interference or you want to have two microphones on the unit
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or something, you can pick different channels. It has a display that includes battery and it
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runs off of two double A's, which you will have to supply. And you can change channels with the
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push of a button. So you push and boom, you're changing the channel and that's as easy as it
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could possibly get. That's pretty much everything you have here. So that's nice and easy and it works
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fine. The little rubber thing so that it doesn't roll is included. You can install it or not. I like
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it because then if I put my microphone down, it doesn't roll off of a chair or table. And then the
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receiver unit, this is actually an interesting piece of technology. So this is a UHF receiver
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and Bluetooth transmitter. So it gives you an operating range of 80 feet as you saw in my
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initial demo. It works from a long way away and it's clean and there's no interference and there's
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no dropouts. That's really nice. Now, I have to be entirely candid with you. I didn't get the Bluetooth
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to work, but my intention from the beginning was to have this as something I would plug into devices
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so that I would be able to use it. I think that having UHF and Bluetooth just seems like you're
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adding a lot of possible problems there. So having this plugged directly into whatever it is you're
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recording with seems like a better solution. Add this little tiny adapter and as I said, you've
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got a lot of flexibility. You can plug this into a Mac or PC. You could plug it into a smartphone
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or a tablet. So, you know, this gives you lots and lots of flexibility. Now, the microphone itself
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has a cardioid polar pickup pattern. So it's going to do a nice job of picking up audio regardless
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of where you are relative to the microphone and that's exactly what you want. And let's see. So on
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the microphone, like I said, it has two double A's. There are exactly two buttons and there's the little
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display that shows you battery power and signal power and what channel you're on. Really, that's
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all you need. And on the receiver, the receiver unit has a couple of little LEDs. So there's a
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flashing one showing me it's ready to pair Bluetooth. There is a solid one that shows me
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that it's paired with the microphone which happens basically instantly. When I turn both units on
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boom, it's ready to go. And then there's a little red one that you don't see that would show you the
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battery's getting low on this and this uses a custom battery that is included. And one of the
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issues is the previous generation of this microphone didn't include the battery which
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sort of left customers, I think, scratching their heads and saying, what do I put in here because
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this is not a double A or triple A or any battery I've ever seen. So now they include the battery
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Really, really good upgrade. And let's see. You charge it. It's a rechargeable battery. So there's a
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micro USB connector or a plug on the side that lets you charge it. And then there's a sliding
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on-off switch. Both of these, when you turn them off, if you put them into your bag with all your gear
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they're not going to turn on accidentally. And that's really important. You don't want to
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get to your gig and find out that your microphone's dead. And let's see. On the front, there's also
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one button that's a pairing button for the Bluetooth feature. Again, I didn't really test that
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very much so I can't speak to that. You can go and look and find other reviews or look on Amazon or
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something. Now I will say, every review I saw on Amazon was talking about plugging it in and using
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it wired, not via Bluetooth. So there is that. Oh, and it comes with a little handy handle if you want
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to carry it. And that's pretty much it. The only other stuff that it comes with is it comes with
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a cable, micro USB for charging, and it comes with instructions. And here's what's funny. The
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instructions are not for this unit. So they are 90% the same, but this is for some sort of car
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microphone that has an FM transmitter rather than one with a Bluetooth transmitter, but it has the
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same model number. So you got to pay a little bit of attention when you get one of these. But here's
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the thing, is it's really, really affordable and I'm very impressed with the audio quality and the
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range. So, you know, there's your trade-offs. It gives you a really nice set of features and it
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works really well, but you do have to possibly monkey around a tiny bit or pick up a separate
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adapter or something to get it to work with your setup. So there's that. Now, before I tell you
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that price and tell you where you can pick up one, let me go ahead and ask if you don't mind, click
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on that subscribe button. Really appreciate when you subscribe. Cool. Now, this, sorry, this is the
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Toner UHF wireless handheld microphone system or kit and it will cost you $34.99 at amazon.com
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I say it's a pretty darn good deal. I would probably pick up the adapter at the same time
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unless you know for sure you're going to be plugging this into amps or karaoke machines or
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other things with that quarter inch plug. If you have any other uses for it, then just pick this up
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It's a couple of bucks and now you have lots of capabilities. So this is Dave Taylor and I'll catch
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you in my next video
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