Tonor T20 Studio Boom Arm Review

0:01 Short review on this piece of kit from Tonor

Right, ladies and gentlemen, short review on this piece of kit from Tonor. It's the T20 Studio Boom Arm. Now, I do get asked to do loads of reviews on products, but I always try and make sure that it is sort of audio DJ related. The reason I said yes to this is because if you're anything like me and you do live streaming, then of course, if you're using your decks You can hold the mic and then you've got the other hand for use on the decks, but then you really need two hands on the decks. So by having something like this means you've got two hands that you can use and do whatever you want with and you've got your boom stand there for the microphone. What have we got?

Now I've already opened it up. The boom stand, I'll show you how to set it all up, but this is relatively simple anyway. So boom stand itself, that is for the microphone. That's the clamp. Okay, so you've got some Velcro style bits here and I'd say they're just sort of cable friendly tidy. or um you know as you as you're talking or singing you're also not only uh pumping out audio but air as well so what you may find if you watch say someone singing in a studio very often they'll have something like this in front of the microphone so that's what that's for also here You listen to some radio stations.

and their voice over the mic seems to be very clear and deep and pronounced more often than not it is because they've got a really expensive microphone but they will have that on the end of their mic as well okay so very simple to set up and uh because i've got the way i've got the camera set up now i can't place the clamp down but

5:46 No, the M bit's fallen off, said the bishop to the actress

Right, if I move that out the way. Now again, this is spring loaded, so caution. So as you can see, I'm doing this for the first time. So we'll undo that. Hopefully it won't grab me fingers. There you go. Right, so what you've got here is the one end will fit just... in there and you can clamp that on practically any surface now looking at the gap from there to there that's a good sort of three inches if not more so you know a sturdy table no problem then on the other end what we have is the place where you can screw in the connector for the microphone so i just need two hands with this so if i hold that Like so. Again, if you're a DJ like myself, a lot of people ask me, so I'm going to kill two stones with one bird here. One of the best microphones to use, in my opinion, is the Shure SM58. They're box standard microphones. And then what we can do with this here, if I just put that like that and go in the destruction manual,

Sorry, I'm wobbling the camera. I do apologize. You can see how that is positioned and placed just at the top there. So what we would do is if I just move that down, have that facing upwards, we can adjust the level, height, angle, etc. There, so we can have that twisting vertically, horizontally, left, right, whichever way you want. And then this here, I presume, will fit on the top or the bottom. So what I'm trying to do here is in a way in which I'm not going to bash the camera. I'm using the phone. To be quite honest now, most of the time I just use, I've got an iPhone 11 because the, I mean, you know, gone are the days of using a phone and the picture quality's rubbish. It's pretty damn good now. So there you go. So you'd have your SM58 or whatever you want there. And hold on. Actually, it needs to be the other way around. I don't know if you can see there, but it's going up, not down. So I'm going to do that now. Right, let's do that so we do it properly. Should have done that in the first place, shouldn't I really? Okay, let's put it like that. There we go. That's a bit better. Right, tighten that up.

No, the M bit's fallen off, said the bishop to the actress. Right, there, that's better. There we go, so you can see, that's exactly how it should be. Right, I'm just going to put that down there and I want to pick this up. Now, back in the 70s when I used to watch artists sing, I always used to look at that and I used to think that the ends of microphones like that... I'll see you next time. uh you know from the well i suppose from the age of year dot in my early teens i had hair like that my hair was just a big ball of fluff it looked like michael jackson it wasn't as dark but it was just a big mound of curls so i can familiarize myself with that so there you go right so it's from a company called toner instruction manual here it's the t20

Studio Boom Arm. Now again, it's studio so you could use of course this in a studio but the main reason I agreed to do this product review is because from point of view of being at home and doing live streaming you've got the benefit here of having your hands being able to work the decks It articulates like that and when it's in its clamp, it can just move around. You imagine now I've got my decks there, I want to talk, so I bring that down just before I start talking, I'm in the mix, blah blah blah, happy day, happy day, and then as soon as I've finished I can push that up, turn it around and now it's not in the way. Now that's different to... A microphone stand that is just in one position all the time. So this gives you the benefit of being able to move it in position, talk and then out of the way within less than a second. All right. So there you go. I will put information in the description. And also, I think I said it, but if I didn't, my disclaimer here.

Thanks for watching. Practice and enjoy.

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