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I'm putting the DJI Mics 2nd Gen through a pretty serious test and using the un-edited EQ profile straight out of the mic pack (they actually sound amazing...even with noise reduction applied in post) Also, I discuss the current conundrum facing the DJI Neo!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:08):
All right, welcome to the Geek Therapy Radio podcast. You've
got your Mental cre Raider, Johnny Hemberg. I need to
pause the podcast that I'm listening to right now. Actually,
all right, there we go. I was listening to this
is important, the podcast by the Workaholics guys. So yeah,

(00:29):
y'all want to be listening to that. Y'all don't need
to be listening to that. At the same time that
I'm doing my podcast, I'm also currently driving through the
heart of Dallas at this exact moment, past the World
Trade Center in Dallas. So anybody who lives near Dallas
or has ever been through Dallas knows what I'm talking about.
I am on thirty five E headed north to the

(00:54):
Windstar Casino in resort technically in Oklahoma. Very interesting. If
you look at the Windstar Resort, you know, casino and
resort on your Google Maps, you'll see that it's in Oklahoma,
but a part of Oklahoma that dips down into Texas.

(01:15):
So if you're at the Windstar Resort in casino in Oklahoma,
to the south of you will be Texas, to the
east of you will be Texas, and to the west
of you will be Texas. It will be Texas. The
only other Oklahoma you can get is to the north
of you when you're a Windstar. And don't quote me

(01:36):
on this. I'm not looking at the information obviously as
I'm driving here. I don't drive through Dallas all the time,
so I'm not so extremely familiar with it. Just I've
been on thirty five E enough. Anyways, don't quote me
on this because I'm not looking at the information for
Windstar in front of me. But it looks to me
like I'm not assuming this. I I don't know. Let

(02:01):
me just say I don't know. A lot of the
times casinos in the United States, especially outside of Nevada,
is they are owned by native indigenous tribes. So the
Chaktaw are some that own some casinos around this part

(02:22):
of the country, the cashadas Uh own a lot of
There's a lot of different indigenous indigenous groups own casinos
around the country, and they are on their current reservations.
And what it looks like for the wind stark As
Resort and casino, it looks like the reservation dips down

(02:46):
into Texas, like there's the kind of natural war. Well,
hold on, my GPS is talking. We'll see if I
have to cut that. I'll probably I'll probably try how
long this podcast is going to be in how TV
as it is going to be to cut out those directions.
But anyways, it looks like the reservation that this casino

(03:09):
Windstar casino is on cuts into Texas. To turn slightly right, Yeah,
that's that's going to get annoying real quick. Continu Yeah,
it looks like the reservation dips down into Texas. I'm
not looking at the map immediately, but when I was

(03:29):
looking it up to put it here in Google Maps
to get my directions here, it looks like, I bet
you the reservation just dips down into into Texas more
or less, and it's just part of the funky border
between Oklahoma and Texas. So all that to say, that's
where I'm headed to right now. I am according to
Google Maps, I am one hour and nine minutes away

(03:53):
from the casino and I'm going there. Just to let
y'all know, I do want to talk about actual geek stuff.
I want to talk about the dj I mics too,
what you're listening to right now, by the way, and
I want to talk about the DGI neo, which I
have ordered. But I do not currently have yet. I
still have some thoughts on it and some concerns that
I'll relate to my beautiful listener you. So I'm on

(04:15):
my way to Windstar Costovice. You know, my nephew is
turning eighteen, and it is just me and a couple
of my brothers are meeting. Well to my brothers are
meeting in Dallas and then they're going to continue on
to WinStar in about an hour away in Oklahoma. And
I am by myself in the minivan cruising up to Windstar,

(04:37):
just skipping, just going right through Dallas. But we're going
to celebrate my nephew's eighteenth birthday. My nephew. Have I
told you all this? So his name is Spencer. I
know I've talked about him on the show. I've had
him on the show a few years ago. I got
to have him back on the show. But his first car,

(04:57):
it's going to be familiar to most of us listening.
You know, you remember your first car. His first car
was his grandmother's PT Cruiser. I don't I forget what
year it was. It's a PT Cruiser, so I don't
know around. I hate to say this the turn of
the century, so it was a PT Cruiser from the
early two thousands, and he rocked that for a while

(05:19):
and and and you know, got some things out of
his system with that PT Cruiser. And by that I
mean adding lights to tail pipes and so you can
light up the smoke. And then sounds that he did
stuff to the exhaust and he put little do dads
all over the car, which I did the exact same
thing in high school. So many, so many of us

(05:40):
have done the exact same thing. We paid in high
school way too much attention to our car stereos, but
they were never done well. Like I don't know about
other kids, other teenagers, but my car stereos were a
fire hazard, matter of fact. Paul, Lordy, Lordy, LORDI here's
here's a tangent here. For a while, I had a

(06:03):
My first car was my actual first car was a
nineteen seventy four vold Swagen Beetle. So the four cylinder
engine probably made forty horse power at best. I believe
it was a twelve hundred, not the sixteen hundred. I
think it was a twelve hundred, maybe eleven hundred. But
it was awesome. I freaking loved that car and I'm
gonna have another Beetle. I've had another Beetle since my

(06:25):
first car is a nineteen seventy four Beetle. Later on
down the road, pun intended, I had a nineteen sixty
nine Beetle, and I will have another Beetle at some
point in my life, probably also a carman Gia. Once
you have a Beetle, once you have an old air
cool Voltswagen, it's like a potato chip. Once you pop,
you can't stop. So anyways, I had my nineteen seventy

(06:45):
four Beetle and the stereo rigged up. Nineteen seventy four
Beetles were twelve volt systems at this time. They started
as six volt systems that like vintage cars, but by
this time seventies Beetles were twelvefold so everything paired up right,
you know, putting the amplifier in there and running the
speaker wire. Which I was sixteen seventeen years old. I thought,

(07:12):
when you're sixteen and seventeen you think you know everything. Actually,
when you're sixteen and seventeen, you do know everything. As
far as your sixteen or seventeen year old brain is concerned.
You know everything. By the time you are sixteen seventeen
years old. So that's the headspace I was in. It
was like I know how to wire up speakers and yeah,
homes don't matter, impedance doesn't matter, how many what is

(07:34):
the most efficient pairing? And speaker runs and copper free
and talk about air gaps and cold sowders. That was
how my stereo was hotch paused together. Oh sixteen by nines.
I think the Beetle can only have like four and
a half inch a circular two way speakers or something
like that. Anyways, are my stereo system like so many

(07:57):
other teenagers was just a hot podge of different parts
and amplifiers anything I can get my hand on. What
is this guy trying to brush me off the road
for it? Oh he's just got big, wide, stupid tires. Anyways,
So yeah, my stereosystem, like somebody on the teenagers, was
just a hodge podge. And I took the Beetle for

(08:19):
whatever reason. Y'all know me and Jiffy Loop. I think
I took it to Jiffy Loop one of my early
mistakes of taking a car to Jiffy Loop. I've never once.
I can't say that. Maybe one out of the twenty
times in my life i've been to Jiffy Loop, I've
maybe had an experience that wasn't death defying or damage

(08:39):
to property or stripping the threads of my oil pan
bolts and plug or whatever. So anyways, I brought it
to Jiffy Loop, the nineteen seventy four beetle that I
had wired myself with all the sound system and everything.
And I'm sitting there paying for the oil change. They're
done and one of the attendants opens the door from
the garage and he's like, hey, dude, I think your

(09:02):
beetle's on fire. I looked into the into the bay
of the of the Jippy Loop shop been sure enough,
it wasn't on fire yet. But what had happened was
the power supply. I think I was using speaker cable

(09:22):
like sixteen gauge awg speaker cable to run power from
the battery to the amplifier. No remote switch, no nothing,
so it was just hot all the time. So I
had the speaker whire running underneath the bench seat in
the back. And this is nineteen seventy four technology. There's

(09:44):
no like soft rubber contacts for where the seat beats
the chassis or anything like that. It was just basically
it wasn't metal on metal at this point. It was
the leather was so worn back there, Vinyl. I don't
know what the heck they used in beetles back then,
but the material for the seat was so so worn.
The outer covering of the seat was so worn where
they kind of folded under it and attack it together,

(10:05):
staple it together. On the underside of the upholstery were
so worn that the metal coping, the metal rail, the
metal edge of the seat itself, the seat frame itself
was making contact with the metal chassis of the beetle.
And guess what was in between those two metal contact points. Yep,
my crappy sixteen awg sixteen gauge whatever speaker wire that

(10:28):
I was running straight to the dome of the battery.
No capacitors, definitely, no capacitors, no resistors, no any sort
of preventative circuitry, no fuses, no breakers, nothing, just straight
sixteen gaged wire to the battery being short circuited by
the seat of the beetle with the chassis of the beetle.

(10:48):
And it was somemoken, just like Jim Carrey in the Mask.
It was somemoke in that beetle. Was the smell of
burnt rubber, the smell of burnt plastic. It was. I
got there just in the nicke of time. I am
a maze, like all. I don't know if anybody you
know listening is probably a few if you have seen
burnt wire. What happens to wire that has too much current?

(11:10):
The covering of the wire melts in chars And that
is exactly what happened to the speaker wire that I
was using as power cable for a five hundred watt
amplifier or whatever it was. So that was fine. I
ran out there, I picked up the seat real quick
and I just basically like I could have electrocuted it,
burned myself to death. I just like slapped the wire

(11:32):
away off, like try to stop making contact with the
metal here, start shorting yourself out. I learned a lesson
that day of use the correct use the correct wire
connecting power cable, and be very careful about how and
where you run it the routing of said cable, especially
power cables. So that was my I don't know if

(11:55):
Spencer had any similar stories to that. I need to
ask him on this We're gonna go play a poker
tournament and then tomorrow morning we're going to golf, so
it's going to be a cool trip. I'll ask him
if he's ever said his PT Cruiser on fire by
wiring up stereos incorrectly. But all that to say this

(12:16):
ten minute, however long I was talking about that Tangent.
All that to say his current car that he has
and has been working on, but hasn't. I don't think
he's been able to drive it fully yet because part
of the deal with this vehicle was that he had
to turn eighteen before he could drive this vehicle. This vehicle,
without further ado, is a C four Corvette. He has

(12:37):
a red and black Sea four Corvette. I don't I
need to ask it. I need to verify the year.
But the C four Corvette came out in nineteen eighty four. Remember,
I don't know how long you've been listening to Geek
there for radio. I've talked about and I've made videos
discussing the point that there was no nineteen eighty three Corvette.
When the when the DeLorean came to market, it was

(13:01):
at such a horrid time for cars, for vehicles period,
especially sports cars that Chevy just said, we are just
not gonna maybe the C four is not quite ready yet.
We're gonna take this queue from the terrible vehicle market,
terrible vehicle sales market. We're just gonna skip nineteen eighty three.

(13:22):
So Chevy did not make a nineteen eighty three Corvette.
The C four Corvette came out in nineteen eighty four.
I believe Spencer's C four Corvette is late. I think
it's mid to late eighties. So I want to say
it's a nineteen eighty seven C four Corvette. I don't know,
because I'm not a Corvette guy. When the Corvette, when

(13:46):
the C five rolled around, I want to say C
five C the C four was through the nineties? Was
C five late nineties? Was C five like? Because I'm
picturing a C five Corvette. Was that like nineteen ninety six,
ninety five, ninety six, ninety seven, I want to say
late mid to late nineties for the C five Corvette. Again,

(14:08):
don't quote me on that. I'm not I'm driving, I'm
not looking at any information. I can't google it on
my own. I suppose I can ask Google, but I'm
not gonna do that. But anyway, Spencer has a C
core corvette. It is one hundred percent of C four corvette.
It's not a C three corvette. See three corvettes are
all angular and and like they have real real bulbous,

(14:28):
real phallic looking. They're they're really cool. I've had I've
had some neighbors throughout the years, I've had C three corvettes.
They're really neat. I think my favorite corvette in the
C two C two corvette is what the astronauts drove.
So the C one came out in the fifties and
then the C twos were like the sixties, and they
looked awesome. A fastback C two corvette like Neil Armstrong

(14:52):
in baby blue, like shiny for a lesson baby blue.
I'm a corvette guy for that corvette. The C two
corvette is amazing. I do like this. The brand new
or the most recent C eight corvettes or the yeah,
C eight corvettes, I do like those. But if I
could choose one, like, hey, we're gonna give you a

(15:14):
free corvette, you can choose a C two corvette that
Neil Armstrong like, the kind Neil Armstrong and the Astronauts drove.
For one dollar bought from Chevy for one dollar. I'll
tell that story in the second Or you can have
a you know, twenty twenty C eight Corvette, or like
a twenty one Sting Ray, twenty two maybe you can
have a twenty four E Ray or twenty five E RA.
I don't know what the hybrid corvettes coming out, but

(15:37):
you want a modern CA corvette. Do you want to see
two corvette like the astronauts drove. I would choose the
C two Corvette any day of the week. I think
they just look unbelievably cool. That the coolest looking, one
of the coolest looking corvettes outside of the Arrovett, and
that never happened. I think by the time seat they
were doing the C fold No, no, no, Arrovett was

(15:58):
a prototype from the early seventies. I think late sixties,
early seventies. There was a goal Wing Corvette. It was
a mid engined goal wing corvette. Anyways, so Spencer has
a C four Corvette, a red and black Sea four
Corvette that now that he's turned eighteen, he can start

(16:18):
driving more. And I agree with that decision. I mean,
every parent is they raised their kids are on the
unique way. My brother's no different. Spencer, my nephew is
no different. I personally agree with that choice of hey, hey, child, Yeah,
we'll get this C four Corvette. It's not in the

(16:38):
best shape. You'll get to learn how to work on
cars and take care of it, and you know, it's
right up to Spencer's alley. Like he's a he's a
He's a big time geek, just like me in different ways.
But one of the things he is very interested in
is in cars. He's very interested in the DeLorean. He
was very interested in cyber truck and all that kind
of stuff back when cyber truck was announced, at least.

(16:59):
Like he he's a car dude, So a C four
is like an awesome car for a budding car dude.
So for a budding like an eighteen year old car dude.
Night in twenty twenty four, I'll to say car person,
because there are car gals out there, modern car guys

(17:23):
and gals. I think a C four Corvette's perfect. It's
not so old that it's completely unusable, like as Spencer
fixes it up and gets it working, and it's already
working as he really puts time into it and energy
and passion and blood sweat tears into it like it's
a It's just modern enough to be still not a

(17:44):
complete chore to drive. I love the DeLorean. I love
it absolutely to the ends of the earth. But you
are reminded about how old cars, how far we've gone
with just comfort in especially in daily driving cars, even
the high end sports cars for that for that matter,
everything's power assisted. Steering's power assisted. The clutch if you

(18:04):
have three pedals as power assisted. The brakes are power assisted,
drive by wire, drive by magnet, and a lot of
times in cars these days, the front tires are not
even attached directly to the steering wheel anymore. It's going
through computers and servos and things. So but a C
four Corvette is like just modern enough to where you
have some creature comforts, like you have assisted break of breaks.

(18:26):
I believe I need a double check on this, but
like I believe the brakes are assisted. I think that
it's power steering by C four definitely, if not before that,
maybe the first Corvettes powers being I don't know, but
it's just modern enough to that you could drive it
around and not be completely wishing that you would amputate

(18:48):
your left leg by working the clutch after I drive
the Dolore into traffic for a few hours. I've been
stuck in traffic jams with it as early as maybe
two thousand and twelve or something like that, and I'm
just like, man, I want to cauterize my leg at
the hip, Like my leg was. My calves and thighs

(19:08):
were just burning and trembling from using that non power
assisted clutch for a few hours and very heavy Houston traffic.
So I think, like a C four Corvette any kind
of I struggle to say modern classic, because eighties cars
are you know, they're thirty forty years old now, so

(19:29):
in my mind they're they're modern because that's kind of
close to where those are the cars I grew up in.
I grew up in eighties vehicles, grew up in seventies vehicles.
But they're easier, easier to drive than let's say, if
Spencer got even Man, even a even an old nineteen
seventy four Beatle. The thing with the Beatles, old Beatles

(19:51):
is it's I don't think it's not necessarily that the
clutch is heavy and things aren't powered assisted because the
car weighs nothing, which is part of the problem. The
car weighs nothing, especially when you're running low on gas
and you have no traction over those front tires. The
gas tank in a Beetle is over the front tires,
and when you're running low, you're like all you're doing

(20:12):
like the the front tires. I swear you'll drive down
the highway trying to get the Beetle up to sixty
five miles an hour even and you see the front
tires going, they're just barely bouncing like they're great. They're
just skipping off off the pavement. We're just super scary
if you're trying to take a highway overpass curve like
at any like at any speed, really anything over fifty

(20:33):
five miles an hour. I remember I was doing this
one time with an ex girlfriend, driving around Houston in
the Beetle, and I was doing a one of this
the flyovers, just a normal kind of interstate flyover between
like like Interstate sixty nine and six ten or something
like that, and going I think I was actually going seventy.

(20:55):
I was in that old Beatle. It's like I've got momentum.
I'm gonna keep the momentum through this curve. So I
was taking the curve going seventy in an old Beetle
that was running low on gas, turn the wheel and
almost nothing was happening. It was a terrifying few seconds.
I'm glad I kept my wits about me, because what
I did was I kept it in gear and just
simply took my foot off of the accelerator so I

(21:18):
would use some engine braking to put some momentum forward
on those front wheels, give me some grip so I
could steer it a little bit away from the wall.
I swear to I swear that I was up on
two wheels dukes of hazard style for a few seconds
of that beetle going around that curve. Oh my gosh,
I hope this mic is actually recording the red lights on. Yeah.

(21:43):
So so that in that sense, that's how that old car.
It wasn't heavy to operate because again it was very
light weight. The power there's no power steering in an
old Beetle because it weighs nothing there the engines in
the back. There's no weight over the front. It's actually beneficial.
The DeLorean doesn't have any power steering, which is great
when you're at speed, when you're trying to park it
in a parking lot. It's it's cumbersome. But the Beatle

(22:05):
it doesn't really matter fast or slow. The steering is
light enough because there's just there's nothing in front of
there's nothing on the front tires. So I feel like
the C four Corvette is a better match for modern
car guys and gals. Carthays, I don't mean that facetiously.
I'm just in being serious car days that want to

(22:28):
get into a classic car, but like I said, they
don't want to be getting into like a nineteen fifty
eight Chevy bel Air or something like that. That's big,
and bel Airs are awesome, but like especially a two
door fifties bel Air awesome. Like a two tone red
and white. Oh that'd be sick no for me, actually
be like two tone red and black Chevy. Anyways, what

(22:50):
MOTL Did I say bell Air? I thought I said Corvet,
which is another Chevy that I actually do want a Corvet.
But I'm not gonna be I'm trying not to be
too add in this podcast. So yeah, I think a
better match for a modern car guy or gal is
like a sea like something from the eighties, you know,
something something with power steering that's not a land yacht.

(23:13):
You know that's no, there's it doesn't have all the
safety features of modern vehicles. A lot of times don't
even have analog breaks for that freaking matter. But also
means that there's not a lot of distractions in older vehicles.
Like I was thinking about this the other day, and
I do want to talk about GJ I, Mike and
genn EO. So just stick with me. I was thinking
about that the other day that so Spencer cruz around

(23:38):
in a C four corvette. He doesn't have the Android
Auto and Apple car play and all sorts of things
to have scrapped him. DVD player, DVD players, there's no
I guess there is still DVD players in cars, but
you don't have all the kind of modern distractions. Yes,
you could put your phone up in the in their
air conditioning vent or whatever to have look at your maps,

(24:00):
but there's nowhere near the amount of distractions in modern
card there's nowhere near the amount of safety protocols, safety devices.
And vintage cars like the old Beetles, there's no air bags.
There's if you are the crumple zone and a VW
bus where you're just sitting on the windshield you're sitting

(24:21):
out in front of the front tires. You are the
air bag in some old cars, especially old vans like
cat forward vans, so you don't it's not as safe
in that regard. But at the same time, there's less distraction.
You are paying a lot more attention. And I am
ninety nine point nine percent certain that Spencer's C four

(24:41):
Corvette is a manual transmission, so as God intended, is
it manual? Gosh, there's all these things I need to verify,
little like the important tidbits. Is it manual? I think
it is. I think I need to verify. I'll let
y'all know the next podcast after I talk to Spencer.
He sent me a picture a bit a while back,

(25:02):
but I can't look at it right now. Might have
been on my old phone. So anyways, there's less distraction,
so you're gonna pay more attention to the road. If
it is a manual transmission, in my opinion, that does
make you a safer driver. And I think even statistically
that's been proven true, is that people who have manual
transmissions get less tickets, way less accidents because they're you're

(25:22):
just more involved in the drive. The modern vehicle I'm
in twenty seventeen, sorry, twenty eighteen Christler PACIFICA plug in
hybrid right now. It is the most luxurious vehicle that
I've ever owned. For sure. It's one of, if not
the most luxury, luxurious, geeky, techy vehicle I've ever been
in in my entire life. It's truly amazing. But I
am in a cocoon here. Like it's got double pained

(25:44):
windows for sound isolation and all sorts of It is
a comfy, comfy car. The seats in the back are
captain seats. They're currently removed on this road trip, but
they're cat well. One of them is they're super cushy,
and you got a TV screen in front of you
that you could have Amazon Prime like a fire stick
plugged into. I think the current PACIFICA is just have
Amazon fire built into it. Like you don't even need

(26:06):
to plug in a stick to the h and m iPort.
The car just has Amazon fire stick built into the
info to aiment system. It's crazy. That's where modern cars
are these days. That's how they do it. So it's
very very cushy, but I'm in a cocoon, and I
think that leads to more distracted drivers. I think that
not even distracted drivers. I think it just leads to
more people that don't take driving seriously at all. You

(26:29):
just you become complacent. You're so isolated. You're going eighty
five miles an hour, but it feels no different than
you're going twenty. It's so cushy, and you're listening to
your music and high fidelity your podcast. You're you're using
every part of your brain except the part of your
brain for driving. So distracted. Watch me say all this
and then get into a fender vender. Here driving just

(26:51):
north of Dallas. I'm at Lakeview Boulevard and Post Oak Drive,
and someone just pulled in front of me with those singles. Fun.
But even as I'm giving this podcast, I'm not giving
the best example. But I am still the first priority
in my mind. What I'm devoting my brain power to,
obviously is driving. If I'm slurring my speech, I'm misspeaking

(27:11):
thinking about it's because I'm thinking about driving first and
before anything else. But I am in a modern vehicle
that can lead itself to being complacent, not just distracted,
but complacent. You're so detached from everybody around you. The
windows are so tinted you can't even see each other's faces.
Have y'all noticed as I'm going on tangents here, I

(27:32):
promise I'll get to the DJI stuff here in less
than two minutes, I promise. Have y'all ever noticed this
is the last point kind of on this tangent. Have
y'all ever noticed that people in convertibles with the top down,
like people driving with no roof on their car, where
you can just see their face and you can see
their whole person, You notice how they drive a lot

(27:53):
better than like per If you had ten people in
convertibles with the top down driving around, I guarantee you
all ten of them, if not nine out of ten.
Probably it's just I'll be a little bit conservative with this.
They're all using their turn signals, they're all using their blinkers,
They're all kind of doing their best in traffic. They're
keeping up, they're not cutting people off, they're not being
a holes usually, they're just usually, in my anecdotal experience,

(28:18):
people driving with the top down drive better. And do
you know why that is? Because I've thought about this
so many times, like why is it just? It could
just be me noticing things But why is it that
at least seem like people driving convertibles with the top
down tend to drive better on They're on better behavior
when they drive, And I've pitpointed it it has to

(28:39):
be because they are not anonymous. I'm looking at a
yellow Dodge charger next to me. It's all yellow, but
the windows are tinted like looks like sixty five percent.
I cannot see who's in that car. There's a Mercedes
next to me. I can't see who's driving that car.
And when you're that anonymous, it kind of emboldens your
ahole attitudes. They're like, I can be a I can
be a punk on the road. I can be an

(28:59):
a hole on the road. No one can see me.
I'm just anonymous in here versus a convertible. Everyone can
see you. And I remember one time my blinker didn't
work in my I had a two thousand and four
or two thousand and five Diesel Jetta, which I loved,
but my left blinker light went out and I drove
ten mile like I couldn't. I didn't have time to

(29:20):
replace it because what I would have wanted to do
was immediately go to the autopart store in my wife's
car and replace. I didn't even want to drive the
car with the blinker not working. I was so ashamed
to be that driver that doesn't use blinkers that I
would have preferred to not drive the car, just treat
it like it was totaled until I knew that all

(29:43):
the blinkers were. It's funny I would have driven the
car with no oil before I would have driven it
without a blinker. Pol what does that say about V
I would have risked the life of the car itself
versus just drive a few miles with with no left blinker.
That's how important being a good driver is in my mind.

(30:03):
Is that I just I would prefer not drive a
car if the blinker is not working. So anyways, but
I did have to drive it in this instance, and
it's been more than two minutes before getting to the DGI,
I know. But I did drive it like ten miles
to work, just like oh my like covering my shielding
my eyes from other drivers, like I was using hand
signals like please don't shoot me. I'm not trying to

(30:23):
flick anybody off. I'm just trying to tell you that
I'm trying to merge merge left or whatever. So I
was so ashamed and so self conscious when I had
to drive just ten miles out of my entire life
of driving without a blinker, I was so ashamed. And
I think that kind of plays into why convertible drivers
tend to drive better in my experience, is that they

(30:44):
can see you. I'm not gonna be that douchebag who
doesn't use a blinker Versus you're in a fully tinted
car like this Infinity right next to me. You can't
see it because I'm not rolling video. I'm not saying
that persons a douche they haven't done anything wrong yet.
But that person might be more bold and they use
their blinker a great great job Infinity Black Infinity, But
I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't because you can't

(31:05):
see inside there. So that's it. I think people drive
convertibles now. If you're driving a convertible with a manual transmission,
you might as well be Mario Andretti, like you're the best,
You're the best driver that there ever was, or Michael
Schumacher or something like that. If you drive a convertible
manual transmission V Like if you drive a convertible Miada.

(31:28):
That person is Michael Schumacher. Every single person in the
world who drives in a six speed manual transmission convertible
Miada with the top down, that is Michael Schumacher in there.
I think he was injured. I'm not. He was injured
like a while back, like very seriously speaking about Michael Schumacher,
he was the stick on top Gear. Sorry to do
a spoiler twenty years later, but he got a bad accident,

(31:51):
like a real, like life threatening paralyzing accident, so I
need to I haven't checked on that situation in fifteen years.
I don't even know, but he was considered to be
the best driver on planet Earth at the time. And
so anybody in a convertible six speed Meada is it
is Michael Schumacher in there. So just to clarify that,

(32:12):
all right, let's move on to DJI stuff for reels.
For reels. You are listening right now to the DJI
mike too. I realize as I'm recording this, or right
before I started recording this podcast, that I recorded another
podcast in between, and I haven't uploaded it like I

(32:33):
would I record a podcast talking about the DJI mikes
two and the DJI Neo, and I have not uploaded it.
This will supplant that podcast. I'll upload this one obviously instead.
So I do have the DJI Mis two with the
firmware update most of recent firm or update. You're listening
to it right now. As a matter of fact. While

(32:55):
yes I do have, I have added post production noise
cancelation in DA Vinci Resolve. You are listening, however, to
the EQ curve of the Dji and Mike's two. So
all right, GPS is gonna talk to me for a
minute here. Yeah, So the DJ Mike two, you're listening

(33:16):
to the baked in the EQ profile. In the unreleased podcast,
I had mentioned that the new profile sounds. It does
sound great for built in EQ, for baked in EQ,
baked on EQ. Even think about EQ like a lut
in via videography, EQ pre said is like a lout
for audio basically. So that is the baked in EQ.

(33:38):
You thirty nine miles you you can't change it, you can.
I cannot go to a flat EQ curve anywhere in
the settings, which is kind of a bummer. But the
plus side is that the baked in EQ sounds terrific.
So that's what you're listening to. I have not. I've
put some compression on it. I've added a compressor to

(33:59):
even out the audio a bit. But the EQ, as
far as how good my voice sounds, that's the baked
in EQ. Now as I'm driving down the freeway here
at seventy miles an hour, noise cancelation and Da Vinci
Resolved is certainly doing its work. So it's probably not
going to sound as high fidelity as if I was
just standing still in a sound proofed room with no

(34:21):
reverberations and no snap back, no echo, no nothing that
would sound the best with this MIC for sure, like
baby put in front of a pop filter or a windscreen.
But you're listening to it wedged to the roof of
the car with my son user and the noise cancelation
of Da Vinci Resolve happening. I can't. I don't know

(34:44):
if I can see. I can't. I want to do
a test, and I'll do a test eventually of the
noise canceling built into the DJI Mic two versus the
noise canceling and Da Vinci Resolve. I have not tested
the noise canceling baked into the microphone. You're not listening
to that right now. If I can figure out how

(35:05):
to do that on the fly here that my concern is,
I haven't spent enough time with the DJI Mike two
is other than I use it on a quick project
for the museum, and the EQ right out of the
box for the new firm or update sounds really good.
The baked baked in EQ means like, oh wow, I
actually don't have to EQ this in post. That is,

(35:25):
for as far as pre set eqs for labs go.
It's so good that for a quick run and gun
like making YouTube shorts, I don't I feel totally comfortable
not equing the microphone because it just sounds really good.
It's a bit nice and sweet and a little bit
scooped in the mid range. It sounds really good out
of pre set EQ. So I'm not too bumped that

(35:46):
you can't select a flat curve and you can always
go a bit after the fact. Even without a flat curve,
you can go in after the fact a EQ to taste.
It's just better to start with. But I keep forgetting
I did. Y'all haven't heard me mentioned this yet, but
I mentioned in the podcast that I'm not uploading. Basically,
the flat EQ curve is like recording in log format
with your video camera. You start with a nice flat

(36:09):
bland color profile that is ready for post production. It's
the same where you can add saturation, where you could
start messing with the chroma in the high and the
low and and and pull, pull apart the color curve
and everything to get it look in and do all
the color grading you want, but you start with a
nice flat log format to begin with. In video, that's

(36:30):
what's starting. That's what having no EQ curve on a
microphone is. You're just you're recording it through the equipment
into your device, and then, just like you color grade footage,
you go back later with the audio and you sweetened
it the u EQ it, you add the compression, you
do the quote unquote color grading to the flat audio.

(36:52):
But that's a little bit kind of behind the scenes
audio production stuff. But the DJI too. The reason I'm
not activating the built in noise cancel is I'm not
sure that it will take, and maybe it will, maybe
it won't. I don't want to press the wrong button
here while I'm driving and then have to figure out
how to start recording again and fiddle with noise reduction,
with the Wilton noise reduction because I'm not the transceiver out.

(37:14):
The transceiver is in its case. The case is closed,
it's not hooked up the transceiver. This microphone is recording
internally as I speak, So you are listening to the
noise canceling of da Vinci Resolve. However, I want to
show how good the DaVinci Resolve noise reduction is. I
am going seventy five miles an hour on thirty five
north through Houston, through some rolling hills and prairies just

(37:38):
north of Dallas on the way to Oklahoma, and I'm
going to turn off Da Vinci Resolves noise reduction now.
So this section you're listening to me speak without the
noise reduction. My voice should sound better, like my voice,
just think about my human voice should sound better. There's

(37:59):
a lot of noise. The noise floor in here right
now is man fifty or sixty dbasy if not like
seventy decibels as I'm cruising on the interstate here, so
the noise floor is very high. But my voice should
sound nice and sweet. Now I'm gonna reactivate the noise reduction.
Now you're hearing it with the noise reduction, it sounds,
it sounds better. I guess that goes to your taste.

(38:20):
I'd rather listen to somebody's voice without so much ambiance.
You can dial the slider like I can dial in
eighty percent of background noise twenty percent. If I was
to hide the fact that I was recording a podcast
in a vehicle going seventy five miles an hour down
on Interstate, you just hear the audio and be like, oh,
it just it just doesn't sound. You know, his voice
is a little sounds a little modulated, a little muffled,

(38:41):
a little roll off on the high end, whatever. Wherever
the algorithm AI algorithm's cutting the noise, You just you'd
hear my voice clearly, but it would sound altert. So
I like to leave a little bit of the ambiance,
a little bit of the car noise, just barely anything
when I record podcasts in the car. Another reason I

(39:03):
want to do that is if somebody's honking a horn
around me, or I honk my horn, or whatever is happening,
I don't want that to be distracting if you're driving.
That's a big thing My brother is calling on the
phone right now. Hearing car horns and stuff in vehicles
while you're driving in podcasts and radio is terrible. It's
actually against the rules of the FCC. Anyways, let me

(39:23):
take the call from my brother up. Be right back.
I'm about thirty minutes out from Windstark seen on resort now.
My brothers is calling to see where I'm at because
they're pulling up there too. They left from Dallas. It
doesn't matter, y'all. Don't care about the logistics how my
be and my brothers are getting to Dallas. But they
my brother, younger brother kids are from Houston. Met my

(39:44):
brother in Dallas, older brother in Dallas and them two
took one Tesla Mottel three up to win Star. And
I just said I would prefer to keep a vehicle,
my vehicle on hand at all times instead of car
pooling some of the way because I've got an infant
at home and they're as of recording. I'm getting pissed
off thinking about it. But there's another tropical storm gearing

(40:07):
up in the Gulf, another one. Is it going to
hit us? I hope not. And some people are saying, oh,
it's definitely not going to hit us. They said the
same thing about Beryl when it was four thousand miles away. Oh,
everyone's freaking out about nothing. It's not going to hit
us now. Any any hurricane coming towards the United States
could hit us, could hit you. So anyways, at the moment,

(40:28):
there's another hurt. There's another tropical storm depression. I don't
know what it is at this point as I'm recording,
but it's stirring there in the Gulf, and as it's
cone tracked towards the Texas Cove, it's moving it. As
of now, the models are tracking farther east to Louisiana.
But regardless, I wanted to have and with the impacts

(40:50):
of it should be kind of later this week midweek,
so I wanted to have my vehicle available to me
at any moment that I needed to pull up anchor
and go home and start battening down the hatches for
another freaking hurricane. Uh So, yeah, So that's the teajer
I Mike Two's again. You're listening to me recording through

(41:10):
right now, We've went through all the kind of the
noise reduction up. DaVinci resolved, Daventu Resolve's noise reduction is awesome.
I need to remember I always set myself up for these.
I try not to do these heavy idiots, heavy edits,
obviously if you even listening to Geek Therapy Radio there
once in a while, I'll do some fancy footwork, and
I try to keep things really clean, like I'm a
stickler about getting the best kind of audio quality possible.

(41:33):
But as far as like production value for Geek Therapy Radio,
as far as like adding sound effects and adding chapters
and adding out points and endpoints and da da da
da da. When I'm doing these off the cuff podcast
I'm trying to do them honestly as simply as possible,
you know, Like you've been following me for a while,
you know, I've got kids now, and in job is tight,

(41:54):
and I'm recording a podcast in the car for God's sake,
because that's the only chance I can get to do it.
So I'm not trying to mountain my plate, load my
plate up with a whole bunch of production value for
podcasts like this. The production value of Geek there Per
Radio is about is going to get cooler in the
near future. It's not. I know some of y'all. If

(42:15):
I heard that, If I heard a podcast host that
I liked saying that on my podcast is about to
get a lot cooler, my heart would drop a little
bit personally, because I'm thinking, oh, lord, are you gonna
add a bunch of stupid sound effects and dumb bed
music and flashy production value and all this and that
to like Morning Zoo, Like like I'm listening to a
dumb FM radio host. Hey guy, I spoking to the

(42:37):
Morning Zoo. You'd the night Buzz. I'm not saying that
Rob Ryan is a morning Zoo dope. He's a long
time legend, but a lot morning Zoo refers to AM
or FM radio where the people talking, the host talking.
It sounds like just a I want to say the
word dip s dip shi blank blank blank. Just sounds

(42:57):
like a complete showed like a little chad, sounds like
an idiot. You're adding all sorts of fart sound effects
and diarrhea of this and all does any that and
trying to break people's relationships up and catch people cheating
and dah da da there's a place for that. There's
a place for that. But if a podcast host said
I'm about to up the production value of my podcast.

(43:18):
That's from my head would go is, oh no, you're
about to You're about to kind of lean into the
all basically all this substance of no value, just a
whole lot of lip service, a whole lot of like nothing.
So that's not really that's not what I mean by
geek therapy radio is is gonna get cooler here in
the near future. I just mean it is going to

(43:41):
get The audio production is not gonna change like, it's
gonna sound very good. It's gonna sound as good as
I can get it to sound. But I'm not adding
there's not gonna be a whole bunch of sound effects
and crazy this and that's. I'll use intros and outros
and bump music and things like that, but I'm not
it's not gonna be super slick. I'm not gonna make
it sound like super sound design and slick. Maybe some

(44:04):
episodes will be, but that's not what I'm talking about.
I just mean that the scope of Peke There Radio
is about to get very much more. I guess I
do not explain it cooler. Cooler is the best way
I can put it. Just to stay tuned for them,
and was still figuring out the logistics. But yeah, so
let's move on to the dj I Neo. In the

(44:27):
podcast that I have not uploaded and I won't upload
because I'm talking about the information again, I remarked on
launch day, I recorded that the dj Neo had released
and I had never ordered a drone faster in my life.
I was super excited for the dj Neo, and I
will explain why I'm excited for it. I did order it,

(44:49):
and I did order the DGI NC three, like the
remote that goes to it, and oh gosh, what's the
other model. It's the newest. It's the the most current
version of the cheap remote, the cut the remote, the
version of the remote DJI remote that you still need
to put your smartphone into or Tablin to fly the drone.

(45:10):
I got that newest version's one hundred and thirty bucks
or whatever from Dji to use with the dj Neo.
In addition to its controller lists flight, you can fly
the DJI eo either completely hands free, just with preset
quick shots that you just dial in on the top
of the drone and it LIFs off and lands from
your hand when it's done. Really really cool. Totally hands free.

(45:32):
You can also pair it with your phone itself and
fly it just touching the screen of your phone that
has simulated joysticks to fly the drone around just with
your phone with limited range obviously you're on the just
local Wi Fi your phone. And then you can also
operate it with FPFE. You can operate it with the
Veta controller like the goggles, DJI Goggles and all that,

(45:54):
and you can operate it with various remote traditional remote
controllers with either built into them or not. I have
the DJRC pro that I use for my DGI Mafic
three Pro and my Mini three Pro that is incompatible
with the DJI Neo, which I didn't have high hopes
that it would be compatible. Maybe it can be backgraded

(46:17):
to work with the Neo. I don't know. The Neo
works on OM four, which is the new newest transmission
system from DJI and s why I needed to get
a new remote if I wanted to use a remote
with it. So let me tell you why I was
excited about the Neo. The sides of it one hundred
and twenty somehadd grams even smaller than the Mini series.

(46:39):
It looks like it's built like a tank. The test
that I've seen, it's bashed into tree branches and limbs
and falling and doing all sorts of things. It's kind
of built to take a little bit of a lick
licking because one of the reason is it's so it's got
all the propeller guards on it that I plan to
just leave on it. And it's very lightweight, so there's
not a whole lot of a ventum being carried into

(46:59):
the side of a of a treat or my case,
usually a house. But so this seems pretty durable. I
was willing to take some concessions with video quality. I'll
get to the video quality here in a moment, at
least my perception of it from the reviews I've seen,
and my sentiment is not alone about the video quality.
I'll get to that in a second. But my main

(47:20):
reason there's a lot of since I already have the
pro version of the drone, I have the Mini three
pro version of the Drone. I've gotten like my real
content creator cinematic drones like, I've got that covered. What
I was curious about with the Neo. The biggest curiosity
to me with it is, especially in handheld mode, is

(47:43):
it still subject to geo fencing. I bet you, with
the remote controller with your smartphone attached to it and
it's connected to the cloud or to the Wi Fi
or whatever your sell your network, I guarantee you geo
fencing is still a thing for the DGI Neo. Again,
I have not tested it out. I haven't I don't
have the neo in my in my grips. But I

(48:07):
bet you, especially when using with the controller, that geofencing
is still a thing. I don't know why it wouldn't be.
Maybe maybe they don't think it would be because all right,
this person's not getting over, so I'll just pass them.
I don't. I bet you geofencing is a thing when
using with the controller and you're plugged into the entire network.

(48:29):
Basically where I'm curious about geofencing, I'll free phrase it
like this. I assume there is geo fencing using a
remote controller, and I assume there is geofencing, probably even
if you're just using your phone as a remote control.
But I wouldn't be surprised if there wasn't when you're
using with your phone, because the range on your phone

(48:49):
is so limited you can't be putting it four hundred
feet in the air, most likely with the phone. Maybe
you can, maybe you can't. I haven't tested that, but
you don't have the range. You definitely don't have the
range using a drone with your phone. I know that
because I have used Dji drones with only my phone.
The first Mavick, if you remember, at least the first
Mavick had this cool mode where you you could just

(49:10):
use it with your phone. It's like, that's really cool.
I don't. That is very much not the preferred way
to operate a drone. It sucks to be rubbing your
thumb on a screen and trying to control a drone.
It's awful, actually. But if that's all you have, if
you're really packing light and all you want to pack
is your drone in your phone, knowing that you could
at least get an intentional shot with your phone more

(49:31):
or less and the drone without busting out another computer,
without busting out another controller, without adding any more accessories
to it, that was really cool. Mavick three, I know
can't do that for sure, it cannot do that. So
it's cool that a DJI drone again is a at
least has the option to operate from the phone, the
app within the phone. I assume that's gonna be still

(49:53):
geo fenced. I just won'n't be surprised. But what I'm
really curious about is they're geo fencing if you're just
using it in and mode mode, all you're doing is
quick shots. It flies to it from your palm. The
altitude is absolutely limited to whatever the preshot setting is.
You can adjust the pre the quick shots to go
like near close and far, near, middle, far, whatever, both

(50:15):
an altitude and distance like it follow me mode and
orbit mode and track in a tracking mode or tracking
backwards track like Also you can set kind of the
preset distance if you're not going to use remote, if
you're not going to use your phone and you're just
gonna tap the button on top of the DJEO, it's
pre set altitudes and distances. And to my it's not

(50:35):
connected to a cellular network. It's not connected to Wi
Fi in standalone mode. So if it's not connected to
a cellular network or Wi Fi in one percent standalone
quick shot mode, would you still be subject to geo fencing.
And you can see where I'm going with this that
I hope it's not because I'll give you one use

(50:55):
case scenario. There are a lot of places that I
would have love to get just an aerial shot, like
just go up fifty feet, you know, even twenty feet
thirty feet in the air, that's it, and just get
a different perspective on something, not even orbit, not even
just like get up and snap a photo, or get
up and snap a surreally quick kind of parallax movement,

(51:18):
just very quick, like forty feet up, no bother to
any planes, no bother to nothing. But if you're in
a geo locked zone, if you're in a geo fence zone,
you can't even go up forty feet if you're in
a geo fence zone, like I should be more specific
if you're in a go locked zone, because you can
have to be in a geofence zone. It will just
give you a warning, Hey, you're in some control airspace,
be careful, but you can still take off. There's some zones,

(51:41):
especially really close to airports, or if you're in any
path of the flight pattern. At the end of the
runways especially there's an invisible kind of triangle that goes
out from the end of the runway in geo fencing
that is just red. If you're in that triangle, for instance,
you cannot even start the props of your drone. You
will set your phone, you will set the drone down
on the ground, You'll turn your control, you'll link it up.

(52:02):
It'll it'll sit there and it'll it'll link up to
the row control. And then we'll say, cannot take off.
You like, why can't I take off? I can't even
get the rotors to spin up. You can't take off
because you are in a geo locked zone. Some zones
are so locked that you cannot apply on the spot
to unlock it. Some zones you can apply on the
spot to unlock it. You basically have to do some

(52:22):
extra registration with the with DGI and with the FAA.
On the spot. You send them your serial number, you
agree to a few a user agreement that you understand
you're taking on the risks. You understand that you can
go to jail if you if you do something incorrectly. Here,
I'm already registered with the FAA, so it's just kind
of an extra step. So you play your phone number

(52:44):
and all that stuff, and you can unlock some zones
just right there. If you have a cellular connection at
least or a Wi Fi connection. You can unlock some zones.
Some zones like that at the end of runways you
cannot unlock it. Period. There is no option to get
special clearance from within the app to fly your drone.
You can go another roundabout way of contacting. You need

(53:05):
to go to the airport, do paperwork, contact the FAA,
get DJI. Of all, you can get like a permit
to fly in restricted air that kind of restricted airspace,
but you can unlock that air space just within the app,
like especially at the ends of runways. So my use
case and why I'm curious if it's subject to GEO

(53:26):
zoning or GEO locked zones or even any just GEO
warning zones. Is the Houston Museum of Natural Science in Sugarland,
the Sugarland campus. Anybody, any of you who listen in Houston,
probably if you didn't know that we have a museum
also in Sugarland, that your membership is equally as good
at We have two satellites actually, so we have the

(53:46):
main campus downtown at on Herman Park, and then we
have the Sugarland location in Sugarland, and then we have
the George Observatory over in Brazospence State Park. That is
all technically Houston Museum of Natural Sens Braso's Bend State
Park is not affiliated directly with the Houston Museum and
Natural Science, but the George Observatory, the big thirty six

(54:08):
inch telescope and other telescopes we have out there, that
is absolutely the part part of HMNS. So the Sugarland
location is basically at the end of the runway of
sugar Land Airport. So I'm driving over the these road humps.

(54:28):
It's at the end of the runway a sugar Land
airport doesn't matter which which way the wind's blown, so
which way the airplanes are taken off or landing from.
You're at the end of the runway, and it is
in a locked drones locked geolock. I cannot if you
put I put my drone down on the concrete the takeoff,
I can't even spin up the props. It says you
cannot even attempt to fly here. It is not just

(54:50):
GEO fenced off. It is illegal to fly here without
you know, contacting the airport and the FAA and all
that kind of stuff. So I'm curious the Neo in
quick shot mode not attached to why FI not attached
to cell the other not attached to nothing? Is it
still GEO fans? Can I get that forty foot shot
of the facade of the museum with the DGI nano.

(55:12):
That's where it gets interesting to me. Can I now
get some shots in geolocked locations that I with any
other drone I can't get. I will speed trap ahead,
I will take a little bit of reduction and video
quality if I can get shots that I could not
get before. So that's gonna be interesting to figure out.

(55:35):
Let's talk about some of the the pushback or the
criticism now of Dji's DJI Neo one. There's a little
bit of grumbling in that you can get it in
Europe now like on day one launch. It came out
September fifth or September sixth. I believe you could order
it in people in Europe and other in Malaysia and

(55:57):
everywhere had it in their hands. They could fly it
if you're in North America, at least in the United States.
I don't know about Canada, but in the United States
it's not gonna It's only gonna be available in the
United States from October sixth, So like almost exactly one
month out from launch. Can American buyers have access to it?
So that means you can purchase it on October six,

(56:18):
It's probably not gonna get to my doorstep till October
seventh or eighth. If it gets to my doorstep on
the seventh, that'd be pretty cool. But I'm anticipating one
or two days for shipping, so I won't get it
until early October to really put it through the test.
Here's what I hope, because here's the other feedback. Here's
the other criticisms and gripes you see around editing different
corners of the Internet regarding the DJI Neo. And I

(56:40):
agree with this full stop. The footage is not just
like a downgrade. The footage is not just not as
good as a Mavick three Pro or even a Mini
three pro or Many four pro. The footage from the
Neo is straight up awful garbage for any device that

(57:00):
exists in human history. It is not a good image,
at least from these initial reviews, this first firmware, the
image is bad. And now the argument is, and I
can understand this, it's one hundred. It's the cheapest drone
by far, it's the cheapest drone that DGI offers, and
it is not meant for cinematographers and serious content creators

(57:23):
and people working on movie sets and all that stuff.
It's not meant for that. It's meant just to take
whatever footage it gets you. I think it's like seven
hundred megabit, sorry, not seven hundred, that'd be amazing, like
seventy megabits per second if that eight bit for sure,
quote unquote four k. The footage looks like sharpened seven
twenty p, sharpened seven to twenty p. That's a hard

(57:45):
phrase to say over and over sharpened seven twenty p.
So the image coming out of it is not good?
Is it's actually really bad? I think if you have
the goggles, what I've read so far against it's I
don't have the drone in my hand recording. What I've
read so far is that you can adjust the sharpness
in the DJI goggles, Like if you haven't paired up

(58:07):
to the goggles, you can adjust the sharpness of the
footage you are recording. And I do know that with
just again in reviews that I've seen that when you're
using a remote control, not the app, but you're using
an actual dedicated remote control that you can adjust the
ISO and shutter speed and some things like that I'm

(58:27):
not even sure about. I don't think with the app
yet in the controller that you can adjust things like
the sharpness or saturation. I don't think that's a thing yet.
I say yet because I'm getting to something here. But
for someone who's is fine, and someone just been one
hundred ninety nine dollars and they wanted just to use
the quick shots and all that stuff, it's not The
footage coming out of the drone is not intended to

(58:49):
be edited, like it's supposed to just be good enough
for two hundred dollars drone to get the fifteen second
shot and be done and post it on your Instagram
and then be done with it. So I get that.
I do get that. There does come a point though, however,
where it's like, yeah, well, if you okay, maybe you
buy one hundred and ninety nine dollars drone and you

(59:13):
don't buy any controllers for it, you're just gonna use
a standalone or you maybe use it with your phone.
I can understand limiting the options, limiting the limiting how
you can adjust the settings of the video I get
that in that case on hundred ninety nine dollars and
just be done with it. It's not supposed to be super
editable in whatever. It's supposed to just go from your

(59:34):
drone to your Instagram. That's all it's made for. Strangely enough,
it doesn't have a dedicated vertical shooting mode yet. I
keep saying yet. So I'll spare the other kind of
specifics about the video. You can at this point, from
what we understand, you can adjust the sharpness and the goggles,
but you can't adjust it with the remote control. Like

(59:54):
it's pretty It's all over the place. The video is
not good, and people understand the cavyat of it's a
two hundred dollars what what do you kind of expect?
Here's what I expect for the people that buy the
two hundred dollars drone and decide to buy the UH
one hundred and fifty dollars hundred and thirty dollars RC

(01:00:17):
and three or whatever remote control. If you're spending an
extra one hundred dollars or so on the remote control
to have more full control over the DJI and EO,
those people who spent the extra money should be able
to adjust the footage as much as they humanly possibly can.
If you're using the djifly app with an actual dedicated

(01:00:39):
remote control for the DJI and EO, you need to
be able to adjust saturation, you need to be able
to adjust sharpness for dang sure, and you need at
least some more cropping options. I've heard that like even
two point seven K four x three quote unquote full
frame would be excellent to an excellent option to have
just disable all the rock steady motion whatever and just

(01:01:04):
have a pure quote unquote open gate of the half
inch censor in two point seven K sure. I agree
with that too. My point is, if you're using that remote,
if you spent the extra money to have the remote,
you're spend the extra money to have that much control
more control over the neo. You should have that much
more control over all of the NEO. You should have
the sharpness adjustment, you should have the saturation adjustment, you

(01:01:26):
should have the white balance adjudgment in addition to the
ISO and the shutter speed and whatever else you can
throw in there. I think even if possible, just for giggles,
even though it's kind of like it seems a little
bit pointless, but like you should have a log profile
like Dji log what is it LOG two or LOG
three whatever, It's like a light log profile. It's not
all the way desaturated, but it's something to work with.

(01:01:49):
It's a little bit of extra play, of extra headroom
to have in post production, even though it's just eight
bit video, you know whatever. I would take an option
or core ten bit ten eighty like that would be
cool to me. Like ten bit ten eighty maximum thirty
frames a second, but it's ten bit and you have
a more control over the footage post product post for production.

(01:02:11):
That'd be super cool. But my point stands, if you
buy the Neo buy itself having no options for the video, fine,
if you buy the Neo and then you buy a
dedicated controller to have more control over it, Yeah, absolutely
need to have more options over a video. I kept
saying the word Yet. You can't adjust saturation yet, you
can't adjust sharpness yet. You certainly can't adjust color profiles

(01:02:34):
yet or white balance. To my knowledge, I say yet
because Dji has done this in the past with past strons.
The DJI Mavic three Pro, the super telephoto lens was
trash when it first came out, it was unusable the
first adopters the DJI Mavic Pro three, which's like, just
don't even use the third telephoto lens because it's this garbage.

(01:02:57):
But Dji fixed it lickety split. They added the color profiles,
they added the ability I believe to I think you
can do ten bit with the super telephoto. I don't
have it in front of me at the moment, but
they added you can certainly do log profile. You can't
do like the flattest log but you can do a
log profile. Now in the DGI Mavic three Super Telephoto lens.
They beefed up that third lens with firmware updates and

(01:03:21):
added features to the drone through firm more updates. So,
with all these criticisms of the DJI Neo at launching,
all my concerns on this side, I'm not that worried
about it because Dji has fixed these issues after the
fact in the past, and I would not be surprised

(01:03:41):
in the absolute slightest that before American buyers get it
get in their hands on October uh, it comes to
don't available on Tiber sixth and in their hands by
October eight. I wouldn't be surprised if a firm more
update comes out before October six that fixes at least
addresses the image quality issues. Like it's truly I mean,

(01:04:04):
it's awful when Potato Jet. This is what I went
into got into when I did the first recording that
I'm not using. The first review I saw was from
Potato Jet. From Potato Jet, and they had a DJI
representative and he said, yeah, the footage looks great. The
DGI rep says, yeah, the footage looks great, and I'm like,
am I am? I just did I imbibe some substance

(01:04:29):
that's making my brain not think straight? This video looks awful.
The audio the video. Don't even talk about the noise
canceled audio coming from the DGI afore and I even
talking about that. The footage from the drone looks terrible.
On the Potato Jet review and a lot of other reviews,
it just it looks truly awful. And I was like,

(01:04:50):
what is it just me? No? No, Well, other reviewers
same thing. Anybody who's got the drone in their hands
already said the same thing, the same look. It just
looks over oversaturated and over sharper looking. Four k looks
like sharpened seven to twenty P. It's washed out. It's awful. Uh.
But that's things that can be addressed. That's things that
can be addressed in a firm or update. And DJI

(01:05:13):
has addressed those things in past products. In the past,
they've done that, They've they've adjusted the the the video
quality after the fact of firmware updates. That's a common
thing for dj I had to do. They keep making
their products get better and better and better. As you
own them, they to support them for like a few
years afterwards. You'll get an update for your Mavic two
or something like that. That for Mavick two is kind

(01:05:35):
of old by now, but for several years after the fact,
you get these creature comfort, these improvements to the dj
A products. So there's no way the dj I Neo
is coming out the gate like this. There's no way
that this is what there There's no way that this
is just what the DJO is going to be. It's
just going to be the thing that's lacking a lot

(01:05:55):
of features and has terrible image quality. I don't think
DJI is going to stay for that. I think DJI
is going to take this video quality thing hyper seriously,
and they're gonna change it. I think they're gonna change
it before it gets into American hands. That is straight
up my prediction. I would not be surprised at all
if they fix this. Buy what am I doing? If

(01:06:17):
they fix this by October sixth oh golf clubs to
the left, and I'm going right as you can see
or hear, I've made it to my destination. So I'm
gonna start wrapping up the podcast. I will do a
follow up podcast after I actually have the neo in
my hands and have some experience with it. But I'm
just taking a bet right now. I'm at a casino.
I should go to a table, find find the table

(01:06:39):
with the where the bets are. It's DJI. I got
to release a firm or update before Americans get the
DJI neo in October six, and I would say, I'll
put you know, I'll put a hundred bucks. I'll put
one hundred dollars just to make it worth my while.
If I do win, I'll put a hundred bucks that
that DGI fixed the a firm more update to address

(01:07:01):
video quality issues at least before October six or by
October six. I fully would not be surprised in the
slightest uh. If that happens, I'm kind of counting on it.
Really they don't. DJI prides itself on image quality and
in listening to users, and there the customer service experience

(01:07:21):
that I had repairing my Mavic three was unmatched by
any company I've ever worked with. It was very pleasant
and very easy to get my drone worked on, send
it into DGI to get get work done to it.
So DJI they stand by the products and they listen
to the customers. I'm not being paid by DJI at

(01:07:42):
all to say any of that. It's just my experience,
anecdotal experiences. I had a good time. I had a
very pleasant experience work with DJI to fix my drone,
and I know how much they care about their products
and especially image quality, because I've owned djis for years.
Oh man, there's a black and red C eight. Look
good though? That does look awesome? All right, I think

(01:08:04):
that's it. I'm parking. I'm gonna call my brothers to
see where the heck they are. You've been listening to geek.
They perido. You are worthy of love, you are worthy
of giving love, You're worthy of receiving love and you're
worthy of your own self respect. Lean into your geek thing.
Take care and be safe, and I'll talk to y'all
next time. On this here it is actually psych you

(01:08:25):
know what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna do a test
of the built in noise reduction. I'm gonna press the button.
You pressed the power button once, I believe to enable
noise reduction. So let's see this is built in noise
reduction being activated hopefully on the DGI Mike two. Okay,
pressed it. There was a vibration and the light turned
a little bit greenish yellow on the other side of it,

(01:08:45):
So maybe this is noise reduction. I'm gonna pss it
again to see if noise reduction goes away. DGI nose
reduction goes away. Okay, Now, theoretically this should be the
non noise reduction DJI Mike two, non DJ eye noise reduction. Previously,
you're listening to the DA Vincial resolve and the body
of the podcast, but this is dji's noise reduction. Yeah,

(01:09:07):
we'll see how this sounds. Take care of y'all,