It's started raining but I guess that's one of the benefits of having a GoPro Hero 10.
Hey, guys. So this video's mainly gonna be about the Media Mod because I've mentioned
it a few times in my previous videos about the Hero 10, and I realised that some of you might
not actually know what is or what to use it for. So, I'm basically just gonna go into a bit more
detail about it, what it's for, how to use it, and yeah, just give you a few specs about it,
and tell you the good and bad points about it. So yeah, that's what this video's gonna be about.
So first off I'll just tell you what you actually get in the box, so you get a user guide,
cage with a directional microphone, foam windshield, and some mount accessories.
So, originally the Media Mod was designed for the HERO9 but it's also compatible with the Hero 10.
And the main purpose of the Media Mod is, it's basically designed for vlogging, streaming,
anything where you'd want to, sort of, add third-party accessories like microphones and
lights, which I'll get onto a little bit later. But it basically has a directional microphone,
which you can either use from the front or the back, and all you have to do is just go to the
settings of the GoPro and just change which direction you want the microphone to record
in. So it's really important that you do that, if you using the front microphone,
the front-facing camera, sorry, then you want to make sure that the front microphone is being used.
And obviously if you're using the, if you've got the camera facing away from you but you're
still talking then you wanna make sure that you switch it over to the back-facing microphone.
You can also turn off the microphone on the Media Mod so that you're just using the GoPro's
microphone. I'll turn that off now so that you can hear how it sounds, because
the microphone's on top of the GoPro and the cage covers, looks like it covers the microphone,
so I'll let you hear how that sounds and I'll also do a few comparisons where you can hear what the
Media Mod microphone sounds like because at the moment I'm not actually using that only because
I don't think it sounds as good as it could do. So I'm not using the Media Mod microphone now,
I'm using the Sennheiser MKE 200, again something I'll talk about a little bit later. Now I'm gonna
switch off the, I'm gonna unplug my microphone and I'm gonna turn off the Media Mod's microphone
as well and hear how it sounds when you're just using the GoPro microphone with the Media Mod on.
So this is what the audio sounds like without the Media Mod mic and without
any microphone plugged into the Media Mod. This is just the microphone that's coming directly
from the GoPro but I've still got the cage on the, I've still got the Media Mod attached to
the GoPro. So I'll take the Media Mod off now and again just do a comparison so that
you can hear what the in-built microphone sounds like without the Media Mod cage on,
if that makes sense. Just to see if there is a difference between the audio quality at all.
So this is now the audio coming from the GoPro's microphone.
And I don't have the cage on it, I don't have the Media Mod on it so this is just
what the audio sounds like directly from the GoPro. As I said in a previous video,
I think this audio sounds a lot better than the audio that comes from the Media Mod microphone.
So yeah, as I said, this is the audio coming straight from the GoPro. I'm
gonna switch over and put the Media Mod on so that you can hear the audio from that.
So this is the audio now using the Media Mod. And this is what it sounds like.
The reason I got this is because I...
So I'll just tell you a little bit more about the Media Mod. You've also got a USB-C port so you
could actually charge the GoPro without having to take it out of the Media Mod case, which is
really useful. And it has a 3.5mm microphone jack so you can plug in an external microphone
as I mentioned earlier and that's how I'n using it at the moment with the Sennheiser MKE 200.
It also has an HDMI-out so you can use an external monitor if you just want to have a bigger display,
say, if you were streaming or you were doing anything where you were just gonna
be a little bit further away from the GoPro and you just needed to see yourself better.
It also has two coldshoe mounts so you can mount any accessories you want on it.
Things like lights, microphones anything that you just want to kit it out with really.
And it has a removeable foam windshield for the microphone on the Media Mod. So,
that will suppress wind noise up to 20mph, I think it says. So it is really useful if you just,
if you don't want to use an external microphone , and you just want to use the microphone from
the Media Mod and it is a really windy day, so that's just something to consider.
So, I guess the question is, who is the Media Mod for? And GoPro market it for vloggers,
live streamers. It's perfect for vlogging because if you also want to use the GoPro
as an action cam, so you do a lot of that stuff but you also want to
vlog with it at the same time then using the Media Mod is perfect for that because of all
the different ways that you can attach different accessories for vlogging. And for streaming,
which I haven't tried yet, it's also perfect for that apparently. So, using it for live streaming
is something that I will do in another video and I'll test it out properly to see how it works.
But yeah, and also , if you just create videos like educational videos or review videos, or any
kind of videos like that where you're just gonna be talking to the camera and you also need to
capture some decent b-roll at the same time then yeah, the Media Mod is gonna be perfect for you.
So if you are considering getting the Media Mod I would definitely recommend also looking
into getting an external microphone. You can get some for less than $100 / £100.
The Sennheiser MKE 200 that I'm using was less than £100, I can't remember how much it was
but I'll put a link in the description to some microphones that I recommend.
But yeah if you're gonna be vlogging outside it's just really gonna be beneficial to have
an external microphone which just gets better audio, clearer audio,
and also if it's really windy then you can attach an additional windshield like a furry windshield,
which is gonna cut out a lot more wind noise. So, I hope this video was useful, I hope that,
yeah that it was useful. if it was drop a like and if you have any questions or comments just drop
them in the comments box below. I'll see you guys on the next video, I'm gonna talk about ND filters
with the Hero 10, if you need them or not. So yeah subscribe if you wanna see more Hero 10 videos,
but otherwise see you guys on the next video. Thanks so much for watching.