hello and welcome to the Nikon D5200 channel
Today we're going to be talking about to microphones - in particular
DSLR Mics. We referred to
sound and video before and
we showed you some other ways that you could capture sound for your
videos.
We're going to go into a bit more detail with these Mics today.
We showed you last time we showed you in NTG2 Mic which is the
long shotgun mic
which is the industry standard. It's the mic that everybody
sees on the end of polls whenever they are doing interviews and it is a
superb
microphone but it's not actually designed for DSLR's
and the ones that we're going to be looking at today are DSLR specific.
So the first we're going to look at is this Rode.
It's a Rode video Mike and it basically does what it
says on the tin.
It is a mono Mic and you will find
in fact is that the Mono Mic is by farl
the most preferred Mic. It is particularly good
for documentaries and for interviews
and for concerts. It has a cold shoe
and fits directly into the camera facing the same way as the lens so
it picks up the sound from wherever you're shooting
from or two.
And the reason it's so good that it's mono is because it basically picks up
the sound
from in front of the camera unlike the stereo Mic I will show you want in a
minute
Which has a much wider and broader
area from which they pick up sound
and it is better for picking up ambient sound.
As I say the Rode video Mic
is a basic mono shotgun mic it fits here
and it slots into the camera.
The next one I am going to show you is this
Rode stereo Mic and this
is called the Rode stereo video Mic.
You can see it's much shorter and blunter it's not a shotgun Mic in that sense
and it does pick up the ambient sound. Because it is stereo it's very good
if you want more ambient sound.But in most cases
you'll probably want shotgun sound clarity
from directly in front of the camera. But of course if you've got people moving
around
then it is an option but perhaps using a Tascam
or radio Mic like this might be a preferred option
if people are moving around too much in the frame. The
good things about these to Mics is that they do have
high pass filters. A high pass filter
means that it actually
does not record anything below
80 Hertz and that is the sort of distant rumble of traffic
or perhaps if you're indoors, air conditioning that you really don't want
to hear
and that you would want to take an active at the sound
post-production anyway. And that is a high pass filter.
Now this one as is slightly more advanced
also it allows you to take about
10 decibels out
of the sound going in
and that's one of the useful things about a high pass filter
is but it also reduces the plosives
in people speech the Ps in particular
on which are quite explosive when they came as people's mouths
and they can offer instant distortion
to your recording so the high-pass filter will reduce that
but the -10 which we've got here
allows you to actually reduce the amount of sound going
in to the camera in the first place and that's very useful
if you'll doing something very loud so if you've got something like motorsport
and you know it that the sound of the car as it is going past you
is going to be extremely loud for a short period of time
then you might want to put a -10 on that because it will reduce the
quantity if the sound going into the camera
though not necessarily the quality and that's quite useful for this camera.
By the way you do get a dead cat with it
so you can reduce the wind noise further if you want to.
Now one of the things about
the D5200 which is of course what we tend to be talking about
is that it does have a jack
for sound to go in but it doesn't have and jack for sound to come out which
means that
if you actually really need to know the quality of the sound
at the point of recording you can't hear it.
So we would suggest that you buy one of these. It's a basic splitter
and this enables you to put
your Mic into the camera
and instead if the putting this jack directly into the camera
you put it into one the slots for this and the splitter and then the other side
of the splitter.
You would put your headset and then obviously this one would go into the
camera.
Now that enables you to record
and it also enables you to be able to listen to the sound
as it goes into the camera and it's very useful if you have any opportunity for
example to do any
pre-tests so that if somebody's talking you can
test that sound and make sure that it's OK
as it goes into the camera before you start actually recording the bit you
really need to record
so that's very useful. With these two Mics
you need to remember that these are just microphones
and the recording a goes on
inside the camera. We've done a video about this earlier on
a for movie settings I think where we talked about the audio going into the
camera
I just to recap when you set the audio you really looking at a peak
at between 12 and 14
it's actually Minus 14 but you wouldn't really notice if you look on
the screen because you can't see it but it's about 12-14
and that means that a it will
normally record at that level and then if there is any sudden noise then it
will be able to go up and be able to absorb that distortion without it going
into the amber in the red.
So you use these I Mikes either the mono or stereo
to a get the sound into the camera
with a limited amount of control as to
what the quality if the sound and the quantity of the sample will go through
the system.
So the third Mic I am going to look at is also a Rode Mic.
There are other makes available there are a few other manufactures
but these are the best ones frankly
and rode are the industry leaders in this so it's worth
at least looking at them first. This is the rode
video Mike Pro.
The useful thing about this although it falls into this the same category as the
other two
in many ways in that it's a shotgun mic. This one is Mono
as opposed to stereo and it also has a high pass filter
which is really important these days there is so much ambient sound going on that we
don't even notice
until we have to sit down to do post production sound work
and and that's really important but this also gives the option
of turning up the noise level going into the camera
and turning down the noise level going into the camera just off the back if the
mic.
Now this is really useful because if you all say doing a concert
a which involves loud music and speech
for example then you're going to find yourself in a situation where you find
but you trying to set for the loud sound
and then you start to miss when people start talking and vice versa
if you can predict when people are going to start talking when the sound is going to
go down
then it enables you actually to switch to
minus 10 decibels for the very loud stuff
and up to plus 20 decibels when people are talking
and that means that this controls the level of sound
going into the camera. It means that
because of that you don't have to start changing the levels
in the camera half way through what's going on
and indeed if you wanted to this is so versatile
that in many cases you can leave the sound levels in the camera
on auto and this will deal with it.
Because it's at the back you can actually do it
as it's happening which makes it a lot easier so it's a very useful
improvement on
what Rode Mics were doing previously. It enables you to
have more control over the sound and it enables you to control
the quality and the quantity of the sound that goes into the camera
again is exactly the same - it has a cold shoe here it's got the
Jack here which either go into the camera or into the splitter depending on
how you want to do that
and I must say we've had this a while now
and it is a pretty good Mic. If you want any more information on any of
these three Mics that we've shown you today
I you can either click on the links or you can go through to the website
and have a look we've got a page on that. Or indeed we'll drop some links down
below
in the description for you to go and have a look at these Mics.
We deal in the UK with a company called
Rubadub who are sound experts and they are pretty good
and I'll hopefully have some good deals should you wish to buy one
and if you're in the US than we have other
assorted affiliates so you can buy from so
these a good Mics they're a good investment and
if you are looking to do any serious video or film making with a DSLR
you are really going to need one of these.