Hey guys. So you'll have recently seen in one of my recent videos I got the Rode…
Let me start again. Recently I got the Rode VideoMic GO II, so the newest microphone from
Rode, and I do own two other Rode microphones so what I wanted to do in this video was actually
test, hear what the difference was between those two because I have the Rode VideoMicro
and I also have the Rode VideoMic Pro+, so I'm just curious myself to hear what the difference
is because they're all very different price points so the Rode VideoMicro is £35 and the
Rode VideoMic GO II at the time I purchased it was about £93, and then the Rode VideoMic Pro+
is about £200. So there is quite a difference between the Micro and the Pro+ and then the
VideoMic GO II is somewhere in between, so I wanted to hear the difference,
and at the moment the audio that you're hearing at the moment is from the Rode VideoMic GO II, and
now this is the audio from the Rode VideoMicro. So I have heard the difference and there is a
slight difference between the Micro and the GO II so what I'm going to do is switch out one of them
so that you can hear the difference between the Pro+ as well. So this is now the audio from the
Rode VideoMic Pro+ and this is what it sounds up up against the Rode VideoMic GO II. It is a bit
windy today so I'm hoping that you can actually hear, well I did test the audio which is why
I've got my headphones on but hoping that it's not picking up too much wind noise with GO II because
the GO II doesn't have a furry windshield just a foam windshield, whereas the Pro+ comes with
a foam windshield and a furry windshield so that helps to cut out a lot of the wind. So the next
thing i'm going to do is test the Pro+ against the Micro so you can hear the difference between that.
So this audio is coming from the Rode VideoMicro and now this audio is coming
from the Rode VideoMic Pro+ so as I said the Micro is £35 and the Rode VideoMic Pro+ is £200
so quite a difference so I would expect there to
be quite a difference in the sound quality as well but we shall see.
So a little bit of the difference between the say, the GO II and the Micro against the Pro+
is that the GO II and the Micro don't actually require additional power so you don't, there's
no batteries or anything you just literally plug them into the camera and that's it,
whereas with the Rode VideoMic Pro+ it does require a battery which is a rechargeable battery.
You can also use just standard batteries as well but the great thing about it is if you do use it,
if you do use the Rode VideoMic Pro+ then as soon as you plug it into your camera the microphone
will turn on automatically which is something that the previous microphone, the Rode VideoMic…
the Rode VideoMic Pro… Rode VideoMic… whichever one was the previous one didn't do that so it was
often the case with myself that I used to plug it in and then forget to turn on the microphone but
you don't have that problem with the Rode VideoMic Pro+ and I think that's a really great feature.
So one of the things I forgot to mention was that i've used all these cameras,
all these microphones, sorry, with my DJI Pocket 2 and my GoPro Hero 10 and they all sound great
with those cameras as well, so it's not just for like your DSLR or your mirrorless camera you can
use it with those little other… those other little cameras as well, so they're perfect for vlogging.
I think for me the Rode VideoMic Pro+ did sound a little bit better than the Rode VideoMic GO II,
and it's just, it seems like it has a richer sound to it but it's so close in terms of
like the quality. With the Rode VIdeoMic GO II, I think if you didn't have the budget for the Rode
VideoMic Pro+ that the Rode VideoMic GO II is just a great microphone, definitely sounded better than
the Rode VideoMicro but if all you could afford was the Rode VideoMicro just to get better audio
from your camera or your Pocket 2 or your Hero 10 then it was a brilliant microphone for that but
if you do have the budget then I would say go for the Rode VideoMic GO II or the Rode VideoMic Pro+.
But what did you guys think? What sounded better to you? Let me know in the comments below.
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