what's happening guys Dan Debenham here you can have the world's worst looking
video but if the sound is brilliant then people will still watch it so today
we're gonna be looking at three different microphones
I think this earlier my fingers and thumbs wouldn't do what I wanted them to
do ended up looking like this and I was like what are you doing but we're gonna
look at three different microphones today firstly we're gonna look at the
on-camera microphone that's the microphone that comes with the camera
you don't need to do anything with it it's already set on it will pick up
sound etc etc etc then we're gonna look at two of the microphones both of those
microphones have rode microphone microphones and they're sort of
different in price so we're going we're jumping in price quite quite drastically
but it's just an indication of soo what you can get from each individual
microphone and why they're all good to use in their own little way why they're
all good to use even though you may have a thousand-pound microphone you may
still use this five quid microphone or the on-camera microphone for certain
things depending on what you want to do so with that let's have a look and see
what we're going to look at today so we've got the on-camera microphone which
is on at this minute and time a Canon EOS 6d mark 2 and then we're going to
look at this little beauty this is the rode video mic rope get this guy out he
is tiny absolutely tiny let's see if we can get him to focus in focus focus
focus focus focus focus come on come on there we go
so that is the rode video micro such a tiny little thing is very very very
small it comes with this windshield which will put them back into his
windshield now so these nice and snug and safe so we're gonna go with that
that is 40 pounds or 46 pounds depending on what you get with it and then we're
gonna move up and we're going to look at this bad boy this is the staple of
vloggers this is the rode video mic Pro Plus this is battery powered etc
etcetera etcetera so what is the difference between these why would I buy
this which is two hundred and forty nine pounds versus this which is forty six
pounds or while widows but not keep the on-camera microphone and go with that
well firstly let's have a look at the on-camera microphone the camera
microphone that you've got in your camera is basically what it is it's on
as soon as you switch your camera on and then it is the settings in there are
next to nil apart from volume adjustment and a few sundry effects in post the
forty pound microphone the pluses to this is there is no battery power to
this you plug this into your camera it's phantom Protocol phantom powered so that
means it's powered via the camera so the camera battery is powering this
microphone which means while over your cameras on microphones on and you're
collecting sound and you're doing everything you need to do with it it's
very very small it can pack away really really tiny and can be used for a
multitude of different things I have used this to do special effects with so
you can put this microphone right close to what you want it to be it's very very
close picks up the sound excellently it's a directional microphone so it's
basically a miniature shotgun mic so it's got a very very narrow cone
and sound that it will pick up which is basically right in front of it the cons
of this probably are going to be that there are no adjustments to it in regard
boasting the power or noise cancellation or anything else like that and also that
because it's so small the distance that you can be from the camera itself whilst
you're recording on camera is is obviously smaller so the further and
further away you get the worse and worse and worse the sound gets obviously
because it's also picking up sound in between you and wind noise and all the
rest of it whatever else is there between your birds flying past you
exactly and and so that can be one of the negatives to it but on the whole
this is a very good microphone he's got a nice sound to it and we'll see that in
a minute when I nip outside and we do a bit of a sound test between three so you
can see the differences it's not particularly expensive so let's say this
is inexpensive so you get in sort of a mid-range good quality microphone but
with not too much expense you also get with it when you buy it you also get one
of these which is a mount for it this is a reco T mount so it's got an built-in
shock to it so you don't have to worry about this clattering and making noise
or adding into the sound of what you're actually trying to record so you get
that with this as well along with the and it is also just a single cable to
connect to the camera moving on we've got the rode videomic pro this is a
Genesis shotgun microphone which is much larger this is also battery-powered so
there is an on button on the back this has a few more settings than what the
micro has the video micro has this one is has a boost it has a decibel boost of
plus or minus 10% 10 decibels plus or minus 10 decibels plus 20 decibels it
has a low and a high pass filter so it will it will filter
out low noise it will filter out Hein high-pitched noise as well trying to get
away from that he has an auto on feature which means that when this is plugged
into the camera the camera switches on the microphone comes on and then you're
ready to go the minute that you turn the camera off
the microphone a few seconds later will they'll get a signal from that there is
no power coming through this cable and so it will then switch the microphone
off as well batteries rechargeable and in some
instances can last a hundred hours also I've been told I have had this
microphone since November and I have yet to charge this microphone despite it
being used on every video where I am outside this is pretty much constantly
attached to my camera and it's pretty much on all the time yet charged this
much this comes with a phone cover a phone
cover over the top of it with a robe written on the side of it this dead cat
is extra I think it's an extra pound what fits around the back as a rubber
seal it fits around the back and what obviously it's quite neat and it's a
niche products specifically for this microphone so it's not something we just
bang straight on and then off you go it actually fits to the microphone in
the same way that the phone sleeve that fits over the top is a noise counsellor
fits over the top and effectively the foam sleeve is it's basically try and
cut down on pops and DSE and all the rest of the kind of
good stuff that you do when you talk even still this kind of business and
love this kind of when you're spitting at the microphone that cuts down on that
but the wind noise are that pretty much this dead cat that pretty much stays on
all the time and don't really use the phone one pretty much stuck this on left
it on that's what it looks like so with that and the negatives the negatives to
the video mic Pro Plus cost cost is one negative it's 249 pounds which is quite
a lot for an on-camera microphone especially for somebody starting out for
instance or somebody who's getting into it nobody says you have to go out and
splurge thousands on equipment as I say the 40-pound video micro probably just
as good and in terms of getting started it's just as good for you you could get
getting you get decent results out of it and but with that I'd say what let's go
outside and see so here we are in a park and I
just wanted to show you the on camera microphone what that sort of thing is
picking up there's no real way of narrowing that sound out it's quite a
wide sound some microphones are either side of the lens and it's gonna pick up
as much sound as you possibly can this is sort of an average distance between
the camera and the microphone I'm about four feet away from where the camera is
at the minute and it's basically gonna pick up the surrounding area and
everything that is actually happening on boarding it's quite a high-pitched sound
and you will notice a difference when we switch to the rode videomicro which will
do a roundabout yeah okay so as you can see now we're standing roughly about the
same distance away about four feet away from the camera which is that general
sort of distance for the camera the person would be talking from it and any
dis more distance than that you're going to want to be booming it in or you're
gonna want to look Pell Mike and you can tell the difference between this
microphone and the previous microphone which was the onboard camera one it's
got a little bit more wind isolation and it's going to pick up some of the
surrounding sounds but in a much more protracted way so that it doesn't over
bear what I'm actually talking about and you can feel that the depth of sound
from within this microphone picking up is a little bit better if I step a
little bit further away you'll notice that the sound does get a little bit
further and it does struggle somewhat to pick up the sound just a little bit
because the distance and the shortness of the shotgun microphone and but that's
the the consequence of having something that is quite small but on the plus side
is easy to pack away and it is also very easy to use there's no battery as I said
previously so all the power is coming from the phantom on phantom power on the
camera itself and so now we'll do is we'll switch to the video Maggie so now
we're into the video mic Pro Plus and as you can tell the sound has gone up
exponentially there is a lot more tonal range to this sound I have a for
instance for the sake of this particular test I have not turned on the low-pass
filters or anything this is basically just the mic as it is without any extra
help from itself this is just a microphone doing what it does best and
as you can tell the sound is much crisper much clearer there is much more
sort of depth to that sound and I even I can see from here on the metering system
here that sounds a lot louder it's picking up a lot more of the noise a lot
more of a sound and cutting out some more of that wind if I step back a
little bit and I go to maybe sort of another three or four feet backwards
you'll notice that the sound whilst it does drop slightly it is still picking
up that sound quite well and it's not actually making that much of a
difference so here now and roughly around about sort of eight feet away
from the camera and it's still picking up my voice very very well I'm not
having to shout enough to change the timbre of my voice I'm also not having
to make any adjustments if volume just so that we can make sure that we get
equal test and it seems to be working admirably you can tell the difference
and you can see why this microphone is 249 pounds and why is the choice of the
pretty much every vlogger that is out there everybody's either had one of
these or uses one of these and at some point in their career so with that let's
get back to studio and let's have a look and see what else we can do oh actually
one thing before we do that let's have a look and see how it picks up on sort of
the bird noises and different sort of sounds that someone could see what these
two microphones do and as averse to the on-camera
microphone
but that let's go back to the studio so as you can tell the on-camera microphone
is quite harsh it's quite noisy picks up just about everything that's going off
around you and he's not particularly focused as predicted the video micro is
slightly more focused than the depth of sound ease is slightly deeper and
slightly better in recording quality and then obviously you're jumping up by 200
pounds to the might of the video mic Pro Plus which again is even deeper and more
focused and cuts out more noise and so on and so forth and it's what you would
expect it to be is that that microphone would be better than all the others that
were tested here today so hope you found it useful if you did please do like and
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