Welcome back. Today, I'm going to show you my 2 favorite ways of how to get good
audio quality on your video. Okay, so in this video, I'm going to feature at the zoom
h2n and Road go. Both amazing tools. I'm going to show you how to use them.
Alright, at the beginning of the video, I was using my lapel mic. But now we're
going to switch right over to this audio. You probably noticed a little bit of a
difference but it's really close to me you can't see it. I'm touching it right
now. Can you hear that? Okay, so I've got my zoom h2n just outside of the shot. And
this is my preferred mic to go to. Because if I'm using that, I don't have
to have a mic clipped to me. The problem is is if I'm going to move. So, if I
step back, walk over here even if I sit down,
alright? The audio is going to be different on that mic as opposed to if I walk
closer to it. So, if you've got movement, you want to have all the lapel mic. But
this mic is amazing. Let me tell you a quick story. We were downtown Salt Lake
City doing some Street interviews. I was behind the camera. Kris Krohn was asking
some people some questions about real estate. And it was going great until the
tracks train came by. It's a really noisy squeaky train. I don't know why it's so
noisy but it is loud and it was just going by right on the street. And they
kept the interview going. And my thought was I wonder if this audio is going to be
usable. If we're even gonna be able to use this part of the interview because
that train is so noisy. Later, we got back and I checked it out.
This mic, it's directional. So every like if this was a mic right here, everything
right here is picked up perfectly. Everything behind it and far away is
reduced and muffled out. And that's what happened. The train, you could hear it but
it was muffled out in the background and it really focused in on the conversation
that Kris and this guy were having. It's a really good mic. Now, let me talk about
the exact setup I've got right here. Let me show you the whole picture first, okay?
We've got my zoom microphone with a handle on it that's hanging in a shock
mount that's on a boom arm. Which has an adapter that attaches it to
my C stand. Okay, so now that you've got the whole picture let me go through each
one. This little handle is graded. Two screws right into the bottom and we can
actually hold on to that one we're going and doing Street interviews. When you buy
a shock mount like this, the shock mod actually comes with a handle that's on
that you could use. But I've attached the shock mount to the end of my boom arm.
Now, this boom arm can stretch out to about 10 feet. So, it's not getting in
the way of anything. And this microphone is just hanging right down in front of
me. And it's really sturdy because I'm using a heavy-duty see. Stand all these
things I got on Amazon. I'll link to those below down in my description if
you're interested. Alright, so I've got one zoom h2n above me. I've actually got
another zoom h2n right here. Now, oftentimes, I will take my lav mic plug
it right into the mic input on this and then just stick this in my pocket.
There's a lock switch so if any buttons get pushed while it's in your pocket,
it doesn't mess it up. That would be bad if it kind of turned off on you. It works
really well but this is kind of a big apparatus to put in your pocket. And when
I do filming for my clients, we're filming 20 episodes in a day. And have
them pull it out of the pocket. Hit stop, hit start. You know, every at the
beginning and ending of every single video it becomes tedious. So, now I want
to introduce to you the Rhode Go. now notice this: My lav mic is actually going
into my pocket and it's attached to the Rhode go here which transmits a Bluetooth
signal over to this one which is recording on my device. It's what's
recording right now. So, it's going from my microphone to this device or to this
device and it's recording onto an SD card right here. So, I'm not using the
microphone on this h1 right now. I'm using the microphone on my lav mic. And
just to show a difference, I've got my other zoom h2n right above me. You can
switch to that one right now and when I back away. Now, the boom arm mic you know,
I'm farther away from it. But if you switch back over to the lav mic, that's
when this is good. And I've got my son sitting over there.
He's been monitoring this. You can just plug headphones right into this. If I'm
filming somebody else, I can monitor and know that the audio quality is good. You
can actually attach this directly to the top of the camera and have the audio for
you go right into the camera. I just like having a back as option.
So in a moment, me and my son are going to go outside. Or we're going to test and see
how far away I can go with the Rhode mic before the audio quality slips up.
And but before we go I want to show you the mic that's on top of my camera now.
Because I use this as a backup audio. Okay, I'm going to cheat and I'm just going to
pull up my phone because my filming team is using my other camera at another
location right now. But if I just show you with my phone, you'll see my cool
lighting setup. And if I come right over here, you'll get a little bit better shot.
This is the rode shotgun mic that I'm using on top of my Canon 90-D. Okay, let's
go outside and do a quick test. Okay, so I'll start right here and my audio
should be plenty good. You know we're only about 10 feet apart right here. But
I'm going to continue walking backwards. Then just you tell me put up your hand
when the audio quality gets poor, alright? So, I'm going to keep walking. I'm just going to
keep walking, There's noise it cars out here,
Keep walking. Put your hand up when you can't hear me, if it breaks up. I'm going to keep
walking, get across the street. Can you still... Oh! Hand is up. Okay, so I'm
guessing I'm about a hundred feet. I'll come back. I'm coming back is it better
now? Okay. It's better now. So, it looks like there's
maybe a range. Maybe it starts to cut out at 75 feet. Okay. Now that you know how to
get good quality audio on your video, I want you to watch this video right here
because you'll know why it shows the Canon 90-D this is the best camera for
YouTube.