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- Yes!
Tea just wasn't cutting it.
Back to coffee.
It's Two Minute Tuesday, let's go.
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- Alright, first things first,
I bought something new today, that's what
we're talking about.
Let me go open it up real quick before
we throw that timer on the screen.
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- Okay, welcome back to yet another Two Minute Tuesday.
So great to have you here, and today's topic
we are discussing microphones.
The best ones to use for your vlogs, the ones
that I use for my vlogs and my kind of on the go,
on the run, gorilla style film making videos.
Not so much your tutorial boom mic stuff,
but more so on camera microphones.
I held out a little while to get this,
I wanted to see some reviews, but after playing with
it for a few hours here, I just had to share it with you.
Let's throw two minutes on the clock.
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- Let's begin.
So here it is, the new Rode VideoMic Pro Plus.
This will be the new microphone I use for all my vlogging
content for one main reason and that is,
when you turn the camera on, the mic turns on.
When you turn the camera off, the mic turns off.
I can't even begin to tell you how many shots I've missed
because I've forgotten to turn on the mic,
or I've left it on and the mic is dead,
and I come back to my camera,
and I have no battery power left.
And let's be honest where can you find
a nine volt in a pinch?
You can't.
Which brings me to the next thing, they included
a lithium ion battery, and it's good
for over a hundred hours of audio recording.
Which is just incredible.
Rode, thank you so much.
Third, you can remove the cable now,
so if your cable gets damaged you don't have to buy
a brand new mic, you can just buy a new cable.
Or you can put an extension cable on this
and use it as a boom if you don't have
an actual boom mic up above.
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- What's up?
But how much better is this from it's predecessors?
And let's be honest, I have quite a few.
Let's take a look.
We have the Rode VideoMicro.
We have the original VideoMic PRO.
We have the updated Rode VideoMic PRO.
The main difference from the Rode VideoMic PRO
that was just updated by the Plus,
to it's predecessor, is the rycote mount.
You'll notice the mounts on this one are different
than this one.
Now these mounts were way better for eliminating unwanted
pops and stuff like that within your videos,
that's why I upgraded from this one, to this one.
Now here's two accessories that you might find helpful
if you're using on camera mics.
Number one, an extension cord.
In case you want to run this as a boom mic.
And if you want to do so, something
like a magic friction arm.
You can just clip it to the desk or your tripod
with that extra long cable you could run it
to your camera and run this as a boom, directly
under or above or to the side of your mouth,
so you can get crispy audio out of an on-camera mic
without having to buy an actual boom mic,
and run an XLR cable.
Let's switch over to the vlogs set up and here what
these mics sound like.
So I'm going to keep the audio settings exactly the same
within this camera, so the only difference will be
the mic quality itself.
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Alright what is going on?
Testing out the Rode VideoMicro.
Woo!
Current Rode VideoMic PRO.
Alright everybody what's going on,
this is the current Rode VideoMic PRO.
This is the one I will be replacing with the new one
that you're going to hear in just a second.
And now for the new one.
Oh oh!
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Alright, what's up?
This is the new Rode VideoMic Pro Plus.
That's a mouthful to say, but how does it sound?
Hopefully it should sound the best.
I've changed nothing on the mic settings itself.
There you have it!
Now it's important to say to you that these aren't
the only new features of this microphone.
It has so many new enhancements and improvements
that are going to help you get the best quality sound for
your videos.
This is by no way a scientific review, but I'm just stating
the obvious changes that are going to make my life
so much better!
So all in all, yes, the Rode MicVideo Pro Plus is
significantly better than all of the earlier versions.
If you were to buy a mic for vlogs, or for your camera
onboard, then that is the mic I recommend you buying.
So that's it for me guys.
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and, I will see you guys in the next video.
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