Hi, do you have an iphone?
Well, then you're in luck because in this video we're gonna give you six microphone
options that you can use specifically for this bad boy right here.
When you're filming your next set of online videos.
So, stay tuned.
Hey guys, James Wedmore here and in this video we're gonna go ahead and review six different
microphone and audio options that you have at your disposal when filming your next set
of videos on you iphone 5s or iphone 6 or 6 plus.
Now, if you have been following me for sometime you know that I'm a huge fan of using your
iphone or your mobile device when filming your videos whether it's on the go or in your
home office or studio simply because it's gonna save you time and money over an expensive
DSLR camera, you take it with you wherever you go and the quality of these videos have
gotten so darn good that your audience isn't really gonna tell the difference but when
they will tell the difference is the audio quality, so when we are filming we gonna make
sure that we have awesome crisp and clear audio so your audience could hear you loud
and clear.
So let's go ahead and take a look at the first of six audio options that you have your disposal
when filming with your iphone.
So obviously, the easiest and cheapest solution that you have for your audio is the on-board
microphone that comes with your iphone and what we're using right now, the audio that
you hear me with right now is the plain on-board mic on my iphone 6.
Now, my camera is, I would say, about eight feet away at the most maybe seven feet away
from me and what you probably are experiencing or probably hearing is that the sound is little
echoey, distance, and hollow doesn't sound as crisp and clear.
Doesn’t sounds like somebody’s whispering in your ear, does it?
So, really this is a last resort you can already tell that the audio quality will quickly diminish
further the camera is separated from our subject.
Okay, our second option is the ampridge mini shotgun microphone which as you can imagine
might be a little bit more of an improvement from using our standard on-board microphone
but because it is a shotgun mic the further away the camera is well the further away the
microphone is, so it might be an improvement in the audio but it still not going to be
high quality as crisp and clear as say a lavalier but it is also a great option if you are filming
an outdoor setting and you wanna get a wide range of sound.
Alright, our next audio option the one that you can hear right now is the Rode smartlav
which I love, it's a wire lavalier and is the first of our wired mic options, so you
can hear the audio quality from it here, it's as you can tell much better than just using
the plain on-board mic, I personally don’t think it's the best quality lavalier mic out
there and you come in up with brand new problem where your wire is pretty short.
This cable is only about three feet in length maybe a little bit longer.
So that was the biggest problem we came up with.
Alright, our fourth microphone option for the iphone is by a company call edutige.
Assuming I’m pronouncing it properly, you can hear it right now.
I personally feel that like it is a little bit of a higher quality, the sound is little
bit better but also just feels like a heavy duty or more sturdier microphone plus it's
a little bit longer in length, you can see here and it looks about four feet in length.
It does have an option for the headphones so you can hear the audio yourself which is
good for monitoring your audio.
I like this one, again I think it's better than our last option but again it's still
you're still constricted by about four feet in length unless you go out and get the extender
for it.
Alright, the microphone you are listening to right now is a by company or brand called
Movo and it's the LV1.
I have no idea how I stumbled upon this but found it in amazon, decided to pick it up,
pretty inexpensive and here is the number one thing I love about it, it has for once
more than enough cable so you could be filming six to ten feet away and shouldn't have a
problem whatsoever so that I'm a big fan of.
Okay, our final microphone option for the iphone is the one you are that you listening
to right now, it's by a popular brand name audio-technica.
It is another wired lavalier and it's also one that has plenty of wire or cable so you're
not gonna have an issue with filming in your office or home studio.
The other thing that is has other than the sound quality that you can hear right now,
it actually comes as you can see right here with an adapter so it's actually a microphone
that you could use on your DSLR camera or any other video camera you have.
You're not stuck with the microphone that you can only use with your iphone but for
the other phones as well, plus it also has audio monitoring plugin as well so you can
pop in your headphones and make sure your audio sounds pretty good before you start
filming so its always pretty nice and convenience.
So that is it for the audio-technica.
Now, what we're gonna do next is give you our, my final review of the audio option that
I recommend and I suggest for you.
So, stay tuned.
Alright, the results are in for the recommended microphone for your iphone and your next set
of videos.
So it was hard, It was a little challenging but I was able to narrow a down for you.
So, my number one winner is really the Edutige.
I believe this is a super high quality microphone, the audio sounds fantastic with it but there's
two big but's, first of all it's only 4.2 feet long plus it's a little bit more expensive.
So this mics gonna cost you about $35 just to get this little powerful piece and then
it gonna cost you like another $30 bucks to get the cable but I do recommend it for the
quality it's just not gonna really work at only four feet.
So the option we did come up with the one we do recommend is the Movo LV1, you can get
on amazon for under $20 bucks, it sounds phenomenal and it's got a twenty foot leash on it.
So you can go pretty far with this and it's small portable and really cheap.
So, I hope that was a benefit for you, I hope that help clear up the best microphone options
that we have available to you here for filming on your iphone 6 or 6 plus.
If you have an iphone and you wanna film better quality marketing videos using your iphone.
What we've done is put together a buyer's guide called The Iphone Video Marketer's Buyers
Guide and it shows you every essential item that you need not just your microphone, but
tripod, tripod adapters, and other cool hardware and software that you need to start filming
videos like a pro even if you're complete newbie.
This guide is absolutely free to choose you the best, tested hardware and software that
we're using when we film on an iphone as well.
You can download that absolutely free.
The link is right below this video . Go ahead and click that link now and you could download
that guide immediately.
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