Hi everybody Chris here in today's video
we are going to test
different microphones and different ways
of recording the microphones
as well as two types of cables. First let
me show you the microphones.
The first microphone we are going to
test is the audio-technica ATR3350
which is a lav mic and battery powered and you are
listening to it right now
as indicated with this yellow button.
I'm wearing it below my shirt
sticked to my chest with two tapes
to protect it against rubbing against
the clothes
and it comes in a box like this.
And here i have a second one
it has a small capsule like this
with the power switch
and the small microphone is protected
with the windshield
and has a small clip.
The second microphone we are going to test
is the Takstar SGC-598 which is a
shotgun microphone
and also battery powered it comes in a
box like this
and inside the box you find a small
pouch
for carrying the microphone and this is
the microphone itself
it comes with a little shock mount
and a tripod connection and the
on / off power switch.
When it's switched on it's indicated
with the green
lamp and you have a 10 dB boost
and a high pass filter and the third
microphone
we are going to test
is the Rode VideoMicro
shotgun microphone which is not battery powered.
It's smaller than the Takstar and looks
like this
and it comes in a box like this
and inside the box you get also this
little windscreen
and the different recording options we
are going to test
are the Sony RX100 VII 3.5 millimeter
microphone input jack on the side of the
camera
that you are listening to right now and
the Zoom H6 audio recorder
it looks like this
for the second column we will use an
3.5 millimeter audio extension
cable plugged in into the shotgun
microphones
and this will be running into the XY
microphone capsule that is mounted on
top of the Zoom H6 audio recorder
as you can see it has a 3.5 millimeter
line in here on the side and for the
last column
we will use the xlr cable
3 meter or 10 feet
standard xlr cable and this will
run into the
Rode VXLR+ adapter
that can convert
phantom power provided by the Zoom H6
to plug-in power on the 3.5 millimeter
input jack. As i said before
during the whole intro you were
listening to the audio-technica
lav mic. A lav mic has advantages
and disadvantages the advantage would be
that you can for example look to the
whiteboard
and the microphone is still facing your
mouth
or you can move towards the camera
and the distance between the microphone
and your voice
stays the same. The disadvantage of
course is that you are
connected via cable to your camera
so you cannot leave the room so easily
you always have to take off the
microphone
Another thing i want to test is the
background noise that is
being picked up by the microphone if I
stay silent
later in post-production I will show you
the decibel
level that gets picked up so just a
moment of silence
Okay and now let's switch to the Takstar
shotgun microphone. Okay now I switched
to the Takstar shotgun microphone which
is mounted
directly outside the frame if I pull
this down
you can see it here and it's connected
with the... let me show you
with the 3.5 millimeter extension cable
here
is the cable from the microphone this is
the audio extension cable
and it goes all the way here
into the camera
The advantage of this setup is
the advantage of this setup is that you
are not connected via
cable to the camera but the disadvantage
of course
is that you have to stay in this
position in order to pick up the voice
in a good quality.
If you move for example to the camera it
will have
difficulties to get the sound quality
right
or if you're moving towards the
whiteboard it might also struggle with
the audio quality
Now let's stay a moment silent
to see the background noise
Okay and now let's switch to the Rode
VideoMicro
shotgun microphone. Ok
now i switch to the Rode VideoMicro
shotgun microphone
as before it's mounted directly outside
the frame
as you can see here with the same audio
extension cable,
but this time I had to disconnect
the power because if I leave the power
in the camera
it will sound like this. I hope you can
still hear me
because there is a very loud background
noise now.
Okay I unplugged the camera from the
power
so the sound quality should be better
again
now I will stay a moment silent so we
can check the background noise
Okay and now let's switch to the Zoom H6
audio recorder. Okay now we switch
to the Zoom H6 audio recorder using
the audio-technica lav mic below my
shirt
and it's going into the 3.5 millimeter
line in of the XY microphone capsule
on top of the Zoom H6 the advantage
in comparison to the camera is that we
now can
connect the headphone to monitor the
audio signal
but the disadvantage is that we have to
sync
the audio signal in post by for example
clapping into your hands and
looking for the spikes in the audio
signal
let me show you how i set up the Zoom H6
audio recorder i switch to this camera
now
as you can see the lav mic goes into
the 3.5 millimeter
line in here on top the wheel
controls the strength of the signal and
it's set to
about eight and here
you see that the capsule is being used
by
these two red lamps and we are recording
right now. I switched on the high pass filter which
you can see with the blue icon here
and also the compressor to the studio
settings.
The audio signal in the moment is
peaking at about -12
decibels. I will show you the menu
but to show you the menu i have to
switch off the recording
okay and now let's stay a moment silent
and now we switch to the Takstar
shotgun microphone
okay now i switch to the Takstar shotgun
microphone
using the 3.5 millimeter audio extension
cable
and running into the XY microphone
capsule on top of the Zoom H6
the settings on the Zoom H6 i didn't
change
the wheel is still at 8 compressor and
limiter
is still enabled if i change something
in post-production i will show it in the
lower part of the screen
now let's stay a moment silent
okay and now let's change to the Rode
VideoMicro
okay now i switch to the Rode VideoMicro
connected with the 3.5 millimeter audio
extension cable
and i had to activate plug-in power on
the Zoom H6
so it can provide power to the
microphone
now let's stay a moment silent
okay and now let's switch to the XLR
cable with the VXLR+ adapter
okay now i switch to the lav mic again
below my shirt but this time it's
connected to the
adapter from Rode directly and
not using the XLR cable so
the lav mic goes with the 3.5
millimeter
into the adapter and into the Zoom H6
recorder
now let's stay a moment silent
okay and now we switch to the Takstar
shotgun microphone
okay and now i switch to the Takstar
shotgun microphone using the XLR
cable and the VXLR+ adapter which is connected directly
to the microphone
let's stay a moment silent
ok and now we switch to the Rode VideoMicro
okay now i switch to the Rode VideoMicro
connected via the XLR cable
in order for this to work you have to
provide
phantom power from the Zoom H6 this will
be
converted from the adapter to plug-in
power
to power the microphone now let's stay a
moment silent to listen to the
background noise
okay and that's all for this video let
me know in the comments
which microphone you liked best and which
recording option
sounded best to you if you liked the
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you
