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Post by Rabbit on Dec 9, 2017 18:13:57 GMT
If anyone is keen on video camera work, a shotgun mic attached to the camera or a separate recorder in your pocket can make a really big difference to the quality of the sound.
They don’t ‘amplify’ sound but the better ones reject sound from the sides and back, so leaving the front sound to stand out a little more clearly.
Some shotgun Mics though aren’t really proper shotguns as I demonstrate in the video at one point.
The QTX Mics are big, but give a good front sound, low noise and retail at only £25 which IMO, is a bargain if you’re wanting to improve your videos massively.
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Post by timjthomas on Dec 10, 2017 11:01:41 GMT
Nice review!!
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Post by Rabbit on Dec 10, 2017 12:59:53 GMT
Thanks Tim. What started it was how I noticed that shotgun Mics aren’t always what they profess to be!! They are supposed to reject sides and back but some seem to do it in a different way. They all work the same way in that they have slots in the sides to allow out of phase sounds to go in and cancel out back and sides, but some reject massively (like the QTX) in that the dynamics drop while others (like the Boya) change more tonally, often leaving the bass sounds behind.
I’m filming the making of a Christmas show at the moment and I noticed things that I didn’t like about some of the shotguns I was using (the way that they can interfere with sound due to wall reflections and produce a ‘flutter’ effect) and funnily enough, these two cheapos showed a better pickup pattern.
Not fantastic tonally, but good for certain situations. Certainly at £25 a really good buy though.
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