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Using an attached mic

Using an attached mic

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Using an attached mic

Richard Harrington: So I think we have pretty established that there is lots of different ways to getting good audio, and that the built-in mic in the camera is pretty anemic. Robbie Carman: Yeah, not so good. Richard Harrington: Now I like to have the flexibility for running and gunning to get good audio still into the camera, as well as have better reference sound, and to do that I like to use an attached shotgun mic. Now you use the same thing. What are your reasons? Robbie Carman: Well, there are a couple of reasons actually, and this is what you are talking about. This is a little attached shotgun microphone. This one is made by a company called RODE, but there is lots of other manufacturers that make them. This one is sort of a DSLR specific model, not because of the actual shotgun and the windscreen, but really because of this guy. It outputs directly to a little 1/8th inch stereo jack, so I can plug it directly into the camera and it has a little hot shoe adapter here, so I…

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