Sunday, 20 September 2015

Microphone Tests

We tested out different microphones to see their recording ability


The first microphone we used was the built in microphone on the Canon, as you can hear this a very grainy sound and isn't very clear, this is why the built in microphone should never really be used, especially with the other choices of microphone available. This kind of microphone also has an omnidirectional polar pattern meaning that it picks up sound from all directions.


Another microphone we used was the shotgun microphone, attached to a boom pole, this provided us with the best sound quality, and due to the microphone being cardioid sound is only picked up from the front of the mic.


The final microphone we tested was the Zoom H1 microphone, this was good quality and had also detected sound in stereo, this is why the subject is moving from left to right, the difference in sound cannot really be picked up in this video but would be more prominent in footage where the moved slowly from side to side.

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