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Audio Technica AT9942 Shotgun Condenser Microphone Review (Cam / Desktop Mic)

2013-07-04
hey YouTube welcome to tech yesterday's Buran as you coming back to you guys today with an unboxing and review of the 89 942 so this is the audio technica condenser microphone so it's four it's a super cardioid which means it's like a love hat super like real narrow love heart shape that picks up the sound end and it's for a camera so basically you'd mount this on top of the camera I'm actually using my new camera now to review this product so hopefully it looks good and now it comes with this little stand it's very easy it's very solid stand the microphone itself is very light I mean when you buy this microphone you're like hey I really bought this it's literally you know like I'm really this is what I got for $45 so it is pretty like it feels a little bit cheap but it does feel solid in that there's no if I rattle it there's no clicking noises or no shaking noises now it does come with a wind shield as well which I've installed and it does work pretty damn well so I'll give you guys a quality test after this and it comes with a little short cable so if you put it on your mounted to your camera it's not the cables not gonna get in the way really I'd like to see this a little bit shorter maybe just to here I think it's got an extra like 5 centimeters of cable length that you don't need it also comes with an extension cable so if you wish to use this as a computer microphone you can very well do it and they'll produce decent results as well it's a mono microphone now the reason I went with the mono microphone is because I as you guys can see here I'm doing a lot of narration type voice work I do not need stereo so if you need stereo may wish to go with an 89 941 which is a different model so these are the Japanese these are JDM products Japanese domestic market products and the frequency response let's get onto that so it picks up from 70 Hertz to all the way to 1,500 Hertz and it's the quality is actually pretty damn good so I have tested this thing so far and it's pretty good so I'll give you guys a quality test soon it's a very sensitive mic and it just works really well so it comes with a leather leather pouch as well so that's a little bit of a qualitative feel to the product so it comes with this nice Audio Technica leather pouch for you to carry it around with and it also comes with a little stand so if you guys wish to use this so you could put it in there and then you can sort screw it down with this system so it really works really mounts to a horseshoe Mount pretty easy and you knew that as a sort of desktop condenser microphone as well now it's not not a true true condenser microphone I don't think because it doesn't need any batteries so I guess that's a bonus so it's very sensitive and it doesn't need batteries so for me it's perfect because I'm gonna be using this my I got this for you know general use with my camera and it's gonna be good so the microphone I'm using now is like this clip-on microphone which I got for like five dollars so hopefully it sounds alright though because my new camera allows me to control the audio input so they're recording volumes which is great you guys here's the product $45 let's get on to a quality test now okay so I will just quickly test the onboard stereo microphone at the moment so you guys can hear what that sounds like and I'll just quickly change to the external microphone right now okay guys we're coming back to you with the 89 942 now this is plugged directly into the camera it does not need a battery and I'm gonna say first up this I do not like this microphone the more I use it the more I get to know it the more I don't like it on a Canon camera and I'm gonna tell you the reasons why I don't like it and as you guys know I don't give you any fabricated crap reviews I just give you the truth this is the truth about its microphone it's too low it's it's too low to the lenses and so these Canon lenses and the Canon lenses and the camera are amazing by the way the it's so low that it picks up the stepping motors noise in the Canon lenses which I mean is really hard to hear I took I was like what was going on what's this little errant noise and I put the lens right up to my ear and I could hear it like right up to me otherwise I couldn't hear it this microphone is picking up that noise now if you guys listen really carefully you can probably hear you didn't hear it in my camera okay kind of review because the autofocus wasn't changing at the time so yeah that's that's the first point that I don't like about this microphone also the second point that I don't like is that it's a high impedance microphone it's actually what I've researched is that the can cameras do not like high impedance microphones so yeah if you want to buy a microphone for your Canon camera or you can a video camera Canon DSLR make sure it's a long period microphone and that'll give you the best results this is just what my findings are presenting and yeah so the start of the review if you run back to the start of the review I was actually using a five-dollar clip-on mic and that was low impedance by the way is amazing I'll show you guys quickly it was just this little mic here it's a buffalo microphone this is five dollars and yeah I plugged this straight into the camera and didn't change anything at all no no attenuation just put the recording level on halfway no effects nothing changed in the rendering process as well and they've got that and that good like I thought the sound quality was amazing for a five dollar microphone so I will be giving away these in the future and stay tuned like maybe when I do a big giveaway it's gonna be coming trust me when I do a big giveaway I'll be giving away like five of these at least so I'll be giving away keep of these I'll be giving away another condenser so stay tuned for that also yeah if you have any questions about this microphone please leave coming the comment section below also I'm gonna be returning this microphone as it's not in my opinion it's not worth $45 I didn't buy it I didn't spend $45 on a microphone for it to hiss and pick up motor noise from a some of the quietest lenses I've ever heard in the world so yes gonna return this microphone I'm gonna order a rode videomic which has low impedance and I'm know works well with Canon cameras alright guys that's my recommendations do not buy this MacGyver county camera if you have a camera that can utilize maybe a video camera that likes high impedance microphones and by all means buy this microphone for that camera so the reason why this sounded so good in the Canon review was probably because the autofocus did not move at all and I actually had attenuation on in that too so attenuation actually sort of nursed the quality of the audio bit so I don't like to have it on I mean even though it's probably the best way to utilize this microphone but the bottom line is my fans too close to the lenses and it's picking out that lens noise hey guys I'm going to be reviewing this soon the 240 byte s Intel souls day drive 335 170 dollars amazing look at this comes with a factory seal like you know that no one else has touched your drive in the you know what since when it was shipped from the factory to here that's how good that is and also I'm going to be coming back to you guys with memory cards on cameras how to tell a fake memory card from a real memory card really easy it takes five minutes any memory card you do not have to worry about comparing oh this is this one the fakes got this writing on it I got the easy way I'm going to show you guys soon so it's a really solid method so I'm really I want to share that with you guys very soon so guys if you like this video please give a thumbs up and also stay tuned for more tech videos they'll be coming soon and if you haven't already subscribed take a seat and I'll catch you guys soon peace up an out for an easy bite
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