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hey youtube welcome back to tech yet cities baronies are coming back to you guys today with not only a review of the rode videomic but also a review and quality test of the rode videomic pro now we're going to put these head-to-head and see which one is better bang for buck or which one should you buy in which circumstance so the first one we'll have a look at the rode videomic and as you can see here it is just it's a little bit bigger than the rode videomic pro the original video mike has here the features if you take off this battery cover here inside its got the ability to attenuate minus 10 decibels or minus 20 decibels so if you are in a very loud area you can still get a good signal without a clipping so it's a very good feature on this one also it does weigh in so this one here weighs in at about 185 grams so this here weighs in at 185 grams however that being said you can remove this shock mount here and it will go down to a hundred grams so it'll be almost the same weight as the pro if you take off the shock mount so if you don't need the shock mount which a lot of times if you like I'm recording now if you're recording in a stationary environment you will not need the shock mount so that is an option to do as well one thing about the rode videomic though is that this here this actually even if you take the shock mount off where the cold shoe mount mounts up to here it'll still hang over so if you've got a small DSLR camera like I do now at the USM this will sort of clip over the screen so it can be a little bit annoying I would recommend this into the size and the weight i recommend this for more a bigger DSLR or a video camera so i'd recommend this one in size in the terms of size for a video camera or bigger DSLR with a smaller DSLR I definitely go with this one as you can see here with the cold shoe mount right here it's very cut off so you put this on your camera and it will be flush with your screen especially on a small DSLR camera now this one only weighs 85 grams without the battery inside so it is very light it's very good if you're coupled again with small DSLR camera now this one instead of having minus 20 decibels they've actually switched that around and made it plus 20 decibels so this here in my opinion if you're using the onboard camera audio you'll probably want to go this one as you can turn the recording level on your on your camera all the way down and then you can turn this up to 20 decibels and take advantage of the road the roads app that condenser microphone instead of relying on the cameras amp which tends to be cheap which tend to be achieving a lot of mid-range lower end DSLRs so basically what I'm trying to say is if you have your recording level turned on to half way on the camera and use this on flat no decibelle gain the signal would sound better if you turned it the recording level on the camera all the way down and turn this to 20 so i'll do that i'll do a quality test later and show you guys what I'm talking about and under the other features they both have both these cameras both feature a flat and a high-pass filter at 80 hurts so they both have that feature as well so there's no difference there now in terms of build quality i'm going to say they both came with a 10 year warranty which is fantastic however this the rode videomic feels a lot more solid and a lot more sturdier than the videomic pro when i was putting in the battery in the row videomic pro i felt like i did hear something click when i was putting the battery and i just like this little clicker motor I don't see that lasting 10 years this however feels very sturdy I put the battery and no problems it slides in and out easy it's very sturdy products so I liked the video Mike's build quality better than the very videomic pro so in a nutshell I'm just going to get on with the quality tests and show you you know you guys can hear the difference if there is any I think on a flat level they both sound the same however I think when you turn this up to plus 20 decibels and turn the recording level down on the camera you will then start to hear the difference and also before we get to the tests i will say that i do use the rode videomic pro because i'm using a Canon EOS m so let's get on to the tests okay guys so this is the rode videomic original so this is on zero decibel gain also on flat and hopefully it sounds good are there may be a lawnmower in the background that you can hear so that is not actual hissing noise or anything that's legit lawn mower in the background anyway let's move on to the rode videomic pro okay so here is a test with the rode videomic pro so this is our recording levels on halfway as well and also the zero decibels it's on zero dispel gain so let's switch over now to plus twenty a decibelle game and hopefully I don't know can you guys hear a difference is there any difference between sound quality between the rode videomic and the rode videomic pro 10 decibels I don't know I'm going to check as well but let's move on to the + 20 decibels and we'll turn the recording level all the way down to the bottom with four notches just four notches above lowest setting so let's go okay so here is the rode videomic pro now on + 20 decibels and the recording level is four notches below the lowest it can be so what do you guys think do you think the + 20 the decibel sounds the best what do you think they wrote rode videomic sounds the best or do you think the rode videomic pro sounds the best on zero decibelle gains let me know you guys in the comments section below also if you enjoyed this sort of comparison and quick review of both let me know and also this if there's anything else you want wish to know about these microphones please let me know a battery life on the road videomic the original is also estimated 30 hours longer so it's estimated a hundred hours as opposed to the rode videomic pro which is only 70 hours because i guess they take into account that everyone's going to use the + 20 decibelle feature who knows anyway all in all i will say that this was filmed on the canon eos m and i do recommend it and i do recommend rode videomic they are insanely good for the price even though they look expensive than what the competition is offering they're definitely worth it you won't see yourself spending more money in the future that's a good thing about these things they're real condenser microphones that sit on your camera so when you're filming and you need that really good sound you'll definitely get it from a rode your bike and no I'm not paid from road to do this you guys if you haven't already please hit the like button on this video if you liked this video and also if you haven't already subscribe to take your city where I'll be coming back with some more tech videos for you guys anyway peace out for now bye