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Unboxing: Rode VideoMic Condenser Shotgun Microphone

2010-12-18
hey what's up out there in YouTube land this is elder Ferris here on the tech of tomorrow youtube channel all right i'm gearing up for CES and in that thing i actually want to get a different type of recording device than my zoom h1 that i've been using and carrying around so today I'm going to do the unboxing of the new rode shotgun videomic this mikes about a hundred and forty nine dollars you can find it all over the Internet I actually found for 102 dollars but I wanted to go with Amazon because they had some great free two-day shipping so let's check out what's inside the box of this new rode shotgun video mic alright so here's the outside of the box will show you that here's the back of the box not much there on the side of the box they show you a few features this and that we'll go ahead and we'll open this up all right on the top we get a few things i'll pull those out i'll just basically call the accessory packs out of first and then get back to the microphone itself so we get some little clips here since i just bought this i don't know exactly what they're for so then kicked my butt in your comments cuz i don't know what they are cuz i just got and i just opened it here is a sticker for rode rode microphones pretty good this australian company really famous for their microphones here's your little Quality Assurance checklist make sure everything's cool with you you also get your 10 year registration warranty and then your video myke instruction manual that's the other essentials now let's pull out the actual road Mike itself now this thing looks really professional it's got a long elegant and microphone all across the thing you've got a buffer here this keeps up like a pop filter for keeping anything out it mounts on top of your camera now the only thing i will say after picking up putting in my hands it does feel rather plasticky and rather cheap I hope the performance level on it's a lot better than what it feels like but just by feeling it it feels kind of very plasticky but here's everything that comes in the box of the new rode shotgun videomic you get the mic itself with match on your camera there's a little plug that plugs into your audio and you get all these little nifty little things right here that we talked about before so thanks for watching the tech of tomorrow YouTube channel and see here on the internet
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