 Hey guys, welcome to the training reviews now if you're a youtuber like myself who are trying to improve your audio game Then you're probably going to be looking at exploring at different microphones different audio settings on your camera and so on So I just wanted to give you a quick comparison now I have two external microphones for my DSLR. The first one is the Rode Video Micro Just recently I bought this more expensive Sennheiser MKE600 microphone. It's a shotgun mic that Requires external power for it to work now I'm just going to give you a quick review an audio test in comparison with both of these two mics in my previous videos I've been using the Rode Video Micro microphone for my SLR camera now I'm going to give you an audio test at the moment I'm using the internal audio for my Canon 200D as you can see is probably not that great of an audio I'm going to switch over to the Rode Video Micro and Give you an audio test on that and then finally just going to quickly give you an explanation about how this works And then give you an audio test for the Sennheiser mic as well It's a little bit more expensive, but it's definitely worth the price and you guys can be the judge for yourselves So let's have a look this is an audio test for the internal mic on my Canon 200D camera This is an audio test for my Rode Video Micro Microphone This is an audio test use my Sennheiser MKE600 shotgun microphone So there you have it guys as you can see the Sennheiser microphone The quality was ten times better than the Rode Video Micro that I've had So the shotgun mic it is a lot more expensive, but let me just break it down for you This is about 200 to 250 pounds depending on which retailer you buy it from now It only comes with a few things it comes with the shotgun clip with the culture that you can add on into your SLR camera there Now it's got an on-off button there now. It's pretty straightforward. It is powered in two different ways So the first way which is the way I was just showing you now is battery powered. So all you have to do is twist this And then it slides outwards and you have one single AA battery that goes in there to power the shotgun microphone Now this is one of the very few shotgun mics that allows two different various inputs for power One is battery powered and the other one is phantom powered. Now phantom power I'm going to be explaining a little bit more about that in an upcoming video So make sure you subscribe so you don't miss that but at the moment I'm just going to be covering how to power this with the battery and connect that to your SLR cameras Very straightforward way to do that. So it's a AA battery now it comes with the the stand as I mentioned for the Cold shoe it also comes with a windshield and a little pouch that you can store this if you want to carry it different places One thing it doesn't come with is a cable that you need to connect this to your camera So it's a little bit disappointing that it doesn't come with box But you have to buy that separately you can get it for less than 10 pounds on Amazon What that is is an XLR to 3.5 millimeter jack connector cable So the bottom part of the shotgun mic is an XLR Male input so you need to buy an XLR female to 3.5 millimeter jack and What you do is you just insert that in there Connect the other end into your SLR camera And then you simply just turn it on and then it starts giving you great audio straight away My upcoming video there is a way to power it using phantom power So you don't need to keep reusing AA batteries and that basically allows you to connect through the XLR input to an XLR Output using a pre-amplifier, which I'm going to be testing an upcoming video So I've heard very good reviews about using a pre amp as well It's give even better audio than this at the moment So I'm going to be exploring that and have a video coming up for you guys to look at that as well and compare The two so that's how you set this up. It's for me. It's just the audio is just ten times better I'm using my road video mic right at the moment But I'm going to be switching back to this to finalize the video and let me know what you guys think Right, so I've just switched back to the Sennheiser mic now. You can probably tell a big difference in the audio I'm going to be exploring more on this So thanks for watching guys if you do have any comments about this shotgun mic Then please do leave a comment below if you did like the video give it a thumbs up I do appreciate that make sure you subscribe I'm going to do a comparison using the shotgun mic using my SLR camera and using the shotgun mic using a pre-amplifier as Recording the audio separately and seeing the big difference in the audio outputs then so thanks for watching guys And I will see you next time