 Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosell here for today's video. I'm doing a head-to-head sound test comparison between the Audio Technica 8875R, which is a short shotgun microphone. The retail is for about 150 bucks and my first shotgun mic that I bought for the Canon XA40, which I'm recording this with and that's about an 80 dollar microphone It's a longer shotgun about 28 centimeters versus the Audio Technica coming in about 18 In my opinion, I bought the Audio Technica firstly because it's going to be a bit better quality I expect secondly because it's just a much more compact shotgun microphone And I think it fits the form factor of the XA40 a whole lot better So to compare like with like I'm keeping the camera up on a tripod It is windy So you're probably hearing right now depending on how good the wind protection is we don't have a dead cut on the Microphone so it's going to be about the same little bit of wind outside in a park here And I'm going to do the same read the same paragraph from this book Impact by Sir Ronald Cohn And I'm going to be reading just the first paragraph so you can hear the difference in tonality and pickup pattern Hopefully between the two microphones nearly 20 years ago I gave a speech at an event to celebrate the 30th anniversary of APAC partners the venture capital and private equity firm I co-founded and led for so many years I warned then that if we did not tackle the needs of those left behind more effectively A curtain of fire would soon separate the rich We've now swapped over to the boya. So the camera the XA40s on the tripod exact same distance pretty much the same wind as we had before And the camera the same distance probably about one meter away from me. So we're going to do the same thing and going to read from impact Nearly 20 years ago. I gave a speech at an event to celebrate the 30th anniversary of APAC partners The venture capital and private equity firm. I co-founded and led for so many years I warned then that if we did not tackle the needs of those left behind More effectively a curtain of fire would soon separate the rich from the poor in our cities countries and continents So that was the same comparison test comparing The boya and the audio Technica microphones both shock and microphones both relatively cheap in terms of price points under 200 bucks One compact one normal size. So let me know what you thought in the comments about the difference saying quality between the two Thank you for watching. If you want to get more videos from me, please subscribe to this youtube channel