 Hi there, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Roso, so I'm just continuing to test this week some of my audio gear I just came back from a trip to the US and picked up a few different little bits and pieces that I am hopeful are going to make a positive improvement to my production quality when I'm shooting outdoors with my Canon Vixia R Canon Vixia HF-R800, which apparently can just be referred to as the R-800 So I've been saying a little bit too much about it all this time now What I wanted to look at for this video for those interested in a webcam called the Logitech C930E is the difference in the audio quality between that webcam and the quality that I'm getting from a lavalier microphone And that's the one that I'm wearing. This is a Maono USB Lab mic at not super high end by any stretch the imagination But nevertheless it will allow us to compare the two sources now before going further I just want to point out that I am recording this using Ubuntu Linux. I mentioned that just because you know the That makes a difference in terms of the driver is being used and most people looking at buying this webcam are probably interested In using it on Windows and I'm using it on Ubuntu So it does make a difference may make a difference. I'm not 100% sure in any event This will just give you an idea for what kind of audio to expect From the webcam. So this is what you're looking at. This is actually the webcam. That's recording the video feed That's going into the screencast C930E 1080p webcam 30 frames per second H.264 does have a really nice wide angle lens on it. So it's not a 4k webcam, but it does do 1080 Plug-and-play USB. I did not have to manually install any drivers and a retails for about 130 Books now just to say that there is I this is a separate video I did there is another product on the market called the C930C and I strongly recommend that people go for the C930E C930C I'm still not clear exactly what it is I think it's great market Chinese merchandise that during COVID Somehow got dumped onto Western markets and I actually owned the C930C I was looking for the C930 and I didn't think that last letter made any difference And when I put it into my computer is like well, why is everything in Chinese? And that's not the only problem. You can also not update the firmware using logic that capture So I think that it's the probably the ultimate false economy if you're looking to invest in a good solid Business-grade webcam to try save yourself money now that wasn't my rationale I thought I was just getting the C930 But it got the Chinese version and they were having owned both the C930C for six months before it broke down And that was very very Uncharacteristic for a good logitech webcam to break like that So that was my kind of tip-off that maybe there was something dodgy about this merchandise In any event I've owned them both and I'm definitely getting better quality from the C930E in my opinion Nevertheless, I'm not really blown away by the mic, which I was a bit surprised just when I was doing some research for this video I came across this review on Amazon. I just filtered the reviews on this particular webcam for The word microphone I came across this one from one doctor genius He says that now the next best part the webcam has integrated microphone The microphone in webcam is way better than the microphone on the laptop Basically, this one purchase upgrades both your webcam as well as microphone Microphone is good enough for video chats like Skype or hangout It is good enough for you if you want to use it for vlogging or recording streaming gameplays But it's not to be a pro microphone. So I will say I actually think I disagree with those comments about this microphone So but again, I'm using Linux so potentially the the open-source driver is gonna make make the audio sound a bit different than the That the C930E used on Windows nevertheless, let's just do a quick swap over. So I'm gonna put out my My gear firstly just showing you guys Being transparent about the evaluation here. I'm just gonna show you the levels. I'm using at the moment So these are the levels I have for the the lav mic that I'm wearing at the bottom This is the level I have set for the microphone on the webcam I reckon it could probably use a bit of a touch up. So I've just gone ahead and done that and Now let me just go ahead and swap over the audio source So you listen to the lav mic and now let us go to the webcam Okay, so now we've made the transition over to the webcam So what you're listening to now is the webcam that's in front to me it's a little bit further away about six or 12 inches from my face and This is the audio quality that you are getting let me throw in a few plosives To this bearing in mind that I'm not using a pop filter or any kind of windscreen on either the webcam I'm not quite sure how you use a pop filter on a webcam But it's just recording straight into that and I'm just recording straight into the lavalier microphone here And so I did have some brilliant breakfast this morning full of baked beans and lots of Paprika peppers. I really love the paprika peppers and the baked beans baked beans And that is essentially the microphones Let me go ahead and swap over to the lav mic just one more time So you can compare the before and after the difference in sound quality. Let's go Swap has taken place Having a little bit of trouble at dialing in the right level here on the lavalier microphone and I think this is just getting stopped getting out of the reds here So this is the lav microphone that I'm wearing on my lapel Let's do the same thing the baked beans that I had for my breakfast were full of Paprika peppers and they were the best beans in the city. So guys hope this quick comparison between the microphone on the 930e and a Budget Maono USB lavalier microphone has been useful. Whatever you think about the microphone I would say that I really really really really like this webcam. I think it's a terrific webcam for Doing these vlogs. This is the webcam that you're looking at and speaking of let's just kind of just Move this to full screen so you can just see this is and this is the C930e the visuals it produces and I've been very happy with it Despite the initial C930 C Travelle Thank you for watching and if you'd like to get more videos for me, please feel free to subscribe to this YouTube channel