 Hey guys welcome back to my YouTube channel this is Daniel Rosa here I'm on a business trip today in Tel Aviv and I thought that while I have a little bit of time to kill I would wander my way over down to the beach as you can see it's nighttime but they have these fantastic big kind of flood lights in Tel Aviv and I had an idea for a video and that's what I'm doing right now this video is about different or unconventional microphones you can use in a pinch so two microphones that I'm going to be demonstrating in this video the first one is the Audio Technica 8875R this is a shotgun XLR microphone and that's what you're listening to now the reason that this is an unconventional setup is shotgun microphones are not typically used as handheld microphones but the point I'm trying to get across here is that this is something I've seen news crews doing like ENG crews guys will be shooting stuff with the shotgun this is a microphone I use for almost all my videos that I'm shooting not in my office a put into a shotgun mount on my Canon XA40 it's an incredible microphone about 150 bucks XLR microphone requiring phantom power so this is what it sounds like if you have to for whatever reason attempt to use it as an interview microphone now I'm not an audio expert but my guess would be the reason that shotgun mics aren't typically the go-to mics for this kind of work handheld interview is that they're very directional so I'm trying to keep it at a rough distance from my face what I'm going to do now is actually put the shotgun microphone while I'm shooting this clip into the mount and this should give you an idea for what it's going to sound like using it conventionally in into the camcorder now I'm actually shooting this video with my Canon XA40 stacked on top of about 15 beach chairs because they don't have a tripod with me today so in the spirit of this video of using unconventional gears if I appear a little bit sideways that's the reason so what I've done now is I've taken my Audio Technica 8875R and I've just put it literally on the beach chair that my camcorder is so this is kind of simulating a more I would say classic use for this camcorder so it's actually about two meters away from me and I'm just going to grab it off the chair and now I've gone back to using it in sort of a handheld configuration one more thing to point out is that I'm using automatic gain control on the Canon XA40 so I haven't set my levels manually and therefore you might get a bit of probably clipping in post-production I'm not going to actually tamper with this audio just so you guys can see second microphone we're going to try out in today's adventure is a Comica XLR lav mic this is a not a super expensive microphone again it's not what you typically use for this kind of work I might also do it with a person later but I have seen youtubers doing this so I thought I would also for this demonstration video go and hook that up okay so the second microphone in the unusual microphone sound off is the Comica CVM V020 this is one of relatively few XLR lav microphones on the market specifically this is a lav mic that actually does require 48-fold phantom power which again is super unusual and I have this guy recording directly into my Canon XA40 Pro camcorder again I'm using the automatic gain control I will say for fellow camcorder fans who like to use the XLR ports on their camcorder just for their kind of sturdiness and the fact that you can control your gain at the top of at the touch of a button this is definitely one of the advantages of using an XLR lav mic even though there are definitely not that many of them on the market it means that you can just run it directly into the pro audio top handle or whatever connectivity you have on your particular camcorder so that's what it is I like the wind conditions just to kind of give all the sound specs here on the beach in Tel Aviv it's a fairly calm day there's a little bit of a gentle wind so this is what it sounds like using these two and if I get a chance to at a Hanukkah party I'm on the way to I'm going to attempt to repeat this process using both the shotgun mic and the lav mic as a interview mic because unfortunately I could not co-opt any random people so far into this YouTube video