 Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosal here, bringing you another video today about video. So I've mentioned on a few of my videos so far that one of the main things I'm getting out of my journey on YouTube is learning about videography and all its interesting aspects like audio, lighting and video. But of course, audio is a major, major part of video. So I've done a few video reviews of microphones I've picked up today along the way. And they tend to be in the kind of more budget or low end of the range. Even this one I put in that category. This is the Audio Technica 80 2020. It is an XLR podcasting slash studio microphone. So I have to connect it to my computer via an audio interface. But like most people who are, you know, at the early stages of their videography or video journey, I don't have a ton of money to spend on the different things. And I personally have a preference for what I call spending my money widely. So as a learner, I often try to like just buy different microphones just to learn how to work with them. So I have, for instance, a phantom powered lav mic, XLR lav mic, 3.5 mil, a few 3.5 mil TRSS lav mics. I have a XLR shotgun. I have a 3.5 mil shotgun. So I like to buy different types of mics just to kind of play around with different setups rather than spend a lot of money on any one microphone. My rationale is just until I really know what I'm doing, it's better to go in that manner. But as I become interested in sound and microphones, I can't help myself. But when watching Netflix now or movies, what microphones are those guys using? So I follow a couple of really good sound guys here on YouTube. I'm going to give you a couple of recommendations. One of them is Curtis Juzz. And actually, that's all that I have at the moment. No, sound, sound speeds. This is sound speeds is the second one. I'll put a link to these guys in my description because they're both fantastic. Sound speeds is a professional boom operator. And that sounds not very interesting. The video is not just about boom operation and booming mics. He is encyclopedia, walking encyclopedia of knowledge about sound. So those guys are really, really sharp. And they sometimes give little insights into what kind of microphones, professionals, pro productions or big big end productions like Hollywood movies are actually using. But nevertheless, I wanted to get a list. So I went to one of the subreddits. I highly recommend. I mentioned before I have kind of a bit of a love-hate relationship with reddit in general. But my longstanding thinking is that it's all about those kind of niche communities where people are a lot nicer to one another. And often it's just kind of such a small world that there's almost like that kind of pressure of interacting with people. You know that you have to be nice to them. So I find this a great subreddit. It's called location sound. And I'm going to read off the description here. The subreddit for location sound, production sound and field recording. We are the sound department responsible for recording the audio when shooting film or video. So this is a small sub of 20,000 people, relatively small, but not tiny. But there's a lot of folks actually working in the industry here. And something really cool is that they are pretty receptive to questions from engaged amateurs like me. So I posted here a few days ago. I'm going to jump now over to my screen. And if anyone wants to be, I don't know, is a reddit friends even a thing? I shouldn't know this. I've been using reddit long enough. I'm Daniel Rossell on Reddit, not exactly hard to find. So that's me. So I asked this question four days ago. Are there industry standard microphones used in big studio Hollywood productions? This is something I'm going to read. I'm going to read my post here as a rookie videographer. I've always been curious to know when it comes to huge Hollywood productions in which dimes and nickels, presumably aren't a huge issue. Are there any quotes best in class or industry standard? Love mics, AKA lavelier, I think it's pronounced lavelier, shotguns, wireless systems, or does each individual sound department tend to have their favorite go-tos and that ends up determining what specific products are used. I actually asked that or part of the question for a reason because there's a great YouTube channel that these guys recommended in this thread in which they interview sound guys and look at their sound boxes. My understanding is that, you know, these sound professionals tend to move between studios or productions. It might be wrong about that, but they certainly have their favorite. So I was basically wondering, is it like there is, you know, the wireless road go, whatever the pro equivalent of that is, that everyone uses or does it depend on the guy you hire to do your sound? If that if that makes sense. So, oh, yeah, this is a YouTube series. I'm going to put myself down a little bit. This is totally worth watching. It's by Ursa and they do the series of what's in your kit bag. And it's amazing. They they interview the sound guys. Oh, two other YouTube channels. I'm on my third take because I keep screwing little things up in this video. And I'm really sorry if I already mentioned this. That would mean I'm going crazy. CritisJudd and SoundSpeeds, I think I already did. Back to the post. So I got a list from somebody, Spacedog420. Thank you, Spacedog420. I love how ridiculous Reddit user names are when you actually read them out. So Spacedog420 gave me exactly what I was looking for. A list of microphones that are commonly in use amongst professional productions. Starting with boom mics. Now, as an amateur, there is a couple of brands I recommend like Sennheiser and a couple of ones I haven't. And Neumann, I know, is make some pretty high end microphones. And then some others that I haven't become acquainted with yet. He goes down into La Vella microphones or commonly called lav mics. I recognize the countryman from CritisJudd's reviews. I think he's reviewed a few of their microphones. And then for wireless systems, he gives a few as well. So the next thing I wanted to do was run these in, run these through B&H photo video to see how much they cost. And here is the excitement of the video. Starting with the countryman B6, one of the lav mics mentioned. This one surprised me in that it's not insanely expensive. B&H have it on back order for a just shy of 300 USD. Now, there were more expensive ones in that list, but my understanding from watching Critis's videos and other people is that the countryman B6 Omni lav is considered a respectable La Vella microphone that's definitely in use among TV studios, etc. One clue that it's a more professionally oriented microphone is in the color varieties. They have these different colors for, you know, disguising the lav mic, which is something that a lot of kind of more amateur folk don't really put effort into. But when you have a whole sound department, you know, someone can be really, really smart about matching the lav mic with different skin tones in order that it shouldn't be visible to viewers. So that's a random lav from that list. Then we had some nice options in our boom mic. We had a couple of Sennheisers. So I put one of those, the Sennheiser MK50 into B&H photo video. I thought I did. Ah, the Sennheiser 60 was no longer available. So I went for this. This was also on the list. The Sennheiser MKH 50 48-fold phantom power microphone, which is obviously a shotgun mic that I guess as it was listed by our friend, Mad Dog, whatever his name was under boom mics, it must commonly be used for booming. And this guy comes in at 1200 USD. Now, there were definitely more expensive shotguns on that list. And there were cheaper ones, but just picking something from a well-known brand and seeing, well, how much would that cost 1200? Now, that's interest interesting to me because well, I guess the amount of money it is for reference my audio Technica ATR 875 compact shotgun microphone, which I'm using as a boom on my camcorder, clocks in at about 100 and 20. Sorry, about 150 dollars. So that's kind of how much you need to spend on shotguns to get past the really low end of the market, which is products like Boya, you know, the kind of Chinese Hong Kong manufacturers that make stuff that really, really sounds dodgy. So about 150 bucks for in the world of shotgun microphones will get you an excellent professionally oriented microphone. That is budget. But look at the difference between $150 and 1200. It's quite a quite a big financial difference between the two. So actually, the difference between the professional and amateur end of the shotgun microphone world, it seems to me, is bigger than the difference between the lav mics, because 300 versus maybe a $100 lav mic to get something truly studio grade, broadcast quality, professional, etc. etc. isn't ginormous. But the difference between a, you know, spending 150 bucks on a shotgun and spending over $1,000 is quite a gap. OK, and then in wireless systems, so something I like about B&H photo video is that they tend to they divide everything according to pro and consumer. So you can see they have a pro audio section for wireless systems. Look how many they have over 1200 different wireless systems. Now, in terms of what's pro and what's not, this is the link I got to by following prompts for pro and I'm sorting on what's popular by best sellers. And the first thing we get is something that looks to me like it would definitely be suitable or it would not be out of place in a pro video production set. That's this Sennheiser EW1112PG4 camera about wireless Omni-Lav microphone system. So you get a Lavelier and these systems tend to be also looking for like interchangeable. So you can buy one TX, one RX, a wireless system pair. And then if you need to buy more transmitter units, you can buy them and then they'll record into the same transmitter. So this is six hundred and fifty dollars for this particular system. And by the way, this is by no means as pricey as it gets. So I'm going to now source on price high to low and just see what we can find and some pretty interesting wacky products here. I'm trying to find an actual wireless system. So you can see six thousand, we're in the six thousand range. Four and a half thousand. So yeah, basically that's a lot. And you can all you can obviously filter based on the receiver type. So actually I'm going to just clock into camera mount here. This is a bit more what I was looking for. ElectroSonic's L-Series ZS LRT camera mount wireless Omni-Lav microphone system coming in at three thousand three hundred and sixty six dollars. So the conclusion of this little purchasing expedition. Thank you very much to Location Sound and Subreddit and it's Mad Dog. And everyone else that commented on that thread is that the cost of professional microphones that might be used in Hollywood and big budget productions, you are looking at something like four hundred dollars and up for lav systems. You're looking at shotgun microphones for booming that commonly cost over one thousand dollars a piece. And for wireless systems, you might be using six hundred to thirty three hundred. That's about the range. So versus our amateur kit, the wireless, the lav mice aren't crazy. The shotguns are a lot more expensive and the wireless systems are a little bit more expensive. Saramonic to give an example of a brand that I don't think is used in professional applications. You can get a wireless system from them for about three hundred dollars. They're about versus six hundred, sorry, over three K to get ElectroSonic's and about six hundred and fifty to get something from Sanheiser. Hope this video has been interesting. If you're also fascinated by the world of videography and video production, so you get more videos from me about those topics and many more. Do feel free to hit the subscribe button. Thank you very much for watching.