 Hi friends and subscribers warm welcome back to my youtube channel Daniel Rosal here bringing you this video tonight from Jerusalem in Israel and folks who have been sticking with this youtube channel for a long time will remember the different evolutions. I actually started off putting videos on youtube because I would run into these technical issues on my computer I run a bunch of Linux which tends to have a strong habit of breaking down and I used to just upload these kind of fixes for my own later reference because I forget how I fixed some bug on my computer and that began my youtube journey this channel has at times had videos about technology a whole bunch of other subjects and I think I decided a year ago that I was going to focus on Israel so those tech videos for people still interested in my tech interests which include random things like optical media internet cellular internet failover and connection bonding and using audio video equipment in Linux please feel free to follow on Daniel's tech world but today there is a rare moment of dovetailing between the content here about Israel and tech because I was I was looking at the news today and I came across this photograph and the way you can tell that I'm a tech or that I'm a gearhead and I think a lot of people probably are in this category is when you see photos of heads of state in the media and you see a microphone you get wonder what microphone is he using I'm what I'm seeing photos of bands now and seeing the same thing although for bands it's usually it's a bit smaller variety but this is Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday gave a press conference and this photo appeared in you know a few of the of the news websites here and it's a very distinctive microphone and I immediately knew what it was but I'm going to leave that in suspense for a few minutes while we talk about the presidential uh microphones so um just just to say actually a quick note on maybe more significant of more more more widespread interest Netanyahu has been criticized for not giving enough press conferences to Israeli media versus international media and specifically to less friendly domestic media there is a channel here in Israel called TV 14 and it's kind of viewed as almost like a mouthpiece of Netanyahu so this was quite significant that he did it but I also noticed hey I think they're going for a new microphone setup we haven't seen this double setup before which is very classic for us presidents to use and that is the clue that I'm dropping as to what the microphone is before we go into that here is another picture from yesterday where we can see the prime minister with his mystery microphones and two cabinet ministers with different microphones they look to me like sure sm 58 just because sure sm 58 are everywhere and anywhere and I hope people don't boycott sure or add sure to a bds list because of this video on the rare chance if they do I think sure will be okay and uh the only people who would be hurt by the decision to boycott sure would be people uh content creators because they're such an amazing uh manufacturer of microphones so this is the setup that bb was using and as I said it's very classic for those who follow which microphones presidents use and we will reveal the name shortly but this is what it looks like um closer up all right enough of the enough of the suspense this is it it's the sure sm 57 and uh you can actually buy this yourself you can buy the classic presidential kit the one the microphone that bb has started using is the same classic microphone kit that the us has been using since the johnson administration I learned today according to the information on sure its website and it's pretty well known um there's been a few youtube videos about it that it's a sure sm 57 and it is specifically two of them and uh they have the whole kit if you really want to get kid kit it out for 750 books or you can just buy the rather nice looking double microphone stand its product part is vip 50 55 sm uh this is the replica of what sure supply to the white house and apparently also to israel um a dual mount kit it'll fit two sm 57s and it's available for 200 and 81 dollar it's got a little uh looks like a standard microphone head fitting at the bottom there all right continuing so you can see this is um why the sure sm 57 has become famous as the us presidential microphone this is obviously pre former president obama um speaking into the sm 57 the two sm 57s I should say and if I go back to that shot of bb from the news today you'll recognize that the microphone is the same it's uh got a quite sleek appearance and it's got and that's apparently I found an f a q on the sure website for people who know the sure microphones you think the sm 58 would be a more logical choice because it's more primed for vocals and the sm 57 is more primed for recording instruments um and the reason why the us have gone for the sm 57 since the johnson administration through to the present biden administration has to do apparently just with it's a sleeker looking microphone it's just a little bit the body's a little bit slimmer um sometimes the sm 57 doesn't look like a sm 57 and that's because they put a big windscreen on it and um as I said this is all quite famous the specific parts and this is actually it it's the a 81 ws and you can buy this yourself for 42 dollars from sure and I had a picture from joe biden here we go this is biden and it's actually interesting how a different windscreen can make it look like an entirely different microphone but this is not it's not it's no different than the one obama was using here it's the same sure sm 57 just with a bigger windscreen that makes it look a bit bulkier uh so that's the answer uh israel is following the us example as it frequently does and is using the sure sm 57 um the final question you might be wondering as well uh this is from I pulled this out of the sure database here I've noticed that when the US president speaks he uses two sm 57s with windscreens why two are they mixed together is there any kind of phase problem and the answer is basically redundancy um as they say here uh are they mixed together no there's no phase problem because we're not used together uh and we can go on but basically they use two microphones both microphones I mean I've never seen a sure microphone die spontaneously like it was just kind of at an event they're just they're known they're famous for being workhorses there's videos of people driving over sure as driving tour buses over sm 57s and sm 58s so it's prodigiously unlikely but when you're having these very high stake media events like the prime minister speaking uh they want to go for something that they just know is not going to uh fail um apparently all the guys doing the sound and kind of just going off and random geeky tangents here apparently all the people doing the sounds the the sound mixing for us presidents are former military um and that's why they go for the sm 57 as well as they they say that they can get it anywhere in the world um and it just gives decent sound so that is the mystery for today that the uh Israeli president Benjamin Netanyahu is going for the same the classic uh jewel sm 57 look and if you have $750 in your bank account and want to get the same look and feel from your next uh public speaking occasion you can go ahead and get yourself the sm 57 and just to conclude the video we might be wondering well we've heard about what bb's using we've heard about what the US president is using what is our favorite youtuber using I'm just kidding but I will tell you what this is it is the audio technica 80 2020 it's been my microphone hour for a couple of years I've been playing around recently with the shore uh not the shore the samson 2q you but I went back to using this because I like it and I got this little custom you can see how microphones begin to look more impressive with big windshields this is the 80 2020 and this is my little daniel rosal video windshield that I purchased on the wonderful website called aliexpress uh probably a year ago and just got rained putting on recently and it does add a little bit of close of protection to my audio that's it 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