 Hi guys welcome back to my youtube channel this is Daniel Rosal here I want to do a video today talking about something I discovered yesterday when I was out shooting a video and that's that the etymotic in ear monitors I've been buying them for years I really love them they do not sound very good they're extremely uncomfortable so it's not sounding here like a great sales pitch for them as headphones but their actual job is to be really really good at one thing and that's monitoring audio and I found yesterday was the first time that I actually brought them out to monitor camcorder audio and I found they were brilliant so what is an IEM and in-ear monitor and how does it differ from you know a pair of headphones because at first glance these are the etymotic MK2s very very much at the bottom of etymotic series this is I don't even know what these are it's like a random pair of Sony earbuds you know nothing special at all and kind of just holding them side to side they look really similar like well these have kind of got these funky looking flanges at the end but they both look like headphones earbud headphones right so in-ear monitors the the clue as to what they do well is in the name and that's that they they help you to monitor an audio source so they're used a lot by musicians so if you're a musician on a stage there's a lot of sound around you there is both the sound of the band there is the sound of the crowd and you want to hear you want to hear the music track now I don't work in the in I've never been a musician so this is just my understanding or you're you know you're working in a tv and you want to hear your producer in your ear so for that kind of a use case you don't want you don't need great audio quality right what you actually need is a headphone that's exceptionally good at passively isolating outside noise and letting in the audio you want to hear and that's where the eddy modics are kind of in a class of their own so the best of my knowledge the mk5s and the mc5s both offer 33 decibels of passive noise isolation passive noise isolation is not the same as active noise calculate active noise calculation cancellation ANC which is like your bows that you know are do a terrific job at blocking out steady frequencies like an airplane engine but they don't do such a good job when you're in a noise environment that the frequencies are constantly oscillating like you're shooting video and there's people there's dialogue and there's other stuff going on so for that and this is why I love them passive noise isolation is actually better and there's to the best of my knowledge nobody offers higher decibel passive noise isolation than eddy modic um so these are great for the job now the kind of more typical choice as far as I understand it would be something like this these are what I use when I'm editing audio on my computer these are the audio technica mhtx20 I'm pretty sure I've got that product name slightly wrong I'll put the correct one in the description so the advantage I mean these are terrific I love these I think they sound great and they are supposed to be reference slash studio headphone so they uh reproduce the sound with accuracy they're not actually intended to sound the best possible they're intended to give you an accurate representation of the noise you're editing however they're kind of bulky and when it comes to putting stuff in an editing bag or a camera bag as I get more into video there's definitely a lot to be said for kind of rain stuff that is small so these eddy modics um mk5 or the bottom of the range there's also the mc5 and there's a lot of higher end products in the eddy modic range but these guys are super small but the difference between a regular pair of earbuds which I've used for monitoring and the eddy modics is night and day these do not do a great job of passive noise isolation so when you put them in uh to the to the monitoring port on your camera or camcorder which on mic can and vixia hfr 800 uh the mic inputs here on the right and the monitoring so that's a 3.5 mil out is just to the left of it um so that this is how it works you have your microphone connected and then you plug the 3.5 or eighth jack into av out and then you listen so as you're recording from a microphone and trying to hear you can hear in real time what your camcorder sounds like what your microphone sounds like using these there's it's very distracting there's you hear a lot of sound around you and it's very hard to zone in on the microphone you're trying to listen to when I use these things yesterday the eddy modic mk5's they isolated the noise just as well as they always do which is amazingly and I really appreciated them because for this purpose of monitoring camcorder audio they actually did a superb job they're really small they're really light they come in their own pouch this is not a sales pitch I'm just passing on I've been buying and a big fan of eddy modics for quite a long time so I'm really happy to have discovered that they actually coincidentally now that I'm getting into video do a really really good job for audio monitoring so if you're looking for headphones for audio monitoring and you don't want to go with the kind of typical over ear style um I would recommend personally going for a pair of IEMs like eddy modic over just regular headphones I find that they really really did a much better job for monitoring microphone audio on my camcorder hope this video is interesting thank you guys for watching