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I've been videoing a choir, from where-ever I am in the audience, for a few years. I've used a Sony Handycam, and despite the apparently low spec I've always been impressed by the results. The choir often performs in churches, cathedrals, or other specialised music venues. I've been thinking about using my EOS M6 instead of the Handycam which is getting long in the tooth.

I've not done any testing of the EOS M6 yet. But I was looking at Rode mics and wondering whether the entry level one would be worth a punt on the pure assumption that the mic in the EOS M6 will be worse than the Handycam.

This is the mic in question - https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B015R0IQGW

Rode VideoMicro Compact On Camera Microphone

Obviously, the answer is test it and find out, I can take the Handycam and the M6 along and see if the built in mic works fine, but wondered if anyone had experience that might give me a jump start? I'm not after anything professional, as I say, I'm usually sitting with the audience and pick up plenty of local noise even with the Handycam, this is mostly just to record them for my wife on something better than a phone (and I post them to YouTube for other choir members).
 
I have what seems to be a copy of it made by Comica and it's quite strongly directional which is what you want.
You might need to manually drop the level quite a bit if my Sony (A7iii) is anything to go by, certainly do some tests beforehand but it's well worth getting.
Outdoors a deadcat is almost essential
 
I have the Rode VideoMicro, it's pretty good for the price and comes with a deadcat. Amazon have them for £37.99 at the moment which is a bargain for what it is.
 
The Rode mic is good cheap start but to get better audio, you might want to consider buying an external recorder/rode NTG1 mic so that you can get closer to the performance.
 
southwestfilm said:
The Rode mic is good cheap start but to get better audio, you might want to consider buying an external recorder/rode NTG1 mic so that you can get closer to the performance.
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All I want is to be able to record from anywhere in the audience (I'm just using a regular ticket), and get sound no worse than the Handycam (which always impresses me).
 
A thought - if the Handycam audio is good is there any mileage in extracting the track from the HC vid and paste it onto the video from the EOS M6 effectively using the HC as a sound recorder.
 
Giblets said:
A thought - if the Handycam audio is good is there any mileage in extracting the track from the HC vid and paste it onto the video from the EOS M6 effectively using the HC as a sound recorder.
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Could do, but I'd rather not be carrying both cameras, I'm going to try recording some ambient on the M6 and see if the built in mic is 'enough'. I worry that the Rode will be too directional, but I have zero actual experience of using external mics :)
 
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