Just used a new Azden SMX-10 Stereo Microphone on a Canon 6D shoot and the quality is really bad...

[AWM]

Hi guys, I purchased an Azden SMX-10 DSLR Stereo Microphone from Ebay for £75 because I needed a microphone for a shoot at the last minute! I read some reviews and it seemed it would do the job.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Azden-SMX...ional-Stereo-Shotgun-Microphone-/400670505710

I put it into my Canon 6D and went ahead but because the 6D doesn't have a headphone socket, I couldn't listen to the audio until playback.

On playback, this is the outcome...

I did lower the gain in camera and played about with some settings but nothing seemed to work, there was just this constant fuzzy noise on the video (as you'll hear on the video above).

Is this normal quality for a mic like this or should I be sending it back to the seller?

OR am I doing something wrong???

Also, I understand that it is possible to turn the mic socket into a headphone socket on the 6D using Magic Lantern but that still doesn't allow me to use headphones whilst the socket is being used for the mic!

Any suggestions / ideas???

Thanks,


AWM

 

[Phil V]

For that price, I'd have bought an external sound recorder. IMO the sound on the camera is most useful for syncing with externally recorded sound.

I only shot video seriously once, and we recorded the sound on an iphone with the std iphone mic, the quality was 'OK', and definitely better than you got with a £75 mic.

 

[AWM]

Right! It was a last minute purchase! I didn't have time to look into it, oh well, live and learn!

I'm still surprised the audio quality is that bad!!!

 

[redsnappa]

The Azden mike sounds very much like my £10.00 SG-108 ebay shotgun microphone, lots of hiss. I was tempted to buy a microphone amplifier from the likes of Maplin and test again.