Back in July, I published JuicedLink video illustrates audio quality with DSLRs via RiggyAssist versus an H4n recorder. After that, I asked Robert Rozak from JuicedLink to repeat his test using a dynamic microphone, since that way both preamps (the one in the H4n and the one in the Riggy-Assist from JuicedLink would need to work harder, since they’d receive a lower level from their respective mic. Fortunately, he did, and in August I published JuicedLink accepts our dynamic microphone challenge; re-does comparison test. Now Robert has taken our request even further, to a full range of tests, which include comparisons with equipment from Beachtek, Edirol, Sound Devices, Tascam, and Zoom.

As stated previously, handheld dynamic microphones are the most popular type of microphone used to do spontaneous in-field interviews for television news, so I am glad that Robert obliged me (us) and did the same test with a handheld dynamic mic, so we can now notice the huge difference between the preamp in the H4n versus the one in his Riggy-Assist as it feeds his 60D DSLR, together with the later comparison with other preamps in other devices. As you’ll hear, some of them are very clean, and others are not.

Links to the two prior related articles

• JuicedLink video illustrates audio quality with DSLRs via RiggyAssist versus an H4n recorder on July 11, 2012
• JuicedLink accepts our dynamic microphone challenge; re-does comparison test from August 15, 2012

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My latest ebook

I have just published an ebook in two languages.
The format is Kindle, but even if you don’t have a Kindle device, you can read Kindle books on many other devices using a free Kindle app. That includes iPad, iPhone, Android phones, Android tablets, Mac computers, Windows computers, some Blackberry phones and Windows 7 phones.

In English:

In English, it is currently available in the following Amazon stores, depending upon your region:

• At Amazon.com (for all of the Americas)
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If you’re going to buy a Kindle book as a gift, you must do so via the Pan-American Amazon store (the first one listed above), regardless of where you live or where the recipient lives.

En castellano:

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• Amazon.com (todas las Am©ricas)
• Amazon.co.uk (Reino Unido)
• Amazon.de (Alemania)
• Amazon.es (España)
• Amazon.fr (Francia)
• Amazon.it (Italia)

Si vas a comprar un libro Kindle como regalo, debes hacerlo vía la tienda panamericana de Amazon (la primera de la lista) sin importar donde vivas tú o donde viva la persona que recibirá el regalo.

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