Azden SGM-250 Shotgun Microphone

I've had this mic for a year now, and use it for producing my YT channel. It's an amazing mic not only for the money, but just an amazing mic period. I even did an episode called "Audio Impossible", that illustrated how even in my somewhat noisy environment I was able to isolate my vocals with the...

I video production for a living and I need an additional good affordable boom mic. After I read the reviews I decided to give the SGM-250 from Azden a go. I used it on two productions and it worked great.

I shoot doco and adventure work from a web based perspective, and this works beautifully. I have nothing but good things with it.

Excellent audio with a camcorder. But when used with my Canon 70D DSLR directly plugged in the camera, there is a constant hiss. My tests showed that you obtain a much better audio with a Juicelink or Beachtech interface between the camera and the mic.

I had an inexpensive Audio-Technica semi-pro shotgun mic for several years and really loved it. Then at a recent shoot where the sound was critical, I noticed that this A-T mic had gotten hissy. One soft-speaking person's voice got buried in the hiss, and that was a problem.

This has been the best shotgun mic I have used thus far. I have used several ranging from $50 - $250. I used this particular mic outside with the foam windscreen that came with it. The sound of my talent came out clean and blocked a lot of distracting noises.

It was a toss-up between this and the Sennheiser MKE600. My uses: strictly on-camera nats/sots mic.I only use Lavs (countryman b3) for interviews. My camera is NOT professional and does not have phantom power.

I use it on my professional camcorder