What are Dynamic Microphones?

Video Transcript

"Now we're going to talk about a Dynamic microphone. We talked a little bit, earlier, about it, but the way this is different than the mics we've been looking at so far is that it's not powered by a battery like everything we've looked at so far. One characteristic of the Dynamic microphone, like this, is it's not quite as sensitive as all the more expensive condenser mics we've been looking at and, like I just said, it's a lot cheaper. Condenser mics are usually high tech, electronic equipment, like our Lavalier system and even our shotgun mics. But this is like your barebums basic microphone. Typically, like musicians, especially singers will use a microphone like this and can get great results. Some of the benefits of using this is not having to use batteries like our other mics. Not even worrying about that. The great benefit is it's cheaper and it's not like a super sensitive noise pickup like I'm saying. If I hold this mic up and just talk into it like I'm a reporter, or if I were singing, I was in a band I was going to get pretty good sound and not have to worry about picking up a lot of ambient noise from around like our more sensitive condenser mics. Let's get started setting up this Dynamic mic on our XH A1."