Dear Pood, this is interesting!
Last Friday Cin, Maow and I were at Cin's home. Cin talked to me about this matter and also asked me to shoot some of our clips with that Sony camera too.
Cin mentioned about his interest in Rode SVM, but from your clip you said you used Rode stereo. So I searched them at Amazon and found that what you were using is about $150 or so and it costs 1/2 of Rode SVM that Cin told me about.
Now if you use the Stereo not the SVM as far as I read the reviews at AMZ it'd be very interesting how better the SVM would be compare to the Stereo, don't you think?
I couldn't really detech how superior the Stereo would produce its audio through YT because of my built-intiny crummy laptop audio speaker! But I fully trust your ears about your observation.
BTW; please say "Hi" to my dear brother "Sarun", I miss him and wish I could see him before I leave for USA in Jan.
Thanks for sharing this informative with us here Pood
Very interesting Pood, now you got me thinking again
First I thought about getting Zoom q3 HD and get the external mic. Now I'm gonna wait for your YT testing at this Sanyo so I can gather more info before I finalize them all.
Thanks in advance
Addendum; I extracted this from Amazon's review and like to share with you guys too;
* Audio - 4/5. This one is tough. I love the twin microphones (stereo) capability of this Sanyo. Why would you want to record HD video and then watch/listen to it in mono sound anyway? The microphones are super sensitive, perhaps to a flaw. I dock a point here because there is a low level hiss that is apparent in video with extended periods of silence. The optical zoom motor sound is also picked up and is noticeably loud when zooming in and out during video. I find these things unacceptable. On the other hand, these microphones can pick up the sound of passing cars at 50+ yds away when not even facing the highway. If someone in your video farts within 30 feet, it will be forever captured to video. When focusing in the negatives here, I could give it 3 out of 5...But I could just as easily give it 5 out of 5 for the stereo quality of recordings and the sheer performance factor of these twin microphones picking up everything - and I do mean every sound - of whatever you're recording. You'd think an external mic was used.........