[Tom Smith]

Ok, this shows it needs phantom power or wireless. What would be the best value way to supply the phantom power to it?

Later when I upgrade the camera, to a real more high end camcorder, they already have good pre-amps I’ve read, so I would be able to get a good sound connecting a nice microphone to the camera, or would I still need a pre-amp or separate system?

thanks

[Tom Smith]

Ok.
What is the cheapest, even out of my budget, way to use 1 lavalier mic with a dslr to produce a good sound?

[Tom Smith]

Haha wow, what about for a starving student? I know I will need to upgrade most of the stuff I get now, I just want it to be pretty good compared to most youtube videos for now.

Can you recommend a setup around 200 dollars that would sound ok? I have never done any audio or movies before. Online I was just reading about H1 connected to cheap lavalier mic, but I hear a lot of hiss with that.

Do you think a cheap pre amp would be better than h2n for phantom powering a mic like shure sm 93? I like the sound of that on Youtube.

I was wondering how the pre amp worked exactly, do I just hook the mic up to the pre amp and connect the pre amp to the dslr and play?

thanks