For only $30 on amazon with over 22,000 reviews sitting at a 4.5 star rating the fine?
fi-fine? however you pronounce this USB condenser microphone
seemed very appealing to me it also helps that amazon keeps recommending it to me and so just
been like every time I go on the freaking website there it is staring me in the face just saying bye
try me make a youtube video and tell the people about me and so um here I am.
Hi y’all it's Annelies and I just wanted to do a unboxing first impression of the FiFine - that's
what I'm going to call it because I can't seem to find a real explanation of how it's pronounced,
the FiFine USB condenser microphone now I do have this microphone the Blue Yeti
I have a review on it if you want to check that out but I was gifted this by a family member
years ago it was a hand-me-down so I know that if I was not gifted that thing I probably could
not afford it and if you know me you know that I love a budget option a budget solution finding
ways to get the most bang out of my buck and it feels like if this thing is anything that
it's cracked up to be a 30 microphone to do something in a similar vein as this thing
would be pretty dang cool so I just wanted to open it up I got it a couple of days ago and I
just made the impulse decision to say I'm gonna make a few videos about this I'm gonna let the
people know oh my okay maybe I'm not gonna make a video about this if I can't open it there we go
so I've only seen one video about it I believe it's the same model and it was from
tom buck definitely check him out on youtube he's an awesome creator here he does a lot of
like audio related things but one I want to try it out for myself but to see you know if
it's all what it cracks up to be for the record in case if you're curious the box is just a little
cheapo box but it doesn't matter what's on the outside it's what's on the inside that counts
especially with an unboxing because the box is fancy like don't even get me started don't even
get me started on these stupid headphones the box could be fancy but the headphones inside maybe not
so fancy so on the top here we've got a little bit of paperwork there seems to be I thought it was a
bookmark but that doesn't make any sense but this is like a thanks for ordering our thing then we've
got the user guide here which we are going to ignore like a good little tech reviewer and just
get into the box which oh we just get straight to the point here I have to say it is very heavy
oh the tripod it comes with a tripod that's everything okay short but sweet and to the point
immediately feeling it right now it feels nice it's metal it's like a matte coated metal kind
of like I don't want to say like hydra flasks but you it's like you can feel that there's like
a paint on top of a metal but it's still really nice oh look at her and now it's ready to party
looking at this the thing that I wonder is where you are supposed to talk into also this is off
kilter I don't like that I have the microphone on the little tripod I have the cable hanging
out from underneath the microphone it is a USB type-A connection so I do have a MacBook
Pro with the USB-C ports so I do have an adapter for that but that is something that you will need
and this cable cannot come out from underneath the microphone so you are married to USB type a there
is one knob there's no buttons on here and it's just for volume there is also no headphone jack
because I was gonna say the volume might be the volume going into your headphones because that's
what the Blue Yeti has there's a volume knob on the front here but you can plug in headphones to
the bottom of this microphone and so it's like what you're getting in your ears but
since there's no headphone jack I'm assuming that is like the gain and if you don't know
what gain is when it comes to a microphone the simplest explanation which might not be
completely correct but it is the sensitivity of the microphone so if you are speaking very
loudly you would want the sensitivity down but if you're speaking very quietly you'd probably want
the sensitivity up so there's that but it says volume okay maybe we do need to go the directions
okay it also explains in the instructions where the front is so that's great the front is where
the logo is which is also where the volume is I did read on amazon that this is a cardioid
mic so that is the best sound pattern if you are speaking to a microphone just you by yourself so
like podcasting audiobook recording voiceover work that type of stuff you want cardioid
recording software settings audacity what oh wow this really goes in depth with like hey if you're
if you need to connect it to your system so you can use audacity or skype it's very funny how it's
like how to open up your settings but if there's instructions but it's not necessarily it seems
like they're usage instructions for the microphone I just want to see if it's a plug and play because
that is the biggest thing that is appealing to me is when you oh did I just am I screwing this off
oh oh this is how oh okay so I just started turning it because I wanted the front to be
towards the not the tripod and I found that there is a ring so you could I guess put this on your
own thing okay so like the cable is going through the tripod mount thing okay this is what I did I
like was twisting it and then I didn't realize that there were three pieces so now I'm trying
to put it back together please hold so I've got my USB C to type a adapter I just opened up a
garage band because I feel like especially when it comes to budget things and beginners the most
important part when it comes to a new device is the ease of use can you just plug it in and play
is there a huge learning curve like these are things that are important for me to figure out
so I've just plugged it in and I'm going to go to the input settings when you're recording
in GarageBand and this is what I use when I record my podcast waterfall of consciousness
subscribe let's see if I okay input device and I have USB PNP audio device and I saw that somewhere
in the manual I just don't know what PNP stands for what does PNP stand for
I mean that's what the directions say it's called I guess I don't need to know what PNP
stands for as long as it works okay let's try it and it's connected so I'm gonna record some audio
so this is the fine USB condenser microphone at about a 15 volume level it is now at 50
and I'm about like five inches away from my face maybe six or seven inches away from my face I'm
gonna go ahead and put it down on my desk and see how the sound changes by being farther away from
me okay so now I'm about a foot away from the microphone it's on a little tv tray beneath me
and it is pointing up towards me the volume is at about fifty percent
but now I'm going to crank it up all the way to almost a hundred percent so now the volume or gain
is at uh almost 100 I'm afraid of blowing out your guys's ears but the microphone is still
like a foot away from me and this is what it sounds like I'm speaking into the microphone
very quietly and now we are going to see how well it sounds I'm going to speak a little bit
oh gosh I just looked at the garage band waveform and it went really high
oh no okay I turned it down because I didn't want it to be completely distorted the whole time
okay I'm gonna stop okay I know you just heard it but I need to hear it for a second
no freaking way are you kidding me I am extremely impressed okay mind you I'm listening like my
MacBook is on this tv tray like just slightly out of frame and arm's length away but my mind is kind
of blown considering that this is only 30 this is insane and the fact that I literally just plugged
it in and didn't have to do nothing special with my Blue Yeti here I had to like look up youtube
videos and get recommendations on what people used on their settings because I still wasn't getting
things right in the settings of my computer I have custom settings for this microphone
but this I just plugged in and obviously I'm not listening with headphones so I can't really hear
the differences maybe there are none I don't know conspiracy but the fact that I just heard
that and like that sounds pretty freaking amazing I am so beyond impressed right now this gives me
hope that this is a great device for a beginner but I think that kind of does it for this video
because this was just meant to be like a first impressions an unboxing you don't really get
anything with it which it's kind of nice that it's just this there's nothing else I do also
like that it comes with a tripod that's something that I mean I think a lot of microphones do come
with some sort of mount but I like this setup here it's very simple to use it feels nice and
I think the other thing too is is it looks nice like if you're somebody who's getting started but
you don't want to look like you're just getting started like this looks nice and professional and
kind of impressive and it feels good it has a good build quality the tripod is not like amazing in
quality but it's also not bad it's sturdy it's got little grippies on the feetsies
oh grippy's on the feetsies I'm not talking to preschoolers I know that's just how I speak
it's going to stand on a table it's at a decent height but I wish
there it was a little bit taller because if you were on a table in front of you
it would be like kind of a little too low down so I wish there was a way for it to be just
slightly taller but at the same time I understand like beggars can't be choosers
but the microphone itself I am very impressed with I am interested to see what I can do
with it and I'm definitely going to be doing a head-to-head review of the fine USB condenser 30
microphone from amazon versus the Blue Yeti also condenser microphone yeah that's like
and fifty dollars so I'm very interested to try it out I might also break out my blue snowball and
just do like a big old comparison so if you are interested in that let me know in a comment down
below as well as things that you would like to see me address in a kind of head-to-head review like
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