what is up guys my PhD here and I am back with another microphone test video for you guys
so today I'm testing out this guy or this guy the audio technica at2020 were swifty ice gamer
so really quickly this is an XLR condenser microphone which means it does require a full
48 volt phantom power to work what that means is this microphone will not work plugging directly
into your computer and it will also not work with an XLR to USB cable the way I'm connecting
this microphone to my computer is using the scarlett solo USB audio interface with full
48 volt phantom power on and my microphone input gain is set at about 50 percent okay and if you
are interested in this microphone it'll set you back about a hundred and fifty dollars and as
per usual link in the description let's go ahead and talk about what you get in the Box obviously
you're gonna get the microphone you get this nice little shock mount you get a plastic version of
the 5/8 to 3/8 inch microphone stand adapter you get a really nice padded carrying pouch then you
get some documentation and a one-year warranty so just like all the other 20 series microphones the
build quality of this thing is pretty awesome it has an all-metal construction a nice metal
grille and some really nice substantial weight to it but unlike the 80/20 20s this does have
two options on the back of the microphone the first one is a 10 decibel pad which helps when
miking loud sound sources like a guitar amp and the other is a bass roll-off which just
cuts a little bit of the low frequencies below 80 Hertz to help with low-frequency rumbles the
shock mount is all plastic but it feels like a relatively sturdy plastic so I'm not worried
about this breaking and in order to actually connect it you just push this right in there
there's no clip or anything like that it just fits right in there so here is a quick look
at the specification sheet you can tell that this has a frequency response of 20 Hertz to
20 kilohertz which is pretty much all you can ask for and it has a cardioid polar pattern
okay so now I'm going to go ahead and spin the microphone around to determine what the actual
polar pattern is and how the frequency response changes as we move into different orientations
around the microphones capsule okay now I am banging on the keyboard directly behind the
microphone to determine how much of my voice versus how much of the keyboard it picks up
now I am one foot away from the twenty thirty five now I'm about two feet away from the twenty
thirty five now I'm about four feet away from the eighty twenty thirty five XLR microphone
huge domains is a bunch of [ __ ] they stole podcast accom so overall I think the sound is
just freakin awesome on this thing I thought it sounded great on all the instruments I thought
it sounded great on the voice I thought it did amazing at eliminating background noise
just all around a great microphone so if you're gaming in your clickety clickety clack and away
on your keyboard I think this might be a good option it will be a more expensive option but
I think you do get what you pay for alright guys well I guess that will do it if you have
any more questions about this microphone go ahead and leave them in the comments down
below and I'll try to get back to you as soon as I can if you found this fun interesting or
helpful thumbs up if you thought it sucked in it was lacking something give me a thumbs down
and let me know what information that I missed so I can add it in future videos and lastly if
you're interested in this microphone or you want to vote for the microphones you want
reviewed next or if you want to follow me on social media links to everything in the
description down below and that will do it thank you guys for watching I'll see you all later bye