i take the ends from this just kind of draped it but now i can get right up to it it's ridiculous
hey what's going on everybody welcome back to another video and today we're talking about the
shure mv7 microphone actually you know what real quick as you can see here i have the
silver one because that was the only one in stock been contemplating should i switch it out for the
black one that's usually what i would get let me know down in the comments below and i don't know
majority wins and i'll just do what you guys say and besides color let's talk about the
design
um so while this mimics the design of the more expensive sm7b there are some key differences
here probably one of the most obvious when you're watching a video of someone using it
is you can see all these cables back here now most people may only have one cable sticking out we'll
talk about that more in a minute but the thing that i really loved any time i saw the sm7b is how
when you see it on one of these arms it almost has the xlr port kind of right next to it at the top
and it had a little cable coming out of the mic that led up to that rather than the xlr actually
going in the back of the mic like it is here and so that got rid of pretty much all of the
you know cable management that you'd kind of have to do in the background here maybe some more zip
ties or i'm just using a little velcro tie there but besides that it does have a very nice metal
design here you have of course the thumb screws on the side to tilt it to your various different
angle now let's talk about the two cables coming out of the back as that's a pretty new
feature that i haven't really seen on any other mics so usually a microphone is either usb or
xlr and sometimes companies will sell a version where you can buy one or the other but not often
do you see a microphone have both and the cool thing is is you can actually record simultaneously
using the two different cables i'm doing that right now you're currently listening to me through
the xlr port headed all the way into the pocket 6k but at the same time i'm going usb onto my mac
and recording it through audition so why would you do this maybe the audio on the camera or the
computer becomes corrupt well now you have one or the other or sometimes i've done like screen
recordings and recorded audio into a computer and if you're doing a screen recording and let's say
like playing a youtube video sometimes it doesn't separate the audio channels so now you've ruined
your voiceover because you have this background audio just mixed in and so now you would have a
separate audio track through the camera it's also beneficial if you want to record two different
types of vocals it's almost like shooting in like raw as well as getting a jpeg to go along with it
for ease you can record raw audio through xlr into a camera or an interface but then also get
kind of a already cleaned up with compressor and equalizer added to it straight from the computer
now besides the two ports on the back probably the most stand out feature here is going to be
the little touch bar on the top so this strip of led lights is touch sensitive and allows you
to control both your mic gain as well as the headphone volume so on the side of the strip
there is a mic and headphone icon that allows you to tap on it and change between the two different
settings when the warm color leds are on you are adjusting your headphone monitoring volume and
when they are green you are adjusting the mic gain so the strip isn't the most touch sensitive or
touch accurate thing in the world so to be honest i don't find myself using it all that much and
i've pretty much got everything locked in so once you kind of set it up you don't tend to change it
unless you're doing like a podcast or streaming for like twitch or something and you're constantly
changing your different levels it is nice to have right there in front of you it's just sometimes
when i'm trying to like fine-tune the mic gain it's just really not that sensitive so sometimes
you'll like swipe on it and it will like change one dot down or you'll like lower it all the way
to like negative 40 decibels by accident so there is that now on top there also is a mic mute button
so again if you're streaming on a podcast or anything like that and you just need to quickly
uh mute the mic so that you know no one can hear you then you have that button as well alright so
now let's talk about the app for a minute now the app is both for desktop computers as well
as there is a mobile app however i haven't been able to test that all too much because for this
mic specifically you do need the amv ltg cable which is essentially just micro usb to lightning
that way you can use this connected to your iphone or anything which is cool to have especially if
you're again doing on the go podcasting or something like that but just know it doesn't
come with this cable so that will be an extra 25 or so bucks it seems however on the computer the
one i've been able to test is actually really cool and it has both a auto level and a manual side
on the manual side as expected you can go in and actually set your gain to a proper decibel level
that you want you can control your monitor mix it has different eq presets and i'll go ahead
and sample those right now since i'm recording into the computer as well this is what it sounds
like for the flat profile here we have the high pass filter so this is what that sounds like
this is again the presence boost which i've stayed on and this is the high pass and presence boost
feature turned on and to be honest if you can hear the difference between those automatically
then i would consider you an audio file because to be honest i think i could hear slight differences
but not too much you also can set a limiter as well as your compressor level from off
light medium or heavy so now i've switched it over to the auto level which is pretty cool so
here again you can create and save presets if you want you can mute the mic right from the software
as well again control your monitor mix and then for the actual sound quality all you're choosing
is the mic position so is it going to be near you or further away so right now it's set to near
um this is what it sounds like and then obviously if i take a little bit of step away it's probably
not going to sound all that great but now if i set it too far i'm Hey! about a foot or so
away from the mic um maybe even go to like two feet or so so that's pretty helpful and then
the last thing you can choose is the tone do you want a dark sounding voice a natural or a bright
alrighty so right before we get into who i think this mic is best suited for i want to talk about
the largest con that i found because in terms of sound quality i mean obviously you guys
have been listening and watching this video i personally think this mic sounds great i always
wanted the shure sm7b whatever and when this came out um i you know for 150 bucks cheaper
i was like okay well you know obviously there's going to be something that is lesser about it
so i was like all right what's the catch well it seems that the windscreen that they're using
is not all that great so obviously i've been speaking to the side of the mic but a couple
of times when i've been talking about the features i faced it directly the ps and the s's are pretty
bad especially the p's the s's obviously you just use de-esser but the pops and everything sound
pretty rough anytime i tested talking straight into it now i have done some vo for different
videos using this and i'll show you how i was able to remove the uh the pops does anyone know what
this is this is the uh uh rode blimp these are the ends that screw on it um so if i want like
the cleanest audio from this mic i take the ends from this this should be a little bit better but
still in my testing had some pops in it so sometimes i just balance the second
one there and then what really sold it was i took the dead cat uh cover just kind of
draped it but now i can get right up to it get really clean audio and now you shouldn't have
any issues with peas or pops or s's and all that stuff this should be like the cleanest sounding
thing that's ridiculous because when you get clean audio like i'm really impressed and i really love
the sound quality of this thing but it is kind of annoying to when i'm doing these videos that
i have to be really careful because this sounds super nice and clean but if i get right in front
of it those peas become an issue so keep that in mind if you don't want any of those issues
you may just want to shell out the extra bit of money um or you'll just have to add a secondary
windscreen in front of it obviously if i had one of those i wouldn't have to use like the dead
cat and stuff but again hey it works all right so let's end on who do i think this mic is for
so the main reason that i actually got this mic is because it is so good at um picking up
obviously vocals that are close to it and drowning out a lot of noises in the background see right
now i'm recording during the day and in a small two-bedroom apartment we have noisy neighbors
i have a toddler and a newborn who are constantly yelling and screaming and running literally while
i'm recording this but overall it's doing a very good job at drowning out a lot of uh noise
coming from relatively close distances do i think this is the best if you are
a like singer-songwriter i don't have the sm-7b so it's hard to compare if you're coming from that
but i can see the p's and the s's being a huge issue so you definitely want to figure
out a windscreen sort of thing but listen this is a sure product i think it's still
amazing and you can do a lot with it the sound quality that you get both from the usb as well as
the xlr sound fantastic so yeah overall i'm really happy with this mic and i would love to hear
what you guys think about it in the comments down below don't forget to let me know which color
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