hey everybody welcome back to podcasters my name is banjo and I'm back with a review video for
you guys or a test video for you guys it's a test video not a review all right so I've had my eyes
on a certain piece of gear for quite some time and then our viewer Bert PD 3ct came to the rescue and
requested that I test this guy out XLR to USB cable he wants to know does it work and we're
gonna find out today now I'm assuming what this is supposed to do is replace the need for a USB
adapter like this by combining them all into a single cable so theoretically I should be able
to plug in a microphone like this into this end and then plug this into my computer and we should
be good to go but we're going to test that out right now alright so as you can see right here
we have the nywhere NW 700k becomes out of there into this we're going to take this plug this
son-of-a-gun in right here plugged in like that red lights on means it's getting power let's go
ahead and switch over to the computer now I am going to go into my sound preferences and as
you can see right here I have USB PNP sound device selected and my microphone input volume is set at
50% now and we are getting nothing let's crank it up to a hundred percent still nothing you see that
I'm talking into it just for good assurance let me go ahead and show you see microphone running
all the way over there so it's plugged in and it's recording but for some reason I get some
response when I smash the microphone but you don't want to smash the microphone you want to
speak into it so I'm going to go ahead and draw the conclusion that this microphone cable right
here is simply not providing enough power to this microphone but we're not done yet alright so as
you can see now we have replaced the nywhere NW 700 right here with this the shure sm58 which is
just a typical run-of-the-mill dynamic on cables running out of here over here oh my god dropped
a microphone runs over here right into there so that's what we're using now let's go and switch
back to the computer screen and show you as you can see my microphone input volume is set at 50%
we're getting pretty darn close to the top and we are still using USB PNP sound device so the
conclusion we can draw where did that microphone go after the thought idea I'm back okay here's the
anywhere NW $700 cable runs out runs over here runs into the phantom power supply our XLR to
USB runs out of here runs all the way over here all the way up here into here so let's go ahead
and switch over to the computer screen and show you what's going on there okay so now you can see
we're in our sound preferences and our mic input gain is set at 1% and worse we're clipping the
little hope that I had that this would work was a little bit too much because now if you add phantom
power you're already clipping unless you have it six inches away maybe at one percent that's
unacceptable so what do we find today we found that the XLR to USB cable alone does not provide
enough power to this microphone to a condenser microphone to make it function we found out that
it does work when you have a dynamic microphone like the sm58 it will work with that because a
dynamic microphone does not require any DC voltage going into it to function then finally we found
when we add the phantom power supply into the mix that it just gets too much power and it clips at
one percent microphone gain so in almost every single case except for dynamic microphones I would
say this is worthless this is not a cable worth buying alright guys well I guess that will do it
if you found the video interesting fun or helpful please give me a thumbs up if you thought the
video sucked big ol thumbs down and if you have any more questions about this cable go ahead and
leave them in the comments down below and I will get back to you as soon as I can if you want to
risk it and buy this cable and see if it works for you I will throw a link in the video description
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and thank you guys so much for watching I've been doing quite a few more of these and I appreciate
the support you guys continue to give me so I will see you guys on Tuesday see you later bye
does this look decent because right now I have a like just bouncing off the ceiling like that
it's kind of dark outside and I don't know if you can see me that well just decide no let me
go ahead and turn off this light and show you what it would look like in this room if I do
not have this light on this is the quality of video we would have if we did not put
this light on it's pretty amazing how big of a difference that makes I just wanted to share
that with you guys okay let me turn it back on I hope I didn't break it I think we're good