hey everybody its bandar of podcast and I'm back with another USB audio adapter test video for
you guys now you may be asking yourself why I'm making another what's the best sound card video
a few weeks after I just released the last one and I'm doing it for two reasons first a lot of
people outside the states can't get their hands on the Sabre and USB audio adapter that I use so
I ordered five more sound cards to test out and hopefully we'll be able to find an alternative to
that sound car that sounds pretty decent secondly I just got this thing and this is a multimeter it
allows me to measure the voltage that's making it through the XLR cable into the microphone
so hopefully that will help us determine which sound card is going to be best for using with a
condenser microphone and just so you know the way I'm setting this up is I'm just running
the nywhere NW 703 an XLR to 3.5 millimeter cable directly into the USB sound card that I'm testing
at that time and yeah that's it okay so right now I'm using the say brand stereo USB sound card and
as you can see on the screen my microphone input gain is set at 2% and you can see the input level
that I'm getting right below there and here's video of the voltage test as you can see I'm
getting 5.14 volts going into the sound card and then four point five nine volts making it
to the actual microphone so now I'm using the SE brunt surround-sound USB audio adapter and
this is what it sounds like when I'm talking into that and as you can see on my screen my
microphone input gain is set at 1% and you can see right below there the input level that I'm
getting using that gain level here's some footage of the voltage test as you see 5.14 volts going
into it and going to the microphone we have four and a half volts alright now I'm using the HD e
7.1 surround sound a USB sound card and as you can see on my screen my input gain is set at 75%
to get this level of gain and for the voltage test as you see we're getting five point one four volts
going in and two point four three volts making it to the actual microphone okay now I'm using the
virtual 5.1 USB sound card and this is what it sounds like when I'm talking into it and as you
can see on the screen my microphone input gain is set at 75 percent to get this level of audio
go and as you can see we're putting 5.14 volts into the USB soundcard and only two point four
four volts are making it to the actual microphone okay now I'm using the gino stereo USB sound card
and this is what it sounds like when I'm talking into this one as you can see on the screen my
microphone input gain is set at 75 percent to get this level of sound right below there
we're putting 5.14 volts into the gino stereo sound card and only 2.4 3 volts are making it
to the actual microphone okay now I'm using the gino 7.1 surround sound USB sound card and is
what it sounds like when I'm talking into this microphone through this sound card and as you
can see on the screen my microphone input gain is set at 1% and I'm already clipping so that's
not a good thing and we're sending 5.14 volts into the USB adapter and getting four point four nine
volts going into the microphone through the XLR cable okay now I was really excited to test this
one out and I am testing out right now the ATR to USB the audio technica USB sound card but as you
can see on my screen my microphone input gain is set at 85% which happens to be the highest
that I've used so far and that's most likely caused by the fact that we're inputting 5.1
volts but only getting 2.25 volts going into the microphone through the XLR cable all right now
I'm testing out the pluggable USB soundcard and this is what it sounds like when I'm talking into
the NW 703 this sound card and as you can see on the screen and my microphone input gain is
set at 85% to get this level of audio and right here you can see that we're putting 5.1 3 volts
into this adaptor and only getting 2.97 volts going to the actual microphone all right now
I'm testing out the Seba or cybo or however you pronounce syb a sound card and as you can see my
microphone input gain on the computer is set at 1% and I am clipping almost I'm almost clipping
so that's not necessarily the best thing but if you're backing up a little bit it could probably
work so as you can see we're sending about 5.1 3 volts into the sound card and then into the
microphone we're getting about 4.5 1 volts ok now testing out the Trond USB soundcard and is
what it sounds like when I'm talking into this and as you can see on the screen my microphone
input gain is set at 85% to get this level of audio then when we measure the voltage we're
showing that we're inputting five point one three volts into the adapter and getting to point nine
six volts running into the microphone okay now I'm testing out the optical shop 5.1 channel
USB soundcard and as you can see on my screen my microphone input gain has said it's seventy-five
percent to get this level of audio so let's go ahead and crank it up even more I don't like the
fact that it has this constant noise right there that makes me think that there's a buzz going on
and if we look at the voltage we're getting five point zero eight volts going into the adapter and
only two point to three volts making it to the microphone okay now I'm going to be quiet for a
few seconds on each of these sound cards and then I'm going to boost this signal by 12 decibels and
Final Cut Pro so you can hear the background noise that's going on on each of these adapters
all right and I'm not going to be using a microphone for this right here um so I
still think that the SE burnt USB sound cards are the best options but a lot of people seem
to not be able to get those so if you do have to pick another one I would pick the cyber the
syb a sound card I think that's the second best in terms of audio quality and all that
stuff I'll tell you I would 100% stay away from this one this is the gino 7.1 the optical shop
5.1 and the audio technica I would stay away from them because they all sound like garbage
they're just unusable audio all right well I guess that will do it if you guys have any
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