hey everybody welcome back to podcast itch my name is bandra and I'm back with another
microphone test video for you guys I'm running out of ways to say that
today I am testing out this guy the road and T USB as requested by our viewer ghost taco so
this is a USB microphone meaning it should work just by plugging it directly into your computer
it is listed as compatible with Mac PC as well as iPad and if you are interested in this microphone
it'll set you back about a hundred and seventy bucks and as per usual I'll throw a link in the
video description down below so now let's go ahead and talk about what you get in the Box
you get the microphone you get a pop shield you get a 6-meter USB cable you get the microphone
stand you get the microphone mount you get a carrying pouch some documentation as well as a
two-year warranty and an isle of road microphone sticker the build quality the microphone feels
really nice it is a full metal body a metal grill it has some really nice weight to it and the knobs
on the side don't feel loose speaking of the side let's go ahead and look at that so on the side you
have two dials the top one changes the amount of the sound source that you hear so if it's all the
way this way all you're going to hear is what's coming out of the computer if you put it all the
way the other direction all you're going to hear is the microphone that you're recording so this
does provide zero latency monitoring the bottom dial just controls your headphones volume and
then lastly you have a headphone port for the zero latency monitoring honestly I think it's
pretty insane they put these dials on the side of the microphone and didn't put a microphone
gain control on it but what are you going to do the pop shield is all metal and it feels kind
of flimsy so I would be careful with that the cable is just your standard USB cable nothing
special there the stand is plastic and it doesn't feel that great and there is no shock absorption
so if you bump your table and you're using this microphone stand the microphone will pick it up
but the pouch on the other hand does have some nice padding in it to protect the microphone so
here are the specifications it has a cardioid polar pattern which you can see over on this
page the frequency response is 20 Hertz to 20 kilohertz and it offers 16 bitte 48 kilohertz
recording resolution so now I'm spinning around the NT USB to determine what the actual polar
pattern is and see how the frequency response changes as we move in at different positions
around the microphone okay now I am banging on a keyboard directly behind the microphone and
speaking into the microphone to see how much of my voice first how much of the keyboard it picks up
okay as you can see I have my sound preferences open my microphone input gain is currently set
it may be twenty thirty four percent so I'm going to go ahead and shut up and drop it to
zero and then it slowly increase it so you can hear what kind of noise this thing generates
why do I insist on writing all these songs to test out microphones Hey
overall I think it's a decent sounding mic the polar pattern did do pretty well at eliminating
background noise like the keyboard and also when I'm just speaking into the microphone
I think it sounds pretty great but for music no matter what I set my input gain at if the sound
source was loud like I was singing loudly or my guitar amp was turned up loud or I was playing
my acoustic really loud it would sound like it was clipping even though I had plenty of
headroom on my input settings so I would recommend this microphone but pretty much
only if you're going to be doing voiceovers or gaming or something like that if you're going
to be recording music I would not recommend this microphone it seems to be too sensitive to pick
up any sort of loud instruments and also as I already said it's pretty insane that they have
dials on the side but neither of them control the microphones gain that's a huge oversight
and I hope if they have any more iterations of this microphone that they fix that alright
guys well I guess that will do it if you are interested in this microphone I will throw a
link in the video description down below if you found the video fun interesting or helpful go
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next as well as following me on all the social media stuff links to everything in the video
description and I think that will do it thank you guys for watching I'll see y'all later bye
and an isle of road microphone sticker why the hell would they
give you that why would you don't need that who's gonna say oh I like
this microphone let me go ahead and put this on my car that's ridiculous