greetings earthlings welcome back to podcast egde my name is banjo and I'm back with another
microphone test video for you guys so today I'm going to be reviewing this microphone or this
microphone this is the audio technica at2020 USB plus as requested by our viewer cookie will and
if you are interested in this microphone it'll set you back about $150 on Amazon and as per
usual I'll link it in the description and I do want to clarify this is the at2020 USB plus not
to be confused with the XLR version of the microphone which is just the at2020 so let's
go ahead and talk about what you get in the box obviously you're gonna get the microphone you
get a USB cable you get the microphone mount you get a 5/8 to 3/8 inch microphone stand
adapter you get a desktop microphone stand you get a padded microphone carrying pouch you get
some documentation and a one-year warranty so as far as the build quality it actually feels
pretty nice it is an all-metal construction and it has some really nice weight to it on the front of
the microphone we have a few features the first one is a blue LED light right on the inside of
the grill to say hey this microphone is getting power we also have a dial to help mix between
the microphones audio and your computer's audio the microphone is obviously going to be zero
latency monitoring and the computers audio can be playback from your dog could be iTunes it
can be whatever you want on the other side we just have a straightforward headphone volume
control then on the back of the microphone we just have a 3.5 millimeter headphone port now
let's go ahead and talk about the specifications so as I already mentioned this is a USB microphone
and they do list that it's compatible with Windows and Mac OS X the bit depth is 16-bit
and the sampling rate is 40 4.1 or 48 kilohertz the frequency response is listed as 20 Hertz to
20 kilohertz which is an improvement over the prior 80 20 20 USB this microphone is the 20
20 USB plus so they did improve the frequency response and it has a cardioid polar pattern
which we'll test in just one second and in case you're interested here are the remainder of this
occasions so now I'm just 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 a keyboard
directly behind the microphone to determine how much of my voice for Sandwich to the noisy
ass keyboard it picks up now I am one foot away from the microphone now I'm about two
feet away from the microphone now I'm about four feet away from the at2020 USB plus okay
now you can see that my sound preferences are open and my microphone input game is currently
set at about 50 percent I'm going to go ahead and drop this down to zero percent and slowly
increase it so you can hear what kind of noise is generated by this USB microphone
fifty percent
seventy-five percent 100 percent
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I took her round it was a Friday night I work alone to get the feeling rod so all around I
think it's a pretty nice sounding microphone it has a nice full frequency response and I think
that led to a really nice sound on the acoustic the electric and on voice now the polar pattern
did seem fairly wide and that leads me to think that this would not be a good option
for gamers especially if you're going to be gaming using a keyboard because it did seem
to pick up a lot of keyboard noise even though this is a relatively quiet keyboard and this
is supposed to have a really directional polar pattern I think the people that this mic would
be best for our people who have treated rooms especially for podcasts and I think it was mainly
designed to do really well with music and pick up a little bit of the rooms ambiance to help
with the recording all right 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 I'm gonna try to get back to you
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