greetings earthlings today we're looking at a very cheap microphone so today we're looking at
this guy the five fine K 670 budget condenser microphone and if you do want to pick this guy
up it will set you back around 48 to 50 dollars like always links down below and for the majority
of this review I have the K 670 connected directly to a Mac the gain on the microphone is set to 100%
and the gain on the computer is set at around 4 or 5% not gonna do any post-processing but I
may boost it in post so check the dooblydoo to see what I did Lee did now let's talk about what comes
in the box of course he will get the microphone you get a cheap plastic microphone clip you do
get the 5/8 to 3/8 inch microphone stand adapter you get a desktop microphone stand you get a USB
cable and you get some documentation as far as the build quality this microphone feels dead
center mediocre all the way it does have a metal body as well as a metal mesh grille that has quite
a bit of give to it so I would be careful with that it also has a decent amount of weight to it
but I would say it is a little bit on the light hand side on the front of the mic you will find
a gain dial to control the actual volume of the microphone on the rear of the microphone you will
find a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack which does offer latency free monitoring as well as allow
for a computer playback however there is no real decent way to adjust the zero latency monitoring
level in your headphones short of adjusting the microphones gain which in my opinion is
a pretty big oversight and one more note there the headphone amp on this thing is insanely
noisy and there is just this constant hiss in the background and lastly on the bottom you
will find the USB port then as far as the specs this thing has a unidirectional polar pattern a
frequency response of 50 Hertz to 15 kilohertz a sensitivity of negative 46 decibels it has a
max SPL of 120 decibels and a signal-to-noise ratio of 66 decibels which just so happy to be
the exact same s the ein lastly this thing has a bit depth of 16-bit and a sample rate of 40 4.1 or
48 kilohertz now I'm spinning around the K 670 to show you what the off-axis of rejection and
coloration is we will go ahead and move around to the 180 degree area show you what it sounds like
from the rear continue around the microphone to the second 90 degree angle this is how it
sounds like here and then we will rotate and end at the front of the microphone now I'm typing on
a keyboard with cherry MX blue to see how much of my voice versus how much of the keyboard it
picks up now I'm right on top of the microphone to show you the proximity effect now let's test the
plosives please bring Pizza pronto please bring Pizza pronto please bring Pizza pronto okay so
right now I have my sound preferences open and my gain is set at around 4% I'll drop this to 0%
and slowly increase it so you can hear how much noise is generated by this mics internal preamp
twenty-five percent
fifty percent
75%
oh it's allowed 100%
okay now I have the K 670 connected directly to a Windows 10 PC the gain on the microphone is
set to 100% and my gain on the Windows computer is set to 51% and this is how the audio sounds
okay so with the bit-depth set at 16-bit in the sample rate set at 48 kilohertz
when we have our i/o buffer size set at 64 samples we have a round-trip latency
of nine milliseconds or three and 1/2 milliseconds output bump up to 128
samples 11 and 1/2 milliseconds round-trip or 4 and 1/2 milliseconds output and if
we jump up to 256 samples 17 milliseconds round-trip or 7 and 1/2 milliseconds output
yeah this song is really lame I've got nothing to say so why don't I just tell you that this is
a microphone honestly that's all I could come up with I am so so sorry okay so I think this
microphone is perfectly sufficient first up in terms of pros this microphone is relatively cheap
it can also have a relatively clean signal if you set your gain staging properly and it just
seems to work perfectly fine but then in terms of cons the microphone does get a little bit harsh or
grading in the upper frequencies there's also no way to adjust your zero latency monitoring
level in your headphones without adjusting the microphones gain and also the headphone amp it's
just absolute trash honestly this is the noisiest thing that I have ever plugged any headphones into
it is terrible so what are my overall thoughts on this microphone on the electric guitar it does get
a little bit harsh but in all honesty it wasn't terrible yeah in the higher frequencies there's
a bit of harshness that makes those really high piercing notes a little bit more unpleasant to
listen to you but if this was the only microphone that I had and I was recording a demo I think that
I would be perfectly okay with the tone that I was getting then on the acoustic I thought
it sounded rather nice it had a full low end that was somewhat punchy without sounding overly boomy
and it had enough clarity and detail up top to give you a good amount of attack and give you
a relatively well-rounded acoustic sound then for singing this microphone has a lot of detail
meaning it is very crispy up top it has an open and airy sound but again those higher frequencies
do lean on the side of being a bit harsh and getting a little bit unpleasant and lastly for
spoken word in the lows and the mids there's nothing incredible about them nobody's going
to be blown away by them but there's also nothing offensive about them but as I've mentioned the top
end does get a little bit too heavy or a little bit too boosted and also leans on the side of
being a bit harsh and would I recommend this microphone reluctantly yes and that's because
I know people are gonna buy this and they will be perfectly happy with the purchase because it does
perform perfectly fine it gives you that crispy tone that seems to be the modern trend right now
and you can also get a relatively clean signal out of this thing by setting the gain properly
and because I think plenty of people are going to be upgrading to this microphone from a headset
microphone they're gonna be really happy with it as a first microphone I suppose that it would be
fine I'm sorry I have to do that every single time I review one of their microphones but with
this microphone it'll give you the ability to develop your ears and start to pick out what
you don't like about this microphone what you do like about it and really start to develop
your preferences so as a first microphone sure but I do got a disclaimer for gamers
and podcasters those who are more concerned with background noise I do think something like the
Samson q2u or the behringer XM 8500 with the um2 would likely be a better option but I'm
not gonna force you to buy it if you want this microphone go for it alright guys that's gonna
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