this is an audio test of the blue snowball microphone i am positioned 20 to 22 inches
away from the microphone at this time you may or may not have heard some noise in the
background there was a cat attacking some window blinds but this is a good example of uh position
one which is supposed to be mainly for podcasts so it should just be concentrating on my voice
and not the cat in the background i am speaking at a normal tone facing the microphone just to
give you an idea of what the audio levels would be like from this distance what i'm going to do
now is i'm going to point my head away from the microphone at a 90 degree angle and again speaking
at the same tone just so you get an idea of what that sounds like and i'm going to come
facing back to the microphone and now i'm going to move it to position 2 and do a similar test
so position two on the microphone is supposed to have a similar uh wave structure so it's
supposed to be facing the microphone it's only supposed to be picking my uh
vocals up it shouldn't be picking up anything else around the microphone
but it has a negative 10 decibel uh mask over it so it kind of helps keep things low again
i'm speaking at the same volume i was before i'm going to turn now again at that 90 degree angle
and speak facing away from the microphone to give you an idea of what that sounds like and now i'm
going to come back and face the microphone again the distance is still 20 to 21 inches but what
this is supposed to do is if you have any loud noises like hey something like that it shouldn't
be as bad now it will be a little bad now because i've been talking in a low tone and then i spiked
it with a high tone but if i did that with the cardio one position it would have been
really loud and possibly very distorting so what i'm going to do now is change it to position three
now position three i'm again 20 to 21 inches away from the microphone
this position is for omni-directional sound so this is supposed to capture
things that are happening in the general area as well as in front of the microphone
now the cat isn't going crazy at the moment so i can't really use him as an example but if i
snap a little bit around the blue microphone hopefully those will come in and that's because
of the omnidirectional sound now again what i'm going to do is i'm going to face away
from the microphone at a 90 degree angle just so you get an idea of what that sounds like so
i'm not directly pointed at the microphone i still am using the same tone of voice
and the mic position from my speaking self is still the same but facing a different direction
now i'm going to come back and face the blue microphone so that will end the 20 to 21 position
uh 28 to 21 inches away position uh vocal test this will be the second series of audio tests
now i have moved the blue microphone 13 inches away from me i am again speaking at a normal
uh level of vocals so this is position one this is the basic this is your podcast this is your talk
radio style position just to give you an idea of what this sounds like again i will turn now
90 degrees away from the microphone so that you can hear what that sounds like
i'm also going to do something i didn't do in the last one because now i can reach
and that's snap or make some noise behind the camera so or behind the microphone so that you
can hear what that sounds like and again i'm turning back towards the blue microphone again
position one so you can hear what that sounds like i'm going to now change to position two
so same cardio mode but this is again that negative 10 decibels
i'm speaking towards the microphone still at 13 inches away at this point i will snap
directly behind the camera at arm's length and i keep saying camera when i mean microphone
that just shows you i spend more time in uh video stuff than i do in audio
at this time i'm now going to turn 90 degrees away from the microphone again speaking at my
normal tone of voice still 13 inches away from the mic going to now turn back to the
microphone and change it one more time to position three and position three is that omnidirectional
sound that you would get i'm going to reach behind the microphone do a little snapping so you
can hear what that sounds like i am now going to turn 90 degrees away from the mic so that you get
an idea of what this sounds like as well and then come back and face the microphone now this for me
is a more comfortable position uh distance wise uh how i had it before would be okay if i was
going to be doing something away from the computer but generally i got this for closer uh things when
i'm doing on the computer so what i'm going to do now is cycle back to position one so for me this
is a comfortable distance and probably what you would use it as there are some people who kind of
get right up on the microphone and i don't have a pop filter but i will do one more series of tests
just so you can hear what it sounds like where i'm pretty much on the microphone all right and this
is the last series of tests again i'm speaking my normal tone of voice uh right now i am about
four inches away from the microphone so this is as comfortable as i feel getting uh close to
the microphone you may notice that my s's my p's and b's will sound distorted a little bit that's
because i do not have a pop filter but figured i would give you the broadest spectrum that i could
for audio samples so this is the cardio mode one i'm not going to turn away from the microphone at
this point because i will probably hit it with my head so we're just gonna say this is position one
shifting over to position two so this is that negative ten decibels again same distance this
is what it would sound like again not going to turn my head this will give you an example of
what the ps and the bs and the s's sounds like from this distance and the last bit
this is position three so omnidirectional
same distance away from the microphone still saying s still saying pop filter and boy
and just so you get an idea of what this would sound like and this will end the audio samples
you