hey everybody welcome back to podcast egde my name is Bandra and I'm back with a USB audio
adapter showdown so I have received quite a few comments and questions saying well this
USB adapter work well this one will this one well we're going to find out today all right so the way
that I have this setup is I have this multimeter setup right here and I will plug each of these
USB audio adapters into it and then I will plug in the BM 800 into each USB audio adapter we'll
see what kind of voltage it's getting and then we will see if any of them sound better or if every
single one sounds the same let me go ahead and show you what adapters were using today
first I think we'll go ahead and start with what I've been using the same rant USB audio adapter
okay now we're back and we're using the BM 800 and we are plugged in to the computer using the
Sabra USB audio adapter which costs about six bucks and this is what I've been using for all
my test videos and we're getting about five volts and just so you know my mics input gain has said
it's seven percent and as we switch between these adapters I'm going to go ahead and make sure that
the input volume set at the same level so we get a fair reading across all the adapters let's go
ahead and switch to the next one so we will have to turn this up so now my mic input gain is set at
50% and we're we're still only hitting about 50% or 75% on the input gain level meter so that's a
good thing in some cases if you have a really hot mic this might be a good option for you I
may have to go back and retest some mics that have been really hot and use this this sound
card and as you see right here we are getting about 5 volts I don't know what any of these
letters means I don't know CP what does that mean five four point nine so we're getting about five
volts into the 3d sound card just like this a burnt audio adapter and this is the audio
that we're getting out of this card okay so now we are back and we are using the 7.1 channel surround
sound audio adapter and I am at seven percent on the input gain we will have to turn it up to get
any level right now I'm at 50% on the input gain again let's go in and keep turning it up now I'm
about 75% and I'm not clipping it so once again this will be a good audio adapter maybe if you
have a really hot microphone that's clipping with the saber and USB adapter but yeah that's
what the 7.1 channel surround sound looks like it does have this microphone mute button right here
and then it also has a headphone mute button right here and these two volume buttons right
here are not for the microphone game they're for the headphone volume all right now I'm
using this fancier Sabra USB audio adapter and right now my microphone input gain is
at 7% so this is loud just like the other segment USB adapter and unlike these two
so far but we'll go ahead and keep testing and we're getting just over 5 volts going
into the microphone through this adapter and just like the last adapter we have the
microphone mute the headphone mute button as well as volume up and down for your headphones
but it's really quiet so we will have to bump it up now I'm at 50% and now I am around 75%
on this we're also getting 5 volts going through into the microphone and it has a microphone input
and a headphone output jack just like all these adapters do okay and lastly we are using this
adapter right here and right now my microphone input gain is set at 7% and I am clipping so
this is a very hot adapter this provides a lot of gain to the microphone and that's not necessarily
the best thing as you can see we're getting about 5 volts going into the microphone so I
don't know what's causing this huge difference in gain between these adapters you'll probably
have to actually drop the gain down a little bit now I'll drop the gain down to 2% and I'm still
clipping so I definitely would not recommend this adapter unless you have a way to make it
less hot alright guys so my favorite sound cards are the two saber ins this one just two inputs
very simple you just plug it in and change the gain on your computer or this really fancy one
right here which has the mic mute headphone mute and headphone volume knobs on it that's really
nice too the reason I like the sabering cards is they sound a lot more natural and like they're
going through an actual mixer and not through a cheap USB sound card like this with these three
sound cards you have to crank the volume so much that you just get a lot of background noise and
it just doesn't sound as good even if you're not clipping it sounds very digitized almost like you
have a digital distortion going and with this one it's even at the lowest setting it's still
clipping so this is just unusable completely so if you are going to be recording something
like the BM 800 and you just need to plug it directly into your computer and the computers
audio input doesn't work I would recommend either this Sabra which runs six bucks free
shipping on Amazon or this fancier one which is nine bucks and free shipping on Amazon as well
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