greetings Earthlings I'm back with another edition of the vs. series so today we're testing out an
entire line of microphones to see which one is best the audio technica at2020 the 80/20
35 or the 80/20 50 and for all these tests I'm connecting the microphones directly to the 2i2
2nd gen I will keep my input game consistent at around 11 o'clock and I will level match
them in post with a different gain boosts so when I'm speaking into each microphone check
the dooblydoo to see how much I boosted it now let's get into the tests now I'm speaking into
the audio technica at2020 which will set you back around $100 this thing has only a cardioid polar
pattern a frequency response of 20 Hertz to 20 kilohertz a sensitivity of negative 37 decibels
a max SPL of 144 decibels and a self noise of 20 DB now I'm speaking into the 8020 35 which
will set you back around 150 bucks it also only has a cardioid polar pattern it has a
frequency response of 20 Hertz to 20 kilohertz a sensitivity of negative 33 decibels a max SPL of
148 to 158 decibels a self-noise of 12 DB and it also has a negative 10 decibel pad as well as an
80 Hertz roll-off now I'm speaking into the 8020 50 which will set you back around 230 bucks it
has a cardioid omnidirectional and figure 8 polar pattern it has a frequency response of 20 Hertz to
20 kilohertz a sensitivity of negative 42 decibels a max SPL of 149 to 159 decibels a self noise of
17 DB it also has a negative 10 decibel pad and 80 Hertz roll-off and a multiple polar pattern
selection switch speaking into the at2020 moving to 90 degrees to see what the off-axis coloration
is moving to 180 to see what the rear rejection is and continuing to move around to see how my
voice changes as we move around the microphone now on the 20:35 moving to 90 degrees to see
the off-axis then moving back to the 180 degrees to see what the rear rejection is moving around
continuously to see how my voice changes as we move around the mics capsule and now we on that
80/20 50 on cardioid moving around a 90 degrees to see the off-axis coloration then back around
to 180 to see the rear rejection and continuing to move around to see how my voice changes as we
move around the mic testing the background noise of the at2020 with cherry MX blues now testing
the background noise of the 20:35 with cherry MX blues now I'm testing the background noise
of the 8020 50 on a keyboard with cherry MX blues now I'm about two feet away from the 8020 20 now
I'm about two feet away from the microphone now I'm about two feet away from the 20 50
Audio Technica testing the entire set Audio Technica will you please tell me what to get Audio
Technica I'm gonna find out which is best and the winner of this versus series is the 80/20 35 for a
couple of reasons first off when you look at the specs you can tell that this thing has the best
sensitivity performance meaning it has the loudest output signal and that ultimately means you have
to drive your preamp less and it will just yield a cleaner signal secondly on a similar note this
thing has the best self-noise performance so not only are you getting the cleanest signal
from your preamp because you're not driving it as hard but you're also getting the least amount of
noise introduced by the microphone and then third when we listen to the tone of the microphones for
spoken word the at2020 just lacked a little bit too much in the low-end due to the bass cut the
twenty fifty did have a flatter response than the 80/20 thirty-five but it was overly boosted in the
presence and treble frequencies which just made it unpleasant to listen to and because of all that
the 80/20 35 just sounded the most natural out of all three of them for spoken word no I will admit
that the 20 35 did sound a tiny bit muddy on the electric in the acoustic guitar but that would be
easily resolved by adding a high pass filter and post or initializing the high-pass filter on the
microphone and I'll end the video by admitting this maybe I am a little bit biased I've made it
perfectly clear over the last couple of years that I'm not the biggest fan of multi-pattern
microphones I think that rather than getting a microphone that performs multiple tasks mediocre
ly that you should focus on buying one microphone that does one thing really well and out of these
three microphones the 20:35 does one thing the best all right guys that's gonna end it for today
I would love to hear from you in the comments did you agree with me did you disagree with me which
of these microphones do you have why do you like it I want to hear your experiences with this stuff
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