greetings earthlings I'm back with a
review of a brand new microphone from
the folks over at Samson so today I'm
reviewing this guy the Samson G track
Pro which is the second iteration on the
G track series from Samson if you are
interested in this mic it costs around
150 bucks I'll link it down in the
description down below for this review I
have my microphone gain set at around
30% I will do no post-processing to the
audio but I may boost it in post
so check the dooblydoo and full
disclosure this microphone was sent to
me by Samson for the sake of doing this
review now if you're wondering what the
difference between the G track and G
track Pro are the G track Pro has a much
improved build quality where the
switches feel better and it just
all-around feels much sturdier it comes
with a metal desktop stand you get a
higher recording resolution of up to 24
bit 96 kilohertz the instrument input is
6.3 millimeters instead of
three-and-a-half millimeters and most
importantly it has multiple polar
patterns now let's go ahead and talk
about what comes in the box you're
obviously going to get the microphone
you get the pre-installed desktop stand
you get a microphone mount which does
not come with a 5/8 to 3/8 inch adapter
you get a USB cable you get some
documentation and you get a card to
download motaz audio desk software as
far as the build quality this thing
feels like it could be used as a
freaking weapon it has an all-metal body
a metal grill a really nice amount of
weight to it the desktop stand is
massive and heavy so it won't move
around on your desk but it does not
offer any shock absorption so it will
pick up any bumps on the desk all the
switches on this thing are very nice and
clicky the mute button unfortunately
doesn't have much tactile feedback so
you need to pay attention to the light
and the dials are a little bit loose but
it's nothing that I would be too
concerned with on the front of the
microphone the first thing you're going
to find is the polar pattern selection
switch this allows you to switch between
figure 8 or bi-directional cardioid or
omnidirectional polar patterns in the
center you'll find an LED light which
will in
if the microphone is muted unmuted or if
you are clipping then on the right you
have the mono or two track selection
switch mono just mixes the mic and
instrument down to a single track while
two tracks sends the mic and instrument
to two separate tracks so you can record
them separately and process them
individually in the middle of the
microphone you have a microphone mute
button which is pretty self-explanatory
this is followed immediately by a
microphone gain control then an
instrument gain control for the six
point three millimeter input on the back
and the last thing on the front is a
headphone volume control on the back you
have a monitor on/off selection switch
which allows you to turn on or off zero
latency monitoring then you have a three
and a half millimeter headphone jack
which obviously gets zero latency
monitoring and you can also hear the
playback from your computer as long as
you set the G track pro as the audio
output then you have a six point three
millimeter instrument input and on the
bottom you just have the USB port as far
as specs this thing has a cardioid
bi-directional or omnidirectional polar
pattern it has a frequency response of
50 Hertz to 20 kilohertz a max SPL of
120 decibels a bit depth of 16 or 24 bit
and a sampling rate of up to 96
kilohertz now I'm on the cardioid
setting which mainly picks up audio in
front of the microphone this is going to
be what you want to use if you're the
only person talking into the microphone
or if you're at all concerned with
background noise now I'm on the
bi-directional setting which picks up
audio in the front and in the rear and
rejects audio on the sides this is the
setting you'd want to use if you're
interviewing somebody across a table or
anything along those lines and now I'm
on the omnidirectional setting which
picks up audio 360 degrees around to the
microphone this is the setting you'd
want to use if you're recording a
conference room or any large number of
people scattered around a room now I'm
on the cardioid settings spinning around
the microphone to determine what the
actual polar pattern is and how the
audio changes as we move around the
microphones capsule now I'm on the
figure eight pattern spinning around
them
to see what the actual polar pattern is
and how your voice or audio source
changes as you move around the
microphones capsule and now I'm on the
omnidirectional settings spinning around
the microphone determining what the
polar pattern is although it is
omnidirectional so we can hear ourselves
all the way around the microphone a man
I got these cheeseburgers and a keyboard
with cherry MX blues right now I'm about
one inch away from the microphone to
illustrate what kind of proximity effect
you're able to get out of this
microphone now I'm about one foot away
from the mic about two feet away from
the microphone now I have the G track
Pro connected directly to my Windows 10
PC I didn't have to go download any
drivers or anything it was just plug and
play for me my input gain is set at
around 35 or 40 percent and this is how
the microphone sounds in this setup so
now I have my sound at around 30 percent
I'm gonna go ahead and drop the gain to
0% and slowly increase it so you can
hear what kind of noise is generated by
this preamp 25 percent
50% 75%
and 100% and here's just a quick
demonstration of how you would set this
up to record both a guitar and your
voice and whatever dog you're using
right now you can see that we have three
channels set up you can ignore this
third channel right here for now the
main thing we want to focus on are these
first two channels which are both set to
mono now on the microphone I have it set
to two track which is what is necessary
if you want to record your guitar in
your voice separately input one is going
to be for your microphone and input two
is going to be for your instrument input
in this case my guitar and on that
channel I've just throw in bias amp
which is an amp simulator on to the
track to give you an idea of what this
guitar would sound like through an amp
so if we go ahead and play the guitar a
little bit well I may be drowned out by
the guitar a little bit it may be a
little bit loud but this gives you a
general idea of what you like terrible
guitar playing a little bit out of tune
but it gives you a general idea
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I don't know what to do when I don't
have a thing to sing for you so I just
make rap up and no one really cares
about me so at the risk of sounding like
a broken record regarding samson
products I really like this microphone
in terms of pros this is just an
all-around good sounding microphone it's
very versatile in terms of the multiple
polar patterns as well as the instrument
input it offers zero latency monitoring
it has pretty quiet preamps that mainly
picked up just a room noise you can
record up to 24-bit 96 kilohertz it has
a great build quality and on top of all
of that you get some free software and
then in terms of cons this microphone is
not great at background noise rejection
to some with all these switches and
dials and may get confusing and the
bi-directional and Omni settings lose a
little bit of quality in terms of
frequency response but I will admit it's
not half as bad as some of the other
multi pattern mics I've tested in the
past so the conclusion I have on this
mic is very similar to the regular G
track it sounds fairly natural on
singing on the electric and on the
acoustic as well as spoken-word with a
boost in the treble frequencies for
added clarity additionally the added
polar patterns are a nice feature if
you're on a budget and you want to
record meetings in a professional
setting or if you just want to goof
around with some different polar
patterns while you're recording some
music so in conclusion I think the group
that this mic would really excel for
would be musicians on a budget because
not only are you getting a good sounding
microphone but you're also getting an
interface that records high res audio
for a relatively cheap price alright
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