hey everybody welcome back to podcast
egde my name is banjo and I'm back with
another microphone test video for you
guys anyways today I'm testing out this
guy this is the audio-technica ATR 2500
USB as requested by our viewer olavo
Santana Santana can you believe it we
got a microphone request from Santana
this is a USB condenser microphone with
a headphone port on it and as per usual
if you are interested in this microphone
I'll throw a link in the video
description down below and it'll set you
back about 70 bucks so let's talk about
what you get in the box
you get the microphone you get the
microphone mount you get maybe a 5 foot
USB cable and you get a cheap plastic
microphone stand look at this it even
comes with a freaking lifetime warranty
so the build quality on this one is not
the best it is a metal body with a metal
grill all that stuff which feels nice
but the plastic components on it feel
kind of cheap so here's the actual front
of the microphone these are the plastic
components that I don't think feel very
good at the very bottom is the headphone
port which actually provides live
monitoring with zero latency directly
above that you have a headphone volume
up and down and then directly above that
you have a blue LED like to say I'm on
so a big complaint I have is actually
the microphone mount that is provided
and it's basically that I hate these
microphone bands and it's because it
provides no shock absorption so if I hit
the microphone stand like that on
accident you hear every single second of
it it just sounds like a big boom so I
hate this kind of microphone mount
because of that also the fact that it
comes with a tabletop microphone stand
and this kind of microphone mount if you
have this sitting on the desk that
you're typing on or clicking with your
mouse or hitting hitting your desk it's
gonna pick up every single bump and it's
gonna sound horrible so of course I'm
going to go ahead and show you what that
sounds like a little bit later the
frequency respond to the mic is thirty
Hertz to 15 kilohertz which is it seems
pretty nice to me it sounds fairly full
it doesn't feel like it's missing any
big frequency gaps here is what the
frequency response and the polar pattern
graph look like and we'll go ahead and
test out the polar pattern which is a
cardioid pattern okay so now I am moving
around the microphone as you can hear as
I get around the back it just picks up a
lot of the low-end as I move around to
the side it picks it up about 180
degrees in front of it and then the
frequency response just drops off
drastically around the back okay right
now I am about one foot away from the
microphone now I'm about two maybe two
and a half feet away from the microphone
now I may be four or five feet away from
the microphone and know I'm not wearing
any shoes why the hell would I wear
shoes I'm in my apartment
get off my back
singing songs to test the microphones
yes I am I'm singing stupid songs
okay now I am banging on the keyboard
directly behind the microphone as I
speak into it to see how much my voice
it picks up first how much of the
keyboard sound it picks up okay so now
the microphone is on the tabletop
microphone stand I'm going to place it
down and type on my keyboard so you can
hear what kind of shocks this thing
picks up okay now I'm going to shut up
and let you hear the background noise
this thing generates at the game that
I'm using it up and then I'm going to
crank the game and show you how it
sounds so I think this microphone sounds
pretty dang awesome it has slightly
better presence than the ATR 2100 but
that's what you would expect because
this is a condenser microphone and the
ATR 2100 USB is a dynamic microphone
I thought the acoustics sounded great
the electric sounded decent and the
voice sounds pretty good as well I would
just recommend getting something like
the six dollar dragonpad pop-filter
but with all that being said I would
still recommend at the ATR 2100 over
this microphone for a couple reasons
it's slightly cheaper it has all the
same functionality
it sounds pretty comparable a little bit
worse but still it's relatively it's in
the same ballpark and lastly the ATR
2100 provides the ability to expand to
the XLR port but if you have no desire
to expand from USB to XLR microphone
then I think this is a perfectly fine
option I just like the ability of the
ATR 2100 to expand to that if you have
that desire in the future but if you
don't this is a great microphone and it
sounds pretty dang awesome and as I say
on every USB microphone I would love if
it had an actual microphone gain control
on the microphone like the blue Yeti or
something like that but it sounds pretty
good without it and I'm able to control
the game on my computer relatively well
all right well I guess that will do it
if you do have any more questions about
this microphone leave them in the
comments down below and I'll try to
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