hey everybody welcome back to podcast egde my name is banjo and I'm back with another microphone test
video for you guys today I'm testing out this guy or this guy which is the MXL 770 as requested by
our viewer alpha KD and if you are interested in this microphone it'll set you back about $75 and
as per usual I will link it in the description I also want to note that I'm connecting this to
my computer using the focusrite scarlett solo with the 48 volt phantom power turned on and my
microphone input gain is set it may be 50 or 55 percent so let's go ahead and talk about what you
get in the box obviously you're gonna get the microphone you also get the microphone shock
mount you get a plastic hard shell carrying case you also get some documentation and it
comes with a one-year warranty so as far as the build quality it's actually really nice it has
full metal construction it as a metal body metal grille all that stuff and it also has
some substantial weight to it on the back you also have two switches one is a base roll-off
which allows you to decrease the base frequencies picked up by the microphone which will help with
overly boomy sounds the other switch is a 10 decibel pad which decreases the signal in case
your miking any really loud sound sources now let's go ahead and talk about the specs so as
I already mentioned this is a condenser microphone and that means it requires some power to work and
the power requirement listed on the spec sheet is 48 volts plus or minus 4 volts so in theory
this should only work if you're giving it at least 44 volts of phantom power it also lists the polar
pattern as cardioid and here is a visualization of that and will also test that in a second and
the frequency response is listed at 30 Hertz to 20 kilohertz so now I'm just going to go ahead
and spin the microphone around to determine what the actual polar pattern is and see how
the frequency response changes as we move into different orientations around the microphone okay
and now I am banging on a keyboard directly behind the microphone to see how much of my
voice versus how much of the keyboard behind it it picks up now I am one foot away from
the microphone now I am two feet away from the microphone now I'm four feet away from the MXL 770
I really like to eat pizza and tacos so overall I think it's a pretty nice sounding microphone
I thought it sounded great on the electric guitar both with medium and high gain on
vocals I thought it sounded really nice and warm as well on the acoustic I thought it sounded
fine but my personal preference for acoustic guitars is to have a little bit more high-end
than mids and lows this microphone is just not designed to be as bright as other microphones
out there which will fit some people's needs perfectly but a lot of other people won't like
that it's lacking a little bit in the high end as far as who this is for I don't think gamers
should really buy this sure it sounds great but to me it seems like it's designed more
as an entry-level microphone for people who are looking to record music and not just do gaming
voiceovers or live commentaries or anything like that alright guys well I guess that will
do it if you have any more questions about this microphone leave them in the comments and I'll try
to get back to you as soon as I can if you found this fun interesting or helpful thumbs up if you
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down below and I think that will do it I will see all later thank you guys for watching bye