hey everybody welcome back to podcaster try names Bandra and I'm back with another tech
test video for you guys as well as his crazy hat that I bought
at a gas station this morning at 5 a.m. because it was freezing cold outside so
I've received countless comments asking me well adding a phantom power supply to your
audio chain improve the audio quality of your cheap microphone like the BM 700 BM 800 NW 15
under any of these microphones so that's what I'm gonna be testing out today now we're not
going to test out every single microphone using this method because that would be a horribly long
video and a horribly boring video and the way that I know that is because I've already done
it and all those things are true so here's what we're going to do we're going to plug this BM
700 directly into these two audio adapters the safe and USB audio adapter and then this which
is like a Gino the USB audio adapter it's a couple bucks and this is one of my least favorite audio
adapters and we're just going to compare them that way and then once we get those sounds we're going
to plug the microphone into the phantom power supply and then plug the phantom power supply
into each of these adapters and each of these adapters and see how it sounds let's go ahead
and get started alright this is what the BM 700 sounds like plugged directly into the Sabre USB
audio adapter using the XLR to 3.5 millimeter cable and my input gain is set at 7% okay now
this is what the BM 700 sounds like plugged into the phantom power supply using an XLR to XLR cable
and then the phantom power supply is running into the say brunt USB audio adapter using an XLR to
3.5 millimeter cable by adding this phantom power supply I was able to draw my input gain down to
about 4% so just a little under half okay this is what the BM 700 sounds like plugged directly
into the Geno USB audio adapter and my gain is set at about 72% in order to get a level
similar to the saber at USB audio adapter this is what the BM 700 sounds like running into the
phantom power supply and then the phantom power supply is running into the geno USB audio adapter
by adding this phantom power supply I was able to decrease my microphones input down to about
35% okay guys now let me go ahead and include a couple clips of each of these microphones then
I'm also going to include a couple seconds of silence for each of these scenarios with and
without phantom power then on the silenced clips I boosted the signal by about 12 decibels and Final
Cut Pro so you can really hear the sound and the background noise this is the sabering USB
audio adapter without phantom power this is the saber and USB audio adapter using phantom power
this is the Gino USB audio adapter without phantom power and then the
phantom power supply is running into the Gino USB audio adapter
so in conclusion with the Sabra USB audio adapter when we added the phantom power
supply we were able to drop our gain a little bit from 7% to 4% we also did get a slight boost
in audio quality with clearer highs and crisper sound altogether although we did hear a slight
increase in background noise and I'm not sure what was causing that with the geno USB audio
adapter when we added the phantom power we got a huge improvement of the audio we were able to
drop our input gain from 75% or 72% down to 35% there was a huge boost in audio quality better
sound better highs better everything all around a huge improvement over the audio and by dropping
our input game from 72 to 35% the background noise decreased significantly so if you have
something like the saber and USB audio adapter where you're able to set your mic input gain
like 5 percent or 7 percent and you don't have a lot of background noise I don't think you're
really going to benefit from this I think you're going to be fine with the 5 volts that you get
from the USB audio adapter however on the other hand if you have a really cheap USB audio adapter
like this guy and your audio sounds like crap adding this provides a significant improvement
over the audio but in all honesty I don't think that this is the best solution I think if you're
unhappy with your audio quality using a USB audio adapter like this your best solution and the best
long-term fix would be invest in an actual audio interface that's designed for this that way you're
going to get phantom power and you're also going to get decent preamps because whatever
is in this is not designed to be a good sounding preamp this is designed to just get you by but
if that is out of your price range I think this will work just fine for the time being alright
guys well I guess that will do it if you have any more questions go ahead and leave them in
the comments down below and I'll try to answer them as soon as possible but no questions about
the Hat this hat is a mystery and you don't get to know more about as per usual if you're
interested in these USB adapters this phantom power supply this microphone any of this stuff
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you know I'm gonna put this back on because I kind of like this hat I think I look
pretty cool in it I feel like I'm the guy from Fargo pancakes house pancakes house