hey everybody welcome back to podcast egde my name's bandar and I'm back with another
microphone test video for you guys today I'm testing out this guy this is the knee were NW
800 so this is another condenser microphone and I'm fairly certain that this is the exact same
as this guy this is the excel van BM 800 but we'll go ahead and compare them a little bit
later and as per usual if you are interested in this microphone it'll set you back about
24 bucks on Amazon and I'll throw a link in the video description down below and one more thing
disclaimer disclaimer disclaimer guess what this is a condenser microphone and therefore requires
voltage to function although it does not require a full 48 volts to function it can function on
as little as four and a half volts which is what it's doing right now it's plugged into this the
saber and USB audio adapter if you get a sound card that provides less than four and a half
volts your sound quality will be different so what you're going to get in the box is the microphone
this shock mount right here one of these five eighths to 3/8 inch microphone stand adapters
a pop filter which we'll put on right now then an XLR to 3.5 millimeter cable and then lastly
you got some documentation so the build quality on this thing is pretty nice it's a metal body
a metal grill and it feels kind of sturdy but it's going to be a delicate mic just like any condenser
microphone you get and there are a little bit of differences between the NW 800 and the BM
800 the first thing is the finish this is the NW 800 which has a matte finish so it's not shiny
this is the BM 800 and it is shiny then on the BM 800 it has a larger grate with larger holes in it
so more air can get through the NW 800 has a much finer grate on it so it'll hopefully keep out more
popping the shock mount seems to be built fairly well and it does its job to the pop filters just
your typical foam pop filter nothing special there it feels like cheap foam so I don't know how long
it'll last and lastly the cable seems nice enough if it's anything like the cables I've tested in
the past I haven't had any with these so you'll probably be good with this cable and here are
the specifications that I will leave up for just a second so the frequency response on this guy is 20
Hertz to 16 kilohertz which is a pretty nice range I mean that'll pick up most of the sound that you
want to pick up with a microphone let's zoom back out so the specification sheet says that this is
a cardioid pattern as well as an omnidirectional pattern so we'll go ahead and keep talking as we
move around the microphone to see how the polar pattern works and see where the dead spots are
and how the frequency response changes as we move around the microphone and as per usual I'm typing
on the keyboard as I talk into the microphone to see how much of my voice it picks up versus how
much of the keyboard that is directly behind it it picks up I'm one foot away from the microphone
I am two feet away from the microphone now I'm about four feet away from the microphone
Here I am singing a song on this microphone because you wanna know what it sounds like
you
now I am talking into the knee were NW 800 right now I am talking into the Excel van
BM 800 so just like all the other mass-produced microphones I've tested out this sounds pretty
good for twenty four dollars when I compared to the BM 800 it was pretty similar the NW 800 has
a slightly tighter low end and it's a little bit quieter of a microphone but all around it still
sounds pretty darn good so I would absolutely recommend this microphone to somebody who's
on a budget and looking for a cheap condenser microphone although I would say look at the NW
seven hundreds of BM 700 BM 800 s and get the one that's cheapest because the differences between
all of them are so minut that you're not going to notice a difference so if you're on a budget and
you're looking for one of these microphones just go for the cheapest one also please don't forget
this requires voltage to function most sound cars don't provide it but a USB sound card will provide
some it says three volts will make it sound decent but if you want really good sound go for at least
5 volts and it does say that you can use phantom power with it it will not damage the microphone
so if you want to get a USB sound card and a phantom power supply that'll work alright guys
I guess that will do it if you found the video fun interesting and/or helpful or you feel like
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in the video description down below and thank you guys for watching I'll see y'all later bye