greetings earthlings today I'm back with a review of a brand new microphone from rode
which is roughly translated to please stop harassing me now so today we are finally
reviewing the brand new rode pod mic if you do want to pick this microphone up it will set you
back around 100 dollars it is still on pre-order everywhere but I'll throw some links down below
and full disclosure for the sake of doing this review rode did provide me this microphone for
the majority of this review I have the microphone connected directly to the - I - second gen with
the input gain set at around 4 o'clock I will not do any post-processing but I may boost it in post
so check the dooblydoo down below and before you all leave a comment yes I will be testing it on
the road caster Pro a little bit later but in the meantime let's go ahead and talk about what
comes in the box almost made it into the hole of course you are going to get the microphone
which does have a mounting system attached and the mount has a 5/8 and three eighths
inch threading already built in and you'll get a very simple QuickStart guide then as far as
the build quality this thing feels absolutely amazing it has an all-metal body as well as a
metal grille that has zero give to it it has that built-in mounting system which does have
articulation and it is really really really heavy according to the documentation it's 937 grams aka
two pounds this is a beast of a microphone and it feels incredibly well put together then as
far as the specs this thing has a cardioid polar pattern a frequency response of 20 Hertz to 20
kilohertz a sensitivity of around negative 57 decibels and an impedance of 320 ohms now I'm
rotating around the road pod mic to show you what the off-axis rejection and coloration is
we will continue moving around the microphone to 180 degrees show you what the rear rejection and
rear coloration is continuing around to the second 90 degree angle and then we will rotate and end
at the front now let's go ahead do a really quick plosive test so please bring pizza and
pod mics pronto please bring pizza and pod mics pronto please bring pizza and pod mics pronto
now because this microphone does have a built-in mounting system I'm going to go ahead and bump my
desk to see how it does at rejecting that kind of noise and then I'll go ahead and tap the boom arm
to see how it rejects that now I'm right on top of the pod mic to show you the proximity effect
of this microphone about three inches away from the microphone with a mic pointed directly at the
corner of my mouth and this is how it sounds about 1 foot away from the microphone 2 feet away from
the microphone now I am typing on a keyboard with sherry MX blues to see how much of my voice versus
how much of the keyboard it picks up and now for all you leap gamers I am just typing on the waz
D keys is that what you call them now I want to do a very quick comparison to a couple of other
$100 dynamic microphones like the SE electronics v7 the sennheiser e8 35 and the shure sm58 but
right now I've been speaking into the pod mic and this is how it sounds now I'm speaking into
the shure sm58 at the same distance with the exact same settings on the interface and this is how it
compares same settings and same distance but now I am speaking into the SE electronics v7 dynamic
microphone and this is how it sounds and finally we have the same settings and same distance but
now I am speaking into the sennheiser e 835 and this is how it sounds in comparison to the
other three microphones now we're back on the road pod mic and we are still connected using
the 2 I to 2nd gen and this is how the audio is sounding but now I'm going to go ahead and hook
this up to the road caster Pro and see if it changes the tone of it at all now I have the
road Padma connected to the road caster Pro I am using the generic dynamic microphone setting
and all the processing is currently bypassed and this is how it's sounding now I've switched over
to the pod mic preset I still have the processing bypassed and this is how it sounds now we're back
on the generic dynamic setting but I have turned processing on with the compressor the high-pass
filter and the de-esser and this is how it sounds and finally we're back on the pod mic preset with
processing enabled with the compressor high pass filter and de-esser and this is how it sounds
Road here we go with another microphone is it good is it bad can you please tell me where I
can find my dad don't worry I know where he is I'm fine okay I think for $100 Road has made quite a
compelling entry level podcast Mike first up in terms of pros this microphone has a very clean and
clear tone to it making it very easy to understand what somebody is saying I also think the build
quality is outstanding I think they've really outdone themselves on this and I love the fact
that they've included the 5/8 and three eighths inch threading on the microphone mount and then in
terms of cons the microphone didn't do a great job at rejecting plosives it does decent but I think
it could have been a little bit better and also I found the microphone to be a little bit lacking in
the low end although I do think that was by design now as far as my overall thoughts on the electric
guitar I actually think that it's pretty usable it's not a guitar mic but if you're looking for
a somewhat scooped low mid sound kind of a metal sound I think this is passable if it's what you
got then on the acoustic guitar due to the boost around 150 Hertz as well as 10 kilohertz it has a
nice body as well as some nice articulation but it does seem to lack quite a bit of shimmer in
the air frequencies because it does roll off above around 12 K next up for singing I think it sounds
fine by itself but once you throw it in a mix due to the recession in the mid frequencies it kind of
gets lost among the other instruments so I don't think that it would work well for singing and any
kind of full mix and finally for spoken word which is what this is designed for I really liked how it
sounded the boost around 150 Hertz really add some nice body without muddying up the mix it
is still a little bit light in the low end though but that can actually be good for intelligibility
of speech in the mid section you will see some recession in the low mids which will clean up
some muddiness and it also has a couple of present speaks to bring the voice forward and a cut around
seven kilohertz I personally interpret this as a way to cut some sibilant frequencies and finally
you have a treble boost around nine kilohertz to add some really nice detail and clarity and lastly
would I recommend this microphone for spoken word absolutely especially at the $100 price
point I think they've made this a very appealing option it seems to me that they've tuned this
microphone specifically for spoken word and it does its job there really well one thing I would
say is if you are getting this for spoken word I 100% recommend that you get a pop filter with it
to avoid any kind of plosive issues but on the other hand if you're looking at this microphone
for music it simply wasn't designed for that and I don't think that it excels at anything in that
arena so if I were you and you were looking for a microphone for music recording I would look
somewhere else all right well that is going to wrap up for today so if you found this video
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