hey everybody welcome back to podcast egde my name is Bandra and I'm back with another video
for you guys so today I am going to be testing out and showing you and walking you through the xenyx
302 USB so what I'm hoping to accomplish is just show you what all these functions do also show
you if it does actually improve the audio quality compared to the USB adapter that I'm using right
now and just basically show you what this thing does okay so first off right now I am using the
cameras audio because I want to show you how I'm hooking this up the really cool thing about this
or the reason that you would like this one is this has an actual XLR input right here so it'll allow
you to get a little bit better audio okay so now I am talking into the nywhere NW 702 while I'm
plugged into the xenix 302 USB now typically when I'm recording these I'm using QuickTime I don't
have live monitoring in my earphones I can't hear what I'm doing if I'm even wearing your phone so
this mixer actually provides live monitoring so I can listen to what I'm saying and adjust the
volume of the headphones using this knob right here and you can't tell any difference but in my
ears it's getting slightly louder okay so first let's go ahead and talk about the first channel
which the XLR is plugged into for the nywhere NW 700 so the first knob up here this is the game
knob this is the first way that we're going to be able to adjust the mics volume now right below
that we have the lows and the highs this is your a very simple EQ so as I as I keep talking and turn
this down you'll hear and notice all the low-end is being taken out now I'll turn it back up and
turn it all the way up and now it's just a lot of bass frequencies we'll take it back down to the
middle and the next the next fader is the exact same just for high so we can cut the highs like
that or we can boost to them like that now the last fader on here is the pan so this will pan
your audio left and right so as I do this you can hear it's all the way in the right speaker if I
fade it all the way up its in to the left speaker and now we're back to normal now lastly this is
the mics main channel volume it's that it's pretty much the same thing as the game but you want to
keep the gain as low as possible because that will give you more hiss so the difference between the
volume and the gain is the gain is going to boost your preamp and this is going to boost your output
I do want to know if you are going to be recording more than one microphones this is not going to be
the best mixer for you I think they have higher XLR input microphones but this one is very limited
in its options now let me go ahead and show you something pretty cool so over here where I'm
pointing on the camera you have a microphone and a headphone input so if you have a headset like
this that has two 3.5 millimeter jacks you can use this mixer for that which i think is pretty cool
so let's go ahead and try that out so the top one is going to be your microphone the bottom
one is going to be your headphones we should probably unplug the XLR because it's recording
both of them okay so now I am plugged in with my headphones it's not as good quality audio but it's
working and I should note that when you have the microphone plugged into the 3.5 millimeter jack
over here it is controlled by the by channel ones control so I can turn the bass all the way down
all the way up and so on and so forth now let's go ahead and switch back to the knee where NW 715 to
an RCA and we're going to go ahead and plug that into the line option right here and now if we hit
play now we have music coming out of this and we can adjust the volume right here work on the EQ
just like that same thing and alright so up here we have two buttons the first one when
it's not pressed down it is line in which is what we're using right now so right now
we have the audio coming out of the iphone and coming in through the line in if we have
our settings on our computer changed and have audio output coming through this mixer and we
push this first button down the audio from our computer will actually play through here and we
can record it like that what I'm going to do is I'm going to go ahead and show you how this works
so right now you can hear the music coming out of there that's coming right out of my my iTunes
the second button changes how the audio is being output it can be output to the main mix like it is
right now or we can just do it to the headphones and now I hear it in the headphones but you can't
hear it coming into the recording now if we were to be plugged into this channel which is called
two-track this button would do the same thing so leaving it up would send the audio to the output
mix to the main mix and pressing it down would just play it through the headphone so we could
just listen to it and we could sing we could cover we could do covers stuff like that this
last channel over here is just our main mix RCA output so if you have an amplifier or something
like that you can run this into it and you can get it mixed that way and lastly this knob right
here this is going to be your main mix volume so as I turn this down the recording volume is
going to get lower and it's going to get higher this doesn't affect the volume in my headphones
this is just what's being output through the USB port or if you were using this RCA main output it
would be affecting the volume there but in this case it's just affecting what I'm recording on
to the computer now let me go ahead and throw in a clip of what the knee were NW 703 the USB
audio adapter so you can tell if the phantom power that's provided by this mixer improves
the audio that much and then I'll also include a clip of what the the gaming headset sounds
like so you can compare once again this is what the nywhere NW 703 the xenyx 302 USB alright and
this is what the nywhere NW 703 USB audio adapter and this is what the game and headset sounds like
through this mixer okay this is what the gaming headset sounds like running through my USB audio
adapter alright guys well I guess that will do it I think that really gives you an idea of what
this mixer is capable of doing how you can use it I think the most beneficial use would be if
you're doing like a a single person live stream where you need to be able to mix an iPhone and
your iTunes or if your gaming and you want to be able to hear what's coming out of your computer
and they're talking to you I think that's where you get the most use out of it if you're just
doing game over commentaries I don't think the 50 bucks is worth it but if you are interested
in this mixer it about 50 bucks on Amazon I'll throw a link in the video description and that
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