I don't have a script for this video, but I do have
a new microphone, and I'm gonna stick right
beside my old microphone just out of the shot,
and I want you to tell me which one you think sounds better.
Let's get Undone. [offbeat music]
♪ Gerald Undone ♪
♪ He's crazy ♪
What's happening everybody, I'm Gerald Undone,
and this isn't even my final form.
So Deity sent me the new mic, the S-Mic 2S, because they know
I've been looking for a replacement from my current mic,
the Samson C02 and here is the deal, I'm gonna rig this mic
up right beside my current mic and then switch back and forth
as I'm talk at your face and you gonna let me know
in the comments which mic you think sounds better.
But first, I need to figure it out a way
to attach this thing to my RØDE arm.
[electronic music]
♪
OK, so here we go, this is the Samson,
and this is the Deity, and I'll put something on the
screen, so you'll know which is which as we switch between them.
The microphones are side by side, and both are pointed
about my chin area, and they have XLR cables
connecting them to my audio interface by Steinberg,
and I haven't done anything to the sound.
All you are hearing it coming out straight into my
computer via the interface, but the only thing that I did
is try to balance the input gain on the two mics since the
Samson is less sensitive seemingly than the Deity
because on the Samson, I have my input turned almost
all the way up where on the Deity I was able
to turn it down about two or three notches
on the gain nob in order to achieve the same volume.
So while you are listening to the microphones, allow me
to tell you a little bit of my room and why choosing
a mic from here is a bit tricky, and if you have a similar
situation to me, then hopefully this'll be helpful.
So this room is a tough one for the sound.
It has eight-foot ceilings
and based on my voice and a little bit
of the reverberance that comes out of that.
I have some bad standing waves that come in here,
and they're bounced around a lot because of the
eight-foot ceilings, and often you can't really hear with
my Samson mic, but I do have quite a deep, boomy voice,
and so all the things combined make for a rather
echoey mess of audio
which you could hear in some my older videos
when I was just using a classic,
large diaphragm condenser cardioid microphone.
So, related Reddit threads, even my own comments are one,
which camera is the best camera to get
when you're just starting out.
Now since then, I have treated the room with DIY acoustic
panels as well as some foam, and it has helped to remove
a lot of the echo, but the longer,
traditional shotgun microphones
still do catch a bit of that bad, phased
garbling sound and aren't ideal in this space,
which is why I've been using this Samson C02
it's wide enough with its small cardioid pattern
to not hone in on any of those bad waves I was just
talking about, but it's also small enough to not pick up
as much of the echo, however, it does take some finessing,
it's a great mic for the money it's only $100, and you get two,
but it does have a self-noise problem,
and as you might have noticed, on my voice
it does tend to sound a little bit brittle and nasally.
Now the self-noise isn't a huge problem
because I tend to apply noise reduction anyway because as
I'm sure you've heard with the Deity, I do have a bit
of noise thing going on here because there's a lot of
electronics and my computer and everything, and I can't turn
all that stuff off and still be able to make my videos.
So I do apply for some noise reduction in post generally,
and I will apply that now to both microphones
so that you can hear the difference.
But first, I'll give you a little bit of
just silence without any noise reduction now!
[ambient sound]
and now I will apply the noise reduction,
and you should hear it go mostly silent...
[silence]
And this shouldn't really affect the original audio samples
too much because I train it with a specific noise sample
using Audition, and I find that it's pretty good and doesn't
really change the way that my voice sounds too much.
And then in order to make the Samson sound more full
and I need to get ride of the nasality and brittleness
that I was talking about I tend to put an EQ on it,
and then an interesting that I noticed about that is
that I was listening to the two mics side by side
and when I applied the EQ to the Samson it sounded quite
a bit more like the Deity does right out of the box.
And not that I spoil the test because I do want you guys
to listen to these two mics and then let me know in
the comments which one you think sounds better.
But I do find that I tend to make the Samson sound
like the Deity using an EQ, so I guess to me,
I must like the sound of the Deity better, and it does
have a lower self-noise, so that's good as well.
So how about just read a sentence with the Samson,
and then we apply an EQ and then we'll compare it to the Deity.
So this is the Samson with no EQ, just the noise reduction.
Bruce Banner is a renowned scientist with seven PhDs
and expertise in the field of gamma radiation.
And now is apply the EQ to the Samson,
Bruce Banner is a renowned scientist with seven PhDs
and expertise in the field of gamma radiation.
And now compared to the Deity.
Bruce Banner is a renowned scientist with seven PhDs
and expertise in the field of gamma radiation.
To me is seems like the Deity S-Mic 2S does have
a better lower end and just sort of an overall fuller sound
and I haven't notice it pick up
any of that bad stuff in this room
that I was talking about that I experience
with the longer shotgun mics
and I think that has to do to with the fact
that this one's shorter and so it doesn't
reject as much or isolate as much on
that funky stuff that I don't wanna hear in this room.
So it seems like it might be a good option for this space.
Now there are some other mics than can accomplish this
as well, like the Schoeps, but that's $1500 and is a bit
hard to recommend for a good value microphone,
which is what I do a lot on this channel is try to
recommend good value products, so I'm hoping that the Deity
is that sweet spot between budget and achieving
what you know a small room YouTuber might need
because I told this is gonna come in around $300.
Which I think sounds about right.
It also comes with a nice mini pelican style case,
a foam windscreen and a simple 5/8-inch mic stand clip.
I don’t have all the specs yet, but I'm told they will be
similar to the S-Mic 2, but for specifics like that,
I general to point people toward Curtis Judd who
has already uploaded his video on the 2S.
But when the specs are published, I will put a link
in the description for them, I'm told that they're aiming
for an October release. Alright, so I think that's enough talking
to giving you a decent enough sample for you to decide which
mic you think sounds better on my voice in this space.
Please let me know in the comments below
which one you prefer. But for fun, here is a
little bit of guitar sample as well so we can see
how the mics hold up for that purpose.
[strumming guitar]
♪
With microphones it's hard to give an overall recommendation
because everybody's voice and space are different
but if you are anything like me or shooting in similar
environments then I hope that this video is useful.
I'm quite satisfied with the Deity S-Mic 2S,
and I think I'm going to continue to using primarily
because of the requires less fussing about than the Samson C02,
I think if you are on an extremely tight budget then
the Samson C02 still a good buy but if you have a little
bit more of money to spend than the Deity S-Mic 2S
which it's still a good value will give you a fuller
or polished sound quicker and what's more valuable than time.
But that's gonna be it for me. I hope you found this video
entertaining, or at least helpful. And if you did,
make sure you leave it the old thumbs-up,
and consider subscribing if you haven't already.
But if you did not find this video helpful or entertaining,
well, I don't know what to tell you. The video was free,
stop crying, the dislike button is for babies.
Alright... I'm done.