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hey welcome back to another video blog

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my name is Mikey and welcome to the

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obdam video channel do a lot of gaming

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content here but I'm also taking the

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time to do a few videos about audio in

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the previous vlog I did I talked about

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my gaming setup in my podcasting setup

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using the sm7b the behringer mixer and

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exciter compressor and some using adobe

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audition for a processing mp3s afterward

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afterwards I apologize I think my

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previous blog was a little long-winded

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but hey I'm a blowhard so in this video

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I will be comparing we make sure this is

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in frame here I want to make sure I'm

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showing you so I'll be comparing the

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sm7b this sure broadcast microphone here

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with be sure SM 78 and I'll also be

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comparing the

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electro-voice dynamic microphone anyways

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I'm comparing these two microphones here

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with this broadcast microphone here to

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see what kind of sound we can get out of

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all of them and is it worth spending 300

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bucks on the sm7b which is what this

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costs uh the SM 78 costs about 110 and

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the electro-voice costs about 110 so can

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you dial in the the the sound you need

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with with any one of these microphones

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so we're gonna try it so this is the

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setting right now for the sm7b this is

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the the sound that I'm comfortable with

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I have all my preamps to the compression

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and and all that it sounds pretty good

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to me

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so right now I'm going to plug in the

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all right this is the shure sm58 hey I

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can lean in a little bit Zi you don't so

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it doesn't sound too bad if you get me I

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guess we get up close and personal to it

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it starts to overdrive but by and large

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if you just keep it like a hand away

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fist away it sounds it sounds pretty

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good

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it sounds passable and but if you want

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to let's see if we can dial it in a

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little bit more by upping the the

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contour don't may be too low contour on

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the dvx preamp so here we go raising oh

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that's the high contour wrong button

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wrong knob so the high contour is up but

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it kind of makes it Sparkle a little bit

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so let's raise this low contour and it

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gives a it's a little more bassy is that

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the bottom end to it but I'm also I also

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have the bass roll-off so it's not

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giving as BC as it is a so let's

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see what happens when I remove the the

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bass roll-off

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it might get that it might sound with

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some pretty booming so let's give it a

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shot it turns out I didn't even have my

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bass roll-off on so this is with no bass

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roll-off it sounds pretty good and it's

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not bad it's a little buzzy if you

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notice it's a little buzzy but it's

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nothing that you can't really let's turn

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it down so it doesn't buzz as much these

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are the normal levels for the the sm7b

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and it it's pretty good it's not bad but

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you can tell it might be a little hollow

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but that might all change in by using

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Adobe Audition and adding the broadcast

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filter on it or the broadcast multiband

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compressor with the with a brick wall

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limiter so not bad sm7b so far it sounds

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this is the electro-voice dynamic

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microphone and it sounds sounds pretty

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good doesn't it I guess it is a little

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it is getting a little if you can hear

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it's a little it's a little buzzy this

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let's see if we can fix that by turning

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down the highs let's turn down the highs

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and turn up the the low-end contour

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let's do that here we go so the low-end

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contour is up and it is a little buzzy

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bees aren't I guess typically they're

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not close talking microphones this sm7b

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you can be a close talker and talk close

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and do it like that but this seems to be

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a little over driven and I need to let's

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see if I can turn down the overdrive

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turn it down no it's just kind of just

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kind of buzzing so maybe it's the input

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that I backed off the input I so I

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backed off the input and I wonder if

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that's doing anything just back off the

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input back off the low contour and put

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it back up so it you can you're gonna be

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able to tell the difference you're

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definitely gonna be able to tell the

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difference it's I think there's might be

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a little bit more natural gain to this

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microphone and pushing it through a

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preamp is only going to exacerbate that

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game it's not bad though having a Gainey

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on microphone and it's also going

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through a noise gate so it's it's really

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not that bad I actually you can kind of

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get up close and talkin do this let's

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try the sm7 or the sm58 again I lied I

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I'm back in the the sm7b I'm gonna go

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change my settings real fast back to

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back to the the way they work all right

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well that's back to the way they were

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and you can definitely hear a difference

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yeah you can hear a very noticeable

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difference so let's let's go back to the

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sm58 just one more time so back to the

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sm58 I don't mind it and it certainly is

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passable I mean if you put anything with

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a hundred dollar price range through a

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two hundred other compressor or preamp

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and then add some Adobe Audition on top

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of it you could make it sound good

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so can you justify spending $300 on a

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broadcast microphone when you're gonna

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spend 110 I don't know now if you're

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using like a if you just want to have a

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budget podcast and set up and then no

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but if you want to spend Luxor money and

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have all the extra features on the sm7b

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with the with the increased presence and

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the bass roll-off built into the

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microphone it might be worth it so let's

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let's go back to the sm7b and close this

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thing up so back to the sm7b I do like

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it it seems a little bit more tame it's

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not as gamy and it's it does seem a

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little bit more quiet I can I can just

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tell with my my monitors on that it does

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seem a little bit more quiet but my

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perspective might change in this in the

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post audio editing running it through

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the multi being compressors and the the

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leveler but I hopefully you learned

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something from this that you don't got

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to spend a lot of money on a good

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microphone a good preamp and some

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compression will do just fine or your

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podcast

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or your gaming setup so thanks for