 Hey guys, welcome back to my youtube channel. This is Daniel Rossell here. Today's video going to be a very quick and basic sound comparison between Two different microphones microphone one the one you're listening to is the Audio Technica AT 2020 this is the microphone I have been using for my various videos for about the past six months give or take And as microphones go this guy's kind of a classic Spinnin production for a very long time Audio Technica have done a couple of special editions of it even and it generally comes in at about 80 90 $100 that kind of a price point and it's a really really good microphone. I love it I think most people at least like it. It's decent It's one step up from the really really basic microphones if you're doing podcast or streaming And let's say it's a nice intermediate step between those really really really cheap microphones It tends to be pretty crappy and stuff like the shore SM7B etc some of the road microphones that are just going to be that little bit more Pricy and higher end again So if you're like me you're just kind of you know doing not super high quality Stuff yet or stuff that just needs to sound good not necessarily the most amazing studio broadcast quality audio Your ears have ever heard. I think it's pretty decent and what we're going to be comparing it to today Is the microphone that I just picked up it is the Samsung Q2 you This is a microphone that's actually got kind of rave reviews over on YouTube and it comes in a little bit cheaper It's $50. I bought the Samsung Q2 you because I got tired of Taking down my entire setup whenever I want to do some of these vlogs either while I'm traveling or on the road So the Samsung is going to be my travel microphone and this is going to stay Where I do these reviews here in my my home office here in Jerusalem. So when I do these sound comparisons I want to make something clear. I'm not a Sound or audio or a microphone expert if you want a microphone expert people like Curtis Judd are incredible What I'm doing this for is to just if you just want to listen to an audio sample with these two microphones This might be useful Now just a couple of words about the microphones and my setup before we get into the actual audio samples Well, you're listening to one audio sample and I'm going to be described my whole process here I am going to normalize audio to minus 23 LUFS but there's going to be no other post processing applied I am going to show you guys the gain settings. I'm using I'm recording this on a bunch of Linux into OBS studio and as you can see the gain here for my Behringer mixer and I'm going to be recording the I'm recording the 80 2020 through a Behringer euphoria UM 2 USB audio interface and as you can see I have the gain trim there set to Basically 100% 0dB gain and 0dB gain decrease the gain trim on the actual Interface itself is set to approximately 50% I'm just looking at the dial. Yeah, it's just about there at 50% I'm going to be connecting my Samsung Q2 you directly and I'm actually going to be using USB Connectivity for this because I'm lazy and I'm not going to change over the microphone on my audio interface But I think it actually sounds I've tried XLR versus USB. I think it sounds really really similar So audio 80 2020 microphone one in this test. It's an affordable microphone suitable for our podcasters And it is a side address microphone audio technique. I do say it is studio quality But I'm not sure there's any real, you know hard and fast definition as to what exactly is Studio quality microphone to as I mentioned the Samsung Q2 you I did watch some YouTube reviews before buying it I heard great things and I've been really happy with it so let us move ahead to the Test I'm going to as I've done many times now read the first paragraph of a tale of two cities by Charles Dickens Just so that you can listen to the exact same words from both microphones So V1 with the Audio Technica 80 2020 It was the best of times it was the worst of times it was the age of wisdom It was the age of foolishness It was the epoch of belief. It was the epoch of incredulity. It was the season of light It was the season of darkness. It was the spring of hope. It was the winter of despair We had everything before us. We had nothing before us. We were all going direct to heaven We were all going direct the other way in short The period was so far like the present period that some of its noisiest authorities Insisted on its being received for good or for evil in the superlative degree of comparison only Alrighty that was the 80 2020 I'm gonna swap over now connect up the Samsung microphone And let's have the same audio sample and you can be the judge of which microphone You think sounds better at least with my voice, okay? So as you can see I have swapped over to the Samsung Q to you I have this guy up on a tabletop stand from road and Judging by the levels on my screen this microphone came in a little bit hotter with the level So I've just applied a negative 5.3 DB gain adjustment in OBS to stop it clipping and peaking too high So but and I'm trying to address it roughly in the similar manner Top addressing this guy and we're gonna jump over now to our wonderful tale of two cities by Charles Dickens and You can let me know in the comments what you think was better. It was the best of times It was the worst of times. It was the age of wisdom It was the age of foolishness. It was the epoch of belief. It was the epoch of incredulity It was the season of light. It was a season of darkness. It was a spring of hope It was the winter of despair. We had everything before us. We had nothing before us We were all going direct to heaven. We were all going direct the other way in short The period was so far like the present period that some of its noisiest authorities Insisted on it's being received for good or for evil in the superlative degree of comparison only Alright folks that wraps up the test you now read a little bit of both microphones We're gonna wrap up that was me speaking into the Samsung mic Samsung not Samsung I don't know a ton about the company, but for that matter. I don't know a ton about audio technique either Thank you guys for watching if you're thinking about buying either microphone I hope the audio samples were of some assistance to you final note It's not in an audio or particularly acoustic treated room It's in a room I rent here with pretty bare concrete walls. So definitely not the most ideal acoustic conditions Thank you guys for watching again And if you do want to get more videos on this and other subjects do consider dropping a subscription and like in this video It all helps to get this YouTube channel around. Thanks for watching