 Hey, it's Anfa and today is rusty knife time because another package has just arrived It is a new microphone So I haven't been making videos for quite a few weeks now. The last one was UV-12 a Helm Overview and tutorial or Making music with Helm video. It was quite long and it had quite a lot of buzz around it like people liked it I I was a bit surprised that it was so nicely received and I actually wanted to make a follow-up. I Tried it and I failed miserably because Halfway through editing not recording but editing I realized that my audio is Badly distorted and it's just unbearable So I just binned that and I said, okay, I need to solve my audio troubles Some people started pointing out that this little buddy This little no-name microphone doesn't sound particularly good and as I'm trying to Bring the whole Technical and marital level of these productions up all the time. I said Time to do something about it So I I did the thing that I was considering for Many years and I finally made the decision to do it and I ordered a sure SM 57 Why some 57 not SM 58 if you don't know SM 58 is the vocal microphone. It's the one with the bulky Pop filter on top and you know the That thing But the SM 57 is more of an instrumental microphone However, some people also use it a lot for vocals and it's even used as a standard microphone for USA presidential speeches Okay, never mind. I ordered that thing And it's here. We're gonna unbox it. See how it goes There's also something else in that box But I'm gonna talk about when we open it and what I want to talk about before that is While I was away not making videos I've had a lot of things to do and one thing was to put together a new pc I was hyped to see the AMD Ryzen processors emerge and that they are very reasonably priced And I've also seen some Linux benchmarks and I said it works Let's get one and build a pc. I was Why did I want to build a pc because For the past, I don't know five six maybe 70 years. I was doing all my work Maybe I'm exaggerating maybe just five years I was doing all my work all my productive creative all stuff for the clients the freelance and Sometimes even my daily job when I didn't have the tools at the at the place I was working On the laptop It was two laptops one was the aces and another one was a Dell and I still got the Dell because it's in a good shape It's working, but it just doesn't have the juice to you know Making big audio projects with tens of tracks In arder because LMS can handle tens of tracks even on the laptop pretty well, but you know, it thinks gets stuttery Yeah, it's not helping to get creative. So I said it's time to scratch that itch I've saved some money. So I said to myself. It's time to build a new pc and let's build it with this guy So it's finally working. I have I've had some quirks to work out. I didn't have ethernet Ethernet ethernet. I didn't have ethernet support at first I had to install some driver and that But the most important thing was the anti feature called secure boot And it was enabled by default on the aces prime b350 m Dash a motherboard that I'm using then there is no easy Disable switch. So you have to do something that feels like a cheat code in a game And that really gave me a headache. I was 95 sure that this motherboard is simply broken that it can't run a system because Things start to boot and then they go Something's wrong. We can't read the data. Something's messed up Like it looked weird really weird. It looked to me like a hardware failure. No, it was a feature secure boot So secure you can't fucking do anything with it Right. So may I ask you as is please give an easy disable switch So the pc is running after solving the secure boot problem and installing the the network driver Everything went smooth. I installed the default nvidia drivers because I have a I kept Ryzen 7 1700 in this machine 16 gigs of ram And an nvidia gtx 1060 with six gigs of ram. I have two 1080 monitors right now Finally, I have a lot of space to view and edit content and I did that I did some tests I can record gameplay video with 2.5k resolution capturing 60 frames per second. So I should be able to capture some nice footage for you I think the the the upcoming videos on anfavlog Are gonna Be fun Also much more fun to make with the new hardware. So Let's get cracking So I ordered this from a lesser known store in poland That I already bought something from so I know that they exist and that they they deliver But they didn't reply to me for like Two days with anything. I just got the email. Oh, yeah, we got your query We're processing it and I send the money and I didn't get any reply. Did you get my money? Didn't you get it? I checked on their web page and they said, uh, it's not paid. So I wrote to them like two emails and then finally they They woke up and Wrote to me that. Oh, yeah. Yeah, we're processing. It's paid. Okay. We're sending it out It's a bunch of foam here I I don't know why this box is so big Alrighty, so this is the sm57 We're gonna unbox this soon And there's another box I was wondering why is that box so big? I just ordered two tiny little things Why such a big box? The more, you know So this is a to ws, um windscreen for sm57 And apparently it has a screw So it looks like it's Hard mountable. Well interesting We're gonna get to that soon Let's first First let's open up this Okay, that was a little desk lamp falling, but it didn't break All right Since we have that in place, let's see what's in the inside this box. Dear. Wow. I have a huge Sure sticker. I guess I can stick it on my eyes and mouth Ton of paper. Oh some Cable velcro tie and this legendary sweet little leather sleeve and some papers And on to the main dish. This is the Wonderful Legend wait for it Dairy microphone. Well, it's funny that they put it right into the Mic grip Yep, that's it. That's my first sure microphone. I never owned one Sweet. Let's put it on and listen how it sounds And uh, I'm putting the sound through a lot of processing to make it a little bit better I'm compressing ds-ing equalizing I was gating a lot Too much apparently I disabled the other gate entirely for this video And I'll probably try to disable it for good because it sounds bad Why did I order an sm 57? and why don't Why don't I use a Some big car doid mic like this Sorry a big condenser mic like this because condensers are very very sensitive And they are very sensitive from up close but very sensitive from the distance also and What I partly do is play sound from my monitors And listen to that and talk at the same time and I need to capture that because sitting in the headphones I'm already sitting in headphones all day at work. So I don't want to sit in the headphones when I keep coming back That's why I need a dynamic. Let's see. I'm gonna plug this one one two so that is That is sure sm 57 Directly replacing this This first austria no-name mic I was serving me for so long And no more And this is the windscreen we're gonna need it because this mic doesn't particularly have windscreen on its own Oh, dear that is really thick cardboard It's not giving up. Alrighty Man This is packed like a tank. Maybe they pack it this like this so you you can't return it when you when you open it up because Wow, this is funky Okay, so this is the little tiny screw So whoa things are falling So that's the a to Ws there's some loose part here And and a little screw So I guess this will Mount on to I see You can you can actually With that screw you can Put it and secure it at any particular place you want So there is actually empty space between the the the the end of the foam And the start of the microphone probably should get a screwdriver I'm just gonna try use my fingernails righty. Um, will this come in? All right That's gonna sound terrible to you I'm sure I don't even have to guess I can hear it Because I have monitoring on I think it might be a little too loud even because I can I think that there's a little bit of reverberation Well If I let it go it just falls down I have a little bit screwdriver This is a bike kit It's not meant for something that's so tiny. Maybe it's gonna help me out. I wonder where this actually is Wow, I had no idea this is So Complicated now, let's just screw this in. I think it's starting to lock down. Yep kind of stabilizing It's not completely secured yet, but it is more or less And uh, uh, am I distorting? Nope The smell of a fresh foam pop filter Okay, so now I know why this is a dedicated windscreen Because it is designed To perfectly lock on the disc this thing I have no idea how that sounds I'm gonna hear it when I play this back So you probably enjoy this microphone already I I'm not enjoying it yet because I can't hear how it sounds and also I have this whole bunch of processing the eq Compression and stuff applied. That's probably really badly messing with the sound So it it's pretty gonna sound much better when I just set it up properly and get this configuration on All right, I think that's that's all for this video See you again in Next videos Thanks for watching if you have any questions about this microphone or Ryzen 7 and Linux Or have any suggestions for what I should talk about in the next videos Leave them in the comments and I will see you in the next video Bye Now I think I'm gonna capture some b-roll to fill in the spaces of this whole mess on my desk and Maybe the pc also hold on. I need to pick up the camera