 Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosal here. Today's video is going to be a pretty quick sound comparison test between two different variants of Microphone that you might be using for something like this kind of a video whether it you know It's a video blog or you're recording voiceovers or you're recording a podcast Some microphones in the general category of podcasting microphones studio microphone without going too much into the polar patterns and all the other details so I happen to have one of each kind of microphone each being one USB microphone and One XLR microphone, which I recently upgraded to so this was the first Podcasting microphone. I used with my YouTube channel what you're listening to here is the Maono AU 902 this is a pretty popular microphone for those looking for a sort of budget friendly Studio mic suitable for this kind of work now It is a little bit does end up gaining a little bit too high when I record into my computer And I'm just going to give all the details. So everything I'm doing in this comparison is clear There is going to be post-processing. I always normalize my videos in post-production to minus 23 LUFS in Caden live, which is a video editor on Ubuntu at a three second sampling interval So that's just the little detail that both of these tests are going to be going through that level Level normalization. Now, this is I'm recording this into a computer running Ubuntu Linux 2204 The gain is set to in my PABU control. I have it up at 100% which is 0dB but I have had to apply a minus 15.6dB gain offset in OBS studio in order to stop myself peaking into the red zone So I had to play a little bit of negative gain and there is this is I think a fairly decent microphone. It does have On-board audio monitoring via a 3.5 mil jack, which is nice and I have it's got its own Gain wheel on the microphone body itself, which is the second one up here So let's just do a couple of tests and speaking into the microphone speaking a bit off-axis to the right off Off-axis to the left off-axis up off-axis down Speaking right up close here coming right up to my lips now touching the microphone form and coming to a slightly more comfortable And visually better speaking position of about probably seven or eight centimeters above the microphone I'm using a 60 60 millisecond Latency offset to try get the sync just right. I may not be required for this particular microphone And this microphone costs about 60 dollars, which means it's cheaper than a blue yeti Although the reason I picked this particular microphone was that it was included in the shipping to Israel deal So if stuff is a little bit over 75 bucks, we have to pay that and sometimes customs on it So I got this microphone because I knew it would be easy to pick up and it would ship straight to my door in Less than two weeks, which it did. So this is a Moono AU902 I watched a couple of YouTube videos this morning seems to be a microphone people are pretty happy with I certainly the videos I did earlier sounded okay on it and with that out of the way I'm going to go ahead now and put the audio technica 80-20-20 which is an XLR microphone and going to pop that now into the shock around here And we're gonna swap over and change microphone Okay, so I've gone and swapped over to the audio technica 80-20-20 now comparing it to the Moono USB microphone I was just recording with this is a little bit more expensive. This is a $100 ish RRP microphone versus the Moono USB microphone that came in at about 60 Dollars so this is not quite double the price but in that territory. So it's a little bit Of a step up in terms of price now obviously because this is an XLR microphone I have to use an audio interface to get it into my computer So I'm using the Beringer Euphoria UM2, which is a really popular audio interface interface Other than that, it's the same setup I'm recording into OBS studio Audubon to 2204 and I have it on even in the same microphone mount and shock mount So this is the same quality from the second microphone just to repeat a little bit of testing here I'm not obviously using a pop filter and I have noticed that at the plosives and plosives and plosives like a bun eating breakfast With a pig bunny eating breakfast with the pig. I'm trying to find some combinations of peas and bees There is a little bit of that kind of crunching noise in terms of the microphone setting So this one does not have any gain trims on the microphone body But the Beringer Euphoria UM2 does so I have the gain level. I'm looking now up to probably about 60 to 70 percent There's actually three gains three gain settings here, which makes life a little bit confusing 60 percent on the hardware on the On the software level on the Pavi you control I have it up to 100 But on the software level, I guess so that's the OS gain and on the application gain Which is OBS studio. I've applied a negative gain offset of minus 4.3 dB Just do again keep the peak levels Somewhere in the yellow zone on the level meter and trying to avoid clipping So that's it comparison audio comparison head-to-head of these two Microphones, I know probably not the most scientific method But I'll be interested to listen to the difference between these two mics And if you have your own thoughts You can also check out my video yesterday in which I try to use an isolation shield with this audio Technica microphone to see if that would take away some of the plosives and the Reverberation from doing these videos in a non-sound proof room non-sound treated room I should say thank you guys for watching this microphone comparison sound test if you are looking at These two microphones specifically the audio Technica and Moono I hope it was useful or if you're just trying to think about the differences between a XLR microphone and a USB microphone to state the obvious and a USB microphone is going to be more a little bit more transportable because you don't have to use a Audio interface however, I did pick up a really nice product from pile in the summer and it's a little it's a XLR to USB Adapter that's only about this big so that is that to me would be the and it also offers phantom power Injection so that does kind of everything an interface Well almost everything a full-fledged audio interface does And that can be a good solution for those looking to travel with their microphone But obviously with a USB mic you don't have that worry You just need USB port on whatever you're recording into I hope this video was useful if you want to get more videos from me about video audio tech and other subjects Please feel free to subscribe to this YouTube channel. 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