 Guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rossell here for this video today I'm going to be trying to assess and demonstrate for those interested how much difference using a difference a different audio Interface is going to make from the same quality. We're going to get from a microphone in The case today going to be using the Audio Technica AT2020 which is the microphone you can see here. It's the microphone I've been using for about the last two months on this YouTube channel I picked it up this summer and I've been really happy with it so far. I know it's considered a Quite old microphone. It's considered a workhorse microphone. It's considered a safe and steady choice for what it costs, which is roughly $100 now because this is going to be a technical sound comparison testing and it for explain pretty much everything I do regarding sound in this video. So firstly, that's the microphone AT2020 What you're listening to now the first the control if you will is the Beringer euphoria UM2 that's the audio interface. I am using to record this presently. I have the gain trim set to about 55% and that's going into my computer, which is running Ubuntu Linux and I'm recording this using OBS Studio now in terms of the levels two things firstly, I am going to Set the best level for the microphone or try to do that by doing some audio monitoring before I start with each video And by the way, we're comparing the Beringer with this which is a pile XLR to USB Adapter I bought this thing for when I'm traveling on the road and I don't want to pack a whole Bulkie audio interface in my luggage not that the Beringer is that big, but you know, it's just kind of a more trim solution for that and Finally, I'm going to be doing Normalization to minus 23 audio FS. So those things are going to be equal But if there are any major differences in tonality, etc. You should still be able to hear those even after the normalization so here's the Level I'm using for this microphone This is my audio interface here and I have it set to 100% in My pulse audio, which is my system audio input control here in Ubuntu and I'm going to be reading from Charles Dickens a tail of two cities, which is what I've been using for all my audio tests to date So side further ado, let's go and this is Audio Technica 2020 with the Beringer euphoria UM2 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 a 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 its being received for good and for evil in the superlative degree of comparison only All right, so that was our first audio sample I'm going to go ahead now and take this microphone off the Beringer put it on to the pile XLR to USB adapter and let's see if we get a noticeable change in the sound quality All right, then so I've just swapped over to my pile USB Sound card same microphone same room same distance. Hopefully from the microphone now one Very significant difference is that I did have to even adjusting the gain on that little gizmo I did have to apply a significantly lower gain at my system level I had to actually bring it all the way down to 29% in my system sound settings in order for it not to be going crazy high and Clipping whereas I was using the Beringer U4 UM2 at the 100% or 0 dB offset level so I've actually had to apply a minus 32.41 dB offset in order to get this kind of into Normalish territory here on Ubuntu But these the so these are the two settings as I said Normalize the output and let's have the same output with the different interface 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 it being received for good or for evil in the superlative degree of comparison only 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 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 it being received for good or for evil in the superlative degree of comparison only Okay guys, so there you have it I'm back now on the Beringer my day today audio interface be interested to hear your thoughts in the comments if you were able to perceive any Really significant change in quality tonality, etc Between those two audio interfaces if you thought that one was better than the other I'd also be very interested here And that's pretty much it for today until next time. Thank you guys for watching Do feel free to subscribe if you want to get more videos from me here on YouTube