 Guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosa here. I'm going to be doing some fun microphone testing today using my Audio Technica AT2020 microphone. Now, what I'm doing here is I'm going to be testing out the microphone in a few different configurations, starting with the microphone with no foamy and no pop filter raw. And then I'm going to be adding in the foamy, the pop filter. The purpose of this, it's really for my own reference. I've done this kind of testing before. But I wanted to do one video where I put all the different things I have in, including the, I'm struggling to pronounce this name, AccuExtro Desktop Isolation Shield, which is this big thing. So I got that in the post a couple of weeks ago, set it up. And it's a little tabletop isolation shield for those of us like me who work, do video stuff from rental apartments so we can't really do proper sound treating on a rented space. So that is a solution for that. So I'm going to firstly jump over to my screen and show you guys what's in store. I'm going to be adding timestamps to this video. So if anyone stumbles upon it on YouTube and just wants to jump to the actual, you know, the tests themselves by all means do so. So I'm going to repeat four tests two times, starting off with the acoustically untreated room, which is what I'm currently speaking in. Microphone raw, no foamy, no pop filter. We're going to call the sample one. Then I'm going to microphone with foamy, which is actually what I'm currently using and what I do for the majority of my YouTube videos. Then I'm going to stick on a friendly pop filter and take off the foamy. So that's going to be microphone with pop filter. I'm going through all the permutations here. I should just change that too, but no foamy. Finally, for sample four, we're going to be doing the microphone with the foamy and the pop filter. I'm going to do a little bit of a talyx here so it's clear the emphasis. Then I'm going to be using, I'll just hold it up again. This yoke, the AccuExtro Desktop Isolation Shield. And I'm going to be repeating the same four samples. And the idea is hopefully that we're going to be getting less reverb. Firstly, starting off as microphone raw, no foamy, microphone with foamy only. This is going to be sample five, sample six. And again, we're going to put these all as timestamps in the video, microphone with pop filter only. That's going to be sample seven. And finally, we're going to do the microphone with the foamy and the pop filter, which is going to be our sample number eight. Just finally to say regarding the post processing, I am going to be normalizing this audio down to minus 23 LUFS in post. But other than that, I'm not going to be doing any post processing in terms of compressors, expanders, limiters. The whole shebang, it's going to be coming out of just as it is. Now I'm going to be reading from a tale of two cities. I just grabbed a random open source book. This is kind of my go-to text for sound testing. So let's get started. And firstly, I am thankfully speaking into the right part of the microphone. As I posted recently, there is a front and a back to the AT2020 in its side address. So I'm just verifying that I'm speaking into the front. And I'm speaking for, I'm going to keep about four finger widths out of the microphone for all of these samples. So this is going to be sample one microphone. Sorry, microphone raw, no foamy, no pop filter. So I'm going to go ahead now and take off. Take off the foamy. Foamy has been removed. This foamy came from Amazon along with the shock mount. So it's supposed to be, you know, the right one for this microphone. So let's go ahead. And I guess I'm just going to do the first paragraph for all of these tests. I'm not going to do the second one. It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. It was the age of inclusion. It was the epoch of belief. It was the epoch of incredulity. It was a season of light. It was the season of darkness. It was a spring of hope. It was a winter of despair. And 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. So I can even see as I'm recording this, it's actually quite interesting how much higher the levels are peaking just by taking off the foamy. So now we're going to go for sample two, which is going to be the microphone with the foamy only and no pop filter. So foamy coming back on and I can see those levels looking healthier. 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 and 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. Okay, that was our number two sample. So now we're going to do the microphone with the pop filter, but no foamy. Now we're going to be kind of lazy about this. What I'm going to do is instead of properly mounting the pop filter, because I'm going to try and make this video on two takes, I'm literally just going to hold it like with my hand, freestyle in front of the microphone. So microphone with pop filter, but no foamy, interesting. So let's go and try this. Jumping over to my text, taking off my foamy. Foamy is gone. And now holding up my pop filter with my right hand. Here we go. 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. Okay, I'm already getting tired of reading this. Now just, I think I'm pronouncing, I'm not sure how to pronounce that word, incredulity? Incredulity? I'm saying incredulity. So I'm gonna at least have the same mispronouncing in all the samples. Now we're gonna move on to sample four, which is going to be the microphone with the foamy and the pop filter. In other words, all the common plosive protection measures that we throw at this. So foamy's going on. And I'm gonna be freestyling out with the pop filter again. Okay, here we go. 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. So it's gonna be interesting. We have obviously in superlative a strong plosive P sound because superlative, the emphasis comes in there on the P. I'm just looking at this text. We have a few more plosives and sibilants. And I think they should provide a pretty good test. So this wraps up the open room test. And now I'm going to repeat the same four tests using the desktop isolation field from AccuExtro. So let us jump over to that. Okay, so I've now put my desktop isolation shield assembled. I'm gonna actually put my chair down so I'm just kind of still remaining in side address mode here, I'm a little bit hunched over, but it's all good. So this does come with a pop filter of its own. So I've actually put that down for the first test, which of course, and I'm just making sure again that I have the microphone speaking into the front of the microphone and not the back because I was making that mistake for a while in some videos. So this is our second group of tests here. We're gonna be doing using the AccuExtro desktop isolation shield. It should be about as good or bad as any other isolation shield. In other words, if they do really make a difference, it should come through here. Number one, microphone raw, no foamy, no pop filter. This is gonna be sample number five and then we're gonna do the next three tests. Let's go taking off the foamy firstly. Foamy has been removed. 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. Okay. And now we are microphone with foamy only in the desktop isolation shield. So Mr. Foamy is back on. And let's go through this again. 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. Okay. Just checking my recording's still running so I really don't wanna read this another four times. We are still recording, which is great. I'm gonna put that over on this screen. Okay, finally, sample number seven is gonna be the pop filter only. So I'm taking off the foamy again and I am putting up the pop filter on my isolation booth. 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. All right, now we're onto our final sample, which is gonna be the microphone with the foamy and the pop filter. You know what? I might do one with two pop filters. Let's be a little bit wild today. We'll call that random sample number five here. It's gonna be microphone, microphone, microphone plus foamy plus two pop filters. I've never heard of anyone using two pop filters. I'm not sure it's a thing, but while we're having so much fun, let's try that anyway. Okay, let's go. Microphone with foamy and pop filter. This is gonna be sample number eight. 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. All right, and I'm just gonna quickly now hold up my second pop filter in front of my first pop filter. And we're gonna just test foamy, two pop filters and the isolation booth. Let's go. 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. So that was our testing there and hope that if you're thinking about using a pop filter or buying an isolation booth, that was potentially useful just so you can hear the differences in sound. If you do wanna get more videos from me, do feel free to of course subscribe to this YouTube channel and thank you for watching.