 In this episode, we look at the road NTUSB mini as a high quality audio device in an office environment. Let's get started. This entire episode has been shot with the road NTUSB. If you work in an office, you might be issued headphone sets like this. This work great because the microphone is right next to your mouth. Your audio will come clear and crisp to your attendees in an online meeting. The only issue with this kind of devices is that you tend to look like a customer support agent and they can be uncomfortable after extended use. That brings me to a new set of devices that have become common specially after the covid pandemic when people had to work from home or from office and connect to others over online meetings. One such device is the road NTUSB. I've been using this device for more than a year. It connects to your laptop through a USB cable and that's it. One of the key features of this device is the way it picks up your audio. The microphone has a pickup pattern called a cardioid polar pattern. What does that mean? It means it is designed to pick up the sound in front of the microphone and reject most of the audio that is coming from the side or from behind the microphone. This is specially useful in an office environment where there is a lot of noise around the office. It also allows you to monitor the audio. Just plug in any headphones or earphones, switch on audio monitoring and now you'll be able to hear yourself as well as the online audience in your headset. Size wise it is very compact and can easily fit in your laptop bag. It's a great option even when you're traveling and you want to carry a high quality studio type microphone along with you to connect with your office, your colleagues, your family. If there is one disadvantage to this microphone is that at the end of the day it is still a condenser microphone. Condenser microphones are sensitive to noise which means they will pick up noise. Other than that it's a great option for high quality audio. So that was a quick look at the road NTUSB.