Road I love you but you're kind of like the Harbor Freight of audio equipment
you go to Harbor Freight you buy a crappy one for like $20 you break it and
then you buy something new to me that's always been Road you do it really well
if any kind of entry level stuff you kind of you're buying Road saying that
road has some new stuff for you yeah we got this xtm50 and then we've got the
big boy how much money and this is going to
be more like a tradition condenser microphone I don't know if these are new
or not but we have the nth1 100s they've released a a full compliment we've got
some headphones um we have their own
brand of USB a Toc
cable my car neat I don't know I don't
really want to talk about a small condenser I think the the fun stuff is
going to be in this uh 100 I think they're trying to go for like your re20
or smb7 type thing where this is like your bigger Dynamic micro phone instead
of buying one of those you can just get
this and have the same experience but you know I'd like to see so we got our
XDM 100 here packaging's kind of nice kind of a sucker for the spot gloss it's
kind of fun same on the inner box too
subboxes that is a weird USB cable uh
that's all we got in our a buck that's actually really quite nice it's like
siliconized uh okay I take it back it's like the memory in it is insane but it's
siliconized and it's super long which is awesome uh we got a shock
mount uh it seems to handle shock yep uh
your standard over under style rubber Bandy think uh and then what else we got
oh yeah we got a pop filter we have a
audio extension cable not too bad that's nice that's
quite nice and the piester resistance
our microphone
whoa look at
that I've upset Bell again I wonder how that keeps happening I'm trying to see
if I can see a capsule like am I supposed to talk into the end of it I
guess so if this is kind of modeling itself over an re20 got some snacks you
want to use a dynamic microphone for loud things and a condenser for soft
things or detailed things comes with a pop filter as well it's like a
siliconized sock thing this one doesn't come with a stand but it's so heavy that
I don't think think you would want it to you could generally hang these from
overheads or you know get the new road standy thing that they
sell let's get this ARM attached to the desk this is the problem I have with
road is their stuff is great but it's also not great like the construction of
this is absolutely beautiful we got all sorts of brushed metal and that sort of
thing caution spring-loaded oh I'm going to hurt myself with this aren't I taking
all bets is it going to hit me in the face
I survived it also seems dual articulated this thing is $100 which is
actually pretty impressive for a stand that is all this metal this is why
everybody buys Road stuff first because it's cheap and it's also not crap I mean
it's padded so I can like not hurt myself with it it's for my safety and
let's stop talking about this stand and let's actually talk about the
interesting thing which is the microphone look David Road made a mic
ARM that doesn't suck come here go down and this one can come up what yeah I
wasn't expecting what's the adjustment like I have no idea we'll see if it
fails when I've actually put weight on it sub ShortCircuit yeah you better
subscribe to short yeah I guess uh the next thing to do is uh plug it in see
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is like a multi-split thing and if you
have one of these Road X microphones like the 50 or the 100 then the software
is free otherwise I think it's like $100 a year there's lots of free Solutions
out there you don't need that I immediately see the air horn button and
um wish to go home let's see if we can
get this thing
working so I guess now we have to just try it in OBS um this is frustrating I
mean it hooks into OBS fine the microphone itself works it's just the
software doesn't so we don't get any of their nice like simple features and
multi mixing now you have to learn how to do all that in OBS or get a different
program that are available for free voice meters I think it's banana or
something like that like our LTT Store.com banana that you can buy at the
link over there or there let's just get the test out of the way and see if it
actually sounds any good yeah the the software works for controlling the
microphone like it has a it has a button on top here and if I push the button on
top here you see that mute button comes on okay we've got the headphones on it's
very very boomy very Bassy yeah okay
noise floor is High um I now have no gain control because I guess the
software won't let me do that uh adjusting the headphone level here does
not adjust just any of the output anyway so this is my voice this is uh this is
nearfield um welcome to Daniel bread
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okay if I move it more farther away I have to speak louder it just sounds
really Woofy like this too much base too much mid not enough High I mean I know
it's a dynamic microphone and you're not going to quite get those Highs but uh
this is quite unpleasant to listen to at least in my own head it could be the headphones as well this isn't exactly a
a proper test because I've never heard these headphones either H it's it's got
a lot of gain in it it's nice and loud yeah so that's your kind of ASMR close
thing and if I kind of get back here what am I I'm playing a game I don't
know how's that look uh the gain output in in OBS looks quite consistent like
I'm I'm honestly interested to know if there's like a buil-in volume adjustment
almost cuz if I start getting loud like so I'm going to play some games it's
like hey welcome back to our let's play of I don't know plup or what other games
people play these days let's do some classic Wow Let's go on some raids you
know woo I'm not really seeing it dump
above 15 DB I wonder if it's just not
displaying through here because it's trying to feed back into OBS and now I
can't hear it I think it is like working if I
oh my God it is so it's feeding itself back into OBS but we can't see any of
the V display in their software so we
have gain control in the software that
is separate from the headphone control which is separate from the input control
confused yet I hope so you can actually hear the pattern uh cuz I was turned
away so I kind of lose all of the the uh the highs and then if we come back in
here so you really have to make sure that this is direct pointed at your
mouth and you are talking into it uh that's one of the problems with these
kind of dynamic and condensers is you
you need it where you're looking right so if I'm on camera and you know I'm I'm
over there really if you got to place
your camera there and be working this
way so that you're always facing into the microphone shotguns or condensers or
something wider something more over here but now I have to talk louder and it
changes the the character of the sound right um depending on where you are in
the pattern you're going to you're going to get things changed uh and of course I
can't control any of these or see any
display over where I'm hitting the
compressor and when the gain reduction is enabling because we don't have
anything in their software I'm just playing back what I just recorded and I
don't know it sounds exactly the same there's a lot of Base you got to get rid
of that and you got to make it sound nice and I was excited for the software
to like have that built in I mean there's a lot of the controls for
Distributing sounds various places like a mixer you have music and chat and your
browser and all different things and you can send them all places but it's not
functional it's not it's not working at least it's not working in the way that I
would expect it to if I have to do that now in OBS then why am I buying into
your ecosystem why am I paying you $100 a year to use your special software if
it it can't even function I don't know this is once again a a reasonably nice
product ruined bying awful software and
frankly I'm getting really sick of this you can put lipstick on a pig but just
because something looks nice doesn't mean it's it's functional for for
$250 like yeah the microphone is it's fine it's Spacey you can fix that but
it's not it's not worth it with the software it's it's difficult to recommend like a first timer getting
into this hobby or even professionally a
piece of audio equipment a lot of them cost a lot of money and a lot of them
are difficult to use the the thing that I like about Road and the thing that I
like about other brands at this kind of 250 $150 price range is that it's not
going to be with you forever it's going to be something that you buy and then
move on and upgrade to if you like it I
think any USB microphone is in this
price range is going to perform fine the problem is that if you're looking for a
microphone in this price range you don't know what you want and you also probably
don't want to spend the budget to get what your big streaming people who
you're following are using when you're when you're trying to get software like
this and try and create a brand that is
focused on new people starting it should
be far easier than than this and if I can't figure it out and if Belle can't
figure it out then don't buy any of these even if they do sound nice because
there's there's some sort of miscommunication there
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