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Road I love you but you're kind of like the Harbor Freight of audio equipment

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you go to Harbor Freight you buy a crappy one for like $20 you break it and

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then you buy something new to me that's always been Road you do it really well

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if any kind of entry level stuff you kind of you're buying Road saying that

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road has some new stuff for you yeah we got this xtm50 and then we've got the

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big boy how much money and this is going to

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be more like a tradition condenser microphone I don't know if these are new

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or not but we have the nth1 100s they've released a a full compliment we've got

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some headphones um we have their own

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brand of USB a Toc

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cable my car neat I don't know I don't

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really want to talk about a small condenser I think the the fun stuff is

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going to be in this uh 100 I think they're trying to go for like your re20

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or smb7 type thing where this is like your bigger Dynamic micro phone instead

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of buying one of those you can just get

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this and have the same experience but you know I'd like to see so we got our

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XDM 100 here packaging's kind of nice kind of a sucker for the spot gloss it's

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kind of fun same on the inner box too

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subboxes that is a weird USB cable uh

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that's all we got in our a buck that's actually really quite nice it's like

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siliconized uh okay I take it back it's like the memory in it is insane but it's

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siliconized and it's super long which is awesome uh we got a shock

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mount uh it seems to handle shock yep uh

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your standard over under style rubber Bandy think uh and then what else we got

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oh yeah we got a pop filter we have a

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audio extension cable not too bad that's nice that's

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quite nice and the piester resistance

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our microphone

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whoa look at

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that I've upset Bell again I wonder how that keeps happening I'm trying to see

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if I can see a capsule like am I supposed to talk into the end of it I

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guess so if this is kind of modeling itself over an re20 got some snacks you

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want to use a dynamic microphone for loud things and a condenser for soft

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things or detailed things comes with a pop filter as well it's like a

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siliconized sock thing this one doesn't come with a stand but it's so heavy that

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I don't think think you would want it to you could generally hang these from

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overheads or you know get the new road standy thing that they

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sell let's get this ARM attached to the desk this is the problem I have with

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road is their stuff is great but it's also not great like the construction of

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this is absolutely beautiful we got all sorts of brushed metal and that sort of

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thing caution spring-loaded oh I'm going to hurt myself with this aren't I taking

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all bets is it going to hit me in the face

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I survived it also seems dual articulated this thing is $100 which is

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actually pretty impressive for a stand that is all this metal this is why

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everybody buys Road stuff first because it's cheap and it's also not crap I mean

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it's padded so I can like not hurt myself with it it's for my safety and

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let's stop talking about this stand and let's actually talk about the

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interesting thing which is the microphone look David Road made a mic

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ARM that doesn't suck come here go down and this one can come up what yeah I

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wasn't expecting what's the adjustment like I have no idea we'll see if it

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fails when I've actually put weight on it sub ShortCircuit yeah you better

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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

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have one of these Road X microphones like the 50 or the 100 then the software

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is free otherwise I think it's like $100 a year there's lots of free Solutions

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out there you don't need that I immediately see the air horn button and

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um wish to go home let's see if we can

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get this thing

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working so I guess now we have to just try it in OBS um this is frustrating I

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mean it hooks into OBS fine the microphone itself works it's just the

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software doesn't so we don't get any of their nice like simple features and

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multi mixing now you have to learn how to do all that in OBS or get a different

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program that are available for free voice meters I think it's banana or

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something like that like our LTT Store.com banana that you can buy at the

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link over there or there let's just get the test out of the way and see if it

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actually sounds any good yeah the the software works for controlling the

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microphone like it has a it has a button on top here and if I push the button on

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top here you see that mute button comes on okay we've got the headphones on it's

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very very boomy very Bassy yeah okay

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noise floor is High um I now have no gain control because I guess the

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software won't let me do that uh adjusting the headphone level here does

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not adjust just any of the output anyway so this is my voice this is uh this is

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nearfield um welcome to Daniel bread

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Clips today's episode

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437 of our continued conversation on the

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shapes and sizes of various forms of bread Clips yeah I guess nearfield is

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okay if I move it more farther away I have to speak louder it just sounds

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really Woofy like this too much base too much mid not enough High I mean I know

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it's a dynamic microphone and you're not going to quite get those Highs but uh

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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

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a proper test because I've never heard these headphones either H it's it's got

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a lot of gain in it it's nice and loud yeah so that's your kind of ASMR close

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thing and if I kind of get back here what am I I'm playing a game I don't

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know how's that look uh the gain output in in OBS looks quite consistent like

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I'm I'm honestly interested to know if there's like a buil-in volume adjustment

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almost cuz if I start getting loud like so I'm going to play some games it's

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like hey welcome back to our let's play of I don't know plup or what other games

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people play these days let's do some classic Wow Let's go on some raids you

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know woo I'm not really seeing it dump

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above 15 DB I wonder if it's just not

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displaying through here because it's trying to feed back into OBS and now I

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can't hear it I think it is like working if I

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oh my God it is so it's feeding itself back into OBS but we can't see any of

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the V display in their software so we

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have gain control in the software that

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is separate from the headphone control which is separate from the input control

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confused yet I hope so you can actually hear the pattern uh cuz I was turned

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away so I kind of lose all of the the uh the highs and then if we come back in

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here so you really have to make sure that this is direct pointed at your

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mouth and you are talking into it uh that's one of the problems with these

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kind of dynamic and condensers is you

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you need it where you're looking right so if I'm on camera and you know I'm I'm

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over there really if you got to place

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your camera there and be working this

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way so that you're always facing into the microphone shotguns or condensers or

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something wider something more over here but now I have to talk louder and it

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changes the the character of the sound right um depending on where you are in

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the pattern you're going to you're going to get things changed uh and of course I

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can't control any of these or see any

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display over where I'm hitting the

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compressor and when the gain reduction is enabling because we don't have

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anything in their software I'm just playing back what I just recorded and I

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don't know it sounds exactly the same there's a lot of Base you got to get rid

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of that and you got to make it sound nice and I was excited for the software

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to like have that built in I mean there's a lot of the controls for

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Distributing sounds various places like a mixer you have music and chat and your

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browser and all different things and you can send them all places but it's not

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functional it's not it's not working at least it's not working in the way that I

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would expect it to if I have to do that now in OBS then why am I buying into

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your ecosystem why am I paying you $100 a year to use your special software if

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it it can't even function I don't know this is once again a a reasonably nice

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product ruined bying awful software and

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frankly I'm getting really sick of this you can put lipstick on a pig but just

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because something looks nice doesn't mean it's it's functional for for

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$250 like yeah the microphone is it's fine it's Spacey you can fix that but

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it's not it's not worth it with the software it's it's difficult to recommend like a first timer getting

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into this hobby or even professionally a

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piece of audio equipment a lot of them cost a lot of money and a lot of them

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are difficult to use the the thing that I like about Road and the thing that I

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like about other brands at this kind of 250 $150 price range is that it's not

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going to be with you forever it's going to be something that you buy and then

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move on and upgrade to if you like it I

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think any USB microphone is in this

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price range is going to perform fine the problem is that if you're looking for a

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microphone in this price range you don't know what you want and you also probably

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don't want to spend the budget to get what your big streaming people who

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you're following are using when you're when you're trying to get software like

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this and try and create a brand that is

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focused on new people starting it should

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be far easier than than this and if I can't figure it out and if Belle can't

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figure it out then don't buy any of these even if they do sound nice because

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there's there's some sort of miscommunication there

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well if you want to see other videos that I've done U I also did a Polaroid

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Bluetooth speaker the P3 and the P4 I don't know why those existed either have

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a subscribe to LMG Clips no no free clips LMG clips sorry it's become a

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nervous tick now I just say to everyone I know