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(loud buzzer) - Uh Oh.

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So NZXT is getting into the microphone market, and apparently as part of their launch strategy,

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they've sponsored a ShortCircuit unboxing. Good choice NZXT.

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Let's go ahead and get this thing opened up.

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You know, I'm going to do kind of a classic unboxing on this one.

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We're going to start with the box. I know, right? I never do this.

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Designed for gamers. Fair enough. High quality audio, 24-bit.

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Sure. Yup. USB analog to digital conversion. I would certainly hope so.

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Given it's either going to be a USB microphone with an analog to digital converter in it,

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or it's going to be an XLR microphone, which wouldn't do a very good job of simple, there you go.

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Cause that's apparently one of their key selling points for the capsule is that it is completely plug and play,

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including even being tuned to 50% gain right out of the box.

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There's no software utility, no driver installation.

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You just plug it in and go.

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Build the extraordinary. That's right, not just a little bit ordinary,

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this is extraordinary. I know that's not what it means.

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Three meter cable. The idea here is that if you want to mount it to a boom ARM or something like that,

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you're not going to have any issues with it. And that's a really nice feeling sheath,

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feels like a high quality cable. Want to know something cool?

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I no longer have to take anyone's word for it.

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Fetch me my cable tester! While we wait for that, let's have a look

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at what else is in here. We've got a 1/4-20 to 3/8 inch mounting adaptor.

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So this is going to be if you want to mount it to a boom ARM or some other kind of base but,

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the whole idea is that, with no assembly whatsoever,

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you don't have to do any of that. You can just plunk it right down onto your desk.

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It has an integrated pop filter. So it's a Side-Address microphone,

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just a little something like that, Cardioid pickup pattern. Oh, I should probably show how the let's come back.

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Something like that, got a microphone Jack right there, so that's for monitoring your own audio.

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You can also just use it as your audio interface if you want. USB-C, so that's the single connection

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that we're going to use, Ahh! After we determine that this cable is okay. I think they did a really great job of the look.

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Thanks Colin. - [Colin] Why are we whispering? You have a whole studio.

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- Um, I'm just, I'm just excited. Supposed to go like this and like this

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and it'll tell us, (buzzer)

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Uh oh, oh, you know what?

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It's okay, so we can see here that our continuity is good.

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Our signal integrity is good. And the only problem we have is DC resistance.

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You know, all the pins are mapped correctly. Everything there is good, but there's too much resistance,

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which makes sense, because this is a three meter long USB 2 cable.

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What that means, is that if you had a very high draw device at the end,

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that's close to the maximum of what USB 2 can support.

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You might not be able to power it properly with this cabling, it might drop in

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and out intermittently. Looking at the bottom of the unit, it asks for five volts,

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one and a half amps, which means I would actually say that NZXT might be flying a little close to the sun

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with this long of a USB 2 cable.

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Theoretically, they've validated it with this particular microphone.

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So it hopefully shouldn't cause any problems, but I guess we'll find out soon enough.

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That's cool, here I was unscrewing this whole thing

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and getting really confused. What you actually do is, there we go.

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Okay, that's way better, that's awesome. And this is just to make it look way cleaner

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if you want to mount it with, with a boom ARM. Not right now though, right now, we're just going

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to use the stock stand. Now we shall see just how plug and play it can be.

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Poor NZXT there're like, (whimpering) "But we included the long cable so people could, route it around

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the things and..." And I'd be like, "Your long cable has too much resistance."

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Two separate knobs, one on the bottom is for your headphone monitoring.

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The one on the top is for your microphone gain and that's it, real simple.

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It's funny, they say truly plug and play, but are they ready for Linus level loudness here?

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I'm definitely peaking a little bit here.

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So let's go ahead and get the microphone adjusted down a little bit.

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This is a nice touch, I like these little grips on the knobs.

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They're super easy to grab onto even though they're quite small. Still coming in a little bit hot, we're going

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to want to be right around that red zone in OBS in order to get the best balance of loudness

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for the stream while not while not peaking and causing that,

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that crackly sound. I'm recording right now and I'm moving it around a little bit.

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It does have an internal shock mount, so we just want to see how much,

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if any of that we're going to hear in the recording.

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Normally you shouldn't be manhandling your microphone while you're talking into it, but if you're gaming in particular,

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which is who they're targeting with this product, then it's, it's not uncommon for you to be moving around or,

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or bump your table a little bit, and if the, if you have a microphone that picks up all of that noise,

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it's going to be pretty unpleasant. Speaking of all of that noise, the G 915,

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isn't exactly the loudest keyboard on the market, but it's not designed to be specifically super quiet either.

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So let's go ahead and just make some clickity clacking noises, kind of where it would be relative

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to the microphone, more like over here, I guess.

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All right, so that's what you can kind of expect if you're a click, click, clickity, clacking

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behind your microphone. And then the last thing I wanted to check was

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if you had a boom ARM and you're able to get the mic a little bit close to your mouth,

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this is really where you'd want a microphone of this style,

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for the best possible recording quality, just going to keep turning that down.

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And this is what I would expect this bad boy to sound like

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mounted a little bit closer to your mouth. So if you want more of like that radio voice sound

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then, you know, get your boom ARM, get it set up here. And it also keeps it off your desk and out of your way

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for your keyboard and mouse as well. Not bad, surprisingly little of that is coming

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through in my monitoring. That's pretty cool.

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And that's it that's all. This is our unboxing of the NZXT capsule.

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You can find it linked down in the video description. Thanks NZXT for sponsoring this video

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and to you for watching it. Subscribe to ShortCircuit. - [Crew] Yeah!