(loud buzzer) - Uh Oh.
So NZXT is getting into the microphone market, and apparently as part of their launch strategy,
they've sponsored a ShortCircuit unboxing. Good choice NZXT.
Let's go ahead and get this thing opened up.
You know, I'm going to do kind of a classic unboxing on this one.
We're going to start with the box. I know, right? I never do this.
Designed for gamers. Fair enough. High quality audio, 24-bit.
Sure. Yup. USB analog to digital conversion. I would certainly hope so.
Given it's either going to be a USB microphone with an analog to digital converter in it,
or it's going to be an XLR microphone, which wouldn't do a very good job of simple, there you go.
Cause that's apparently one of their key selling points for the capsule is that it is completely plug and play,
including even being tuned to 50% gain right out of the box.
There's no software utility, no driver installation.
You just plug it in and go.
Build the extraordinary. That's right, not just a little bit ordinary,
this is extraordinary. I know that's not what it means.
Three meter cable. The idea here is that if you want to mount it to a boom ARM or something like that,
you're not going to have any issues with it. And that's a really nice feeling sheath,
feels like a high quality cable. Want to know something cool?
I no longer have to take anyone's word for it.
Fetch me my cable tester! While we wait for that, let's have a look
at what else is in here. We've got a 1/4-20 to 3/8 inch mounting adaptor.
So this is going to be if you want to mount it to a boom ARM or some other kind of base but,
the whole idea is that, with no assembly whatsoever,
you don't have to do any of that. You can just plunk it right down onto your desk.
It has an integrated pop filter. So it's a Side-Address microphone,
just a little something like that, Cardioid pickup pattern. Oh, I should probably show how the let's come back.
Something like that, got a microphone Jack right there, so that's for monitoring your own audio.
You can also just use it as your audio interface if you want. USB-C, so that's the single connection
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.
Thanks Colin. - [Colin] Why are we whispering? You have a whole studio.
- Um, I'm just, I'm just excited. Supposed to go like this and like this
and it'll tell us, (buzzer)
Uh oh, oh, you know what?
It's okay, so we can see here that our continuity is good.
Our signal integrity is good. And the only problem we have is DC resistance.
You know, all the pins are mapped correctly. Everything there is good, but there's too much resistance,
which makes sense, because this is a three meter long USB 2 cable.
What that means, is that if you had a very high draw device at the end,
that's close to the maximum of what USB 2 can support.
You might not be able to power it properly with this cabling, it might drop in
and out intermittently. Looking at the bottom of the unit, it asks for five volts,
one and a half amps, which means I would actually say that NZXT might be flying a little close to the sun
with this long of a USB 2 cable.
Theoretically, they've validated it with this particular microphone.
So it hopefully shouldn't cause any problems, but I guess we'll find out soon enough.
That's cool, here I was unscrewing this whole thing
and getting really confused. What you actually do is, there we go.
Okay, that's way better, that's awesome. And this is just to make it look way cleaner
if you want to mount it with, with a boom ARM. Not right now though, right now, we're just going
to use the stock stand. Now we shall see just how plug and play it can be.
Poor NZXT there're like, (whimpering) "But we included the long cable so people could, route it around
the things and..." And I'd be like, "Your long cable has too much resistance."
Two separate knobs, one on the bottom is for your headphone monitoring.
The one on the top is for your microphone gain and that's it, real simple.
It's funny, they say truly plug and play, but are they ready for Linus level loudness here?
I'm definitely peaking a little bit here.
So let's go ahead and get the microphone adjusted down a little bit.
This is a nice touch, I like these little grips on the knobs.
They're super easy to grab onto even though they're quite small. Still coming in a little bit hot, we're going
to want to be right around that red zone in OBS in order to get the best balance of loudness
for the stream while not while not peaking and causing that,
that crackly sound. I'm recording right now and I'm moving it around a little bit.
It does have an internal shock mount, so we just want to see how much,
if any of that we're going to hear in the recording.
Normally you shouldn't be manhandling your microphone while you're talking into it, but if you're gaming in particular,
which is who they're targeting with this product, then it's, it's not uncommon for you to be moving around or,
or bump your table a little bit, and if the, if you have a microphone that picks up all of that noise,
it's going to be pretty unpleasant. Speaking of all of that noise, the G 915,
isn't exactly the loudest keyboard on the market, but it's not designed to be specifically super quiet either.
So let's go ahead and just make some clickity clacking noises, kind of where it would be relative
to the microphone, more like over here, I guess.
All right, so that's what you can kind of expect if you're a click, click, clickity, clacking
behind your microphone. And then the last thing I wanted to check was
if you had a boom ARM and you're able to get the mic a little bit close to your mouth,
this is really where you'd want a microphone of this style,
for the best possible recording quality, just going to keep turning that down.
And this is what I would expect this bad boy to sound like
mounted a little bit closer to your mouth. So if you want more of like that radio voice sound
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
for your keyboard and mouse as well. Not bad, surprisingly little of that is coming
through in my monitoring. That's pretty cool.
And that's it that's all. This is our unboxing of the NZXT capsule.
You can find it linked down in the video description. Thanks NZXT for sponsoring this video
and to you for watching it. Subscribe to ShortCircuit. - [Crew] Yeah!