Antlion ModMic 4.0 - Awesome Modular Headset Microphone
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2015-05-07
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1,048 words · ~5 min read
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the ant lion mod mic was always a good idea and while for some people myself
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included the previous revisions actually worked reasonably well the ongoing sound
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card compatibility issues minimal features and just plain old lack of
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availability made them not a great option for a lot of
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or modus.com but none of those things were enough to
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stop those folks from continuing to refine the original concept being able
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to keep your high quality headphones and put a highquality boom style microphone
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on them instead of resorting to one of several other solutions that have always
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felt a little bit cluggy to me clipping your mic to your clothes tethers you to
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your desk a desktop microphone picks up a lot of ambient noise and switching to
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a gaming headset when you game will either give you rubbish audio quality on
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your end or you'll be spending a fortune on a quality allinone like the atth ag1
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from Audio Technica which just plain doesn't make sense if you already have
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awesome headphones that you like today
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all of that changes my review unit of the modmic 4.0 didn't come in a package
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that looked like they made it out of an old toilet paper roll with a handwritten
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notet tape to the side wishing me luck no this one I'm I get a handy dandy and
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surprisingly rugged little carrying case with a simple instruction manual that
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directs you to the website if you have any further questions two magnetic bases
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that allow the mic to be rotated or removed completely from whatever
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headphones you attach them to got to love them magnets some extra adhesive
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for one of the bases and finally an alcohol prep pad for attaching the
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magnetic base to your headphones the mod mic itself is thicker than the old one
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and more robust feeling in every way the
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microphone tip is larger and has a nice snug fitting windscreen that fits over
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top of it but you should still be careful when mounting it to keep the
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microphone off to the side of your mouth instead of directly in front of it for
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better sound quality and fewer plosives moving down we've got the other
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half of the magnetic Mount and a clever little like bending system that can be
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adjusted to fit well in the lowered and
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raised position without unnecessarily tugging on you you you can also adjust
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it if you want and bend it however will fit you best further down we find an
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inline mute something that was seriously missing from the older revisions and
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then a thicker than normal but still flexible and actually very lightweight
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wire that terminates in a standard 3 and 1 12 mm Jack it's just little things but
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they add up to a lot last time the mod mic felt like a really exciting science
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fair project and this time it feels like a finished product from a real company
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but of course you guys want to know how it sounds right frankly great it blows
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the doors off most of the gaming headset microphones that I've heard and to my
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ear is closer to the excellent microphone on the Audio Technica headset
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that I mentioned before than to anything else that I've heard but you can judge
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for yourself self selves or self however
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many people there are watching right now here is a microphone test with it
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this is my audio recording test for the mod mic 4.0 it sounds absolutely
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fantastic to me but I guess I'll let you guys be the judge of
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that also there will be dancing involved
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in this microphone test something that I probably should have warned everyone
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about before it happened sorry now bear
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in mind the only side by-side comparison you're listening to right now is with
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the $600 microphone system that I'm
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using so so for some more fair comparisons check out the SoundCloud
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Link in the video description which I will continue to add to as time goes on
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so with all of that out of the way I'm sure you can draw your own conclusions
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about a product like this but here are my thoughts anyway I love it it's a
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better implementation of a product that I already liked it is a little bit on
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the expensive side but it sounds great and frankly for the target audience
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people who have headphones that sound better than gaming headsets the price
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won't be unreasonable when you consider the quality and functionality of it and
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the fact that it allows you to use that other investment you've already made
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more often one thing that they really
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need to figure out though even if I don't have a solution off the top of my
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head is the two wire issue whether it's through an optional accessory or
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something that they include in the Box ant lion needs to find a way to let me
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manage the headphone and microphone wires together so I don't end up with a
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Tangled mess they address this somehow and this thing is pure gold as usual
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guys the link to pricing and availability for the I reused an old
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script so it says plexer M6 SSD but
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actually it's the mod mic 4.0 is in the video description below
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the like dislike and share buttons which you should use accordingly also in the
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video description is a support link where you can buy a t-shirt just like
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this one or we've got a bunch of other designs we actually have all of our designs in stock right now which is cool
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you can give us a monthly contribution or your Amazon bookmark so we get an
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affiliate Kickback whenever you buy like
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I don't know um shelving units or
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something like that anyway it helps us out a lot thanks again for watching and as always don't forget to subscribe