Thank you so much my friend! Really appreciate you taking the time to say that :)

Thanks as always Rod!

@@AudioHaze I've seen a review that showed me the most horrid handling noise this particular mic had. It was bad man

Yeah I wanted to use a genuinely decent USB mic! I honestly just wanted to prove that you can make great stuff no matter what the budget

Thanks as always Tokio, great info :)

Those sound like whole video ideas haha! Reverb is more a feeling thing, what sort of space do you want to invoke? Here I wanted it to feel intimate, so the tail is short and the room sound is small. Compression is typically divided into a parallel compression track and a clinical reverb to control peaks on the actual vocal. When is enough is always hard, damn near impossible I would say. You can always keep tweaking. I guess it’s enough when you’re continued tweaking starts to WORSEN the mix

More so meant it as such, thanks for the quick reply though! Final point on mixing resonates with me, had some instances where I listened back to older mixes of a track an preferred it over later iterations.

Quite honestly, its not the best, you'll probably encounter a fair bit of feedback unless its strategically place on stage, I would stick to dynamics or handheld condensers, maybe some SDC's for live guitar amp recording, something with a narrower pickup pattern. The NT1 is quite sensitive!

That’s such a big compliment thank you!

So true!

Hopefully I can! Maybe I'll reach out :)

Thanks Fred! They make USB interfaces for that, but you will need something like that for an intermediate device, tons of options though :)

@@AudioHaze thanks so much for replying!! Do you have any recommendation on a budget for that? Thanks!!

It’s also great for anyone who doesn’t have the money to spend at the moment :) just make sure you grab the right one

@@AudioHaze so very true! I started on a USB mic (an AT2005) and have a ton of love for them!! ❤️

Totally true! You loss the flexibility and customizability of your set up, multi-mic recording becomes endless complicated with aggregate devices and latency too

Oh nice! Haven’t heard of them, how do they sound?

Thank you Ian!

Nice! Those are some nice values to have :)

For one, I noticed that you corrected the term bitrate on screen, but changed it back. So as I don’t know the thought behind that, I got to ask: Why does everyone name the bit depth „bitrate“ these days? Because you are not the first to do so. A bitrate is the ratio of data quantity to time. The bit depth is the amount of bits available to each sample and corresponds directly to the resolution of a sample. (But so does the sampling rate and that’s not even relevant to the dynamic range.) Variations of bit depth affect the noise, due to quantization error. And while bit depth multiplied by sampling rate result in bitrate for a PCM WAV file, there are compressed audio formats, where the compression also influences the bitrate. In lossy compression, even a limitation of the frequency response to below 16 kHz messes with what we believe to know about bitrates. Because of that I’d highly suggest to use the term bit depth. In case it was this, what you have been going for by using „bitdepth“ first and then switching over the writing on the display to bitrate, because you decided to roll with it, it gives the impression of the two words being interchangeable. That’s why I felt the need to point this out. Also: I am questioning the choice of a higher possible gain as explanation what the bit depth actually does. Yes! It is considerably easier to set the gain for an undistorted signal with 16 bits, compared to an 8 bit signal, but the reason for that is this: With the quieter parts of sound being too low, the quieter part gets eaten by the quantization noise. With the strongest part louder than 0dB you get digital distortion. And with 8bit bit depth, you have a (theoretical) noise floor at -48dBFS, which makes it practically impossible to get a signal free of both, audible quantization noise and digital distortion. And both sounds horrible. So we’re talking about lacking dynamic range in the digital realm here. To wrap this up: The issue with anything below 16 bits of bit depth is actually the noise floor. The QUIETER you can record, with enough distance to the noise floor, the more headroom you get. And THAT is, what enables you to record louder signals. But still, you cannot record anything louder than 0dBFS. (For that you’d need a 32 bit float recording, and even then, in the output, you need to limit to at least 0dBFS, so your production doesn’t distort on playback.) And the amount of gain has no influence on the loudest possible signal to record digitally. 0dBFS always references the highest possible voltage, the ADC can interpret and the highest voltage, the DAC can output. To put this another way: The higher the voltage on the ADC can be, the more Gain you NEED to use for the same digital signal strength. But the whole discussion about 8bit is admittedly obsolete anyways, as 8 bit audio only ever had been a thing for very early digital audio devices, due to technical limitations, the bitrate and available disk space being just one example.

Thats Gullfoss! Amazing plug-in, and eventually with time I will, KZfaq and a full time job is never easy to balance. So I want to make a patreon when I have the time to commit to making quality videos there

Thank you so much!

Yeah, I would say thats more an issue with condensers than it is an issue with the mic itself, any condenser will pick up more background noise than a dynamic will :) this one is no different

Thank you!

I used it about 30 minutes a day!

Why not just expand the collection 😏

@@AudioHaze 😭😭 my guy, this is a HIT waiting to happen. The phrasing, melody writing and harmonic complexity in conjunction with each other is just so masterful. Tell Ethan to get on it 😂

Yeah the yeti isn’t really my preferred option lol, unfortunately it’s the deflacto option

Never tried it! Honestly haven’t tried too many usb mics

Tried Both Bumble Bee is better and it's cheap

:)))))

Maybe! We have an audio feedback section for any suggestions on your sound. That said, I do make custom vocal chains for your exact purpose, you can always email me if you’d like to set up a project with me :)

@@AudioHaze I would absolutely love to email you about setting up a project. Can't thank you enough for being willing to help. Not sure if I missed it, but I checked all your socials and discord and was unable to fimd your business email listed. If you would be so kind to point me in that direction I will happily reach out to get the ball rolling.

They list the RRP as £15, so people think it's just always been ridiculously cheap (and therefore poor) but apparently it was something like £80 to begin with? Think I'm gonna try one out tomorrow

@@danpaul4975 Exactly, but there's a large amount of information out there that people can use to inform their choices. I bought this at £9.99 over the weekend, and I've not regretted it. Sounds good out of the box, abs excellent with minimum tweaks in software like OBS.

German?

Got robbed!

FIXED, thank you for saying this lol

No. Only maybe for convenience, for example when you travel, and you take just a USB mic instead of analog mic and an interface.

You need ALL the mics