you know it's a lot of fun reviewing the latest and greatest microphones and new stuff that come out with new features and crazy things like that but when it comes to choosing a piece of gear especially in the audio realm often you're choosing gear that came out a very long time ago and that is the case with microphones as well some of my favorite microphones that i use here in the studio for my content have released before i was born at least for the first iterations of them which is wild to think about given that everyone thinks if a piece of gear is two years old it's old and useless now the microphone we're reviewing today released all the way back at least as far as i can tell this iteration released all the way back in NUMBER_TOKEN which was actually not that long ago for microphones but it's pretty neat this is the road broadcaster which is a little bit different from the rode pro caster which i have reviewed off and on over the years we're gonna take a look at it super shout out to a subscriber by the name of wraith for sending this out i'm eposvox the stream professor i have reviewed countless microphones here on the channel and i am always reviewing more with the primary objective of getting you the best possible information for you to pick the best gear for your money to produce awesome content and share it with the world to make tech easier and more fun to make streaming easier for you hit the subscribe and notification button so you can stay informed this microphone which again was sent out by a subscriber i have not gotten my hands on it prior to that opportunity is pretty interesting you may actually recognize it from an episode of stream critique where i critiqued linus's streaming setup that he built in his previous home where he had this microphone because i'd never really seen or tested it before and i thought it was a kind of weird choice but we were testing it here today because it's actually a pretty cool microphone it is a broadcast microphone it's designed for voiceover it's designed for streaming broadcast scenarios but it's a condenser microphone this comes with some specific key advantages and disadvantages the advantages being that it requires less gain so microphones like my electro voice reNUMBER_TOKEN and the sure smNUMBER_TOKENb and things like that require a fair bit of gain like a lot of gain like NUMBER_TOKEN plus db of gain to really power and make it sound effective which means you either need a super high-end audio interface that can provide enough clean gain or you need a mic activator of some sort that can supplement that gain through phantom power this microphone does not it takes phantom power and only requires about NUMBER_TOKEN-ish or less db of gain in my testing here which is pretty neat the disadvantage here comes in the fact that it is going to pick up a little bit more ambient noise a little bit more background sound than your dynamic microphones just due to the physical characteristics of the microphones dynamic microphones are basically activated by the sound waves hitting the capsule which means they reject a lot more quieter ambient background sound but also produce a slightly less natural tone to your voice condenser microphones are supposed to produce a more natural tone but pick up a lot more background sound because they are activated by phantom power which keeps the capsule effectively always sensitive to sound so they're usually a lot
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