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hey what's up guys Jays $0.02 here and no it's not dress up like a road cone day or Caltrans Appreciation Month I just got done riding my bike for 18 miles prior to making this video so I just didn't really feel like changing you today's video is sponsored by master ah the largest community commerce platform in the world had to master up today and suggest something to be dropped and I'm like literally drop it you know where they bring the price down and stuff but I also just got back from Portland at the famous PDX land and yeah guys I know there's bigger lands in Europe another's dream caster dream Tech or whatever it's called and Sweden that's really really big but damn it stop taking the wind out of my sails it was a cool event it was my first land party and it actually became pretty apparent and I learned something very quickly and that is that many large individuals in one room for three days tends to start to get kind of smelly actually that's that's not the point I wanted to make it all but the point I wanted to make was that everybody had some sort of headset because in a loud environment like that you have to and it got me thinking what's the best headset on the market well it very well may be the one that you make and yes I know Tek syndicate already did this video you got it you got a copy those that are that are better than you so one of the more popular videos regarding headsets and gaming headsets and headphones is actually text into kits video about the mod mic and when mass drop hit me up and said hey do you want to check out the mod mic 4.0 I was like absolutely because I'm in the same position a lot of you are I like good sound and I like good headsets or headphones the problem is gaming headsets inherently have mediocre sound and terrible mics on them so what do you do well if you've got your favorite pair of headphones or you've got you know your nice audiophile sound and you get on your computer to do PC gaming usually the experience is a little bit less than desirable especially when it comes to the microphone Department now we're going to be taking a look today at antlions mod mic 4.0 and Packaging is actually very very small and modest it just has this little cardboard sleeve it says int lying on it and you've got this semi rigid pouch here when you open it up it's very very basic the mod Mike is just kind of chilling in there all folded up and then you've got the Mike itself right here now basically the way this works is it has a pretty decent magnetic a little adhesive thing two of them that you can mount on to your favorite headphones typically there might be something of audiophile grade or better than a gaming headset that you would typically find and then it's got clips that you can you know plug the cables to each other and then you have a microphone a very good quality microphone hooked up to your favorite headphones so there's really not a whole lot to say about it other than let's go ahead and get it installed on because it comes with two adapters I'm actually going to be putting them on my two favorite headphones those being my AKG k 7x X's right here and we're also going to be putting them on my audio technica ath m50 X's both of these have very different sound signatures both of these have very different these are closed back these are open back and we're going to go ahead and make basically two gaming headsets out of one ant mic mod or antlion mud-like 4.0 so let's go ahead and get these things installed so as I mentioned inside the package it's pretty basic you've got the mod mic itself right here it's got a nice little windscreen on there to help basically it's like a built-in pop filter nice long cord and then see here's a nice long cord not braided or anything it's just rubberized you got your standard a three-and-a-half millimeter jack right there and then inside this little Ziploc baggie which is kind of shoved in there admittedly I've already had this thing out of here but whatever it's okay otherwise I'd look like a real fool on camera more so than I already do but inside here you've got a few things going on you have got two of the magnetic adapter my bobbers as you attach to your headphones and then you have got one two three four five of these clips that are designed to clip the cord for the mic get it get it on on screen there J you start act a lot like Barney Cleese video here alright so you want it we got five these clips that you can use to connect the mod mic cord to the headphone jack or cord that way you don't have it flopping all around there as you can see here the adapter is just a magnet on one side with the teeth in there so that you can rotate the mic around up and away or down in front of you and then it's just an adhesive on one side now they do say that the adhesive will work on metals mesh plastics wood but it will not stick to rubberized surfaces so you want to keep that in mind okay so I've already taken the adhesive back off of these little adapter there we're going to go ahead and magnetically stick that on to the mod mic itself so as you can see it's stuck on right there and then we are going to basically just stick that kind of in the middle of the ear cup there in a position that we want it to be in that way in its resting position it's going to be kind of in a position that we want it to be in now the cool thing about this adapter it actually sticks on there really really good so as you can see there's our mic and then we can just rotate that up out of the way so let me get this some focus here you can just rotate it it's now in front of your mouth and rotate it up and out of the way there you go so since we have two adhesive thingamabob errs we can pop this off and now we can have our second gaming headset so let's go ahead and do that so these are my AKG k7 x x is also sent over from master op dang I love those guys I would not have this high-end audio stuff or mid-range audio depending how you look at it without those guys so make sure you give them a look man they've really supported this channel but alright so once again I've stuck the adapter here on to the mod mic and what we're going to do now is we are going to go ahead and test what they say about using it with mesh they say it works with meshed headphones so I've gone ahead and stuck it on there and as you can see boom there it is so we can also flip those up and out of the way those don't flip up and out of the way as well they don't go straight up because as you can see the headphones here they stick out but I can put it up behind me and it's a mod it's a you know it's a it's a flexible mic so we could do that and then when we're ready to game flip that around I can there we go and just put the mic back where you want it and it's staying on there that's not going anywhere that's really stuck on there so we've got those there now we've got basically at AKG K 7x s or xx gaming headset I guess there's only one thing left to do that's going to be a mic test cue up the transition okay now here we are we are recording directly to audacity we're not going to be doing any sort of post-processing no compression no noise removal no bass adding no treble adding no clarification high pass filter none of that stuff this is exactly as it's coming out of the microphone going into a desk now the levels look pretty good we're not peeking see how sensitive it is uh-uh one two three one two three I am recording now guys this is Gabe e46 AM radio today's coming at you yet that was dumb this is why I don't work in radio I have no idea how it sounds though that's one of the best parts about doing these mic reviews I'm going to leave it to you guys I want you guys to tell me how it sounds now I did do a quick playback on it just like one sentence to make sure it was recording but I didn't have my headphones on and my speakers were turned down so I have no idea how it sounds so we're going to right now is we're gonna do a noise floor test we're going to see how well it actually picks up the background noise skunkworks is running windows open you might hear dogs barking I hear a baby crying in the background so let's go ahead do a few seconds here of silence and let's go ahead and see how it sounds all right now it's going to do some handling see how it sounds when you handle it all right well whoa looking over there as audacity I think it picked up something well there you go guys mod mic 4.0 make sure you guys head on over to mass drop give them a huge thank you for sponsoring today's video by sending this thing on over now they are doing a mass drop on this at least that's the plan and if there is a drop on this it will be down in the description there'll be a link in there you guys can head on over there I get no kick back from the drops all I did was send it over it gives me content for the channel gives you guys something to get a little bit cheaper through master up which is kind of a neat service where they will broker cheaper prices if enough people sign up to want to buy something they go to the manufacturer manufacturer says yeah you get 10 people want to buy this will knock five bucks off or something like that so it's a good service I don't know how anyone could go wrong with that it's completely free to sign up and really live Jerry uses it I use it lots of people use mass drop there you go guys mod my 4.0 what would you do with it how do you think it sounds sound off in the comments and yeah guys I know that like stand alone mics like the Yeti or the audio technica at2020 they're going to sound better but look at what those are versus what this is let's keep the comparisons relevant alright see you the next one have this that's the idea I will see you you'll see me I won't see you if I see you then that's really weird especially if it's in the video