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welcome back to Jays two cents and today we're going to go ahead and talk about different types of microphones several people have been asking me about my mic setup that you see behind me here but I want to talk to you about the differences in microphones and what it is you need to know especially if you're going to be a commentator but wanting to get the most out of your setup right now I'm just simply using the onboard camera microphone and obviously sounds very very horrible so let's go ahead and turn around let's get into the webcam here and let's start comparing some different mics and see what it is you need to know when doing audio voiceovers if you're a YouTube commentator or you do any sort of recording on YouTube chances are you're using something like this and I'm wearing right here these are my turtlebeach x12 they are a gaming headset that I can be used on xbox or pc and this is what I think the most common YouTube commentator is using I'm gonna go ahead and do the comparison that I talked about right now with a couple of different microphones and oh my god I just hit my knee ah-ha-ho I'm a big baby and so what I'm doing right now is I'm going ahead and doing a little bit of an audio test here of these x12 they were $59 that Fry's got a headset built-in you can hear yourself as you talk so you find yourself not yelling into the microphone if you're using some sort of a noise cancelling headphone like this right here which are my logitech g930 s I think they're a great bargain if you're doing YouTube commentaries you don't need a giant setup like I've got going over here with my you know a studio quality mic I can't get these damn lights off my face they're shining in like right through my blinds right there holy crap they're really missing yeah I'll move over here so what I want to do now with a couple of different mics is I want to go ahead and just give a brief description of what they are and obviously these are my turtlebeach x12 so I'm gonna say the same sentence and sing a little bit of a song for you guys and so that you could hear the differences between the mics and as well as what they cost I've got the lovely bunch of coconuts didn't Libby there they are standing in a row big one small ones thumb as big as your head the quick red fox jumped over the lazy Brown dog but by now some of you must be saying but Jay I don't have a gaming headset or I'm on an extremely limited budget I have no money whatsoever but I really want to make youtube videos and I want to do commentary so what do I do get yourself one of these guys right here believe it or not this thing is hat is less than $10 and sometimes you can find it online for less than five and this is nothing more than just a simple desktop microphone and try to be choosy there it the pickup on and the sound on is actual really not that bad the only thing you have to be careful of and the things you have to think about are the fact that one there's no screen on this right here do you get too close and you start talking into it as you can see this is not very pleasant to listen to it's very noisy the PISA bees and MMS no not really but anything that is out air it's gonna sound like crap so you're gonna want to make sure you're talking over it because if you talk directly into it then it's not gonna be very well but what you can do is you can't get yourself some sort of a foam windscreen to put over it or you can make yourself just like a little blow you're a little pop filter to put right over the top of it similar to this right here but just goes right over the tip of this and it would stop all of those popping sound the first couple of videos I made on YouTube this is the mic that I use and I hooked it directly to you know that camera right there because the microphone on that camera sucks as you could tell by the intro to the video built-in microphone cameras are just there they're as like a bonus they're not really meant to be used for recording audio might be I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts and dignity there they are standing in the row big one small one some as big as your head to be quick red fox jumped over the lazy brown dog now one thing I'd like to just go ahead and point out is that these are a hundred and fifty dollar headset you might be able to get monsell for a little bit less now but this is the logitech g930 wireless gaming headphones 7.1 surround sound they've got controls and buttons on the side I can control Skype I can control windows I can make programs pop up all of these buttons are completely adjustable it's got noise cancelling like if somebody walked in I wouldn't be able to hear him what I want to go ahead and point out is just because this is an expensive headset do your research because as you can tell by the sound of this microphone it sounds horrible but Logitech's explanation of why they sound so bad is because they're wireless they have limited bandwidth because of the surround sound so they went ahead and cut back the bandwidth on the microphone all the way down to 16 K and 16 K is actually considered like a tape player quality I don't recommend using to his these headphones whatsoever for commentary so do yourself a favor if you're researching head from headsets make you do research on the quality of the microphone built-in as well or you could get stuck with something like this and having spent a whole lot of money for it I've got the lovely bunch of coconuts identity and there they are a standing in a row big one small one some as big as your head the quick red fox jumped over the lazy Brown dog but you can have some fun with the modulation sounder this microphone like for instance Lois Lois you Richard viola vivillon you I think that you should probably not consider using this headphone unless you want to sound like a horror movie from 1942 oh and speaking of horrible my qualities the built-in webcam microphone obviously should just be ignored and not even considered to be there it is complete garbage and last but not least we have my studio quality blue Yeti right here hooked up to a pile PL 2 T microphone boom but what you have to realize is that this microphone setup is not cheap the microphones 150 dollars if you buy at full retail the pop filters 20 and the mic room was 120 so you're talking right now with tax and stuff over three hundred dollars simply for a microphone but this isn't necessary I mean I think honestly the thing that sounds next to best to this was this this cheap cheap microphone isn't it amazing what this sounded like compared to this and the fact that you can get amazing sound out of something so cheap I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts added Liddy there they are a standing in a row big ones small ones some as big as your head the quick red fox jumped over the lazy brown dog I have a lot of fun with this microphone though I really like to get into it and I do an awful lot of silly voices I haven't really put them out on YouTube because I'm still a little bit shy I don't really want to you know I don't want to get the flames coming in more than I can handle any one time but maybe mmm maybe my Yoda voice I show you whether the phone is a chuckling door with a microphone like this is it to play Laurel and do some crazy modulation braces severe you just realize it you know you're actually doing that and it's not the microphone haha seriously folks I have an awful lot of fun with this microphone right here and I do a lot more with it than just getting on here and doing voiceovers for YouTube seriously guys in all honesty I hope you guys have found this video very helpful you i've been asked so many times in almost every single review i've done i've been told do microphones do microphones do microphones well here you go here's your microphone review i hope you liked it now stop bugging me to do microphone reviews I've already done it now I'm not gonna do it again unless I get another microphone then maybe I'll do it again but seriously bro stop bugging me to do the microphone again you