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don't you just love new microphones don't you love the way that my voice now sounds get used to it this is the audio technica 2035 XLR mic very mainstream XLR microphone that's used by those who run podcast by those who stream to twitch things like that and I have it picked up to a mixer here the Yamaha mg 10x you the you mean that has a USB interface for 192 kilohertz of 24-bit audio goodness that's actually what you're not listening to right now I just have this running from just the stereo out so I have a left and a right and those are running straight into the back of my PC behind me and the audio is still exceptional I mean this is this is a huge jump from just the good old USB interface that I was running with my blue Yeti speaking of which yeah we we had a loss from the family well it was slowly dying I went ahead and pulled the plug on it because a few of you who had very good headsets were noticing that there was a lot of white noise in the background a lot of static especially when I spoke I did my best using audacity to kind of rule out that static when I wasn't speaking but of course when you do speak it's kind of hard to get rid of those those white tones in the audio so I went ahead and said goodbye to it and invested in this gear here about 350 or so US dollars for the entire audio setup here not including the PC Office or anything like that now but if you want a decent audio setup this is as far as I'm aware a great way to go for those who are on a very strict budget now the audio technica of 2035 by this point speaks for itself it's a very popular XLR microphone and that's why I went with it because it is so reputable in this space especially looking for an entry-level XLR microphone that doesn't break the bank this was only about 150 or so US dollars it is linked in the description if you are curious if you want to buy one for yourself I do get a small kickback on Amazon I do say that as much as I can I'm not trying to hide anything it does help out though in the long run but I want to spend the bulk of my time in this video talking about the Yamaha mg 10x you and I emphasize with you because the USB interface is pivotal if you want near perfect audio clarity you don't have any static in the background it's something that plagued my old videos especially those who had decent microphones I'll show you right here here's a clip of what I sound like with the blue Yeti USB version you can hear that static in the background that's not normal that wasn't there when I originally bought the microphone I do say that but it's been slowly dying on me and at this point I'm just tired of trying to edit it out and bother all of you with the white noise so here's what I sound like before this okay this is a test of the blue Yeti now my voice sounds a decent considering this is a USB microphone but you can hear that white noise in the background that's usually edited out at least two of the extent that I can with an audacity so yes it's just not going to cut it and for people to have very good headsets at pay laws money for decent audio you don't deserve something that's dying like this and by this point you already have a solid sample what I sound like here now and I was speaking about the same distance away from the blue Yeti in that sample by the way so another big reason why I chose this setup here is because I can control a lot of different things just on the mixer itself without having to turn around and do everything post-production basically after I've already filmed and recorded I have to edit everything after the fact but here if I notice that something's not sounding right especially if I have headphones in which you can do with this mixer I can control all of that you have access to the highs mids and the lows which is which is a good selling point for me because a lot of the cheaper mixers did not include the mid calibration so you have access to that across all four of these channels and you can see I can tone down the mid and I can tone up the mid right here so yeah there's a fairly substantial difference you can notice the mids and that's why I wanted to buy a mixer that had one now if you're wondering why I chose the mixer with four inputs I don't blame you because you know I'm the only one here I don't feed another three microphones plugged in although I do have that access if I need it so it's more of a future proving thing for me I was willing to put a minute but bit more money down just to kind of solidify my content creation status for the near future now I do plan on doing this full-time when I get out of here so this is a this is a pretty solid investment I don't feel any buyer's remorse at all I would probably do it all over again at this point because I am very pleased with the way that my audio currently sounds now the last thing want to talk about in this video really has nothing to do with what we do here on the channel but it is cool to have I guess you know whenever I want to use this for something other than YouTube I can just kind of carry this mixer with me but there are 24 presets on the sound effects side of the mixer here on the right and these range from everything from flanger to phaser to the vocal echo delay even got the Wawa walking oh that kind of sound when you're playing if you play guitar you know exactly what I'm talking about you know a lot of different pedals if you will built into this board which is very nice because pedals are fairly expensive especially if you go with someone like boss which is my my pedal choice now but you can basically cycle through whatever you want all 24 of these that's very easy to do I guess we'll just kind of do one for the heck of it I don't know if any of these are going to sound decent let's do the auto wah so 21 do I sound any different I just think the best one to be using for for just vocals here let's move it down to vocal echo 13 I know you're going to hear to conceive oh I bet I am very echo 8 who's not one you'd want to use in the studio for anything other than probably singing which I will not be doing on this channel thank you very much let's do one more form let's try the phaser I bet this one sounds super cool like I'm in a video game or something again I don't know what this sounds like because I don't have the headphones in but yeah you have all of these built into the board for your listening pleasure but yeah this is a very cool setup I do recommend it I have links to everything that I purchased here in the video description including you know the smaller cheaper stuff like the arm stand this is from knee wear this is a very good arm stand that uses for the blue Yeti as well when I bought another one as well as the pop filter it's all there check them out in the video description let me know you think about the audio game now versus how it was a couple videos ago and we'll move on from here using this setup if you liked the video or just the investment 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