Austrian Audio - Mi Creator. Review...

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And I keep popping that's really naughty. This is the my creator, this is what the microphone sounds like. Any thoughts, chaps, So this is just absolutely because right now mine's a bit hyped. I am. You're on through my eight one eight, and I'm definitely hoping it up quite a bit more than probably as necessary. So I'm going to flatten mine because i want to add a really good comparison. So, okay, this is the E one eight with no processing, totally flat right, Okay, and let me hear you again. I'm I'm on an unprocessed OC sixteen. Then for a comparison to there, you got it? Oh yeah, And I've got a feeling. I know, it's like it's a bit of a weird test because different voices, but my feeling is listening in the headphones to both of you two, this one is closer to the OC sixteen than the eight one eight. That was my first thought the first time I heard you on it was its very close to the sixteen. Yeah, yeah, I'm looking to see what patter I'm into because you guys would be on cardioid. I may not be. So I'm going to check mine when you guys keep talking on to check out yeah this one, because I'm pretty sure see I keep popping, whereas yeah, there's no professional on the other end of the microphone. That's the problem, that's right, force there's also no pop shield. If you've got shit mic technique, get a pop up. But all right, Well, now I'm on cardioid, which sounds a bit more natural. I was on a harp hyper before it does, but it's a bit Yeah, it's not as hyped, it's not quite as four one sixty sound. Well, here's the thing, like on the eight one eight when you're in cardioid, it's it's a true single capsule cardioid pickup, so you're actually only using the front capsule. So this would be more similar to you guys, because now I'm actually using a single capsule. When I go to hyper, the rear capsule comes into play and that's being mixed in out of fees to create that hypercardioid. So it definitely changes the way you sound on the mic. So did you just did you just flick while I was talking, didn't you? And yeah, the opposite to what you would tell what I was hearing was the opposite to what you said, Robbo, because I think in hypercardiorid there's more top end in stating it might be it might be a more scooped sound, like more base and more trouble. Yeah, maybe that's yeah, it could be maybe that's it, and this is more mid forward. Yeah, this sounds more mid forward to me. Yeah, but to me it's not as sort of hyped as as this sixteen or what the creator that AP's on and we're hearing your mic rabo flat or you're still going to No, I'm sending to you guys on source connect unprocessed, so I do have some processing in pro tools, but you guys aren't hearing that. Yeah, for sure, it definitely sounds more hope. Let me let me turn it off here, and maybe maybe you are. Let me turn it off. Does that make a difference? Oh yeah, yeah, you sounded a bit like like I was pretty hyped sounding earlier, like when I turn this on, you get that extra sizzly top end. Yeah, I'll turn that off, and now I'm now I'm flat, okay, And I think also off some kind of a noise gate going on there, because all of a sudden I can hear I did have a gate on until Oh yeah, me too, Yes, I should have a gate on. This will be an interesting post mix. You have to decide RABO now whether you process it and post or leave it all. Well, that's the thing. I think I might just have to leave it perhaps, Yeah, disclaim this episode is raw? Is raw? Absolutely, just some limiting for the for the master, we're going bare back, but don't google that. Isn't it interesting though? That? I mean? And we talked about this in the in the preview when AP was unboxing it that, you know, Austrian Audio. I've taken the time to make sure that all their products have a pretty similar sort of sound, regardless of of you know, price point even really, isn't it. Yeah? Yeah, the voicing of the capsule, yeah, I mean you can when you can say that an eight one eight, which is what fifteen hundred bucks or something? Would that be right? I don't know you as twelve twelve? Yeah, so twelve hundred bucks us and you can say that it's you know, it's reasonably close to the my creator which is whatever we said that was one hundred and something. Yeah, you know, it's crazy, isn't it. I mean, I'll be curious how this would sound. As I mentioned, when we're doing the unboxing in not a perfect environment. I mean, I've got to say that I'm sitting right next to a laptop computer screens. There's nothing in here that's diffusing any sound whatsoever except my buffhead. But apart from that, there's nothing else. So it's not ideal. But I'm kind of thinking of more of a tight sort of environment where you know, you're trying to obviously control some kind of ambient noise in a room that's pretty lively if you're traveling. How this would take to that, That's what I'd be interested in, And the other thing is how it takes to EQ as well, could be an interesting one. So the other thing though, is that, I mean this is effectively also a stereo pair, right, yeah, because it comes with you by the stereo pair. Yeah yeah, So be interesting to hear it with that open. Well, imagine if you were doing it. He is an example, if you were a voice that did animation. Yeah, you could space these two mics out, you know, by maybe eighteen inches or something, and then you've got one capturing the loud sauce yep, and one you know, if you could actually split them because they can be stereos So I guess you do. Mon left for the one and right track for the other one. Yep. Yeah, and then if you did start overloading the mic that's closest to you, you've got the back up behind you. Yeah, there's a lot of clever ways to use it. When there's two separate mic capsules versus a mic that has a stereo mode. The ever ever popular the Yetti from Blue has that multi pattern switch where you can go from me to cardioid to stereo to figure eight. Right. Well, the mic like this, you you have way more flexibility. You can make an X Y pair. You can make a bloomeline I think whatever it's called. You can. You can adjust how you want to use those two mics, Like you could literally put up a stereo X Y pair in front of a string quartzet or something. Record that. But you could even fight it with if you had the two like you said, doing X Y, you just reverse ones stick it basically so the capsules almost touching each other, right, and get some kind of weird omnigoing. I don't know how that would work, but yeah, that should that should work. It's two hemispherical patterns connected in the center. You might have some phasing issues at the center. Yeah, but yeah, it's just it's just it's more flexible to have two separate microphones to manipulate. Do you can just do so much more? Yeah, I'm just curious how this microphone actually does sound to the people listening. I mean, if if you're listening to it and you like it, just leave a comment down below the below the notes and stuff. But you know, what I'm hearing is very pleasing, actually, and I'm quite surprised because I did think being a USB mic that there was going to be inherent issues at the price point I thought was going to be an issue for it as well. But I can't really hear anything. No, I'm not trying to make more work for you, but I'm going to propose something. Is that you know that we have we leave the first we leave part of the show and process, and then you process the remainder of the show the way you normally would, so we can hear what it sounds like raw, and we can hear we all sound like through your production through the magic of podcasting. Let's move to the processed show. Now exactly the point the point going to make was that as a as a podcaster, if you were a podcaster and you were on you know, let's let's just pick out a yetti or you had a chaonic eyeball or something that you were sort of using and you wanted to up your game audio wise. I mean, you know, step one, tick hello for one hundred and whatever bucks we were just talking about. You've got a new mic that's automatically going to do that. Yeah, and it's got an interface built in, so you know, you said, that's it exactly. I like that. I mean, oftentimes we'll kind of shy away from a USB mic for anybody that's producing you know, content, because it's a one It's just a mic. So if you want to add a second person or you want to interview somebody else on site in physical person, you're you know, it's not as easy to integrate multiple USB mics. But here you just had that second mic and you've got a two mic system, so any way you got. It's a clever way. It's it's sort of an analog, old school way of doing it, but it's the simple. But I think it's the key here. Well the other thing too, thinking about that without thinking too deeply, but hearing you say that, and it occurs to me that even if you had more than two people, with some clever placement of those two mics, you could almost mic up maybe three or four people. Well, yeah, you could have two and two. Yeah, that's right exactly, you could sort of have that. If you had three, you could have the host on his own and then you know, with some clever mic placement, you could place the other one so that you were picking up two. Yeah. It all comes down to the room. The room has to be good. Yeah, absolutely, if you're in a concert hall or something, you probably wouldn't want to. But yeah, but you can also get lave mics. I think they're doing a lave mic as well that goes with this, so you know, wow, that kind of podcasting and all that kind of stuff. So yeah, it's really clever here, Isn't it a thing I always watch bandrew do this card podcastage? Is it pod castage or podcastage? Podcastage? It sounds like sort of being tied up and part kind of Yeah, yeah, I'm being held postage. So I'm going to tap on the desk. See always does that, So tapping on the desk and this is not ideal, as I said, No, I mean I can hear that you're tapping on the desk, But there's absolutely no thumping or rumbling or anything. No, it's not in them. It's not actually in your like stand that you can hear it, understand. Yeah, but on the what stand are you using? Are you using that? That? The gravity? Yeah, so that thing actually is helping a lot to isolate the MIC from your desk. Yeah. See what helps a lot is mass, right, weight, yep. So if you have that MIC on a very lightweight stand, like a little folding tripod, it probably wouldn't do as well. But putting on a very heavy weighted stand on rubber like that, that's a pretty good package there. Yeah. Yeah, I think it works a treat. Well, I will. I'll stick the link to that that Mic stands talking about in the show notes too. So yeah, yeah, yeah, the gravity. Yeah, it's a German design. I don't know where it's made, probably chrying them, but yeah, design and engine design, heavy steel. Chances are it's coming out and yeah, and steel from ooh, it's like probably a hole in the ground in Noustralia. That's the story another story. Yeah, but you know, the conclusion for me of this MIC is just bloody good. It sounds fantastic. I have no issues with it. I like it absolutely, Yeah, no issues at all. But it sounds like you. It sounds like you unmessed with Yeah, because we've all heard the USB mics. We've tried a lot of things, and you know, some of the other companies are trying to be really clever with lots of onboard processing DSP, and sometimes those settings are on by default you don't even know it. So now you're already mucking up the audio without even realizing it. And you know, these guys are going on a more purest way, just like we're not going to muck with it. There's no DSP. It's just this is the way our mic sounds. This is the way it sounds, and that is a very familiar sound, which is a very good thing. That's what we want to hear. Yeah, and also, if anyone's interested, the headphone amplifier is extremely good. So that's a plus. Yeah, very nice. So we figured out the knob is a multifunction now that controls your headphone level and the monitor blend or mix, yeah, or balance as you call it. Okay, so the mix between you and me, Yeah, okay, very good, very good. Well there go on Austrian Audio, well done, something else to add to the shopping list. It's Christmas, they need to just add it to their shipping list and send one of the rest of us that yes, the Audio Suite and Austrian Audio recorded using Source Connect, edited by Andrew Peaters and mixed by Voodoo Radio Imaging takes the pot. George the check would don't forget to subscribe to the show and joining the conversation on our Facebook group to leave a comment, suggest a topic, or just say good day. Drop us a note at our website.