Podcast Microphone Battle: Shure MV7 vs Rode PodMic

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Welcome back to my face.

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My name is Brianna.

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I'm the head honcho here at Bamby Media

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and today I'm doing a microphone battle.

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I've got two incredible

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microphones here in front of me.

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we've got the Shure MV7.

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And the Rode PodMic USB XLR.

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I wanted to put them against each other

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because they're essentially the same.

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Thing they can both do both XLR and

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USB and I wanted to put it to the test

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I Have been using the RØDE PodMic now

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for a while and I'm loving it Shure

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also makes incredible microphones.

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And so I wanted to test what

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the differences were between

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these two microphones.

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They're essentially the

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same price point as well.

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it is switching back and forth.

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when I change the microphone

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so that you can hear the

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differences and the intricacies

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between these two microphones.

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What I'm going to test here now is

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saying some sounds that have a lot of

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P's and B's and check the plosives.

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Popping the popcorn makes for

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a yummy after dinner snack.

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Popping the popcorn will make

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for a yummy after dinner snack.

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Now I'm going to test what these

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microphones are like when you

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sing into them, because singing is

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another thing that people do with

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microphones, and I am a singer myself.

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some day when I'm awfully low and the sky

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is grey I will feel a glow just thinking

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of you, and the way you look tonight.

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I'm gonna record a little bit

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from Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn.

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I actually haven't read this book yet and

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everyone talks about it and I know it's

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super old, but I haven't read it yet.

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So here we go.

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When I think of my wife, I

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always think of her head, the

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shape of it to begin with.

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The very first time I saw her.

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It was the back of the head I saw.

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And there was something lovely about it.

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The angles of it.

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Like a shiny, hard corn kernel.

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Or a riverbed fossil.

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She had what the Victorians

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would call a finely shaped head.

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You could imagine the skull quite easily.

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I'd know her head, anywhere.

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Ooh, I'm intrigued.

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I want to know more.

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This is the book that I'm reading

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from, Gone Girl, Jillian Flynn,

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Okay, so now what I'm going to do

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is I'm going to make this The USB

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version of both of these microphones.

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And we're going to have a

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look at what that sounds like.

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this is now the Rode PodMic USB input.

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Popping the popcorn will make

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for a yummy after dinner snack.

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Some the rainbow.

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There's a land that I heard of once in a,

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Now I'm using the Shure MV7

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with the USB input so that you

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can hear what this sounds like.

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Popping the popcorn will make

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for a yummy after dinner snack.

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some day, when I'm awfully low,

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and the sky is grey, I will feel

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the glow just thinking of you.

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And the way you look tonight.

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Now there is a

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Now I'm back to the PodMic XLR,

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and this will be the one that I

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use for the rest of this video.

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What did you think when

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you listened to that?

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What was your impression?

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What was your favorite?

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I have my thoughts.

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I think the Rode PodMic wins, and it

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wins on both the XLR input and the

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USB input, but there is one particular

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use case where I think that the Shure

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MV7 actually beats So, um, yeah, The

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pod mic, and that is in the voiceover

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slash kind of audio book realm.

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If you were recording an audio book

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or you were recording a voiceover or

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meditations or things like that, the MV7

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is better because it sounds more warm.

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and it feels a bit fuller,

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I guess, in your ears.

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The problem with using that microphone

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in my So, in that if you speak a

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little bit faster, if you're doing

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tutorials, you're running things where

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you, you have a bit of pace in your

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voice, the RodePod mic for my voice

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wins because it gives me more clarity

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in the way I sound than the MV7 does.

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We have clients that use the MV7 in the

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USB input, and they sound absolutely

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beautiful with that microphone because

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they have different sounding voices.

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For me, because I have a little bit

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of a higher frequency voice, when

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it gets too muddy, when it starts to

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sound too warm and I speak a little

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bit faster, then it is more difficult

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to kind of hear me well, I think.

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And so for me, for this use case,

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for podcasting, the Rode PodMic wins.

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And I will always default to the XLR

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input because I just prefer that as a...

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audio input, and it gives me more

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flexibility with how far away I can

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be from my actual recording source.

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I have a separate video on why you might

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need an XLR versus a USB, and I will

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make sure to link that wherever I can,

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so that you can have a look at that if

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that's something you're interested in.

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So if you're interested in doing

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voiceover work, if you have a voice

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that you speak a little bit slower,

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You can also adjust some settings.

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It's nice that there is that little app

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that comes with it that gives you some

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firmware updates and things as well.

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And you can either do manual mode or

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make some other adjustments, uh, there.

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So I really like this microphone,

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but for my purposes, it's

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not quite going to hit it.

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I also found with the Shure MV7 that

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it compressed on its own a little

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bit, and I don't know whether you

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could hear that, but it sounded

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like a more compressed sound.

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When it was in the USB mode, and I

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didn't have any settings turned up.

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I didn't have the compression on,

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it was completely flat with the

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way I recorded this so that it was

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a true representation on how the

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microphone sounds coming in, and that's

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exactly what you've heard as well.

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But I found that this struggled a

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little bit more with sounding a bit

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compressed and a little bit more digital.

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and for singing as well, I

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found that both of them were

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quite good with the vocals.

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Maybe if you're a singer, go

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back and listen to those singing

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bits and just ascertain where you

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think your voice sits within that.

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If you're a male voice, you'll,

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you'll sound really good with this

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microphone, with the Rode PodMic.

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Because it doesn't over

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accentuate your bassy tones.

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But if you like that bassy tone

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sound, that more radio, the hoo,

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hoo, hoo type sound, the MV7

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is going to do that for you.

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So you will be fine with either just

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depends on what kind of sound you

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want, knowing that you can always

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adjust your EQ in post production

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if you have those sorts of skills.

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So that is my wrap up of these

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two microphones, XLR, the Rode

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PodMic XLR USB, and the Shure MV7.

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