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Upon reviewing my notes and samples, I realized that I didn't actually have anything to say about a comparison between two microphones, Presonus PD70 and another Presonus microphone. The latter was sent to me late last year for review, but it turned out to be effectively the same as the former, with the same capsule, tuning, and design philosophy.

The main difference between the two is that the USB version has a slight presence boost, which helps cut through other sounds. However, this is somewhat mitigated by the fact that both microphones have a flat and neutral frequency response in the midrange and low end, making it easier to EQ them without introducing unwanted frequencies. This makes the microphone relatively easy to work with, even for someone like me who doesn't always get along with their mic.

Despite my initial reservations about using the USB version of the microphone, I have to admit that it sounds great out of the box. The fact that it's a USB dynamic microphone means that it can be plugged in and started recording right away, without any fuss or muss. And while it may not have as much warmth and character as some other microphones on the market, that's not necessarily a bad thing - in many cases, less is more when it comes to mic selection.

One interesting aspect of the microphone is that I was able to hear subtle differences between the two versions, even when testing them side by side. This suggests that there may be some inherent differences between the USB and XLR versions of the microphone, perhaps due to differences in design or component selection. However, it's worth noting that these differences are relatively small, and can likely be mitigated with careful EQing and post-processing.

In terms of value, I think the PD70 is a great option for anyone looking for a high-quality USB dynamic microphone. At $150, it's certainly not cheap - but in an industry where prices are constantly dropping due to advancements in technology and competition from other manufacturers, it's also not particularly expensive relative to its peers.

That being said, there are always going to be older models or refurbished options available for purchase, which can often make them a more attractive option for those on a budget. In my opinion, buying used is always the best way to get a good deal when it comes to audio equipment - and this is especially true for older models that may have already been discounted by 50% or more.

Overall, I'm really impressed with the Presonus PD70, and I think it's a great addition to anyone's microphone collection. Whether you're looking to upgrade from an old mic, or simply want a reliable and versatile option for recording vocals or instruments, this is definitely worth considering.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthe worlds of professional audio and streaming audio are finally converging and i cannot be more excited i can't believe i'm saying this but presonus have done it they have created a awesome little usb dynamic microphone that i think finally delivers what i think usb microphone buyers expect out of a dynamic microphone and i am very impressed not only in the sound possibilities that play here but the complete package value that you're getting this thing is 200 it comes with two different sub mixes plus your headphone mix you can it has a full onboard dsp to do a whole bunch of post-processing capabilities it's a dynamic microphone it works up close and far away without losing its signal fidelity for the most part this is awesome i'm eposvox the stream professor and i have reviewed countless microphones on the channel and there has been a move over the past few years to get more and more companies on board with the idea of making a usb dynamic microphone because dynamic microphones are desirable by a lot of streamers due to their natural kind of background noise rejecting capabilities which for independent streaming when you're at a desk you've got reflections off your monitors you've got keyboard and mouse sounds you've got all sorts of you know my pc fans are actually super loud at the moment you've got all sorts of extra stuff a condenser mic will give you a more natural sound but it will pick all of that up and it becomes a lot more difficult to properly filter out without you know extra tools presonus has been rocking the home and studio audio production kind of space for a long time now with their studio live mixers going back forever i had a firewire studio live mixer for a few years back on the channel and they've i've been having some serious conversations with them and they want to deliver products for independent streamers as well you know to kind of blend the the the markets of professional audio and streaming audio and they're doing that with two products they have released this microphone we're checking out today the revelator dynamic and they also have the revelator i o 44 which is a super tiny little audio interface there's a lot going on with this it'll be its own separate video the revelator dynamic microphone is of course a dynamic microphone which does not require i mean it's usb but you know wouldn't require phantom power to activate the capsule it's a voice coil that's activated by your mic itself it has a frequency response of 20 hertz to 20 kilohertz it runs in 44.1 48 88.2 and 96 kilohertz modes at 24 bit and connects over usb type c along with a headphone jack on the bottom you also have physical controls to swap presets we'll talk about in a moment to switch your monitoring modes as well as to mute the microphone and adjust your headphone volume if you'd like this is the sequel to their previous revelator usb microphone which i loved the value package of but it was yet another usb condenser microphone we have plenty of those these days and the sound was okay but for streaming purposes i'm not sure i was sold on it was all right but the value offering there competed with the ogata wave in a way that we didn't have a whole lot of other products doing this is their attempt at a broadcast streaming dynamic microphone and the complete package at play here is phenomenal so you get the microphone itself physically it comes with the windscreen and this is the most of all of the alleged everyone keeps telling me certain microphones are competing with the sm7b of all of the alleged sm7b competitors this one the most resembles it it has the same interference tube design and everything even though once you have the buttons on it and the badge and everything you might not think that it's actually a competitor to it by the way this is a cardioid microphone so it will have some off-axis coloration but not as much as a hypercardioid or supercardioid so you get the microphone itself it sounds great it is very thick so i am testing all the microphones today that you are going to see i'm comparing it against a bunch of 100 to 200 usb microphones i'm testing them all at my normal at a fairly normal broadcast talking distance which is about two to three inches away and then i'm testing it at two fifths away to show the impact of proximity effect because when you get right up on this microphone it gets thick and juicy in a good way if that's the sound that you want not everybody wants that and a lot of people want the flexibility to move around and what i love about this microphone is while i can get right up on it and get that dick juicy in a world you know i am very congested today in a world where one microphone needs to beat them all the presonus revelator dynamic attempts to do just that i'm so sick this month anyway i i love that i have the flexibility to get right up on it but i can also sit here and push it a couple of fists away and other than adjusting gain to compensate so we were at -30 or at 30 now we're at about 40 decibels of gain other than adjusting gain and the natural impact of proximity effect being that as i remove myself from the microphone that lower end kind of emphasis reduces a bit the sound is still very natural and usable and in fact i crank the gain up a little too much there so we were riding the limiter i apologize for that we're at about 35 now i'm trying to keep it consistent you have that flexibility to back up on it keep it you know comfortable positioned or start kissing it if you want to now i've talked about in previous reviews that this is becoming less of a desirable thing both from streamers and from viewers who are tired of having their ears blown out by super thick juicy sounds so i tend to keep mine three to four inches away two to two to three three to four inches away depending on what i'm doing but this is still a revelator product so like their io24 audio interface i reviewed previously as well as their uh usb condenser microphone that they covered they have a whole software suite for it and this thing is amazing so obviously there's the universal control app that allows you to control all of your presonus stuff so i have the i o 24 connected here it lets me control both of them at the same time also they do have a new ipad app which lets you control all the universal control stuff which is pretty cool we'll dive into that maybe with the interface but here we have the actual you know mic chain set up here so i have everything enabled uh you have the ability if i exit out of here this is what the software looks at now i will say as i mentioned before i have been having conversations with presonus about supporting streamers and content creators and i was not happy with the revelator software when i originally reviewed the i o 24. i thought it was a little convoluted a little kind of silly and the mixes didn't make a whole lot of sense in a streaming environment they have revamped a lot of this making the dials a little bit easier to work with adding some extra settings and the sub mixes are now literally labeled stream mix a and b and you can toggle your headphones between all three it's pretty nice so here you have your main microphone channel you have your playback if you're playing over usb and then you have your virtual sub mixes as well as reverb although admittedly i'm struggling to find a way to activate it and maybe i'm just being dumb but like if i crank this up i don't really know that i'm getting anything if i turn off solo i still don't think we're getting any reverb if i turn so low on this like i don't know exactly what i'm doing wrong but at least last time i checked i was not getting reverb okay the reverb only sends to the individual output streams not the device i was hooking in adobe audition so it works fine hey you yeah you we're going dark and dramatic for this one do you want help choosing the right microphone for you do you want hands-on eq advice or for an eq profile to just be generated for you do you want a community of like-minded creators to help build each other up and give advice on not only the tech and the gear but the actual tools and the practices and techniques that you use for streaming and content creation join my discord server discord gg eposvox that's what we do there and i have paid premium tiers where if you join you can get free consultations eq sessions and all that link will be in the description or again discord.gd slash eposvox help support independent education and journalism so here up at the top you have their fat channel and again they use this as you know their onboard dsp on all of their revelator products as far as i can tell which gives you a wide variety of options this allows you to quickly get a high quality sound should you want without having to know a lot about audio or you can start toggling settings from here or you can go all the way in with this icon in the top right and manually tune everything yourself so i have set up a couple presets it comes with a few presets here it comes with broadcast basic light radio and clear these are a little boomy for my taste but they do have a high pass filter toggled and so i think it kind of rolls it off in a decent way i would still tweak it from there i mix some of the kind of cliche bruh i'll say basic gets a little too boomy uh radio perhaps is my favorite one overall so here we're just talking as normal with the default just no signal chain no processing applied my computer fans are extra loud today due to having to clear my cmos and didn't set fan curves and whatever but that'll be consistent across all the audio tests you hear today and this is how the presonus sounds but we're going to go through the fat channel here and test out some of the presets this is a goofy one this is computron 4 000. this is broadcast clear this is the broadcast clear preset i do feel like the limiter is a little aggressive on some of these presets and the eq curve bump in the low end is more aggressive than i'd like than i would like as i said in other presets we're now transitioning to the broadcast radio preset here however they do have a high pass filter low cut filter applied by default which is kind of what i asked for so pretty nice there most of these presets have the noise gate set to moderate which might cut me out a little bit i now changed it to low so we went from broadcast clear to broadcast radio now we're on broadcast light test test one two three and then we have broadcast basic which is what we're on now this is broadcast basically why did you do that dave the problem that i'm running into that makes it a little boomy though was actually a a it's mostly the limiter uh and this has to do with how windows handles wdm audio devices rather than uh aco but the you ride the limiter a little too much with these presets whereas i think a little toning down also works as well as the noise gates get super aggressive for me by default so i've tweaked them a bit but going off of this i've actually built my own presets i built one with the standard parametric eq and then one with the vintage eq so if i dive in here uh we have the high pass filter of course which i've set to about 59 60 hertz to roll off the extra boomy information of my voice that isn't really usable then there's a noise gate which both has the noise gate and an expander which these buttons aren't the most logical but it's got an expander as well as a noise gate threshold here with attack and release times i had to really fine-tune this to not make it chop up my voice but i think i'm happy with where it is you have compressor eq and limiter and you can change the order of eq and compressor i used to always eq before i compressed but compressing your audio really changes the frequencies and so i kept finding that whatever i'd set up in my eq isn't really how it sounds after you compress it because it just changes the dynamics of your audio so these days i compress before i eq personally i have this set very modestly the default presets are kind of aggressive but i have two to one ratio a a fairly gentle threshold minus 17 not too bad not gonna really clamp down your audio too much and then uh attack and release is set kind of to be enough to catch it but not enough to make the different syllables and pauses interrupt each other eq again you have three different eqs available standard passage and vintage standard passive and vintage uh i prefer the standard parametric eq it's what i can learn the best from for whatever reason it likes to like screw up where my mouse is with these but i do my standard eq curve i do all the time here just fine tuned for this specific mic so i've got the slightest of boosts to the 100 to 150 hertz range to get that warmth out of my voice the high pass filter is cutting off the stuff i don't need though i've got a low mid cut here around 250 hertz you know it starts at 205 but you know it starts landing 250 hertz you cut out the muddiness caused by boosting up the low end got amids cuts to cut out the nasaliness because i'm literally always congested so i have a lot of nasally you know frequencies coming out and then a little bit of just a trouble boost to get that clarity back out there and then the limiter i just have set basically super super high so that it's just preventing me from clipping and distorting you can set that however you want you'll just have to gain it back up after but you want to balance the makeup gain here in your compressor with the limiter because if you crank that up then you're riding the limiter and then that kind of distorts you a little bit and then of course there are voices you've got a doubler detuner vocoder ring modulator filters and delay and like we can play with that uh this is the doubler this this is the detuner this is the vocader this is the ring modulator here are some filters these these presets are are obviously meant to be tinkered with and do some voices the effects are okay i'm not a huge fan of how the vocoder sounds no matter how i tinker with it i am very interested recently uh what what's it called the roland svt4 is that what it is vt4 the roland vt4 i've seen a few streamers now bring this up it's 250 bucks for just a voice transformer which is not worth it whatsoever but as a toy to play with a lot of cool uh preset capabilities and like tune following and things like that it has a pretty cool vocoder effect in it so at some point i might spring on it just to play with it for stream effects or whatever but that's not the point so you have all of this doing the processing on the microphone itself now i'm going to go ahead and turn all this off actually i wanted to compare so this is with the parametric eq but i've set up basically the same preset here with the vintage eq which is what you're hearing now so you can see what this vintage eq looks like trying to emulate some rack mount gear i'm not a huge fan of the passive eq at all i don't understand it i could do some learning for it but it's not something i have a whole lot of experience with but i like the vintage eq of course now i've messed up my preset here so we'll just go back to this one but we're going to turn the fat channel off now now for my microphone comparisons all of them are going to be the raw audio anyway but now you're hearing the raw audio with the microphone i didn't do a whole lot of aggressive eq in here and honestly it is still a very thick microphone if you get right up on it which is something i like i think it's important to consider what microphone is good for your voice in that the frequencies that it kind of emphasizes and the kinds of sounds you're going for really matter here so like for example comparing the differences between the revelator you know usb condenser microphone and the revelator dynamic this is thick and juicy and rejects background sounds and is more for podcasting spoken word or wrapping or something whereas the revelator usb condenser is going to be you know thinner and brighter but it's going to be a little bit more natural it's going to have the full range of your voice without emphasizing that low end and that's a little bit better for guitar and singing and things like that so you got to choose the right mic for you but despite being a usb microphone it doesn't have any of that usb crunch or compressed sound or anything like that it still sounds really natural and i am impressed and again as i mentioned you can control all these presets from the uh the buttons on the mic itself the mic comes with a little yoke for you to attach it to a mic arm and it makes it super easy to attach but it also has a quarter twenty threaded tap on the back of it as well in case you're trying to attach it with some other third-party mount which i appreciate now i wanted to briefly touch on the revelator software here again we'll cover it more in depth when i talk about the io44 audio interface just as an update but to use the stream mixes and things like that effectively you have your headphone mix where you can adjust levels you can adjust your levels all of this however you like and you have a playback device so whatever is playing back to your uh headphone device here so i know i have a whole lot of audio devices but if i scroll down to playback lr revelator dynamic whatever i have playing here i can adjust the levels off to my headphones and then there's virtual a and virtual b as well now you can see these show up both for my i o 24 and the revelator dynamic in my audio devices i have virtual output b and virtual output a is hanging around here somewhere there there's no organization of these devices yeah so i have two different virtual devices i can route audio to as well as the general playback so i can adjust these and then i can come over here to the stream mix and control how i want them to be sounding including my microphone come down to stream mix me same thing here and you can toggle listening to any of the mixes this is really important because it gives you not only two different virtual audio devices to mix to plus i guess the default headphone device but you also have technically three sub mixes or i guess one mix and two sub mixes in that you can change what you hear in your headphones you can change what say your stream hears and then you can change what you're recording hears separately from what you hear or you can change what your stream hears versus what your voice chat hears if you want to route stream xp to voice chat if you have like a sampler or a looper or something you have a lot of flexibility at play here which the potential was there for the revelator software back when i originally reviewed the i o 24 but they hadn't quite lived up to it yet or made it as easy to understand that's present here especially for music production this is super useful because in your headphones you can keep your mic volume super loud so you can stay in key or whatever i don't know anything about that i'm still learning you don't want to know but then you can have your music level a bit more balanced and turned up for your streams to hear or whatever all right let's cut to some microphone comparisons versus some similarly priced usb microphones and talk about how they sound and differ this is a microphone test three rings for the oven kings under the sky seven for the dwarf lords in their halls of stone nine for mortal men doomed to die one for the dark lord on his dark throne in the land of mordor where the shadows lie three rings for the oven kings under the sky seven for the dwarf lords in their halls of stone nine for mortal men doomed to die one for the dark lord on his dark throat in the land of mordor where the shadows lie three rings for the oven kings under the sky seven for the dwarf lords in their halls of stone nine for the mortal men doomed to die one for the dark 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his dark throne in the land of mordor where the shadows lie i'm going to say i'm very impressed with this microphone it is 200 and 200 obviously that's the out of the gate price versus a lot of sales and used prices of these other microphones that have been out for anywhere from two years to 10 years but this is twice the price of the elgato wave and a little more than twice the price of what you get the samsung q2 u4 it is hard to make an argument for any microphone that comes out these days that isn't just like absolute god tier to pay twice or more of the price than competing offers now samsung q2u competes quite favorably it's a little bright and you still hear a little bit of the usb compression over usb which is how i tested this but it is incredibly favorable and you start with it over usb and then eventually you upgrade to a pretty nice usb mixer or audio interface or something like that and this will still do you pretty well uh so sound wise it is hard to compete with this price-wise just because it's such an incredible value in terms of capabilities you got the elgato wave sitting pretty at 99 bucks most of the time you can get it for 80 sometimes on sale or on refurbished deals and this has a competent software package you don't get any post processing built into this they have now enabled vscs in the elgato wavelength software so you can add your own plugins with like the replugs reaper plugins uh or something like that to add post-processing but it is a condenser mic and it does struggle when it comes to background noise and ambient noise and things like that compared to a dynamic mic like this one it still gives you a great sound and i would argue that obviously if you're going for the broadcast sound getting right up on this dynamic microphone and getting the thick juicy sound is going my voice is going out it's going to sound the best overall but the sound that you get when you back up this microphone to a couple fists away it's actually quite comparable to the sound that you get naturally just kind of up close out of the elgato wave which is very cool versus a couple of the other mics the mv7 it's really hard to get a good sound out of i think over usb i'm getting a really clean sound at the moment uh but it you have to do a lot of eq to kind of put some of the sound you want back into it i wouldn't say it's flat it's just a little a little thin i guess it's always felt like a little bit of a cheaper microphone which was kind of disappointing given it came from sure who made you know the sm7b everyone's lusting after the q9u from samson which is supposed to be like the upgraded q2u is still just so dark i'm still a year later i'm trying to figure out what went wrong with this microphone i keep watching other reviews to make sure i didn't get a broken sample it is a very dark microphone it doesn't sound good and it also launched at like 200 bucks the icon usb is actually a little bit darker over usb than the xlr version so it doesn't compete as favorably here but it is going to be a lot more cooperative in terms of off-axis angles and you know keeping it a little bit further away from you and you can usually eq that to be a little bit brighter uh to make it sound more like the icon xlr and then of course we've got the beacon mic i said i wasn't going to talk about it again so i'm more going to just kind of pose this in a three-way here you have three microphones now that really pose a compelling streaming option with virtual audio cable software you've got the elgato wave which came out first and it's now the cheapest 99 bucks again is the most you should pay for this and the wave three and the wave one sound the same it's just the physical controls that differ you don't have as many dial options and you don't have the capacitive mute button on the wave one then you have the beacon mic which came out second 270 dollars more or nearly three times the cost of this one sounds crap out of box i have said enough on that has an amazing post-processing suite with the onboard dsp and has some virtual audio cables the virtual audio cables are comparative both in terms of functionality and quantity and whatever else theo got a wave and if you want to control them effectively you kind of need an external controller although the elgato wave does let you change some of it if you have the wave three on board yoga wave does not have post processing but it supports vsts which are just software plug-ins that you can use now we have a third microphone which just came out the day i'm recording i'm a bit behind on my reviews because there was a million embargoes releasing in february and multiple released on the same day for this one this came out at 200 so twice as much as the wave but 70 bucks or so cheaper than the beacon mic it sounds stellar out of box it's flexible both up close and further away whereas while i still don't like the sound of the beacon mic up close it completely falls apart at a distance it has an onboard dsp just like the beacon mic for lots of post-processing options they have a ton of presets on board presonus knows what they're doing with audio and you have more physical you have like some solid physical control options and it has virtual audio cables now you you get three sub mixes which is more than either of these offer you get two virtual audio devices instead of the like four or five or six or so that these offer i don't think that's really necessary but you can still control it with something like the beacon mix which is pretty cool i think obviously i've said my piece on the beacon mic i think it's a very compelling offering based on your goals of using it if you want the most natural sounding sound you're trying to do singing or you have a great sound treated environment yoga wave is still more compelling you just have to learn to use vst plugins that's only on windows by the way if you want the broadcast sound if you want to do more kind of wrapping or you need that noise rejection you're getting arguably a more competent software solution other than slightly more limiting in virtual devices from the presonus option it's very tough to call especially since it's 100 difference you could theoretically spend that hundred dollars on some decent soundtrack acoustic treatment for your space will it be enough to make the difference i can't tell you that but here's the samples here's what you can decide i got into editing this video and realized i didn't actually talk about a comparison i wanted to make which was supposed to kind of undo an entire review that i had on my plate that i no longer need to do it's been on my list to review the presonus pd70 presonus's other dynamic microphone that they've had out for a year or two now that they sent me late last year to review and it was i was literally testing it for review whenever this microphone showed up well it turns out they're effectively the same microphone the same capsule like the they're the same microphone design the same capsule as in both the same tuning is in both so i don't really need to review it because they're effectively the same microphone but there is a slight difference so if you look at the frequency response graph for this microphone you'll see it has a fairly stark presence boost which helps you know cut across things which on its own i don't take a fence with but the fact that it remains completely flat and neutral through the mids to the low end makes up for that because that means that in my eq let me pull it up here and look at it myself i've already shown it on screen of course like i can mostly keep my high-end eq fairly smooth cut my mids and just tweak the low end that i need to it means it's a lot easier to work with than if you had also scooped the low end with the high end boost but i do find the usb dynamic to be a little bit warmer compared to the xlr i wasn't looking for differences but whenever i was playing the samples side by side and even when i first recorded this one knowing how this one was sounding like in my testing i was really confused because this one felt a little cold it doesn't make any sense but like you know it didn't have as much warmth to it as i expected it sounds fine you can eq it to make it sound a little bit better that's totally fine but you know out of box it was a little cold and tame and so the fact that these are the same microphone is kind of interesting because i'm using all my testing with this was done with the presonus actually that's not true my original testing where i got my original like impression was done with the audient evo4 but then all of the samples you hear in this video or with the presonus revelator il24 theoretically while obviously not the same components the same design philosophy should be in both the revelator microphone and the revelator audio interface but yet i'm getting a ever so slightly different sound out of the usb microphone versus the xlr i don't think it's a deal breaker in either direction you can compensate whether you want it to be less warm or more warm you can compensate for that in post that's fine i just wanted to convey that in a way this is also a review of the pd70 xlr it's just a little bit longer in usb instead of xlr i think it's pretty compelling but again like i said a new mic showing up over i say i'd say 150 bucks becomes tough to recommend in general just due to how cheap everything else has gotten and that's not necessarily presonus fault so much as older products get cheaper and you can buy used i always recommend buying used when possible and that's obviously going to benefit an older product more but there you go this is a great microphone i was blown away i was kind of nervous when they were putting out a usb dynamic microphone i was like all right we'll see and i plugged this thing in and from day one i was stoked i will probably do something with this mic to provide more samples when i'm not sick i get sick fairly regularly i have terrible allergies and some other stuff i'm working on it with doctors i'll figure it out uh but i'm super congested today but i re-recorded all of my samples today with this headspace so that you can hear the differences rather than view it to where like some of them i'm congested and some of them i'm not hope you found this video helpful try to be as helpful as possible with my mic reviews let me know what you think and stay tuned i believe next week get subscribed for the io44 review if you're looking for something else to watch go check out my review on that elgato wave microphone if you're interested in what that's all about or check out my video on the presonus revelator i o 24 audio interface it's my go xlr killer i swapped my go xlr for it and it can kind of get you ready for what to expect for the i o 44. remember be kind rewind remember be kind rewind i remember be kind rewind my voice i'm so congested y'allthe worlds of professional audio and streaming audio are finally converging and i cannot be more excited i can't believe i'm saying this but presonus have done it they have created a awesome little usb dynamic microphone that i think finally delivers what i think usb microphone buyers expect out of a dynamic microphone and i am very impressed not only in the sound possibilities that play here but the complete package value that you're getting this thing is 200 it comes with two different sub mixes plus your headphone mix you can it has a full onboard dsp to do a whole bunch of post-processing capabilities it's a dynamic microphone it works up close and far away without losing its signal fidelity for the most part this is awesome i'm eposvox the stream professor and i have reviewed countless microphones on the channel and there has been a move over the past few years to get more and more companies on board with the idea of making a usb dynamic microphone because dynamic microphones are desirable by a lot of streamers due to their natural kind of background noise rejecting capabilities which for independent streaming when you're at a desk you've got reflections off your monitors you've got keyboard and mouse sounds you've got all sorts of you know my pc fans are actually super loud at the moment you've got all sorts of extra stuff a condenser mic will give you a more natural sound but it will pick all of that up and it becomes a lot more difficult to properly filter out without you know extra tools presonus has been rocking the home and studio audio production kind of space for a long time now with their studio live mixers going back forever i had a firewire studio live mixer for a few years back on the channel and they've i've been having some serious conversations with them and they want to deliver products for independent streamers as well you know to kind of blend the the the markets of professional audio and streaming audio and they're doing that with two products they have released this microphone we're checking out today the revelator dynamic and they also have the revelator i o 44 which is a super tiny little audio interface there's a lot going on with this it'll be its own separate video the revelator dynamic microphone is of course a dynamic microphone which does not require i mean it's usb but you know wouldn't require phantom power to activate the capsule it's a voice coil that's activated by your mic itself it has a frequency response of 20 hertz to 20 kilohertz it runs in 44.1 48 88.2 and 96 kilohertz modes at 24 bit and connects over usb type c along with a headphone jack on the bottom you also have physical controls to swap presets we'll talk about in a moment to switch your monitoring modes as well as to mute the microphone and adjust your headphone volume if you'd like this is the sequel to their previous revelator usb microphone which i loved the value package of but it was yet another usb condenser microphone we have plenty of those these days and the sound was okay but for streaming purposes i'm not sure i was sold on it was all right but the value offering there competed with the ogata wave in a way that we didn't have a whole lot of other products doing this is their attempt at a broadcast streaming dynamic microphone and the complete package at play here is phenomenal so you get the microphone itself physically it comes with the windscreen and this is the most of all of the alleged everyone keeps telling me certain microphones are competing with the sm7b of all of the alleged sm7b competitors this one the most resembles it it has the same interference tube design and everything even though once you have the buttons on it and the badge and everything you might not think that it's actually a competitor to it by the way this is a cardioid microphone so it will have some off-axis coloration but not as much as a hypercardioid or supercardioid so you get the microphone itself it sounds great it is very thick so i am testing all the microphones today that you are going to see i'm comparing it against a bunch of 100 to 200 usb microphones i'm testing them all at my normal at a fairly normal broadcast talking distance which is about two to three inches away and then i'm testing it at two fifths away to show the impact of proximity effect because when you get right up on this microphone it gets thick and juicy in a good way if that's the sound that you want not everybody wants that and a lot of people want the flexibility to move around and what i love about this microphone is while i can get right up on it and get that dick juicy in a world you know i am very congested today in a world where one microphone needs to beat them all the presonus revelator dynamic attempts to do just that i'm so sick this month anyway i i love that i have the flexibility to get right up on it but i can also sit here and push it a couple of fists away and other than adjusting gain to compensate so we were at -30 or at 30 now we're at about 40 decibels of gain other than adjusting gain and the natural impact of proximity effect being that as i remove myself from the microphone that lower end kind of emphasis reduces a bit the sound is still very natural and usable and in fact i crank the gain up a little too much there so we were riding the limiter i apologize for that we're at about 35 now i'm trying to keep it consistent you have that flexibility to back up on it keep it you know comfortable positioned or start kissing it if you want to now i've talked about in previous reviews that this is becoming less of a desirable thing both from streamers and from viewers who are tired of having their ears blown out by super thick juicy sounds so i tend to keep mine three to four inches away two to two to three three to four inches away depending on what i'm doing but this is still a revelator product so like their io24 audio interface i reviewed previously as well as their uh usb condenser microphone that they covered they have a whole software suite for it and this thing is amazing so obviously there's the universal control app that allows you to control all of your presonus stuff so i have the i o 24 connected here it lets me control both of them at the same time also they do have a new ipad app which lets you control all the universal control stuff which is pretty cool we'll dive into that maybe with the interface but here we have the actual you know mic chain set up here so i have everything enabled uh you have the ability if i exit out of here this is what the software looks at now i will say as i mentioned before i have been having conversations with presonus about supporting streamers and content creators and i was not happy with the revelator software when i originally reviewed the i o 24. i thought it was a little convoluted a little kind of silly and the mixes didn't make a whole lot of sense in a streaming environment they have revamped a lot of this making the dials a little bit easier to work with adding some extra settings and the sub mixes are now literally labeled stream mix a and b and you can toggle your headphones between all three it's pretty nice so here you have your main microphone channel you have your playback if you're playing over usb and then you have your virtual sub mixes as well as reverb although admittedly i'm struggling to find a way to activate it and maybe i'm just being dumb but like if i crank this up i don't really know that i'm getting anything if i turn off solo i still don't think we're getting any reverb if i turn so low on this like i don't know exactly what i'm doing wrong but at least last time i checked i was not getting reverb okay the reverb only sends to the individual output streams not the device i was hooking in adobe audition so it works fine hey you yeah you we're going dark and dramatic for this one do you want help choosing the right microphone for you do you want hands-on eq advice or for an eq profile to just be generated for you do you want a community of like-minded creators to help build each other up and give advice on not only the tech and the gear but the actual tools and the practices and techniques that you use for streaming and content creation join my discord server discord gg eposvox that's what we do there and i have paid premium tiers where if you join you can get free consultations eq sessions and all that link will be in the description or again discord.gd slash eposvox help support independent education and journalism so here up at the top you have their fat channel and again they use this as you know their onboard dsp on all of their revelator products as far as i can tell which gives you a wide variety of options this allows you to quickly get a high quality sound should you want without having to know a lot about audio or you can start toggling settings from here or you can go all the way in with this icon in the top right and manually tune everything yourself so i have set up a couple presets it comes with a few presets here it comes with broadcast basic light radio and clear these are a little boomy for my taste but they do have a high pass filter toggled and so i think it kind of rolls it off in a decent way i would still tweak it from there i mix some of the kind of cliche bruh i'll say basic gets a little too boomy uh radio perhaps is my favorite one overall so here we're just talking as normal with the default just no signal chain no processing applied my computer fans are extra loud today due to having to clear my cmos and didn't set fan curves and whatever but that'll be consistent across all the audio tests you hear today and this is how the presonus sounds but we're going to go through the fat channel here and test out some of the presets this is a goofy one this is computron 4 000. this is broadcast clear this is the broadcast clear preset i do feel like the limiter is a little aggressive on some of these presets and the eq curve bump in the low end is more aggressive than i'd like than i would like as i said in other presets we're now transitioning to the broadcast radio preset here however they do have a high pass filter low cut filter applied by default which is kind of what i asked for so pretty nice there most of these presets have the noise gate set to moderate which might cut me out a little bit i now changed it to low so we went from broadcast clear to broadcast radio now we're on broadcast light test test one two three and then we have broadcast basic which is what we're on now this is broadcast basically why did you do that dave the problem that i'm running into that makes it a little boomy though was actually a a it's mostly the limiter uh and this has to do with how windows handles wdm audio devices rather than uh aco but the you ride the limiter a little too much with these presets whereas i think a little toning down also works as well as the noise gates get super aggressive for me by default so i've tweaked them a bit but going off of this i've actually built my own presets i built one with the standard parametric eq and then one with the vintage eq so if i dive in here uh we have the high pass filter of course which i've set to about 59 60 hertz to roll off the extra boomy information of my voice that isn't really usable then there's a noise gate which both has the noise gate and an expander which these buttons aren't the most logical but it's got an expander as well as a noise gate threshold here with attack and release times i had to really fine-tune this to not make it chop up my voice but i think i'm happy with where it is you have compressor eq and limiter and you can change the order of eq and compressor i used to always eq before i compressed but compressing your audio really changes the frequencies and so i kept finding that whatever i'd set up in my eq isn't really how it sounds after you compress it because it just changes the dynamics of your audio so these days i compress before i eq personally i have this set very modestly the default presets are kind of aggressive but i have two to one ratio a a fairly gentle threshold minus 17 not too bad not gonna really clamp down your audio too much and then uh attack and release is set kind of to be enough to catch it but not enough to make the different syllables and pauses interrupt each other eq again you have three different eqs available standard passage and vintage standard passive and vintage uh i prefer the standard parametric eq it's what i can learn the best from for whatever reason it likes to like screw up where my mouse is with these but i do my standard eq curve i do all the time here just fine tuned for this specific mic so i've got the slightest of boosts to the 100 to 150 hertz range to get that warmth out of my voice the high pass filter is cutting off the stuff i don't need though i've got a low mid cut here around 250 hertz you know it starts at 205 but you know it starts landing 250 hertz you cut out the muddiness caused by boosting up the low end got amids cuts to cut out the nasaliness because i'm literally always congested so i have a lot of nasally you know frequencies coming out and then a little bit of just a trouble boost to get that clarity back out there and then the limiter i just have set basically super super high so that it's just preventing me from clipping and distorting you can set that however you want you'll just have to gain it back up after but you want to balance the makeup gain here in your compressor with the limiter because if you crank that up then you're riding the limiter and then that kind of distorts you a little bit and then of course there are voices you've got a doubler detuner vocoder ring modulator filters and delay and like we can play with that uh this is the doubler this this is the detuner this is the vocader this is the ring modulator here are some filters these these presets are are obviously meant to be tinkered with and do some voices the effects are okay i'm not a huge fan of how the vocoder sounds no matter how i tinker with it i am very interested recently uh what what's it called the roland svt4 is that what it is vt4 the roland vt4 i've seen a few streamers now bring this up it's 250 bucks for just a voice transformer which is not worth it whatsoever but as a toy to play with a lot of cool uh preset capabilities and like tune following and things like that it has a pretty cool vocoder effect in it so at some point i might spring on it just to play with it for stream effects or whatever but that's not the point so you have all of this doing the processing on the microphone itself now i'm going to go ahead and turn all this off actually i wanted to compare so this is with the parametric eq but i've set up basically the same preset here with the vintage eq which is what you're hearing now so you can see what this vintage eq looks like trying to emulate some rack mount gear i'm not a huge fan of the passive eq at all i don't understand it i could do some learning for it but it's not something i have a whole lot of experience with but i like the vintage eq of course now i've messed up my preset here so we'll just go back to this one but we're going to turn the fat channel off now now for my microphone comparisons all of them are going to be the raw audio anyway but now you're hearing the raw audio with the microphone i didn't do a whole lot of aggressive eq in here and honestly it is still a very thick microphone if you get right up on it which is something i like i think it's important to consider what microphone is good for your voice in that the frequencies that it kind of emphasizes and the kinds of sounds you're going for really matter here so like for example comparing the differences between the revelator you know usb condenser microphone and the revelator dynamic this is thick and juicy and rejects background sounds and is more for podcasting spoken word or wrapping or something whereas the revelator usb condenser is going to be you know thinner and brighter but it's going to be a little bit more natural it's going to have the full range of your voice without emphasizing that low end and that's a little bit better for guitar and singing and things like that so you got to choose the right mic for you but despite being a usb microphone it doesn't have any of that usb crunch or compressed sound or anything like that it still sounds really natural and i am impressed and again as i mentioned you can control all these presets from the uh the buttons on the mic itself the mic comes with a little yoke for you to attach it to a mic arm and it makes it super easy to attach but it also has a quarter twenty threaded tap on the back of it as well in case you're trying to attach it with some other third-party mount which i appreciate now i wanted to briefly touch on the revelator software here again we'll cover it more in depth when i talk about the io44 audio interface just as an update but to use the stream mixes and things like that effectively you have your headphone mix where you can adjust levels you can adjust your levels all of this however you like and you have a playback device so whatever is playing back to your uh headphone device here so i know i have a whole lot of audio devices but if i scroll down to playback lr revelator dynamic whatever i have playing here i can adjust the levels off to my headphones and then there's virtual a and virtual b as well now you can see these show up both for my i o 24 and the revelator dynamic in my audio devices i have virtual output b and virtual output a is hanging around here somewhere there there's no organization of these devices yeah so i have two different virtual devices i can route audio to as well as the general playback so i can adjust these and then i can come over here to the stream mix and control how i want them to be sounding including my microphone come down to stream mix me same thing here and you can toggle listening to any of the mixes this is really important because it gives you not only two different virtual audio devices to mix to plus i guess the default headphone device but you also have technically three sub mixes or i guess one mix and two sub mixes in that you can change what you hear in your headphones you can change what say your stream hears and then you can change what you're recording hears separately from what you hear or you can change what your stream hears versus what your voice chat hears if you want to route stream xp to voice chat if you have like a sampler or a looper or something you have a lot of flexibility at play here which the potential was there for the revelator software back when i originally reviewed the i o 24 but they hadn't quite lived up to it yet or made it as easy to understand that's present here especially for music production this is super useful because in your headphones you can keep your mic volume super loud so you can stay in key or whatever i don't know anything about that i'm still learning you don't want to know but then you can have your music level a bit more balanced and turned up for your streams to hear or whatever all right let's cut to some microphone comparisons versus some similarly priced usb microphones and talk about how they sound and differ this is a microphone test three rings for the oven kings under the sky seven for the dwarf lords in their halls of stone nine for mortal men doomed to die one for the dark lord on his dark throne in the land of mordor where the shadows lie three rings for the oven kings under the sky seven for the dwarf lords in their halls of stone nine for mortal men doomed to die one for the dark lord on his dark throat in the land of mordor where the shadows lie three rings for the oven kings under the sky seven for the dwarf lords in their halls of stone nine for the mortal men doomed to die one for the dark lord on his dark throne in the land of mordor where the 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where the shadows lie and now the microphone is two fists away instead of one three rings for the oven kings under the sky seven for the dwarf lords in their halls of stone nine for the mortal men doomed to die one for the dark lord on his dark throne in the land of mordor where the shadows lie so now we've moved the mic two fists away instead of one three rings for the oven kings under the sky seven for the dwarf lords in their halls of stone nine for the mortal men doomed to die one for the dark lord on his dark throne in the land of mordor where the shadows lie and now we have the microphone two fists away instead of one three rings for the oven kings under the sky seven for the dwarf lords in their halls of stone nine for the mortal men doomed to die one for the dark lord on his dark throne in the land of mordor where the shadows lie all right now this is with a distance of two fists instead of one three rings for the oven kings under the sky seven for the dwarf lords in their halls of stone nine for the mortal men doomed to die one for the dark lord on his dark throat in the land of mordor where the shadows lie all right i've now moved the microwave microwave i've now moved the microphone two fists away instead of one three rings for the oven kings under the sky seven for the dwarf lords in their halls of stone nine for the mortal men doomed to die one for the dark lord on his dark throne in the land of mordor where the shadows lie now the microphone is two fists away instead of one three rings for the oven kings under the sky seven for the dwarf lords in their halls of stone nine for the mortal men doomed to die one for the dark lord on his dark throat in the land of mordor where the shadows lie now i have the microphone about two fists away instead of one three rings for the elven kings under the sky seven for the dwarf lords in their halls of stone nine for mortal men doomed to die one for the dark lord on his dark throne in the land of mordor where the shadows lie i'm going to say i'm very impressed with this microphone it is 200 and 200 obviously that's the out of the gate price versus a lot of sales and used prices of these other microphones that have been out for anywhere from two years to 10 years but this is twice the price of the elgato wave and a little more than twice the price of what you get the samsung q2 u4 it is hard to make an argument for any microphone that comes out these days that isn't just like absolute god tier to pay twice or more of the price than competing offers now samsung q2u competes quite favorably it's a little bright and you still hear a little bit of the usb compression over usb which is how i tested this but it is incredibly favorable and you start with it over usb and then eventually you upgrade to a pretty nice usb mixer or audio interface or something like that and this will still do you pretty well uh so sound wise it is hard to compete with this price-wise just because it's such an incredible value in terms of capabilities you got the elgato wave sitting pretty at 99 bucks most of the time you can get it for 80 sometimes on sale or on refurbished deals and this has a competent software package you don't get any post processing built into this they have now enabled vscs in the elgato wavelength software so you can add your own plugins with like the replugs reaper plugins uh or something like that to add post-processing but it is a condenser mic and it does struggle when it comes to background noise and ambient noise and things like that compared to a dynamic mic like this one it still gives you a great sound and i would argue that obviously if you're going for the broadcast sound getting right up on this dynamic microphone and getting the thick juicy sound is going my voice is going out it's going to sound the best overall but the sound that you get when you back up this microphone to a couple fists away it's actually quite comparable to the sound that you get naturally just kind of up close out of the elgato wave which is very cool versus a couple of the other mics the mv7 it's really hard to get a good sound out of i think over usb i'm getting a really clean sound at the moment uh but it you have to do a lot of eq to kind of put some of the sound you want back into it i wouldn't say it's flat it's just a little a little thin i guess it's always felt like a little bit of a cheaper microphone which was kind of disappointing given it came from sure who made you know the sm7b everyone's lusting after the q9u from samson which is supposed to be like the upgraded q2u is still just so dark i'm still a year later i'm trying to figure out what went wrong with this microphone i keep watching other reviews to make sure i didn't get a broken sample it is a very dark microphone it doesn't sound good and it also launched at like 200 bucks the icon usb is actually a little bit darker over usb than the xlr version so it doesn't compete as favorably here but it is going to be a lot more cooperative in terms of off-axis angles and you know keeping it a little bit further away from you and you can usually eq that to be a little bit brighter uh to make it sound more like the icon xlr and then of course we've got the beacon mic i said i wasn't going to talk about it again so i'm more going to just kind of pose this in a three-way here you have three microphones now that really pose a compelling streaming option with virtual audio cable software you've got the elgato wave which came out first and it's now the cheapest 99 bucks again is the most you should pay for this and the wave three and the wave one sound the same it's just the physical controls that differ you don't have as many dial options and you don't have the capacitive mute button on the wave one then you have the beacon mic which came out second 270 dollars more or nearly three times the cost of this one sounds crap out of box i have said enough on that has an amazing post-processing suite with the onboard dsp and has some virtual audio cables the virtual audio cables are comparative both in terms of functionality and quantity and whatever else theo got a wave and if you want to control them effectively you kind of need an external controller although the elgato wave does let you change some of it if you have the wave three on board yoga wave does not have post processing but it supports vsts which are just software plug-ins that you can use now we have a third microphone which just came out the day i'm recording i'm a bit behind on my reviews because there was a million embargoes releasing in february and multiple released on the same day for this one this came out at 200 so twice as much as the wave but 70 bucks or so cheaper than the beacon mic it sounds stellar out of box it's flexible both up close and further away whereas while i still don't like the sound of the beacon mic up close it completely falls apart at a distance it has an onboard dsp just like the beacon mic for lots of post-processing options they have a ton of presets on board presonus knows what they're doing with audio and you have more physical you have like some solid physical control options and it has virtual audio cables now you you get three sub mixes which is more than either of these offer you get two virtual audio devices instead of the like four or five or six or so that these offer i don't think that's really necessary but you can still control it with something like the beacon mix which is pretty cool i think obviously i've said my piece on the beacon mic i think it's a very compelling offering based on your goals of using it if you want the most natural sounding sound you're trying to do singing or you have a great sound treated environment yoga wave is still more compelling you just have to learn to use vst plugins that's only on windows by the way if you want the broadcast sound if you want to do more kind of wrapping or you need that noise rejection you're getting arguably a more competent software solution other than slightly more limiting in virtual devices from the presonus option it's very tough to call especially since it's 100 difference you could theoretically spend that hundred dollars on some decent soundtrack acoustic treatment for your space will it be enough to make the difference i can't tell you that but here's the samples here's what you can decide i got into editing this video and realized i didn't actually talk about a comparison i wanted to make which was supposed to kind of undo an entire review that i had on my plate that i no longer need to do it's been on my list to review the presonus pd70 presonus's other dynamic microphone that they've had out for a year or two now that they sent me late last year to review and it was i was literally testing it for review whenever this microphone showed up well it turns out they're effectively the same microphone the same capsule like the they're the same microphone design the same capsule as in both the same tuning is in both so i don't really need to review it because they're effectively the same microphone but there is a slight difference so if you look at the frequency response graph for this microphone you'll see it has a fairly stark presence boost which helps you know cut across things which on its own i don't take a fence with but the fact that it remains completely flat and neutral through the mids to the low end makes up for that because that means that in my eq let me pull it up here and look at it myself i've already shown it on screen of course like i can mostly keep my high-end eq fairly smooth cut my mids and just tweak the low end that i need to it means it's a lot easier to work with than if you had also scooped the low end with the high end boost but i do find the usb dynamic to be a little bit warmer compared to the xlr i wasn't looking for differences but whenever i was playing the samples side by side and even when i first recorded this one knowing how this one was sounding like in my testing i was really confused because this one felt a little cold it doesn't make any sense but like you know it didn't have as much warmth to it as i expected it sounds fine you can eq it to make it sound a little bit better that's totally fine but you know out of box it was a little cold and tame and so the fact that these are the same microphone is kind of interesting because i'm using all my testing with this was done with the presonus actually that's not true my original testing where i got my original like impression was done with the audient evo4 but then all of the samples you hear in this video or with the presonus revelator il24 theoretically while obviously not the same components the same design philosophy should be in both the revelator microphone and the revelator audio interface but yet i'm getting a ever so slightly different sound out of the usb microphone versus the xlr i don't think it's a deal breaker in either direction you can compensate whether you want it to be less warm or more warm you can compensate for that in post that's fine i just wanted to convey that in a way this is also a review of the pd70 xlr it's just a little bit longer in usb instead of xlr i think it's pretty compelling but again like i said a new mic showing up over i say i'd say 150 bucks becomes tough to recommend in general just due to how cheap everything else has gotten and that's not necessarily presonus fault so much as older products get cheaper and you can buy used i always recommend buying used when possible and that's obviously going to benefit an older product more but there you go this is a great microphone i was blown away i was kind of nervous when they were putting out a usb dynamic microphone i was like all right we'll see and i plugged this thing in and from day one i was stoked i will probably do something with this mic to provide more samples when i'm not sick i get sick fairly regularly i have terrible allergies and some other stuff i'm working on it with doctors i'll figure it out uh but i'm super congested today but i re-recorded all of my samples today with this headspace so that you can hear the differences rather than view it to where like some of them i'm congested and some of them i'm not hope you found this video helpful try to be as helpful as possible with my mic reviews let me know what you think and stay tuned i believe next week get subscribed for the io44 review if you're looking for something else to watch go check out my review on that elgato wave microphone if you're interested in what that's all about or check out my video on the presonus revelator i o 24 audio interface it's my go xlr killer i swapped my go xlr for it and it can kind of get you ready for what to expect for the i o 44. remember be kind rewind remember be kind rewind i remember be kind rewind my voice i'm so congested y'all\n"