New ModMic 5 Review! 2-in-1 Detachable Gaming Microphone

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's up guys I'm random Frank P today we're going to be checking out the new mod mic 5 from antline the mod mic is already a very popular product it's probably the best sounding most affordable detachable microphone you can put on any pair of headphones to essentially make it a gaming headset I have it here on my pair of Audio Technica headphones and that's just what's so great about it you can put it on any pair of cans you already have and it is a great sounding mic the new 5.0 version has a ton of great improvements over previous units like the fact that it has two built-in mics with it being omnidirectional and also unidirectional if you need that we'll go over the features and improvements do a mic test for you guys you can hear how it sounds but first message from today's sponsor this video is brought to you by battle nation and Patriot we've teamed up on a cool giveaway that I'm bringing right to you guys over at battle.com celebrate the holiday season we're going to be giving away an awesome prize pack from Patriot but here's the interesting part you're not winning this for yourself it's more of a Pay It Forward idea so think about someone in your life who's deserving like a friend a family member or a coworker go to battl nation.com you can check the link in the description down below if you haven't signed up you can sign up now and then post why you think your friend or someone should deserve this all submissions are due by December 15th and the voting will begin on the 16th and ends the 20th so go check it out now and win someone the perfect gift so back to the mod mic 5 we'll do a quick unboxing because Inside the Box you have the carrying case this is great if you want to bring it back and forth to a friend's house or something like that or to like a land or something it keeps everything in place you have some great protection Inside the Box you have the mod mic 5 microphone itself it looks pretty much exactly the same over previous versions except now on the end of the microphone you have that switch to switch between unidirectional and omnidirectional we also have the included ant lion mute switch module which you can include to the cables so you can have this little inline control here for muting your mic we have both a 1 M and 2 m cable each are going to have that 3.5 Jack at the end and inside the case are a few extra things you get some clips for your cables some 3M adhesive and extra clips for attaching the mic to your headphones and also in the Box they include this Cable Management wrap while this is completely optional I am definitely not a fan of it it's meant to keep the cable from your mod mic and your headphones kept together into one sort of wrap I guess but this wrap once you cut it it phras very easily and it was really a pain to get both the cables in there nicely literally took me like 10 minutes just to put this on it's a nice gesture but I would not recommend using this to stick with the original Cable Management clips but back to the mic itself again very similar to previous models it's overall just very thin and lightweight which is great because if you're putting it on the side of your headphones you're not going to want something big and bulky if you're streaming or something on cams isn't going to be obnoxious or anything the boom arm for the mic is still flexible but it is definitely more sturdy over previous years so when you bend it in the orientation you want in front of your mouth it's not going to slowly like flop down over time it's just very sturdy and rugged and I like that and like I said earlier on the microphone is where you have the switch so you can pick between either having an omnidirectional mic or a unidirectional mic so what's different in this version over last year's version is now that you have the mic mute switch that is its own module and it's not attached as like an inline control so you're going to have to kind of build it up and decide if you want to use that or not it is on the bulkier side so if you don't need it you don't have to use it you can just then connect your cable so it is one unit now what makes this so popular and appealing is the fact that you can use this with any pair of headphones you have I have my Mass drop and Sennheiser hd6xx headphones and these are open back and yes you could still use this on an open back you can use these on closed back as well as any headphones that are whatever shape round triangular anything they work on all sized or all shaped pair of headphones and that's due to impart the 3M sticky tape on the back of the magnetic clip here it all just works flawlessly together you attach it then with this with the little tape there bam it's on and just what's is so great is you're not not limited to using a crappy gaming headset that you're spending $1 to $200 on and the mic in the end is going to suck because most gaming headsets have really crappy mics here if you have a high-end pair of headphones or your favorite pair of headphones which obviously doesn't have a mic use this and now your favorite headphones are now a great gaming headset I know you want to hear a mic test so we're going to head over to the gaming setup and I'll boot up OBS so you can hear how it's going to sound like when I'm streaming and stuff on Twitch all right so this is the segment for the mic test on The Mod mic 5 and right now it's just plugged into my PC so there's no editing whatsoever this is all raw audio there's zero noise gain there's zero noise filters on this it's just plugged in booted up in OBS like I would be using it for streaming on Twitch and right now the mic is on the unidirectional option so it's pretty much picking up my vocal pattern the best which is uh mainly picking up the audio coming out of my mouth and in this general area right now I'm doing some clicking and typing on the keyboard so you can see that it does do a pretty good job of eliminating the background noise right now I just switch to omnidirectional which is going to be picking up a more full pattern of things going on around me not necessarily blocking out the background audio and again just for comparison I'll do some typing and clicking on the keyboard so you can see if it picks it up and then back to unidirectional again this mic for the price unparalleled on the market you can't find something this good and uh it's just a really great option I think so in the end for 70 bucks you're still getting a lot of value here with the mod mic 5 and having those two built-in mics with the Omni directional and unidirectional something that has not been done before on a great sounding detachable mic like they have here that's going to be awesome if you need it if not I would say go with something like the mod mic 4 which is around 50 bucks and just going to have you know one pickup pattern instead but either way the quality here is better than most desktop microphones or USB microphones for this price point so mod mic is still just killing it there are the two conso I wanted to mention I talked about earlier but this Cable Management wrap is just disgusting it's horrible it's a nice gesture I guess but I would not recommend using this at all it just adds unnecessary bulk to it it starts to fray it was impossible to even get it to you know fit in nicely so I wouldn't recommend this and secondly now we have the uh the mute switch on its own sort of like separate module here where you have to attach it to the inline uh 3 5 mm headphone jack if you want to use it or if not you don't need to have it on there but on the 4.0 it was more discret it added less bulk overall cuz it was a smaller module this thing is kind of bigger again not really a big deal but I would have liked to had it just automatically integrated instead of having the option to include it or not but that's pretty much it that's the two really only cons I can think of for this you're still getting outstanding value all across the board there is nothing like this on the market that can come close to the Quality you get from them it's just overall a very nice detachable mic that you can put on any pair of headphones and I've been a fan of mod mic and ant lion for a while now and they are still just putting out great stuff so that'll do it for my like kind of first looking review of The Mod mic 5.0 hope you enjoyed I'll put the link in the description down below so you can check it out you can feel free to follow me on Twitter at randomfrankp and lastly if you haven't already hit that subscribe button while random Frank P hope you enjoyed have a good daywhat's up guys I'm random Frank P today we're going to be checking out the new mod mic 5 from antline the mod mic is already a very popular product it's probably the best sounding most affordable detachable microphone you can put on any pair of headphones to essentially make it a gaming headset I have it here on my pair of Audio Technica headphones and that's just what's so great about it you can put it on any pair of cans you already have and it is a great sounding mic the new 5.0 version has a ton of great improvements over previous units like the fact that it has two built-in mics with it being omnidirectional and also unidirectional if you need that we'll go over the features and improvements do a mic test for you guys you can hear how it sounds but first message from today's sponsor this video is brought to you by battle nation and Patriot we've teamed up on a cool giveaway that I'm bringing right to you guys over at battle.com celebrate the holiday season we're going to be giving away an awesome prize pack from Patriot but here's the interesting part you're not winning this for yourself it's more of a Pay It Forward idea so think about someone in your life who's deserving like a friend a family member or a coworker go to battl nation.com you can check the link in the description down below if you haven't signed up you can sign up now and then post why you think your friend or someone should deserve this all submissions are due by December 15th and the voting will begin on the 16th and ends the 20th so go check it out now and win someone the perfect gift so back to the mod mic 5 we'll do a quick unboxing because Inside the Box you have the carrying case this is great if you want to bring it back and forth to a friend's house or something like that or to like a land or something it keeps everything in place you have some great protection Inside the Box you have the mod mic 5 microphone itself it looks pretty much exactly the same over previous versions except now on the end of the microphone you have that switch to switch between unidirectional and omnidirectional we also have the included ant lion mute switch module which you can include to the cables so you can have this little inline control here for muting your mic we have both a 1 M and 2 m cable each are going to have that 3.5 Jack at the end and inside the case are a few extra things you get some clips for your cables some 3M adhesive and extra clips for attaching the mic to your headphones and also in the Box they include this Cable Management wrap while this is completely optional I am definitely not a fan of it it's meant to keep the cable from your mod mic and your headphones kept together into one sort of wrap I guess but this wrap once you cut it it phras very easily and it was really a pain to get both the cables in there nicely literally took me like 10 minutes just to put this on it's a nice gesture but I would not recommend using this to stick with the original Cable Management clips but back to the mic itself again very similar to previous models it's overall just very thin and lightweight which is great because if you're putting it on the side of your headphones you're not going to want something big and bulky if you're streaming or something on cams isn't going to be obnoxious or anything the boom arm for the mic is still flexible but it is definitely more sturdy over previous years so when you bend it in the orientation you want in front of your mouth it's not going to slowly like flop down over time it's just very sturdy and rugged and I like that and like I said earlier on the microphone is where you have the switch so you can pick between either having an omnidirectional mic or a unidirectional mic so what's different in this version over last year's version is now that you have the mic mute switch that is its own module and it's not attached as like an inline control so you're going to have to kind of build it up and decide if you want to use that or not it is on the bulkier side so if you don't need it you don't have to use it you can just then connect your cable so it is one unit now what makes this so popular and appealing is the fact that you can use this with any pair of headphones you have I have my Mass drop and Sennheiser hd6xx headphones and these are open back and yes you could still use this on an open back you can use these on closed back as well as any headphones that are whatever shape round triangular anything they work on all sized or all shaped pair of headphones and that's due to impart the 3M sticky tape on the back of the magnetic clip here it all just works flawlessly together you attach it then with this with the little tape there bam it's on and just what's is so great is you're not not limited to using a crappy gaming headset that you're spending $1 to $200 on and the mic in the end is going to suck because most gaming headsets have really crappy mics here if you have a high-end pair of headphones or your favorite pair of headphones which obviously doesn't have a mic use this and now your favorite headphones are now a great gaming headset I know you want to hear a mic test so we're going to head over to the gaming setup and I'll boot up OBS so you can hear how it's going to sound like when I'm streaming and stuff on Twitch all right so this is the segment for the mic test on The Mod mic 5 and right now it's just plugged into my PC so there's no editing whatsoever this is all raw audio there's zero noise gain there's zero noise filters on this it's just plugged in booted up in OBS like I would be using it for streaming on Twitch and right now the mic is on the unidirectional option so it's pretty much picking up my vocal pattern the best which is uh mainly picking up the audio coming out of my mouth and in this general area right now I'm doing some clicking and typing on the keyboard so you can see that it does do a pretty good job of eliminating the background noise right now I just switch to omnidirectional which is going to be picking up a more full pattern of things going on around me not necessarily blocking out the background audio and again just for comparison I'll do some typing and clicking on the keyboard so you can see if it picks it up and then back to unidirectional again this mic for the price unparalleled on the market you can't find something this good and uh it's just a really great option I think so in the end for 70 bucks you're still getting a lot of value here with the mod mic 5 and having those two built-in mics with the Omni directional and unidirectional something that has not been done before on a great sounding detachable mic like they have here that's going to be awesome if you need it if not I would say go with something like the mod mic 4 which is around 50 bucks and just going to have you know one pickup pattern instead but either way the quality here is better than most desktop microphones or USB microphones for this price point so mod mic is still just killing it there are the two conso I wanted to mention I talked about earlier but this Cable Management wrap is just disgusting it's horrible it's a nice gesture I guess but I would not recommend using this at all it just adds unnecessary bulk to it it starts to fray it was impossible to even get it to you know fit in nicely so I wouldn't recommend this and secondly now we have the uh the mute switch on its own sort of like separate module here where you have to attach it to the inline uh 3 5 mm headphone jack if you want to use it or if not you don't need to have it on there but on the 4.0 it was more discret it added less bulk overall cuz it was a smaller module this thing is kind of bigger again not really a big deal but I would have liked to had it just automatically integrated instead of having the option to include it or not but that's pretty much it that's the two really only cons I can think of for this you're still getting outstanding value all across the board there is nothing like this on the market that can come close to the Quality you get from them it's just overall a very nice detachable mic that you can put on any pair of headphones and I've been a fan of mod mic and ant lion for a while now and they are still just putting out great stuff so that'll do it for my like kind of first looking review of The Mod mic 5.0 hope you enjoyed I'll put the link in the description down below so you can check it out you can feel free to follow me on Twitter at randomfrankp and lastly if you haven't already hit that subscribe button while random Frank P hope you enjoyed have a good day\n"