**The Audio Comparison: Re 20 vs Re 27**

As I stood in front of my setup, I couldn't help but think about how microphones are designed to fit together seamlessly. The Re 20 and Re 27, for instance, share many commonalities in terms of their mounts and hardware processing capabilities. This means that the same shockmounts can be used across both microphones, making them a great option for those who want consistency in their setup.

However, one thing that caught my attention was the fact that I could place the pop filter on this microphone stand but not close enough to really make it effective. Despite this, the built-in pop filters on both microphones are supposed to be quite good. The idea is that they can help reduce plosive sounds and prevent distortion in recordings.

Moving on from the setup, I decided to test out my Re 27 and see how it compares to its counterpart, the Re 20. As I began recording, I was struck by the distinct sound of each microphone. The Re 20 has a flatter profile that I'm used to hearing in AM radio, which makes it more familiar to me. However, I found that the Re 27 sounds slightly better due to its extra high-end response. This can make the sound more natural and pleasing to listen to.

One thing that's worth noting is how well each microphone performs with processing. The Re 20 tends to benefit from having a preamp or other processing applied, whereas the Re 27 seems to thrive on its own. However, both microphones are capable of producing great results when paired with the right equipment and settings.

In terms of overall sound quality, I was pleased to find that the Re 27 sounds quite good. The extra dynamic range it provides makes a significant difference in recordings, especially when paired with processing. While the microphone itself sounds great on its own, the real magic happens when you take advantage of that dynamic range.

As for my actual review of the Re 27, I found it to be a very good microphone. It's got a unique sound that sets it apart from other microphones in its class. The fact that it runs hotter than the Re 20 means that you don't need to crank up the gain as much, which can help reduce background noise and hiss.

I also want to mention that I'm not an expert when it comes to microphone reviews. Everyone has their own opinions on how microphones sound, and what sounds good to one person may not be the same for another. That's why I provided a few different samples of each microphone, in the hopes that readers can form their own opinion.

One thing that did strike me was the fact that sometimes when I'm switching microphones, there's a bit of static added to my audio due to the XLR cables and other equipment. This is something that I've experienced with both microphones, but it's worth noting that many high-quality microphone setups can minimize this issue.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enin this episode we have a new microphone in the studio for review another one from electro voice for the first time in almost two years I've been super stoked to get this review out to you guys and I just haven't had the time I'm finally sitting down today getting this review done of this gorgeous microphone and comparing it to the old workhorse I've been using the re 20 we're gonna check it out right after this this video is brought to you by - bunny the best tool you can get to manage your YouTube channel update videos in bulk syndicate to social media and backup your metadata and more all with this simple browser extension head on over to Ebel's box.com / to buddy to download it for free and learn more to buddy download for free learn more I love it I'm Evil's box here to make tech easier and more fun and provide some pretty cool microphone comparisons and reviews and things like that as well I hope today we're taking a look at electro voices kind of Big Brother - the re xx which is the one of the broadcast standard microphones and what I have been using for a very long time now the re 27 nd now again this is considered to be the big brother or big sister or whatever to the re 20 and it has a couple new options compared to it as well first and foremost the physical form factor as you can sorta see here compared to the original is mostly the same except for instead of the weird beige gray ish color you get a nice shiny silver so if you want the EPA microphone but don't want to go for the complete gold option you can get a nice little flashy or one here not that I think anyone should do that with their microphone choices but if that's what you want the re 27 indie is a much more bling friendly microphone I guess size wise it fits all of the same mounts as the normal re 20 and re 320 and so on does same shockmount I'm using the re 20 shock mount here same normal mount and it also has the one-inch pop filter within the capsule here within the front part here as well which is really nice to see and for the most part it has the same pickup pattern as well as you don't lose a whole lot of Equalization off to the different sides but then if you could hear that at all if not my point still stands one thing you may notice compared to my normal desktop recordings is this microphone is a little bit brighter it has a little bit more high-end I'm a little bit more on the top end than the re 20 but you have a switch for that you actually have three switches three different adjustment switches on this my compared to the one on the re 20 or a completely different one on the re 320 and I had to write these down because I never remember what switches are because I pretty much never used them because the flat profiles all work pretty much the same for me so the left switch is pretty much the same switch that's on the re 20 it's a base roll-off switch or some people call it a high-pass filter just minus 6 DB on the base and rolls it off in case you have someone who just has the most busiest voice in the world which I don't even have or if you have a more more accurately if you have a low Rumble of like a vending machine or something weird in your recording environment you can try to cut it out with that switch you have a second one which is an even bigger roll off for the bass which is the middle switch and can make your audio sound very very thin but again if you have some sort of crazy background noise it can clear out that noise then the third switch is actually a what what I want to call a high-pass filter but a top cut off to make the voice a little bit smooth if you have someone who has a little bit of a harsher high end to their voice you can cut that off again I have found that the flat option on all of these switches works best for my voice at least as far as I can tell I get some criticism thrown at some of my voice several recordings anyway so who knows but for my purposes I have found that AV flat profile works best and when I did try to use the the high roll off I thought it might make my tangs a little bit smoother I found it just kind of I don't know I made it feel a little muffled for me but that's just me and again I'm not an expert I've just been using microphones for a long time and have some experience reviewing them and just want to try to help out here so this is what it sounds like raw I've been using it the whole time it's running into a nadie or nati pra 8 I believe preamplifier it's cranked up to about 95 98 percent with that top percent of a preamp you reach that range of and either just kids way to friggin loud like you know it goes from way too quiet to way too loud too quickly or you introduce background hits and stuff and I'm trying to avoid that so it's about 98 95% cranked up on the gain and then run straight into my mixer with no processing or post-processing or ending applied this is what it's going to sound like out of the box assuming you have decent preamps if you don't have decent preamps but you have phantom power because again this is a dynamic microphone then you can use something like the cloud lifts or cl1 or you know the or the FET head which is a kind of inline preamplifier that uses phantom power to power itself and can provide you a much cleaner signal I covered that a little bit in my reviews of the re 20 and re 320 this microphone is a little bit hotter than the re 20 but it's still gonna need a preamp it's still gonna need a pretty solid preamp so keep that in mind I did mention that it is a dynamic microphone which means that it does a great job of rejecting background noise because it kind of cuts off very quickly as soon as you stop talking without the need for a noise gate I stopped talking and the levels go down to zero it also it's a cardioid pattern which means from about here on the microphone forward it picks up but then you move around to the back it starts to reject it and I'm gonna pull up a tone here on my phone for us to test that and you can kind of get a general idea not the most scientific test in the world but what have you and the microphone itself does not need phantom power itself that's for condenser microphones and things like that this microphone will run without it you just still need a decent preamp all right so I'm cranking up some static white noise on my phone here and hopefully this will help give you an idea of the pattern rejection that test was a little loud again not super scientific or helpful I just I'm experimenting with this so again this is what it sounds like raw we're gonna have a couple tests here where I'm running it through my dbx 286s which is a processing box which applies an EQ compressor and things like that as well as a sample comparison to the re 20 on that but first let's go ahead and switch over to the re 20 you've just raw so you can get an idea of what this sounds like and I'm gonna read a couple quotes here just to get a baseline of what this sounds like and then I will inter cut them between each other so that you can hear a sample invention my dear friends is 93% perspiration 6% electricity 4% evaporation and 2% butterscotch ripple invention my dear friends is 93% perspiration 6% electricity 4% evaporation and 2% butterscotch ripple did you ever look at a dollar bill man there's some spooky stuff going on there and it's green too did you ever look at the dollar bill man there's some spooky stuff going on there and it's green too so this is the re 20 raw again I don't usually record with it raw I usually record with it in the dbx 286s X 286 s that is a mouthful box that I usually record it into and something I will note is this thing needs so much preamp this is at currently at the same preamp cranked level as the previous as the re 27 is and I will show you a comparison of the raw levels themselves it is so much quieter and it needs a lot more either post amplification or to just crank it up the rest of the way and risk introducing hiss unless you want to use something like a cloud lifter on top of the normal preamp which is a little obnoxious so this is what it sounds like raw this is a test test test one two three now let's hook it up and run it through some processing you may so for this first sampled test here we have the electro voice re 20 the base model that I normally use hooked up to the dbx 286s which is an audio processing box it is a an amazing piece of hardware that goes between your microphone and whatever you're hooking it up to digitize the recording and can provide basically what I made my original audio rack out of you know multiple processing pieces and do it all at once so it has a very good preamp a compressor a decent equalizer and so on and i will post a picture of the settings i use i'm not the best at figuring out equalizers or compressors or anything like that i I am learning as I go so it may not be the best settings which is why I'm not you know putting the whole weight of this review on the processing box but I did want to provide a sample baseline here of what I normally would sound like within my videos hi this is my normal recording environment my desktop computer is on another desktop computer is on my server rack is still going behind me my cat is snoring and moving around there's some background noise but hopefully you know you get a picture of what the microphone is picking up this will be provided with no additional software processing added over top and mention my dear friends is 93% perspiration 6% electricity 4% evaporation and 2% butterscotch ripple now let's flip over to the RT 27 indie hooked up to the exact same setup alright so now I've swapped out the re 24 the re 27 nd which is the main focus of this review I do already have an re 20 review up there from January 2016 ish it's been a while but I still use the mic as my daily driver this is the big brother the are you 27 indie again hooked up to the dbx 286s running through the same settings that i applied to the re 20 just to get you an idea of direct this is how i process this microphone and this is how this microphone sounds through the same processing just so you get an idea the cool thing is the ru 27 in d is like the re 320 and the re 20 they all fit the same mounts I could put the pop filter on here but I'm not close enough and you're not really gonna hear it for the most part anyway they have really good built in pop filters but the same shockmount everything like that fits across both and so this is a general idea and I will go ahead and re read that quote invention my dear friends is 93% perspiration 6% electricity 4% evaporation and 2% butterscotch ripple I'm not good at this I probably read it differently the second time but just wanted to provide something here for you so this is what it sounds like with the hardware processing on and that's what it sounds like with the air-conditioning on in the background I guess I will switch microphones and give you a sample of that as well and real quick just for a point of comparison this is what the re 20 re 20 sounds like with the exact same air conditioner on that was on in the previous microphone test honestly judging by the waveform dude due to how not as hot or how more hot the re 27 is this honestly sounds a little like the weight looking at the waveform it's a little bit quieter with the AC on that's a little crazy alright so there you have it a fairly helpful I hope comparison between the re 20 and the re 27 nd as for my actual review of the re 27 in D I think it's a very good microphone it sounds different like the re 20 is what I'm used to hearing it's what I'm used to hearing on AM radio it's what I'm used to hearing in my own head when I do recordings and so that flatter profile is kind of what I'm used to hearing and what sounds a little more comfortable for me but I honestly think this microphone sounds a little bit better it sounds a little bit better that extra high-end can help make your sound sound a little bit more natural compared to the re 20 but again everything is subjective I'm not an expert in the first place you know everyone has their own opinions about how microphones sound and that's why I provide a few different sets of samples here for you to be able to tell for yourself which one you might prefer now you might have heard a little bit of extra static in my re 20 audio here that wasn't the microphone itself it when you buy one it's fairly highly high-quality you know well engineered product sometimes when I'm switching microphones the XLR cables and stuff there's a little bit of Attucks added static to my audio rack because I have such a janky setup I can't get around that but mainly focus on the actual quality of the recordings I'm also grateful that this microphone runs a little bit hotter and makes it harder for me to really get like the the preamp down to where I'm not clipping too much but currently I think I have a spot here and that means that you're not using as much uh you're not risking as much hissing or background electrical noise because you don't need to crank it up as much which is something I run into if you try to run the re twenty by itself with no you know processing box or cloud lifts or whatever I do think both of these microphones benefit tremendously from having processing applied as you record I do think that is kind of important for this kind of workflow the microphones themselves sound pretty good but the extra dynamic range involved in the microphone only comes out if you process it and take advantage of that dynamic range so I still might actually recommend the re three twenty if you don't want to do that for whatever reason at least initially but as far as throwing it in an existing working setup re twenty seven sounds great and you have more switches to control your options and it's a little bit shinier if that's what you like so this has been my video on the RT 27 indie tried to cover it from a different couple different perspectives trying something new I don't have the ability to hook them both up at the same time right now unfortunately working with what I got if you enjoyed the video smash the like button get subscribe for more awesome tech videos check out the microphone reviews playlist in the YouTube card icon or description down below I do have a white plethora of microphone reviews on the channel I'm always expanding trying to cover more things if you want to see a specific microphone covered feel free to suggest in the description below and if I can get to it I'll get to it otherwise umm people's Vox and I'll see you next time a post box is a patreon supported production our videos would simply not be possible without the support and generosity of our patrons whom you can see on screen right now if you'd like to join the inner circle and get early access to videos among other things go to patreon.comin this episode we have a new microphone in the studio for review another one from electro voice for the first time in almost two years I've been super stoked to get this review out to you guys and I just haven't had the time I'm finally sitting down today getting this review done of this gorgeous microphone and comparing it to the old workhorse I've been using the re 20 we're gonna check it out right after this this video is brought to you by - bunny the best tool you can get to manage your YouTube channel update videos in bulk syndicate to social media and backup your metadata and more all with this simple browser extension head on over to Ebel's box.com / to buddy to download it for free and learn more to buddy download for free learn more I love it I'm Evil's box here to make tech easier and more fun and provide some pretty cool microphone comparisons and reviews and things like that as well I hope today we're taking a look at electro voices kind of Big Brother - the re xx which is the one of the broadcast standard microphones and what I have been using for a very long time now the re 27 nd now again this is considered to be the big brother or big sister or whatever to the re 20 and it has a couple new options compared to it as well first and foremost the physical form factor as you can sorta see here compared to the original is mostly the same except for instead of the weird beige gray ish color you get a nice shiny silver so if you want the EPA microphone but don't want to go for the complete gold option you can get a nice little flashy or one here not that I think anyone should do that with their microphone choices but if that's what you want the re 27 indie is a much more bling friendly microphone I guess size wise it fits all of the same mounts as the normal re 20 and re 320 and so on does same shockmount I'm using the re 20 shock mount here same normal mount and it also has the one-inch pop filter within the capsule here within the front part here as well which is really nice to see and for the most part it has the same pickup pattern as well as you don't lose a whole lot of Equalization off to the different sides but then if you could hear that at all if not my point still stands one thing you may notice compared to my normal desktop recordings is this microphone is a little bit brighter it has a little bit more high-end I'm a little bit more on the top end than the re 20 but you have a switch for that you actually have three switches three different adjustment switches on this my compared to the one on the re 20 or a completely different one on the re 320 and I had to write these down because I never remember what switches are because I pretty much never used them because the flat profiles all work pretty much the same for me so the left switch is pretty much the same switch that's on the re 20 it's a base roll-off switch or some people call it a high-pass filter just minus 6 DB on the base and rolls it off in case you have someone who just has the most busiest voice in the world which I don't even have or if you have a more more accurately if you have a low Rumble of like a vending machine or something weird in your recording environment you can try to cut it out with that switch you have a second one which is an even bigger roll off for the bass which is the middle switch and can make your audio sound very very thin but again if you have some sort of crazy background noise it can clear out that noise then the third switch is actually a what what I want to call a high-pass filter but a top cut off to make the voice a little bit smooth if you have someone who has a little bit of a harsher high end to their voice you can cut that off again I have found that the flat option on all of these switches works best for my voice at least as far as I can tell I get some criticism thrown at some of my voice several recordings anyway so who knows but for my purposes I have found that AV flat profile works best and when I did try to use the the high roll off I thought it might make my tangs a little bit smoother I found it just kind of I don't know I made it feel a little muffled for me but that's just me and again I'm not an expert I've just been using microphones for a long time and have some experience reviewing them and just want to try to help out here so this is what it sounds like raw I've been using it the whole time it's running into a nadie or nati pra 8 I believe preamplifier it's cranked up to about 95 98 percent with that top percent of a preamp you reach that range of and either just kids way to friggin loud like you know it goes from way too quiet to way too loud too quickly or you introduce background hits and stuff and I'm trying to avoid that so it's about 98 95% cranked up on the gain and then run straight into my mixer with no processing or post-processing or ending applied this is what it's going to sound like out of the box assuming you have decent preamps if you don't have decent preamps but you have phantom power because again this is a dynamic microphone then you can use something like the cloud lifts or cl1 or you know the or the FET head which is a kind of inline preamplifier that uses phantom power to power itself and can provide you a much cleaner signal I covered that a little bit in my reviews of the re 20 and re 320 this microphone is a little bit hotter than the re 20 but it's still gonna need a preamp it's still gonna need a pretty solid preamp so keep that in mind I did mention that it is a dynamic microphone which means that it does a great job of rejecting background noise because it kind of cuts off very quickly as soon as you stop talking without the need for a noise gate I stopped talking and the levels go down to zero it also it's a cardioid pattern which means from about here on the microphone forward it picks up but then you move around to the back it starts to reject it and I'm gonna pull up a tone here on my phone for us to test that and you can kind of get a general idea not the most scientific test in the world but what have you and the microphone itself does not need phantom power itself that's for condenser microphones and things like that this microphone will run without it you just still need a decent preamp all right so I'm cranking up some static white noise on my phone here and hopefully this will help give you an idea of the pattern rejection that test was a little loud again not super scientific or helpful I just I'm experimenting with this so again this is what it sounds like raw we're gonna have a couple tests here where I'm running it through my dbx 286s which is a processing box which applies an EQ compressor and things like that as well as a sample comparison to the re 20 on that but first let's go ahead and switch over to the re 20 you've just raw so you can get an idea of what this sounds like and I'm gonna read a couple quotes here just to get a baseline of what this sounds like and then I will inter cut them between each other so that you can hear a sample invention my dear friends is 93% perspiration 6% electricity 4% evaporation and 2% butterscotch ripple invention my dear friends is 93% perspiration 6% electricity 4% evaporation and 2% butterscotch ripple did you ever look at a dollar bill man there's some spooky stuff going on there and it's green too did you ever look at the dollar bill man there's some spooky stuff going on there and it's green too so this is the re 20 raw again I don't usually record with it raw I usually record with it in the dbx 286s X 286 s that is a mouthful box that I usually record it into and something I will note is this thing needs so much preamp this is at currently at the same preamp cranked level as the previous as the re 27 is and I will show you a comparison of the raw levels themselves it is so much quieter and it needs a lot more either post amplification or to just crank it up the rest of the way and risk introducing hiss unless you want to use something like a cloud lifter on top of the normal preamp which is a little obnoxious so this is what it sounds like raw this is a test test test one two three now let's hook it up and run it through some processing you may so for this first sampled test here we have the electro voice re 20 the base model that I normally use hooked up to the dbx 286s which is an audio processing box it is a an amazing piece of hardware that goes between your microphone and whatever you're hooking it up to digitize the recording and can provide basically what I made my original audio rack out of you know multiple processing pieces and do it all at once so it has a very good preamp a compressor a decent equalizer and so on and i will post a picture of the settings i use i'm not the best at figuring out equalizers or compressors or anything like that i I am learning as I go so it may not be the best settings which is why I'm not you know putting the whole weight of this review on the processing box but I did want to provide a sample baseline here of what I normally would sound like within my videos hi this is my normal recording environment my desktop computer is on another desktop computer is on my server rack is still going behind me my cat is snoring and moving around there's some background noise but hopefully you know you get a picture of what the microphone is picking up this will be provided with no additional software processing added over top and mention my dear friends is 93% perspiration 6% electricity 4% evaporation and 2% butterscotch ripple now let's flip over to the RT 27 indie hooked up to the exact same setup alright so now I've swapped out the re 24 the re 27 nd which is the main focus of this review I do already have an re 20 review up there from January 2016 ish it's been a while but I still use the mic as my daily driver this is the big brother the are you 27 indie again hooked up to the dbx 286s running through the same settings that i applied to the re 20 just to get you an idea of direct this is how i process this microphone and this is how this microphone sounds through the same processing just so you get an idea the cool thing is the ru 27 in d is like the re 320 and the re 20 they all fit the same mounts I could put the pop filter on here but I'm not close enough and you're not really gonna hear it for the most part anyway they have really good built in pop filters but the same shockmount everything like that fits across both and so this is a general idea and I will go ahead and re read that quote invention my dear friends is 93% perspiration 6% electricity 4% evaporation and 2% butterscotch ripple I'm not good at this I probably read it differently the second time but just wanted to provide something here for you so this is what it sounds like with the hardware processing on and that's what it sounds like with the air-conditioning on in the background I guess I will switch microphones and give you a sample of that as well and real quick just for a point of comparison this is what the re 20 re 20 sounds like with the exact same air conditioner on that was on in the previous microphone test honestly judging by the waveform dude due to how not as hot or how more hot the re 27 is this honestly sounds a little like the weight looking at the waveform it's a little bit quieter with the AC on that's a little crazy alright so there you have it a fairly helpful I hope comparison between the re 20 and the re 27 nd as for my actual review of the re 27 in D I think it's a very good microphone it sounds different like the re 20 is what I'm used to hearing it's what I'm used to hearing on AM radio it's what I'm used to hearing in my own head when I do recordings and so that flatter profile is kind of what I'm used to hearing and what sounds a little more comfortable for me but I honestly think this microphone sounds a little bit better it sounds a little bit better that extra high-end can help make your sound sound a little bit more natural compared to the re 20 but again everything is subjective I'm not an expert in the first place you know everyone has their own opinions about how microphones sound and that's why I provide a few different sets of samples here for you to be able to tell for yourself which one you might prefer now you might have heard a little bit of extra static in my re 20 audio here that wasn't the microphone itself it when you buy one it's fairly highly high-quality you know well engineered product sometimes when I'm switching microphones the XLR cables and stuff there's a little bit of Attucks added static to my audio rack because I have such a janky setup I can't get around that but mainly focus on the actual quality of the recordings I'm also grateful that this microphone runs a little bit hotter and makes it harder for me to really get like the the preamp down to where I'm not clipping too much but currently I think I have a spot here and that means that you're not using as much uh you're not risking as much hissing or background electrical noise because you don't need to crank it up as much which is something I run into if you try to run the re twenty by itself with no you know processing box or cloud lifts or whatever I do think both of these microphones benefit tremendously from having processing applied as you record I do think that is kind of important for this kind of workflow the microphones themselves sound pretty good but the extra dynamic range involved in the microphone only comes out if you process it and take advantage of that dynamic range so I still might actually recommend the re three twenty if you don't want to do that for whatever reason at least initially but as far as throwing it in an existing working setup re twenty seven sounds great and you have more switches to control your options and it's a little bit shinier if that's what you like so this has been my video on the RT 27 indie tried to cover it from a different couple different perspectives trying something new I don't have the ability to hook them both up at the same time right now unfortunately working with what I got if you enjoyed the video smash the like button get subscribe for more awesome tech videos check out the microphone reviews playlist in the YouTube card icon or description down below I do have a white plethora of microphone reviews on the channel I'm always expanding trying to cover more things if you want to see a specific microphone covered feel free to suggest in the description below and if I can get to it I'll get to it otherwise umm people's Vox and I'll see you next time a post box is a patreon supported production our videos would simply not be possible without the support and generosity of our patrons whom you can see on screen right now if you'd like to join the inner circle and get early access to videos among other things go to patreon.com\n"