The microphone requires a special cable you probably don’t own, but it’s cheap, and is powered by an additional adapter you’ll have to buy that’s also pretty cheap. I don’t want to bore anyone with details ( but it’s so cool!) so I’ll get straight to the point: OOooooOOoooh! We are the phantoms of… 48V! WTF is Phantom Power? It requires a phantom power through an XLR3 cable. Now you join the cool kid club of seeing other streamers talk into an AT2020 like it’s a handheld mic (or backward) and have no idea why they sound awful. Point the microphone so the logo is pointing right below your lips or toward your neck. In particular, the side of the corn cob with the Audio Technica label.
For the AT2020, your voice should be directed at it like you were eating corn on the cob. Think Green Day or a punk band (oh! sick burn Green Day fans).Īlso, it only picks up that beautiful level of detail if you are using it correctly. Louder, less nuanced voices would use a dynamic. Marvin Gaye singing What’s Going On? and Madonna’s Like a Virgin are also condenser microphones being used. That smooth sounding voice of your favorite NPR host when they are alone in the studio? That’s a condenser microphone.
That being said, condenser microphones pick up incredible detail in a streamer’s voice. Also, since it has a cardioid pattern, it is essentially a single direction microphone. There are ways to solve these problems, namely a pop filter and turning the gain down lower than you’d expect while keeping the microphone close. This includes sounds you don’t want to be picked up, such as children in the other room or the sharp hiss on your esses when you say “Sally sold seashells by the seashore” and the expelling of air in your plosives when you say… well… “Paul proudly pronounces plosives.” In practice, this means the microphone is going to be more sensitive, picking up every sound nearby. Condenser mics are the microscope of microphones, bringing out every small detail and rough edge to hear. Now, assuming you aren’t an audio engineer let’s go over the features of the microphone from a more layperson perspective.įirst and foremost, this microphone is a condenser microphone as opposed to a dynamic.
AT2020 USB REVIEW HOW TO
In my How to Stream on Twitch series I’ve said that quality drives success and audio quality is a big driver of that success. The Audio Technica AT2020 and AT2020USB+ condenser microphones are some of the most recommended for beginner streamers, but are they really all that great? If they are that great, are they even practical to use compared to a headset, or even another studio mic in the same price range?
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