Turn Your XLR Mic Into A USB Mic! - SHURE MVX2U

[@MiscastJoe]

What XLR mic would you like to connect to your computer with this?

[@moogiemain7507]

I have a presonus pd70. I wonder want it would make it sound like.

[@Jakeisks]

​@@moogiemain7507 I have been using the $40 Marantz MPM-1000U for years, outside under a carport, connected to my PC by a 33 foot active USB cable (no auxiliary power). Me not an musician, but always liked ordinary hi-fi stuff. The first time I heard that USB microphone, the lack of noise blew me away. I just bought an Audio-Technica AT875R for $180. Seems like plenty of noise from the XLR cable. I guess... Many of y'all are more concerned about fidelity than noise. Otherwise everybody would be using digital transmission, wired or wireless. To my non-musician ear... The Marantz sounds like what it's supposed to sound like, minus cable noise. To the subject at hand... The price for that Shure MVX2U XLR to USB converter seems outrageous, considering the $40 Marantz USB microphone that includes a similar, if not nearly the same, circuit. Maybe it has little better specs than the built-in circuit on the Marantz, but not for 4-5x the price. Maybe they are trying to make some money before it gets cloned.

[@videorangers3962]

Where was this stuff like 8 years ago lol . Great video sir .

[@wtotheo]

It literally already existed: Shure X2U.

[@flyc0de389]

For that split second you chose "Far" I think it sounded way better. Still watching tho

[@MiscastJoe]

I was kind of thinking the same thing as I was watching the video back. Auto settings are never anyone's friend lol

[@A_Qwynide]

Agree, I was thinking the same thing

[@FlockofSmeagles]

That's cool, but I'd still prefer my sound card for its multiple outputs. Given that you still need to run cables. Running a single XLR back to your sound card not only eliminates having to use multiple usb and aux/jack connections depending on your devices. It's just cleaner overall. Not to mention all of the filtering. I'd rather process in post. Rather than deal with that nonsense.

[@MiscastJoe]

In fairness, it would be fewer cables for this, with only a single USB and optional headphones, whereas you'd need an XLR cable to go into the sound card, then a USB going into the computer with optional headphones (plus any additional outputs). But I do understand the preference for a more traditional soundboard with more I/O if it is needed.

[@KimberlyKimbrough1]

excellent

[@mikeazmos]

Actually it sounds bad, can cleary hear some dynamics problems and HF filtering. Better to buy cheap true soundcard like focusrite or motu or anything :)

[@davidsommeregger]

noise removal sounds kinda horrendous :/ also i thought for that price it could be 32 bit.

[@michaelpujol6509]

Nice Shurt

[@MiscastJoe]

Lol, I had to look back at the video to see what I was wearing. Thanks!

[@IanDeVos]

Whoa, the noise removal is bad. It's better to use RTX voice which also runs on non RTX Nvidia GPU's.

[@MiscastJoe]

that was NVidia broadcast running.

[@IanDeVos]

@@MiscastJoe whoa. It doesn't sound so bad on my own system. Weird.

[@MiscastJoe]

@@IanDeVos it may have been a product of the extra work it needed to do to remove the excess noise given how much I needed to raise the gain to get the mic to appropriate levels in my space

[@MiscastJoe]

Other times I have used it, it was fine