{"id":356,"date":"2012-02-26T09:01:40","date_gmt":"2012-02-26T16:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelwdean.com\/?p=356"},"modified":"2012-02-26T09:01:40","modified_gmt":"2012-02-26T16:01:40","slug":"mic-shootout-nady-rsm4-rode-nt1a-mxl-silicon-valve-zoom-h2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelwdean.com\/?p=356","title":{"rendered":"Mic Shootout Nady RSM4, Rode NT1A, MXL Silicon Valve, Zoom H2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mic Shootout Nady RSM4, Rode NT1A, MXL Silicon Valve, Zoom H2\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SCIU0U5p_c4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Michael W. Dean of the Freedom Feens does a Microphone Shootout Nady RSM4, Rode NT1A, MXL Silicon Valve, Zoom H2, comparing ribbon microphones in a side-by-side test with condenser microphones and a Zoom H2, using male and female voices.<\/p>\n<p>Note: there is a VERY very slight &#8220;ringing&#8221; sound in a few spots, it&#8217;s not in the original audio, it&#8217;s an artifact of YouTube&#8217;s compression.<\/p>\n<p>With the Nady, in this test I didn&#8217;t add any EQ. Check out this podcast where I added a tiny bit of treble on the mixer. It&#8217;s literally the best-sounding podcast episode I&#8217;ve ever heard:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedomfeens.com\/2012\/02\/26\/michael-deans-search-engine-optimization-guide-part-8\/\">http:\/\/www.freedomfeens.com\/2012\/02\/26\/michael-deans-search-engine-optimization-guide-part-8\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>FREEDOM FEENS Podcast &#8211; Michael W. Dean and Neema Vedadi&#8217;s fun &#8216;n&#8217; feisty weekly chat about Constitutional, libertarian, voluntaryist, minarchist and anarchist issues, abuse of authority by police, the War on Drugs, self-defense, States&#8217; Rights, Natural Rights, Austrian Economics, DIY art, low-budget filmmaking, digital recording, activism, punk rock, hip-hop and more.<br \/>\n<a title=\"http:\/\/www.freedomfeens.com\/\" dir=\"ltr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freedomfeens.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.freedomfeens.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now with streaming audio for mobile:<br \/>\n<a title=\"http:\/\/www.freedomfeens.com\/streaming-audio\/\" dir=\"ltr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freedomfeens.com\/streaming-audio\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.freedomfeens.com\/streaming-audio\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael W. Dean of the Freedom Feens does a Microphone Shootout Nady RSM4, Rode NT1A, MXL Silicon Valve, Zoom H2, comparing ribbon microphones in a side-by-side test with condenser microphones and a Zoom H2, using male and female voices. Note: there is a VERY very slight &#8220;ringing&#8221; sound in a few spots, it&#8217;s not in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelwdean.com\/?p=356\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mic Shootout Nady RSM4, Rode NT1A, MXL Silicon Valve, Zoom H2&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwdean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwdean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwdean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwdean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwdean.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwdean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwdean.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwdean.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwdean.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}