I own the condenser version of this mic and I had a problem with the volume on my headphones too. However, I checked my Windows sound mixer and saw the default volume for the microphone was pretty low. Once I increased that it worked perfectly with my 250-ohm Beyerdynamic DT 990 Pro headphones.
There is actually more than enough gain to power dt990 250 ohms. On the main mix eg your headphone mix the effects and mic 1/2 are pre fader so you have 10db of gain you can have there this doesn’t add 10db to your recording. You can also add 10db on all of the playback and loop backs on your personal mix. There is then a further 10db you can add at the end of the chain so 20db possible digital boost to your headphone mix. Would it be my go to dac amp for the dt990 certainly not. But can you stream and podcast on this thing by maxing the faders on your personal mix with power hungry headphones, yes you certainly can. That being said I do find it odd they didn’t add the headphone output from the io44/24 and even stranger they didn’t use it’s preamp.
@@DarkCornerStudios For the record I just use crappy earbuds on my streams. I'm not a fan of using big bulky headphones when I go live but to each their own. I prefer to have the visual of people not seeing headphones that's all. But of course I do see where it can be an issue for those who want to use high end headphones. As far as the soundThe presets are cool but I'd suggest playing with the EQ a little. I had more success with the mic once I started turning the gain down.
I just got this mic yesterday for $100 on sale. I'm using it for voice over on UA-cam videos. I'm just starting out as a content creator learning how to edit video of course. I went dynamic due to noise issues I have in my apartment from the fridge to my upstairs neighbor. The mic will solve any fridge noise, but the noise from my neighbor is the level of a construction site! (Dragging furniture across the floor constantly, etc. almost to the point of shaking my unit! A dynamic won't completely address that type of noise, but hopefully will mitigated it enough. I was planning on using my external soundcard for my headphones to hear myself. I'm told I can do that while using this mic normally plugged into my PC. My biggest concern with this mic is the learning curve. I have experience editing audio, but this is different. I have experience in live sound engineering/mixing, but it was all analog. I just want to learn to set this mic up basically and learn the basics. I'm not doing UA-cam seriously and do not plan to. I'm just seeing if I can do it, no plans to monetize or anything and I will not market my channel if I ever launch it. I don't care. Let folks find it by accident. I just hope I can learn how to use this thing without frustration. I want to set and forget.
@ericelliott227 If you have an nVidia card with RTX then try using a software called "nVidia Broadcast" it's powerful enough that it might cancel out your neighbor completely. Good luck!
I bought this mic about a week ago and am super happy with it. I agree with you though, I wish there was a better pre-amp for the headphone output. I would have gladly paid an additional $50 for a better pre-amp so that I could power my HD6XX,. When compared to my JDS atom amp+dac stack, the step down in quality is just too much. And, at $250 it would have been basically a better offering than the Beacn Mic. But, all in all, I think it's still a good buy especially if you're like me and have a work computer separate from a personal computer and can keep the presets saved and processed on the mic itself.
Great review. I own the IO24 a d use it with my PodMic which I got before. The Revelator is great mic but I do need a good soundcard right? The IO24 is a soundinterface with great sound where I listen to music and no need fir headphone amp. But it make no sense to combine the Revelator mic with the IO24.?
I'm late to the party but I did just order one of these. I do have a really good tube mic but I wanted something to simply the process, just in case I take my podcasts on the road and since I will be doing fly fishing podcasts, that's a strong possibility. I will say this, your demo and observation of the sound rejection as it pertains to bumps and what not was revealing. What I will say is if someone does have the space, a floor based boom, is the way to go (at least for ground floors). About the mic output, I assume one could use a pair of medium to high end wireless headphones? (i.e. Bose, sonly, Soundcore) if I'm missing something please let me know as I do not want to raise my expectations. I have buds but they make my ears hurt after a while.
It has a 3.5mm output, so I don’t think you can use wireless headphones. I’m able to use my HD6XX headphones with no problem though and those are 300ohm impedance
The Meze 99 Neo headphones dont need too much power and are 26 ohm. Although not flat sounding at all, they might be some of the only decent over ear, closed backs, that might work with that headphone out.
I own a Revelator Dynamic since a month or so and I am also super happy with it. It can drive my DT990 250 Ohm, but I also have a Topping L30 headphone amp. Of course it's much better with an AMP, but it would be possible with this or that pair of headphones without buying an additional AMP. Anyways, entertaining review 👍
Have you noticed USB whine when headphones are plugged in? I just got mine and I have a constant high pitch whine no matter what port I use or headphones (even used a laptop to rule out grounding issue as well as different USB cables) and its still present.
Any chance they would drive my sundaras? 37 ohm 94 db sensitivity This is why i needed a review of the microphone before buying. Knowing the microphone can't drive modern headphones is Critical information.
Great video - I will hang onto my Samson Q9U until the next iteration of this Presonus, or if they make one with the combo of USB/XLR outputs like the Q9U.
How would you put the headphone amp into the mix? My understanding is that to get zero latency, the source needs to be from the headphone out. This is a 3.5 trr port. How do you get the sigle from headphone out 3.5 to your amp or dac/amp? Ami just missing something basic?
I own the condenser version of this mic and I had a problem with the volume on my headphones too. However, I checked my Windows sound mixer and saw the default volume for the microphone was pretty low. Once I increased that it worked perfectly with my 250-ohm Beyerdynamic DT 990 Pro headphones.
IMO The mic sounds great but the slight background noise makes me not want it
There is actually more than enough gain to power dt990 250 ohms. On the main mix eg your headphone mix the effects and mic 1/2 are pre fader so you have 10db of gain you can have there this doesn’t add 10db to your recording. You can also add 10db on all of the playback and loop backs on your personal mix. There is then a further 10db you can add at the end of the chain so 20db possible digital boost to your headphone mix. Would it be my go to dac amp for the dt990 certainly not. But can you stream and podcast on this thing by maxing the faders on your personal mix with power hungry headphones, yes you certainly can.
That being said I do find it odd they didn’t add the headphone output from the io44/24 and even stranger they didn’t use it’s preamp.
By bad noise rejection are you referring to the handling noise, or does it pick up everything?
I got mine for $140 after tax. I ran it on my past two streams and I like it a lot. It's way better than the Rhode NT USB that I used to use
I will have to give you that one...it sounds fantastic...
@@DarkCornerStudios For the record I just use crappy earbuds on my streams. I'm not a fan of using big bulky headphones when I go live but to each their own. I prefer to have the visual of people not seeing headphones that's all. But of course I do see where it can be an issue for those who want to use high end headphones. As far as the soundThe presets are cool but I'd suggest playing with the EQ a little. I had more success with the mic once I started turning the gain down.
Where did you buy it, that's 60 under Amazon
I just got this mic yesterday for $100 on sale. I'm using it for voice over on UA-cam videos. I'm just starting out as a content creator learning how to edit video of course. I went dynamic due to noise issues I have in my apartment from the fridge to my upstairs neighbor. The mic will solve any fridge noise, but the noise from my neighbor is the level of a construction site! (Dragging furniture across the floor constantly, etc. almost to the point of shaking my unit! A dynamic won't completely address that type of noise, but hopefully will mitigated it enough.
I was planning on using my external soundcard for my headphones to hear myself. I'm told I can do that while using this mic normally plugged into my PC.
My biggest concern with this mic is the learning curve. I have experience editing audio, but this is different. I have experience in live sound engineering/mixing, but it was all analog. I just want to learn to set this mic up basically and learn the basics. I'm not doing UA-cam seriously and do not plan to. I'm just seeing if I can do it, no plans to monetize or anything and I will not market my channel if I ever launch it. I don't care. Let folks find it by accident. I just hope I can learn how to use this thing without frustration. I want to set and forget.
@ericelliott227 If you have an nVidia card with RTX then try using a software called "nVidia Broadcast" it's powerful enough that it might cancel out your neighbor completely. Good luck!
I bought this mic about a week ago and am super happy with it. I agree with you though, I wish there was a better pre-amp for the headphone output.
I would have gladly paid an additional $50 for a better pre-amp so that I could power my HD6XX,. When compared to my JDS atom amp+dac stack, the step down in quality is just too much. And, at $250 it would have been basically a better offering than the Beacn Mic. But, all in all, I think it's still a good buy especially if you're like me and have a work computer separate from a personal computer and can keep the presets saved and processed on the mic itself.
2:01 That wouldn't even run my old Sennheisers, which were 32 Ohms, let alone my current AKGs, which are 55.
I loooove your channel!! Because you don't beat around the bush like most of the reviewers, you tell it like it is. You are a pro!!
Thanks for the kind words!
Cheers!!
There are decent sounding IEMs that might work, too
Great review. I own the IO24 a d use it with my PodMic which I got before. The Revelator is great mic but I do need a good soundcard right? The IO24 is a soundinterface with great sound where I listen to music and no need fir headphone amp. But it make no sense to combine the Revelator mic with the IO24.?
I'm late to the party but I did just order one of these. I do have a really good tube mic but I wanted something to simply the process, just in case I take my podcasts on the road and since I will be doing fly fishing podcasts, that's a strong possibility. I will say this, your demo and observation of the sound rejection as it pertains to bumps and what not was revealing. What I will say is if someone does have the space, a floor based boom, is the way to go (at least for ground floors). About the mic output, I assume one could use a pair of medium to high end wireless headphones? (i.e. Bose, sonly, Soundcore) if I'm missing something please let me know as I do not want to raise my expectations. I have buds but they make my ears hurt after a while.
It has a 3.5mm output, so I don’t think you can use wireless headphones. I’m able to use my HD6XX headphones with no problem though and those are 300ohm impedance
By noise rejection, do you mean when you tap or bump the desk, the mic picks up the vibrations ?
Like the capsule is not suspended like the sm7b?
thats handling noise so IM not sure myself .. for handling noise personas sells a shock mount for this mic
So what headphones would you recommend to get with this mic ?
The Meze 99 Neo headphones dont need too much power and are 26 ohm. Although not flat sounding at all, they might be some of the only decent over ear, closed backs, that might work with that headphone out.
I own a Revelator Dynamic since a month or so and I am also super happy with it. It can drive my DT990 250 Ohm, but I also have a Topping L30 headphone amp. Of course it's much better with an AMP, but it would be possible with this or that pair of headphones without buying an additional AMP.
Anyways, entertaining review 👍
Have you noticed USB whine when headphones are plugged in? I just got mine and I have a constant high pitch whine no matter what port I use or headphones (even used a laptop to rule out grounding issue as well as different USB cables) and its still present.
@@prezthebutton8876 No noise at all. Im still using the same setup with stock cables.
@@Colebrath Appreciate the fast response brother, such as shame, it would appear mine's defective then.
It is NOT the software doing the heavy lifting, is it the DSP, keeping this burden from your CPU as it should be.
Thanks for clarifying...I referred to it as the software for the sake of not explaining what dsp is....lol
Noise floor issue?
Any chance they would drive my sundaras?
37 ohm
94 db sensitivity
This is why i needed a review of the microphone before buying.
Knowing the microphone can't drive modern headphones is Critical information.
Perhaps my beyerdynamic Tyger 300r would be OK With this microphone?
32 ohms
96 dB sensitivity
im pretty sure you could use a cheap dac to drive any headphone just a 3.5-3.5 aux cable to the cheap DAC of your choice
@@SPAMPANMAN GOOD IDEA
does anyone know if this could drive a headphone with 32ohms i have a vzr model 1 and want to see if it would work with this mic
Great video - I will hang onto my Samson Q9U until the next iteration of this Presonus, or if they make one with the combo of USB/XLR outputs like the Q9U.
Thank you for this review!
Does this mic have clipping protection?
What is clipping protection?
Do you mean a limiter?
@@DarkCornerStudios like I have a beacn mic. And it’s impossible to clip on it. So yes like a limiter but built in to know when I’m yelling
@@drastixdx3874 I use this mic all the time and the Limiter is basically the Anti Clipping feature.
I like it better than the first revelator but I'm still burned by it.
Now its only $99
nice lighting
The noise floor absolutely sucks...
yeah absolutly! could not get my microphone to sound any decent at all.
@@christofc401 Same ! it's so difficult and the preset are really bad and not usable !
@@pixelucis i just got basic samson Q2U , it's cheap and also quality is insanely good
Seems like the only way is to buy a headphone amp.
How would you put the headphone amp into the mix?
My understanding is that to get zero latency, the source needs to be from the headphone out.
This is a 3.5 trr port.
How do you get the sigle from headphone out 3.5 to your amp or dac/amp?
Ami just missing something basic?
@@michaelreed649 3.5 mm cable from mic out to line in on amp headphones to headphone out ...for small and compact I recommend the Fiio F3
@@ericanderson7059 Thank you
Audio sausages. Just in time for breakfast. Hmmmmmm........