$32 Microphone vs $100 Microphone vs $2000 Microphone 

What's your current mic setup and do you agree with my choice of microphone?

And now I’ll need $2,000 headphones to hear the difference

Definitly a difference between 32 and 100 but not much between 100 and 2000

12:45 "I'm trying to see which mouse picks up mouse and keyboard the most"

Great video! We love to see people helping others with microphone decisions in such an accurate and well-informed way! Thank you for highlighting Kiwi and Ember. This is a great demo. We'll be sure to share!

On phone speakers I couldn't hear any difference rip

8:33 Nice Alinity meme.

the ultimate question. What microphone are you using when talk into the camera

I'm way late to this, but I imagine that the Kiwi, having been purchased for a studio setting would have handled a lot better than the ember when you sing into it. It also probably has a much lower noise floor. While there isn't a 1900 dollar difference in a streamer setting, I bet you'd notice a significant difference when you have people singing into each mic at the top of their lungs.

Seems like... $32 - 60% quality $100 - 95% quality $2000 - 100% quality $2000 - seems like a good inwestment :D :D :D

I own a blue ember, love it I think it makes a good streaming microphone because its very slick so it doesn't take up much of the frame if you are using a camera

The best change I made was ditching a condenser mic for a dynamic mic. A dynamic mic significantly cut down environmental noise (computer fans, console fans, air conditioning) and reduced the need for an overbearing noise gate to filter out mouse & keyboard clicks. I picked up a Rode Podcaster second-hand on eBay and couldn't be happier with the purchase.

12:45 "what im trynna do is, which mouse, picks up the mouse and keyboard the most" *mouse*

Wow, I was blown away by how little difference there was between the Kiwi, and the Ember... I also think the ember has a nice sleek look.. However, I'm a bit of a vintage nerd and love the look of the Kiwi. It's amazing what you can do with a noise gate, compressor and a 10 band ;) Lovin' your content mate!!

The 2k mic looks like a vibrator lmao.

The Kiwi is more open over the Ember. i.e, it's capturing more detail and richness. Listen to the low end a bit more critically and you'll hear it. The Kiwi suits your voice quite well. The Ember, however, while having a bit more broken up midrange is surprisingly good and would be my choice if I were a streamer as it is dramatically cheaper. FYI, I stumbled upon this video while listening in a professional studio on Neumann KH-310 monitors which does make a difference. I appreciate you sharing the additional information regarding frequencies, polar patterns, and audio engineering background etc. It teaches people that there's more to capturing audio than just having the ability to hear. If you're interested, other mic comparisons can be heard at the link ru-vid.com/group/PLAIlewIeY4NdJMDfP11aCXc99OPSSDkYl

I just ordered that Blue Ember mic yesterday for my home recording studio, I can't wait to test it out.

I imagine it would make a difference listening through decent quality headphones, but can't hear much difference between the $32 and $2000 microphones. Problem is, when you are editing sound, it's easy to become OCD about minor things nobody else would care about. Realistically, an extra $68 for a reasonable improvement and better build quality is worth it. $2000 for any type of microphone is $1800 too much. There is no justifiable reason for them to reach that price unless they fill a totally unique purpose

You should make a video comparing a xlr and usb that are the sane price

The music made it hard to hear a clear difference between the mics but there was a difference between the first and the second one. Second to third was hard to tell. Thanks for the vid though, your content is much appreciated for a beginner!

12:43 "See which mouse picks up the mouse" 🤣

3:54 that's because you shouldn't compare a microphone to a camera but to a lens. your interface and converter should be compared to a camera

The Blue Ember is amazing. You won't hear too much difference between the 100 and the 2000 becuase... For a company like blue, you can be really efficient in what you build at 100. I need to listen on my interface to be clearer. But yeah.

i know this video is about a month old of me making this comment but theres usually always one rule to stick to when trying to buy something with a large variety in prices. A small amount of money can make the difference of 35% in quality to 80% but it takes a large amount of money to go from 80% to 95%

“Classy as balls” ya know that’s what I was thinking

Now I’m not gonna tell you who the streamer is “can we copy strike pewdiepie”

12.44 "Wich mouse picks up the mouse and keyboard the most" hahahaha

to see effect immediately! go 8:03

"Anything you can do on stream to give your self another eyecatching detail, always worth it in my opinion" *proeceeds to buy 2000$ microphone with all my savings*

@Alpha Gaming Thank you so much for this video. My 14 yr old son has begun streaming on Twitch and uploading videos on RU-vid. When he began to get serious about his content, I directed him to this channel to learn how to improve on both platforms. With my support of his quest to grow, we discussed what he needs first. His friends critiqued his videos and so did I. I am in agreement with his friends that his voice audio just plain sucked. After we both watched this video, we decided to purchase the TONOR microphone. His first night of using it, he got several compliments from his stream and friends about the improved quality. Now our next step is to find that reasonably priced webcam. I actually tried connecting my video camera (VIXIA HF R70) to my computer for testing but unfortunately it is not supported. I would have to purchase a capture card which may cost more than I'm willing to spend on a beginner. I will watch all of your videos related to the web cameras (PICKING A LIVE STREAM CAMERA - literally everything you need to know) Thank you again. You have helped me and my boys to become better streamers and content creators. All of our men (young and old) are gaming/streaming. For me, my priority is my real job... my support for my boys, as long as their grades meet my criteria, is 100% as long as they remain passionate about what they are creating.

Thank you for letting me know that I was talking into my mic backwards.... 2:31

there is a difference in the mic quality, but it also depends on your taste in sound, i personally like the $32 mics sound, though i got lucky with my AT2020

The alinity part made me laugh so hard

I heard a SLIGHT difference between the $100 mic and the $2,000 mic

1: get ribbon mic 2: turn on phantom power 3: reap the benefits of the perfect sound

He said there’s such an astonishing difference... they all sound the same on my phone, maybe that’s just my phone🤣🤣

HOW DO YOU ONLY HAVE 41k SUBS??? u need more.

Perfect timing I was just starting to look for a better mic😂

5:24 - yeah, like what kind of preamp you're using which is just might happen to be 3 times the cost of your mic.

Listening on my OneMore Triple Drivers earphones (black/gold) now $80.00, and I have to say... I'm glad u had no problem hearing the stuff you were talking about. I just commented to talk about my earphones because my laptop broke and I'm a sad soul now...

Listening on PC speakers.... cant hear a difference....

Ngl I have a cooler master mh752 headphones and it's a pretty decent one.I hardly hear any difference Now imagine what twitch viewers listen to with their $15 fake airpods

Offtopic: Just a little note about humans hearing 20-20kHz. I highly doubt that. Maybe kids, but adults? I'm in my mid 30's, so is my cousin and two other friends that we've done the blind test with. We just played a clean waveform of 14-15-16-17 and 18kHz around 90dB. Now, either all four of us have really bad genetics or damaged hearing, but I could notice a sound upto around 16.5kHz. A 10dB bump didn't do anything after that. My cousin can hear upto about 14kHz and he never really experiences loud sounds. My other friends both landed around 15kHz to average it out to 15kHz. We did the same test but now being actually TOLD what's been playing when. Didn't make any difference. 15kHz is far off from 20k and we're not 'old' people. However, this isn't a problem at all as 99% of sound (including drum cymbals) in practice only reaches about 10-12kHz, but still, 15kHz is far off from 20kHz. Obviously 4 people is way too small a sample size, but still, I'd be surprised if most people could hear upto 20kHz. --- All in all, any half decent mic can pickup whatever frequency it needs. It's more the need/ no need to add EQ to it.

This channel legit needs like another 1 mil subscribers

The real question is, which mic is Alpha using to record this.

The vid starts at 0:00 it’s all education watch the whole thing this vid taught me a lot thx

There is a clear difference between all of them. Ember sounds very comforting tbh. Not too detailed, but very full and rich.

And then there is me with my £12 mic from Tesco

Why do you talk so much about the gear and never mention the environment despite it often mattering just as much? I know you care, you have bass traps.

I have a rode nt usb is it okay for streaming

I went on a tour of a machine shop I applied to right after graduating college... They were running production of Blue microphone housings right around the corner from my house. I was absolutely shook. I am not sure if they are still partnered, but I want to figure it out. I still live nearby. I mean, its a small, family-owned machine shop in my hometown. So cool.

This is an amazing video, thank you so much! I learned a lot, including how I plan to upgrade my setup in the future!

Try a $1 mic ;)

_tries to tell the difference in 4$ headphones_ *tHeY aLL sOuNd tHe SaMe*

The reason why microphones keep their value is because we really haven't had much change in recording technology. The hardware as stayed the same mostly. So until some break through comes that blows current technology out of the water, current prices will stay the same and not degrade.

5:14 this man needs to learn about the magic wand tool for that picture

i could barely hear a difrence but i think the 32$ mic was the best

That hairline is screaming, "It's over bro. Let me go."

8:46 - i think that the cheapest mic had a white noise in the background but the blue ember had the same type of "betterness" as the blue kiwi

8:05 is when the mic audio stats

I have a rhode NT1

we are copystriking pewdiepie

8:06 your welcome

12:41 "What I'm trying to do is see which MOUSE picks up the mouse and keyboard the most.." 😂

The craziest thing about microphones is the prices rarely drop even a decade later. A lot of other tech product prices drop after half a decade.

Mic shoot outs are fun man. You should do them more often. It really helps you understand the differences between each mic in more ways than just "which one is better".

"Which mouse picks up the mouse and and keyboard the most?" -12:44 xD

You can tell between the Ember and the Kiwi, because of the lows and the highs by a little bit, but you can't tell if there is a $1900 difference

The 2,000 one you can hear a difference right away and the clarity is amazing

When listening to the internal speaker of Nokia 9 - there is a small difference between cheap and mid range ones, and no difference between mid and high range mics at all.

was really hoping for "The F*** you say to me you little Sht"

Apple: buy the best iPad only for $1000 Blue: hold my beer, buy the best microphone only for $2000😎

One thing I noticed within 30 seconds of this video is whatever camera mic/ boom mic you are using is picking up reflections from your desk and causing a slight phasing of your voice. So much for all that "studying audio" that you did back in college...

I went to trade school for audio technology. Spent the whole year recording different instruments, vocals, sound fx with all types of mics. I can barely hear a difference when comparing condensers of different prices. The difference is so small it’s not worth spending money on an expensive mic. Get something in the 100-200 dollar range and you will be golden. Get a good engineer if you’re making music that’s what matters.

Don't get clicky switches such as Cherry MX Blues as they are known for being clicky and tactile if you want to reduce keyboard noise.

I also listened to it on studio monitors and then on my DT770 pro 250ohm, and let me tell you, when the kiwi comes in it's like you're talking inside my ear :D sooo clear !! Hence the price !

Difference with that 32 dollar mic was huge, but I'm sure the behringer xm8500 which is less than $20 would win againsta that one (being a dynamic quite close to the SM48)

$2k is on the mid side for professional recording microphones, which is what the blue kiwi is for. Good Neumann microphones start at $3k for the U87, and up to $15k for a U47, just context for anyone that thinks the two thousand is rediculous.

The two Blue microphones sound the best on voice with the $2K KIWI mic having a slight advantage in the upper frequencies.

The $30 mic sounded decent missing low end frequencies though, the Ember picked up more lows and mids but sounded slightly muddy imo, the Kiwi picked up everything beautifully.... this all being said after youtubes encoding messed with everything.

Thanks for sharing Harris, nice work on the 27 hour stream by the way, your a champion

I didn’t know when this video came out but I really thought he was gonna say “ LISTEN HERE YOU LITTLE SHIT”

i dont think he noticed, but ill point it out - 12:44, he wants to see which mouse picks up the the mouse and keyboard the most.

The cheap mic really cut out the low end, the $100 is sound more full and have better range on the low end, the $2000 mic is sound more colourful on high and and low range as well (probably that one have the best 20-20khz coverage) listening on a beyerdynamic DT990 Pro (My setup is Rode Procaster with a Behringer UMC202HD) Very nice comparison, I started to watch you because your OBS videos and I just caught my self I watch more and more of your videos. +1 subscriber :P

Darn i had a friend who played the keyboards, he had a " what we call, perfect hearing"! He wanted Shure mike's, we put it in the group and said no! The problem was playing in a not realy great band, the audience didn't care much of the sound quality. So we got the cheapest Behringer mike's, and nobody asked their money back afterwards! Ce la vie!

I am currently using a neumann u87 ai with a focusrite scarlet 2i2 3 gen, my headphones are the superlux hd 618 Evo. My cabels are the sssnake xlr cable.

I have $200 headphones and couldn't hear a substantial amount of differentiating between the Ember and Kiwi, same with the Tonor it wasn't that bad.

8:05 is what you're guys looking for 😊👋

Maybe it's because I was listening on old earbuds off of generic, 20 year old speakers, but I couldn't really tell any difference between the different tracks of the same recording.

Guys, if you live in a loud house make sure you get a dynamic mic instead of condenser because a condenser mic will pick up everything(Like someone eating ships in another room)

The $32 mic sounds decent and the $100/$2000 mics sound almost identical to me. There was a difference between the last two but it's barely noticeable to my ears, just sounds brighter rather than clearer.

Big difference between the Tonor and the Blue mics. The Ember and Kiwi were much closer than the Tonor and Ember were.

ember is bit more muddy anyway, but if you using post processing you can get very high quality sound from it easily

Great video. I bought my first condenser mic last week and spent three days wondering why my audio sucked. Well I was talking to the bottom or the mic. I wish I would of had the same warning as the blue box. Thought you might get a laugh out of that.

so I could hear the 30 dollar mic was a bit muddy and there was definitly a difference between it and the ember but the ember ant the Kiwi sounded like exact the same wich really impressed me.

I've been learning so much about the difference in quality between these price ranges watching tons of your videos and so far this has been invaluable. Thank you for the wealth of knowledge and field tests in your videos, I may have to buy some merch soon

Thank you for making the comparison test. Helps a lot to see... or hear the difference. Your videos are always helpful to me in getting started with this you can say, business.

Sooo uhhh what did you use to record voice when unboxing all the mics??????😂

You have good ears, my friend. I’m listening with a pair of studio headphones and heard the same differences between the mics as you.

I use the TONOR condenser microphone which has orange stuff and black around it and its great! If you are looking for a microphone and have a budget that one is great for people that want to buy cheap ones