Ray Lewitt is doing a great job here, but dang, this is such a well done (dare I say purrfect?) video! Lewitt should just post this on their site since it explains everything so clearly.
The Fletcher Munsen paper on psychoacoustics was published in 1933, and LiDAR was invented in the 1960s. Well done Lewitt for realising they could combine the two in a microphone. This is a killer audiobook mic. The ability to record pickups with the same apparent proximity effect as the original session is a lifesaver. I don't see a reason to get a 440. This extra functionality is worth the premium and more.
i want to see it use the mute to record vocals while cutting anything in the background... when mixing will it have artifacts? will it affect the mixing?
The innovation is where its at for this mic. Im glad someone is trying something new. Definitely more for poscasters and the like. A good singer that knows how to work a mic is gonna throw this thing into a tizzy. Great review!
Also, i really wanna vouch for the Lewitt mic bags, i have a super old one, which i use to carry around medicine and other small miscellaneous things daily, and it's still in perfect condition. They are just super durable and feel nice
This is great technology and I applaud Lewitt. I believe your presentation and analysis of it was spot on. How cool would it be if they coupled this tech with a mic with an ultra low noise floor such as found on the NT1? Or offered it on other mics with different sound signatures. I want it. Don't really need it but when does that stop someone from wanting something... LOL So am good offering these days. Such a great time to get into content creation. BTW had my ear buds so I could hear the noise floor and continued listening... The purrr test rattled my brain... LOL but in a good way and I am more of dog person. Thanks for sharing. BTW what acoustic and electric guitar were those?
I wouldn’t mind the volume adjustment feature in my office microphone that I use for Zoom and Microsoft Teams calls. Sometimes I do step away while talking.
Yeah, definitely a useful feature! I tend to sway a bit during streams and I do also move around quite often in my member podcasts. This mic is perfect for situations like that! Thanks for watching!
Yours is the first voice that makes me think Lewitt isn't actually lying and that the Ray really is a 440 pure with bells and whistles. It's still not identical, but closer than first thought.
Interesting! I have been so focused on getting this video out that I haven't had a chance to critically listen to other reviews of it yet. I'll have to check them out and listen for the differences. I did notice some slight differences between the Ray and the 440, but for me it was pretty close.... Nothing like the NT1 vs the NT1 SS.
I get it, I think it's potentially a very useful technology esp. for livestreamers, I think it can be refined further and for some reason to my ear it sounds worse than the 440 (which I think is a very nice mic if you have the voice for it)
That’s one thing I wanted to mention!!! I forgot, but this reminded me! Since this is an XLR mic, no usb connector whatsoever, there are possibilities for firmware updates. It would be cool if there was a way they could do mouth detection and ignore anything else that could get in the way haha
I would say no, the SM7b is really good with that. However, I did bump the table Ray was on a couple times and It did do a good job of compensating for that. Also, anytime I’d grab the stand and adjust the mic position/stand position, you could hear it, but I wouldn’t deem it “bad”.
This mic doesn't prevent clipping. It takes your level and evens it out over different distances. So you could argue that it is worse for streamers who get overly excited because if they back away to yell, the level will go up on the Ray, and it would clip even harder than a standard mic. Around 19:35 in the video, I talk about "singers," but that could apply to anyone with a high dynamic range, like streamers who get really quiet and then yell. However, if you are looking into getting this, or a mic that sounds like this, you could get the 440 Pure + the Connect 2. Then you would have access to a Limiter in the DSP of the Connect 2 (or Connect 6), which would actually help prevent clipping! It is called "Comp" in the Connect line, but it is essentially a limiter. You could pair the Lewitt Connect interface with any mic, though. Hopefully, this helps!
5:34 I was waiting for you to disappear from the shot and see nothing but your headphones and empty shoes floating in the air as you backpedaled right over one of your cats. (Totally not speaking from a place as if that as ever happened in my household with 3-7 cats) 😳🫣😱….🤕😂
Im curious i have the wave 3 from elgato and i use it with steel series sonar software which has tuning for noise gate compression and ai noise cancelling i would love to see how this sounds with that software and the aure software as you move back and forth to see if the sonar software would reduce the noise floor more to help focus on your voice as you move away from the mic i love the wave3 cause of clipguard to prevent from clipping but i dont want to be eating my mic to get clear vocals while streaming the aura software seems like that would be useful for me at least
This is most perfectest for podcasters, but for singers... not so much as we "work the mic" and is part of the performance. I'm really glad the podcasters are getting a good mic like this and it's not expensive. You won't have to be so careful about the distance from the mic. This is great for intelligibility of the podcasts and videos speech. Thumbs up Lewitt! I'm very glad that you brought the a tad too much high frequencies down on the Lewitt. I felt like SM-7B and LA-220 sounded more nicely balanced. I mentioned that somewhere already that I don't like the highs on Lewitts. I'm listening to these yt videos in a studio btw.
