Best Budget Dynamic Microphones | Which One Is Better? | Fifine AM8 Or Maono PD200X 

👍🏽 hope this is helpful.

Thanks appreciate the support 👍🏽

😂 thanks. I know my way around a little in the ring.

@@TekToyzGaming No problem! you look like you would lol, also thanks to your video I think I am gonna buy the Maono PD200X to start PC content creation!

@@FroztyyOnVR it’s a good sounding mic. I think you will like it. Also has the Maono link app to improve it further over usb.

@@TekToyzGaming good to know! I'll download that because I was planning on using USB

Thanks for the feedback. So I’m using the noise filter option in OBS. I apply it to the mixer and in turn it applies to both mics.

Thanks for your perspective on this. These are the views that really foster conversation and growth. You make a couple of good points and do appear to have some insight on this topic. An 'issue' with fall-off is not the right description, it's just the way they're physically built and not what the use case is intended for. You are correct Companies 'label' them as dynamic because that's just the way the hardware is built internally - its just in the way it converts sound into electrical signals. For the am8 or pd200x there isn't a different technology inside. They still use electromagnetism to convert sound vibrations. Whether the quality and material of the build is not as exotic or meticulous as higher end dynamic mics, this does not make them any less 'dynamic' as that refers to the technology and not the quality. That means a dynamic function is their intended purpose. A transmission in a Bugatti and in a Honda Civic is still transmission tech, though one is obviously lower tier. With that said, there is really no 'issue' that is not being addressed here. So don't be disheartened. If there is some work-around dynamic technology that lower-tier manufactures are using? Please let us know if there is. What microphone tech do you use on your channel? Asking as I checked some of your recent videos and cannot distinguish. It sounds like you're using a shotgun mic or a laptop internal mic. Apologies, but it doesn't sound very good. I would think your audio is up to spec with your level of insights on audio tech.

🤣don’t get caught in analysis paralysis. Pick one, try it for a week or so. Don’t like it return it. Just have a top 2 or 3.

Buy both! I did. LOL

haha awesome. I went with Maono finally. Loving it a lot@@ChristopherKaltSrVideos

Yea that deniose is a game changer. I use it a lot.

You can connect both and both will work. You need usb for the RGB lighting.

I think these are both good for vocal recordings. If I had to choose which works for guitar recording I would say the AM8. It has better gain/pickup.

Yea still the same. If my pd400x broke today I would go back to the pd200x

I haven’t tried a mic that doesn’t have a noise floor yet. Some just have higher or lower floors than others. The pd200x is 24bit bit does have more pronounced frequencies on the high end. The am8 has an 80db signal to noise ratio. I don’t know what the pd200x is currently. Either way, in my demo the pd200x had better noise rejection than the am8 via usb.

@@TekToyzGaming thank you very much for your assessment!

Hello and thanks for the question. This is questionable. I have tried that very same thing with a couple of mixers and it didn’t work. usbc requires data communication (drivers) as well as a power source to work. 3.5mm throughput can’t provide that.

@@TekToyzGaming Hmmm... Okay. I was planning to buy AM8 and use it with my Play! 4 DAC (with a splitter). Guess that won't work. Thanks for the info!

Nice 👍 and good price. Let us know what you think of it.

@@TekToyzGaming my clients are happy with my voice over projects and i'm using this mic

@@JamesLuna11-14 oh that’s awesome! Yea this is a good option for voice overs. Glad I could help 👍🏽

​@@JamesLuna11-14 Hi which boomarm would go along with it?

I hear it only in the xlr noise cancellation portion. My room is an extreme example with electronics, fan wind and HVAC system. It leaks through when I talk even with noise cancellation on. I need to move lol.

It’s most likely from having the USB hooked up while using the PD200X on XLR.

I try to keep up with the comments 😀. For noise cancellation I used the basic noise cancellation feature built into OBS Studio. That’s it. Outside of that no other programs. No special settings either.

@@TekToyzGaming Thanks! do you happen to have any live noise cancellation software that you could recommend? (For non streaming or recording)

@@saditudev2 I would say go free first with audacity. You can use this for that purpose. Just look up how it works 👍🏽

Of these 2 I would say the am8. But probably the k688 is better than both for your voice.

The am8 here will be better for you then. Better pick up than the pd200x.

@@TekToyzGaming Thank you. I don't really have good memories of Maono. I have the "maono pm461-tr" now and it's so bad. Its volume is very low and when I increase it manually in Adobe Premiere, the sound quality decreases so much. That's why I want to travel to AM8...

@@ali-fp4ry that mic is a condenser mic. The pd200x is much better and is a dynamic mic. Currently in use the pd400x. So far the best mic I’ve used on my channel.

@@TekToyzGaming Wow, even better than sm7b?

​@@ali-fp4ry SM7B Price Is Tooooo Much And Maono Pd200x Is much less Tough It can't beat SM7B but Still It's not a bad mic but if u can afford shure sm7b then you should definitely go for it

if you're referring to the fifine sc3, it doesn't unfortunately.

Both of these mics don’t require phantom power. They get their full potential without it.

I think both of these here sound better than the k688. Also partly depends on your voice type as well.

Thanks for that. This is good insight for others to see. For both I end up subduing the high ends in post, just a little more on the pd200x. I think I just really like that airiness/presence a lot. If they make a version of it with touch capacitive buttons I will be first to market on it. Or if they make a smaller am8 with a shock mount same reaction.

i do think it depends on your voice yes. i got the pd200x and honestly i would pay double the price for this mic. i was scared it would not suit my voice but it's well.

@@GOLDEN-EXE thanks for that feedback.

@@TekToyzGaming videos are getting better. no body did a video with hyperx solo cast and this mic. so consider it.

@@GOLDEN-EXE thanks for feedback. The solocast? I’ve done dynamic vs condenser before. It’s sort of an apples to oranges sorta comparison but doable. They have different technologies internally and do a little bit of different things as a result.

The AM8 is only usb and xlr. Doesn’t look like the Astro mix has either of these. Using adapters most likely will not work. I tried using and adapter to another mixer with the am8 and did not work.

Probably most mics will clip. It’s all about setting you gain, limiters and compression properly where you are able to. That’s why I like using OBS as these can be set and remain active while the app is running. Also the Maono link for the pd200x includes limiter and compressor option.

Ok then you heard what I heard👍🏽

maono pd100u or maono dm20

@@pusing010492 gotta go with the pd200x.

i just buy my pd100u for 39 usd@@TekToyzGaming

Do you mean to say the pd200x sounds like cheap paper? Like stationary from dollar tree? 😂

@@TekToyzGaming No, just average

@@thepauloapo yea its definitely budget. Just a way to save and have ok audio unless you got the bank for those $200+ mics. Even with expensive mics you’ll find yourself post eq’ing a bit.

lol unfortunately for you that’s my favorite mixer at the moment. You’d probably be fine with the Fifine sc3 or Maono c2 Neo if you’re just using 1 mic.

@@TekToyzGaming Doesn't Have Any Budget Mixer with Denoice Feature??

@@AkshatSharmaa-ww9uh the c2 Neo is budget and has denoise.