11/8/2023 0 Comments Nvidia broadcast low mic![]() ![]() A single indicator light will emit constantly when unmuted, or intermittently when muted. Instead of a click-down switch it’s a touch-operated pad which produces much less perceptible noise when you operate it, so hats off to the design team on that one. ![]() Where the SoloCast has a definite advantage over the Seiren Mini is the addition of a physical mute button, at the top of the mic capsule itself. Features and SoftwareĪs you might expect for an entry-level mic, there isn’t a lot to tweak here at a hardware or software level. This may be due to the increased capsule size and diaphragm the QuadCast has over our review focus. Does the SoloCast sound $10 better? If you want a vocal sound that comes out more neutral and with less harshness to sibilant sounds, yes.įor its part, the bigger and more expensive ( $140 as of writing) QuadCast definitely offers more warmth and a fuller sound than the SoloCast while also delivering a more natural sounding low-end. ![]() With that said, the SoloCast does offer a warmer sound that these naturally subjective ears find preferable to the $50 Seiren Mini. When using the SoloCast on its supplied stand, the latter seems to carry through the desk and pick up on the mic more clearly than the shock-mounted QuadCast or hypercardioid Seiren Mini. Both HyperX models are a bit more forgiving in this regard, but the tradeoff here is in added room noise an - that pariah of gaming broadcast - mechanical keyboard clatter. The Seiren Mini’s hypercardioid polar pattern means it’s a bit pickier about where its recording ‘sweet spot’ is, producing a thinner sound unless you’re facing it directly with your mouth a few inches away. There are differences though, at least at unprocessed audio level, between all three aforementioned mics. Thanks to the hotly contested nature of the streamer kit market, you really don’t need to throw a lot of money at your audio setup to get a great mic sound at the moment. Once you factor in the quality loss from the broadcasting platform itself, whether that’s Discord, Twitch, YouTube or Soundcloud, it’d take a very keen pair of ears to tell the difference between the mics. Here’s the real surprise: the SoloCast sounds pretty close to its bigger HyperX QuadCast brethren, and also to the Seiren Mini, our current favorite budget mic. The SoloCast is 3.1 x 3.1 x 7.1 inches in its stand or 3.1 x 3.1 x 5.1 inches without the stand, making it just a bit larger than the Seiren Mini (2.2 x 3.5 x 6.4 inches in its stand). You’ll have no such trouble with the SoloCast, and with threads for both 3/8-inch and 5/8-inch boom mounts, you’ll have no drama getting it onto a boom. You know, the ones that tend to droop back down into your face if you overload them with weight. The SoloCast’s small stature is good news for anyone who wants to use it with a low-cost boom arm. Unfortunately, our review sample tends to droop downwards if it’s arranged horizontally and tilted upwards, but truthfully we’d never calibrate it in that way in the first place.ĭue to the small size of the stand and the absence of a shock mount, we’d say fitting it to a boom arm instead is borderline essential to get the best sound out of it. The cradle also rotates at 45-degree angles and offers 180 degrees of rotation in total, so it’s a much more lithe model than we’d expect for the money. And, unlike its contemporaries, the SoloCast offers a variety of angles and positions, including a vertical tilt angle that lets you point the mic upward to your mouth if you’re using it on a desk. This one’s weighty enough at the base to keep it upright if you knock it during a particularly expansive hand gesture mid-stream. Like all USB streamer mics though, a stand is supplied with the mic capsule itself in the box. This is obviously one of the trade-offs the SoloCast makes in order to hit its $60 price point.Ĭonstruction materials are dominated by utilitarian matte finish black plastic, and although aesthetic touches, like the gloss finish ring around the mic mute touch pad on the top of the mic capsule are present, they can’t hold a candle to Razer’s cheaper Seiren Mini and its glorious finish. HyperX knows how to make products that look and feel great. And this obviously isn’t a lapse on the industrial design team’s part. There’s just nothing to catch your eye and prompt you to notice the design. If you were being less so, you’d say it looked a bit ‘Amazon Prime electronics department.’ Just a bit. If you were being charitable, you’d call it a grown-up, professional look. While other streamer mics could be accused of peacocking ( Razer Seiren Emote, looking at you), HyperX takes a very different tack here. ![]()
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