Another fantastic video! (Also, only somewhat related to this video: I do appreciate manufacturers producing solid quality at a budget price, even if it's not innovative, but B's recent product policy - ripping off designs and selling them at the same price anyway - is just baffling.)
Well here, (Canada) it was ripping off product designs and selling them for a lot less. Going direct is (not surprisingly) another way for behringer to cut corners.
@@thewatchmanstudios6257 Yeah, that's their old business model; here in Europe too. But many recent products (think Keystep) are just one-to-one copies for the same price.
We must admit... If a crappy thing is under test, it makes more fun. Here we have a full bunch... To be honest: 100% of foreign movies are dubbed in Italy. It's an industry here, famous actors report that italian voices are amazing. I prefer to listen to original soundtrack to practice, but I am an exception.
Years after releasing stuff like x32 that basically murdered the digital console market, and recently even better "Wing" consoles... they're still capable of producing utter shit it seems... Amazing.
@@PresentDayProduction I jest, but being fully honest, you have been my favourite channel on the platform for a few months now. And that means a lot, considering how I sometimes spend multiple hours a day on it. Imho you really do strike the perfect balance between being incredibly informative and entertaining at the same time. There are just far too few TH-cam channels like this out there. (I may also just have a thing for British humour xD) Cheers!
I can see that these microphones are definitely not worth it, however there are two points to note. First, I would definitely buy a pop filter no matter what because almost all microphones are really sensitive to plosives due to their nature. Even on mics that aren't very sensitive to plosive I usually still use one, just to be sure. And second, I'd definitely turn off the phone for radio interference reasons no matter what. Maybe they were humming because off the computer, maybe that's connected to wifi. And you need to make sure you're on airplane mode in the windows menu, otherwise the wifi/ bluetooth module if installed will still be turned on and could interfere with it. Still a nice video, Rock on.
The only time I've ever had a problem with phone interference with anything made in the last 10 years was an X32 mixer. Oh, and a NADY wireless mike, but they never pretended to make anything intended to work anyway.
@@image66media I have as a rule that I shut off my phone entirely. There's no way I'm gonna change that soon. "I've never has a problem" and "Definitely won't happen" are two very different things. And just to make sure I don't mess up the take of my talent, I'm gonna turn it off. Also, it distracts from your work and it has been said that once on your phone, you need up to 10 Minutes to get fully concentrated again.
Great funny video once again fellas thank you! Foley/ADR now you're in my ballpark so i'm really interested for you to do a video on just that, or any audio post related topics... it would be great fun!
Heh, excellent. Had the original video worked and you'd marketed it as about USB mics I probably wouldn't have watched...however, you got me hooked. Cunning!
I remember when Behringer used to be a reasonable entry-level company for budding audio engineers. I have proudly disposed of all of my Behringer equipment except for a headphone amp and one preamp, but I've taken a wire wheel to the logos removing any hint of the Behringer name. I still want to replace them, but that's a project for another day.
Came here from tonight's live stream, they didn't perform did they. Best thing that came out of this vid was folks getting to see why VO's charge what we do for fully synced ADR especially if we have to match lip flaps, & flop cat of course. 🙂
I bought a ten quid "LDC" USB mic from China that performs better than all of these Bicrophonies. It lives in a childrens' karaoke garden shed these days, and the kids love it. It's built like a tank, and sounds like one.
Great! I think if these mics were priced at under £50 it would at least make more sense for zoom calls/for show. But I did wonder if they were likely to be any good. Behringer still seems to be a very mixed bag.
As I always say - I subscribe for the honesty. Ridiculously hard to find on TH-cam these days. I know it probably limits your access to units to review but I would be happy to post in stuff I own for review - maybe some sort of community post in thing so you guys can stay honest? Oh and obviously flop cat is better than everything I just said.
USB mics seem to be a difficult market - many people seem to have very different experiences with the products. I got myself the Blue Yeti last month and I felt that the 100 bucks I paid for it was fair price - IF I could have gotten Windows to actually record sound with it. So looking for another mic now.
3:12 it's easy enough. You know how any short spoken clip will start sounding like a melody if you listen to it often enough? You focus on using that part of the brain. Instead of trying to remember and repeat the words, you try to remember and repeat rhythm and melody and perhaps musical intent. Which is also why it's better to stick to less than, say, seven syllables at a time. Especially when you're starting out
Honesty is often enough silenced by deep pockets. NOT HERE! I never thought that the MEMS mic of my iPhones headset sounds WAY better then these microphones. And now you learned why they have a second backup recording rig on film sites. :)
Thanks! It’s a Blackmagic Design 6K with all the cine extras - it’s unusable as just as camera so you need a whole rig to hold hard drives, batteries etc!
Ah, USB mics, the gift that keeps on giving… These days you could get a cheap interface (M-Track Solo comes to mind) and a cheap mic (Behringer XM8500 is below 20, no matter the currency) and have much higher audio quality. Still a great video!
Often I think Behringer know their market and it's just not anyone who takes recording seriously. It is the 'fake till you make it' crowd who want to look like they do. They should diversify into the knock off Rolex market next, same customer base. Great video as always guys, I know it's not an easy hit job on Behringer for laughs, you were somewhat positive about the KT compressors and EQ.
once again which proves my point. Not everything behringer makes is any good. Behringer needs to quit trying to make so much crap to corner the market and focus on a few items like the Klark teknik stuff, Midas and Behringer mixer and speakers. maybe synths and thats it.
ADR : Additional Dialogue Replacement, is what I have understood it to mean for the years I been an actor. But, I suspect it means either one, depending on the script supervisor.
BRILLIANT VID !! these mics got a severe kicking when they got announced and the hate seems too be justified ..they look terrible and sound terrible and theres much much better mics around which are priced roughlly the same
This has very quickly become my favourite youtube production channel...it's rare that I don't have a at least one chuckle when watching your "show"... No nonsense reviews and excellent advice. Keep up the good work... This episode had me laughing out (very) loud... and that cat ... priceless.
..The flop cat funk always makes my day..Behringer is truly one of the most terrible companies I've ever had the mis-fortune of dealing with. As for You guys doing an ADR vid. Yes please. I generally know the drill, but would love to hear your take..( A very little pun there...ahem)
I enjoyed the humour but to be fair, a mobile phone doesn't belong in any studio session or gig. A non-cellular iPad for scripts, lyrics or control surface is a safe studio tool. Also all laptops and some desktop computers have isolated USB ports, so a non-grounded shield on the mic cable acts like an antenna and that's not the fault of the microphone. At the price point I don't think that Behringer are kidding anyone so they are probably mainly eye candy for those that feel it's more important than the sound quality. During your comparison the BV44 didn't sound that bad.
Behringer is the double-personality audio brand out there. They are capable of perfectly cloning classic synths at an unbelievable price tag with amazing results. Incorporate technology gained by the acquisition of companies such as Midas into their own consoles for the ones on a tight budget. A few decent pedals, fx racks and the occasional DAW controller, which are ok for the money. But virtually the rest of their products still is as it's always been: crap.
synths are cheap made crap in reality, they sound good only from distanse and made of unrelaible cheap components - other manufacturer synts priced higher not without a reason
They are maybe better, when you don't throw them around? :D Honestly, what a waste of ressources and you can't even use most of them as shell for a diy mic. Well, I don't like USB mics in general, but these even less. That hum was atrocious. Nonetheless a fine video.
I can only imagine that the big "B" outsourced the R & D and manufacturing for these erm... mics...or maybe highly sensitive EMF detectors.... if that's what they are significantly better at doing..... and nobody bothered to check in with the er.....manufacturer about QC or adherence to the original design brief.... until they'd made 100,000 units and the large "B" had accepted them and paid for them in full...!!!! after which Someone decided that maybe some wishful thinking might make them work for their intended purpose if they were actually sent to market...???? They've had one or two howelers in the past ant some cases of appauling reliability due to their original philosophy of coming up with a half descent design and populating it with the cheapest batches of components available to keep the price down...!!!! But nothing this bad....!!!! and they've designed and built some things like the X32 and Digital Ultracurve EQ Which have been rock solid and Performed As Well if not better than the Competition...for a fraction of the price...!!! But these...????
The Truth Will Always Out! A great video on how to smash up bad microphones and sneak in some old Cat footage. If you guys keep up this reuse of old Flop Cat footage you'll have to change your name to Present Dave Productions.
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This is a fantastic video! I love honest reviews, good or bad. Keep it up!!
Cheers Alex :)
i absolutely lost it when the bird tweet was dubbed with "Gimme your car keys NOW"
Those mics performed best mid air for sure!!! LOVE FLOP CAT!!
Another fantastic video! (Also, only somewhat related to this video: I do appreciate manufacturers producing solid quality at a budget price, even if it's not innovative, but B's recent product policy - ripping off designs and selling them at the same price anyway - is just baffling.)
Well here, (Canada) it was ripping off product designs and selling them for a lot less.
Going direct is (not surprisingly) another way for behringer to cut corners.
@@thewatchmanstudios6257 Yeah, that's their old business model; here in Europe too. But many recent products (think Keystep) are just one-to-one copies for the same price.
We must admit... If a crappy thing is under test, it makes more fun. Here we have a full bunch...
To be honest: 100% of foreign movies are dubbed in Italy. It's an industry here, famous actors report that italian voices are amazing.
I prefer to listen to original soundtrack to practice, but I am an exception.
oh god at first i thought that was a coles mic that mark threw off the table
Uli will sue you when he see's this video. Love it!
Probably! 🤣 but it’s the TRUTH!
I never know what kind of fun I'll find at Present Day Productions, but I always look forward to it!
Glad to know you enjoy it! We’ll keep it coming!
I banned Behringer equipment from my work place about 20 years ago. This video only goes to show I was right. Total rubbish.
"Gimme your car keys" was some solid ADR, though :)
All natural sound, the birds make this sound in london
The humor. That’s the difference between another mundane mic review and this gem.
Thank you so much!
Behringer is secretly working on cloning cats.
..nice knowing you Floppy.
Years after releasing stuff like x32 that basically murdered the digital console market, and recently even better "Wing" consoles... they're still capable of producing utter shit it seems...
Amazing.
The X32 is barely tolerable. Mixer? Check. Digital? Check. Usable? Uh.......
2:46 I'm glad I'm not the only one that struggles with dialogue like this as soon as I turn on a microphone
Now this is what I call quality content! To the point and very entertaining! Time well wasted if you ask me xD
Thank you!
@@PresentDayProduction I jest, but being fully honest, you have been my favourite channel on the platform for a few months now. And that means a lot, considering how I sometimes spend multiple hours a day on it. Imho you really do strike the perfect balance between being incredibly informative and entertaining at the same time. There are just far too few TH-cam channels like this out there. (I may also just have a thing for British humour xD)
Cheers!
I can see that these microphones are definitely not worth it, however there are two points to note. First, I would definitely buy a pop filter no matter what because almost all microphones are really sensitive to plosives due to their nature. Even on mics that aren't very sensitive to plosive I usually still use one, just to be sure. And second, I'd definitely turn off the phone for radio interference reasons no matter what. Maybe they were humming because off the computer, maybe that's connected to wifi. And you need to make sure you're on airplane mode in the windows menu, otherwise the wifi/ bluetooth module if installed will still be turned on and could interfere with it. Still a nice video, Rock on.
The only time I've ever had a problem with phone interference with anything made in the last 10 years was an X32 mixer. Oh, and a NADY wireless mike, but they never pretended to make anything intended to work anyway.
@@image66media I have as a rule that I shut off my phone entirely. There's no way I'm gonna change that soon. "I've never has a problem" and "Definitely won't happen" are two very different things. And just to make sure I don't mess up the take of my talent, I'm gonna turn it off. Also, it distracts from your work and it has been said that once on your phone, you need up to 10
Minutes to get fully concentrated again.
Whole Indian movie industry functions on ADR and seriously there are thousands of movies India makes every year
Great funny video once again fellas thank you! Foley/ADR now you're in my ballpark so i'm really interested for you to do a video on just that, or any audio post related topics... it would be great fun!
Heh, excellent. Had the original video worked and you'd marketed it as about USB mics I probably wouldn't have watched...however, you got me hooked. Cunning!
I remember when Behringer used to be a reasonable entry-level company for budding audio engineers. I have proudly disposed of all of my Behringer equipment except for a headphone amp and one preamp, but I've taken a wire wheel to the logos removing any hint of the Behringer name. I still want to replace them, but that's a project for another day.
My mixer works alright. But well of course it's not even an option while considering Yamaha or Mackie mixers.
just stayed for the giggle. Worth it!! Thanks for your channel!
Came here from tonight's live stream, they didn't perform did they.
Best thing that came out of this vid was folks getting to see why VO's charge what we do for fully synced ADR especially if we have to match lip flaps, & flop cat of course. 🙂
Yeah I did a full ADR attempt but realised it was terrible after 3 hours of trying :D thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed it!
-James
@@PresentDayProduction LOL The first one is always the worst.... & then it doesn't get much easier but at least you learn to quote accordingly ;-)
I bought a ten quid "LDC" USB mic from China that performs better than all of these Bicrophonies. It lives in a childrens' karaoke garden shed these days, and the kids love it. It's built like a tank, and sounds like one.
Great! I think if these mics were priced at under £50 it would at least make more sense for zoom calls/for show. But I did wonder if they were likely to be any good. Behringer still seems to be a very mixed bag.
They still wouldn't compete with the likes of the Fifine k59 (£30 and sounds great) and a few other options too
that flop footage was top tier
Love the honesty. Love the cat video masquerading as a pro recording/ sound engineering informative vid. More!! 🙂
i love this channel! i would love to see you guys cover FL Studio as a DAW, maybe even try old versions. would be so cool!
I can look into it ;)
Cool - that was awesome fun! Beautiful cat :) Thank you.
I take my comment from one of your previous videos back and correct myself... THIS is the best mic review on TH-cam. 👌
Thank you so much!
Wrongly blaming Floppy... how dare you! You're going to need to roll up his catnip spliffs for him for the next month now, at the very least!
Fantastic video! Couldn't stop laughing at the bird on 4:36 🤣
Great info - thx. Love your sense of humor!!👍😁👍
So glad Behringer are back to their classic design decisions. The synths had me worried and I missed good old Behringer 😂
Tho if I ever see any cheap I might buy it to repurpose the housing!
They failed to actually reverse-engineer something that worked right in original form.
@@image66media they didn't even try.
So, Berhinger has effed up....
I always thought it stood for "Additional Dialogue Recording", haha the more ya know..
It does - it’s a choice between “Automated” or “Additional”, both are correct, however this was removed from the script for boredom-threshold reasons!
@@PresentDayProduction knew I wasn't crazy. Looking forward to the full video on it!
Please do a video on ADR. I would really and highly appreciate it!
As I always say - I subscribe for the honesty. Ridiculously hard to find on TH-cam these days. I know it probably limits your access to units to review but I would be happy to post in stuff I own for review - maybe some sort of community post in thing so you guys can stay honest? Oh and obviously flop cat is better than everything I just said.
That’s a good idea!
USB mics seem to be a difficult market - many people seem to have very different experiences with the products.
I got myself the Blue Yeti last month and I felt that the 100 bucks I paid for it was fair price - IF I could have gotten Windows to actually record sound with it.
So looking for another mic now.
Nice video. Another suitable name for the video would be, Complete Garbage Mics.
What you could do with those Behringer Shitecrowphones is some DIY projects to fit them with good capsules and pre-amps.
Honesty super valued. Thank you.
I wouldn’t even waste my money if Behringer made plectrums.
😆😆😆
3:12 it's easy enough. You know how any short spoken clip will start sounding like a melody if you listen to it often enough? You focus on using that part of the brain. Instead of trying to remember and repeat the words, you try to remember and repeat rhythm and melody and perhaps musical intent. Which is also why it's better to stick to less than, say, seven syllables at a time. Especially when you're starting out
Definitely would love a video on ADR!
You guys crack me up! Keep on keeping on..:-)
Wait, Behringer makes nice looking, but non-functional garbage?? Shocker!
Thank you. These mics have 40/60/90$ price drop that it now justifies the price but it's safe to stay away from it, lol.
Honesty is often enough silenced by deep pockets. NOT HERE! I never thought that the MEMS mic of my iPhones headset sounds WAY better then these microphones. And now you learned why they have a second backup recording rig on film sites. :)
No one is safe 😉
Brilliant, just simply brilliant 🤩
Best online review I've found so far
That's one serious looking camera set up! What the heck is it?!
Thanks! It’s a Blackmagic Design 6K with all the cine extras - it’s unusable as just as camera so you need a whole rig to hold hard drives, batteries etc!
Ah, USB mics, the gift that keeps on giving… These days you could get a cheap interface (M-Track Solo comes to mind) and a cheap mic (Behringer XM8500 is below 20, no matter the currency) and have much higher audio quality. Still a great video!
Why can’t other mic companies make cool retro mics worth a damn
I didn't expect them to be this bad! lol
I'd like to hear more about ADR. I was recently helping friends with an indie film doing just that
Cat VS Crappinger, Cat Wins lol
Often I think Behringer know their market and it's just not anyone who takes recording seriously. It is the 'fake till you make it' crowd who want to look like they do.
They should diversify into the knock off Rolex market next, same customer base.
Great video as always guys, I know it's not an easy hit job on Behringer for laughs, you were somewhat positive about the KT compressors and EQ.
Behringer SB78 A is a perfectly good discount mic that rivals a Shure. $39 they could a dropped the guts in a retro shell. They screwed up. Big time
once again which proves my point. Not everything behringer makes is any good. Behringer needs to quit trying to make so much crap to corner the market and focus on a few items like the Klark teknik stuff, Midas and Behringer mixer and speakers. maybe synths and thats it.
ADR : Additional Dialogue Replacement, is what I have understood it to mean for the years I been an actor. But, I suspect it means either one, depending on the script supervisor.
You’re correct in saying that it’s also “additional”, however both meanings are correct but for boredom-threshold reasons it was cut from the script
BRILLIANT VID !!
these mics got a severe kicking when they got announced and the hate seems too be justified ..they look terrible and sound terrible and theres much much better mics around which are priced roughlly the same
Cheers!
@@PresentDayProduction what mic should i buy guys ? im new to mics
For recording what? There are mics for all kinds of purposes
@@PresentDayProduction for speaking brother,sorry i should of mentioned it
Depending on budget:
Cheap but amazing: RODE NT-1A
Mid price but great: LEWITT LCT 440 PURE
Higher price but amazing: LEWITT LCT 640 TS
Extreme budget but unbeatable: LEWITT LCT 1040
wait so they did a crappy copy of a blue snowball and priced it pretty much the same?
4:36 comedy gold😂😂😂
This has very quickly become my favourite youtube production channel...it's rare that I don't have a at least one chuckle when watching your "show"... No nonsense reviews and excellent advice. Keep up the good work... This episode had me laughing out (very) loud... and that cat ... priceless.
Thank you so much!
Thanks for this review :)
..The flop cat funk always makes my day..Behringer is truly one of the most terrible companies I've ever had the mis-fortune of dealing with. As for You guys doing an ADR vid. Yes please. I generally know the drill, but would love to hear your take..( A very little pun there...ahem)
Nice! We will probably make a video then!
Can't believe they actually decided to put this on the market...
Were you lucky enough to get the new focal monitors in for review?
They haven’t responded to our emails - so currently no luck in getting the Focals
Intresting!
OMG.... How bad are those mics! WOW........
ahahahaha, holy crap. USB NOISE!!! BTW that was computer noise, not cell phone.
WHAT??? Behringer's Kung Fu is NO GOOD????
Thanks for the sincere advice
Holy shit. Those are dreadful.
here for the cat
Ahh, good, Behringer going back to being unrecommendable. Maybe the rest of the world will get back to normal soon, too **fingers limply crossed** :|
... **eye twitch**
Flopcat knew the microphones were all a flop, that's why he flop the video. Now we have a better and much more enjoyable video thanks to Mr. Flopcat
How dare you blame the flopster when it was the evil ear instead!!
We have compensated him adequately!
@@PresentDayProduction He has to get every fu*%ing chicken in this room. (Spoken with Sandor Clegane Voice)
He did indeed get many chickens - and also a handful of Dreamies treats!
Hands down, do the VocAlign video.
🐈 Cat 1 - USB mics - 0 😎
Jesus, Behringer has reached a new low with these ones!
OMG, I thought you were exaggerating slightly, but nope, those are truly, criminally awful mics. HAHAHAHAHA, this i so funny.
#ILaughAtJames
That coles lookalike is blasphemy!😂
I enjoyed the humour but to be fair, a mobile phone doesn't belong in any studio session or gig. A non-cellular iPad for scripts, lyrics or control surface is a safe studio tool. Also all laptops and some desktop computers have isolated USB ports, so a non-grounded shield on the mic cable acts like an antenna and that's not the fault of the microphone. At the price point I don't think that Behringer are kidding anyone so they are probably mainly eye candy for those that feel it's more important than the sound quality. During your comparison the BV44 didn't sound that bad.
Behringer is the double-personality audio brand out there. They are capable of perfectly cloning classic synths at an unbelievable price tag with amazing results. Incorporate technology gained by the acquisition of companies such as Midas into their own consoles for the ones on a tight budget. A few decent pedals, fx racks and the occasional DAW controller, which are ok for the money. But virtually the rest of their products still is as it's always been: crap.
synths are cheap made crap in reality, they sound good only from distanse and made of unrelaible cheap components - other manufacturer synts priced higher not without a reason
Kudos to you guys!
4:34 hahaha ha Bad a** bird
FLOPPY FLOPPY!! CHUNKY FLOPPY!!
I am letting you know down in the comments, that I would like to see a video about ADR. Please and thank you.
Thank you very much - noted!
Master of disaster!
Excited to not buy behringer’s trash shit via affiliate links.
“You know what ‘PG48’ stands for?”
“What?”
“Please Get 48 other mics that are not this mic.”
“Oh.”
Edit: “unless they’re Behringer USB mics”
Lol I smell a lawsuit incoming
Does Floppy have the studio to himself when you guys take off for the evening lol?
He does! He has beds in every room!
If so, he might rename the studio “Tabby Road”..(?)
@@CheapoCardCompany Well played
I’d love to hear about adr
They are maybe better, when you don't throw them around? :D
Honestly, what a waste of ressources and you can't even use most of them as shell for a diy mic. Well, I don't like USB mics in general, but these even less. That hum was atrocious.
Nonetheless a fine video.
I can only imagine that the big "B" outsourced the R & D and manufacturing for these erm... mics...or maybe highly sensitive EMF detectors.... if that's what they are significantly better at doing..... and nobody bothered to check in with the er.....manufacturer about QC or adherence to the original design brief.... until they'd made 100,000 units and the large "B" had accepted them and paid for them in full...!!!! after which Someone decided that maybe some wishful thinking might make them work for their intended purpose if they were actually sent to market...????
They've had one or two howelers in the past ant some cases of appauling reliability due to their original philosophy of coming up with a half descent design and populating it with the cheapest batches of components available to keep the price down...!!!! But nothing this bad....!!!! and they've designed and built some things like the X32 and Digital Ultracurve EQ Which have been rock solid and Performed As Well if not better than the Competition...for a fraction of the price...!!! But these...????
Microphones are pretty good. Its obviously sound engineer ego problem.
Congratulations on calling out Behringer’s bullshit.
The Truth Will Always Out! A great video on how to smash up bad microphones and sneak in some old Cat footage. If you guys keep up this reuse of old Flop Cat footage you'll have to change your name to Present Dave Productions.
Behringer stuff crap? I'm amazed - NOT.
Hello guys