Here’s a little vlog clip with my new mic and preamp/ audio interface. The mic is a Rode NT3 hypercardioid. The preamp/audio interface is the ART Tube MP Project Series w/ USB.

Notice how I’m so “green” with this audio stuff that I mispronounce hypercardioid. Hey… it’s a BIG word! *grin*

I purposefully left the audio track alone (other than the MP3 compression from Flash). I’d usually “fatten-up” any VO track with dynamics, as well as silence out the noise floor with gating or the noise reduction filter in Adobe Audition. But I wanted to see how the mic and preamp preform in my untreated office space with the PC running nearby… and overall I’m impressed!

I’m still learning the vagaries of the preamp, but seems like a very nice deal for $99 shipped. It has a limiter, phantom power, balanced output, phase invert, and a high-pass filter. Not a true “field mixer” by any means, but at a fraction of the cost I can’t complain.

Once I use it more I’ll be able to A/B it vs. the onboard preamps on my XH-A1 camera.