Your microphone can greatly impact your audio quality on Microsoft Teams. Find out which one performs the best and which one gives you the most value for the biggest quality improvement.
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⌚ Timestamps
0:00 Introduction
2:13 Laptop microphone
2:39 Bose wireless headphones with mic
3:11 Rode NT-USB Mini
3:50 Rode NT-USB
4:16 Sennheiser MKH 50
5:03 Back-to-back comparison
5:20 My thoughts
7:02 Wrap up
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anyone knows what camera is he using?
Where all these test done with plug and play in mind or was there any presets or audio adjust?
Teams Low passes everything beyond 10Khz. There's a law of diminishing returns with microphones as a result. I own a Neumann U87 and there is absolutely no difference in discernible audio quality between it and something 1/10th the cost in comparison.
There's also a comment to be made about background nose. A pair of apple wired earpods are actually amongst one of the best input sources, and that's against professional studio mics at $5000. I'm not saying the two compare in other environments, but in teams, there's little justification to spend more. Close micing will remove background echo and AC noise etc so it's worth looking at as an option.
Thanks for the test. Now that Microsoft is about to roll out hi fidelity music mode (based on Satin) in the Teams app during September, it would be great to have a similar test to see if it actually makes more of a difference. Satin should already be used in 2-way communication in Teams but I assume you need the full Teams app and not the browser version.
NGL.. there was almost no improvement Even though you used really expensive ones but still Teams messed up the efforts.. so yea just use a mid cost external mic and turn off all the noise cancellation settings
howly shit this is a good review thx
Thank you Kevin for your video and your help … please someone/Kevin can you give me any advice on how to have two mic in Teams sessions, I mean one mic for the presenter and another one for the audience in the same room?
Does audio quality turns out better if we turn off the noise cancellation setting in Teams ?
The bulk of the problems with audio in Teams are to do with the stream rate, not the device quality, Teams as far as I can tell does not give me anyway to adjust the bitrate of the stream allowing it to recover from being downgraded since it is that action which introduces all the noise. Almost every other player allows you to adjust the bitrate, why not Teams?
I appreciate your work, but zoom seems to beat them all hands down, just turning on original sound on zoom, gives same audio quality to your listeners. I use that and my listeners tell me I sound like I am in a studio with all mixing on my audio. So Microsoft should work on that.
Great video!! Can you please review the Shure mv7 please? I’m looking to purchase it or the Rode NT-USB. Thank you
Teams absolutely destroys AV. It's really too bad. I have been thinking about upgrading my Logitech C922 to using my Sony a5100 and a shotgun mic over a capture card, but after the compression happening, I just don't know that the gains are worth the effort…
Rode mini😍
Just what I needed… Thank you
What about the small lavalier microphones?
Wow! Thanks for the video. I use the Rode NTSB since one year with MS Teams. From the beginning I had the feeling that it's not as good when I record the sound with another tool. I thought I had a wrong setting. But it's just Teams -.-
Would have been interesting trying a dynamic XLR mic…i guess there is so much compression that it could barely differs but would never find out so stick with what you have is the conclusion.
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