Lolcow Advanced Microphone Reviews

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His avatar is Shadbase pedophile autism fetish garbage and his #1 suggested mic is a U87AI, which runs at $3000.

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https://www.amazon.com/Neumann-87-Switchable-Studio-Microphone/dp/B0016ZSIP2/
It's a good microphone for many applications, obviously. But probably not so good that it's worth making 10 videos a day on how good it is and how every other microphone sucks.
 
@kmacdowell
Hey, I hope to study neuroscience in grad school. What are your specific research interests?
I'm afraid the answer to that is too good to be true, but, my doctoral research is on autism. Specifically, potential deficits in associating voice tones that imply an emotional valence with corresponding facial expressions. In clinically normal individuals, both vision and audition are used to reconstruct potential emotional states of interlocutors, but as autistic individuals show both deficits in the processing of emotional states and some aberrant brain network connectivity, there may be a link between the two. This is to say, the autistic subject may fail to associate "happy" verbalizations with "happy" facial expressions, and be more likely to fail to notice either congruous or incongruous voice/facial expression combinations.

A good background in the biological sciences is obviously beneficial if this is your ambition, and math and statistics never hurt anyone. Organic and biological chemistry specifically will help if you're interested in more neurobiologically oriented programs. Physics will help if you're interested in action potentials, synapses, and other electrically-mediated phenomena.

Best of luck with your endeavors.
 
why do you bully the cancer man
There's nothing wrong with being a belligerent, autistic man who potentially has cancer. There's even nothing wrong with narrow obsessive interests, such as his in microphones. But some people with narrow obsessive interests parlay them into successful careers by working hard in their medium. Others bullshit and overstate their expertise to try and garner a following from people who crave authority. This Pale Boy is a good cautionary tale, like many other lolcows. There's a little of them in us all, but for some reason they choose to double down rather than accept culpability and clean up their act.

I don't want to bully the poor boy, just aware folks he's spreading bullshit, like many people do. He's not much different than YouTube prank channels that spread their own social narratives through the outcome of fake hidden-camera experiments. Not different than folks who sell "the secret to getting any woman you want" courses for $499.99 because they know people are desperate enough to be bullshitted out of their money. And my deepest wish is that he one day becomes the most revered microphone expert in the world after refining and honing his skill with the mic.
 
his videos at most have 30 views. you've brought more attention to him through this exercise than if you had just left it alone.
He's got some with more and that trend will continue since he'll inevitably post some video with a famous microphone's name and a provocative title that climbs quickly. If anything, it's unfair for him to not realize that the world at large is privy to the fact that he's spouting 90% nonsense (sometimes he says true if simplistic things, like other fake experts). Trying to shield him from true if potentially harsh criticism/attention isn't doing him any good either. It's implicitly conceding he's not smart enough to deserve to know that he's not all that he thinks he is. He isn't profoundly mentally retarded, and he's certainly capable in theory of understanding that there are wide gaps in his knowledge despite his enthusiasm, and that speaking too authoritatively is dishonest and damaging to the hobby he loves.
 
He's got some with more and that trend will continue since he'll inevitably post some video with a famous microphone's name and a provocative title that climbs quickly. If anything, it's unfair for him to not realize that the world at large is privy to the fact that he's spouting 90% nonsense (sometimes he says true if simplistic things, like other fake experts). Trying to shield him from true if potentially harsh criticism/attention isn't doing him any good either. It's implicitly conceding he's not smart enough to deserve to know that he's not all that he thinks he is. He isn't profoundly mentally exceptional, and he's certainly capable in theory of understanding that there are wide gaps in his knowledge despite his enthusiasm, and that speaking too authoritatively is dishonest and damaging to the hobby he loves.

I feel like you're reading into an amateur mic reviewer's videos on YouTube way to much.
 
So let's get right down to it. What brand of microphone do you recommend?
People should definitely do their own research. Review sections on Amazon etc. help, as with any product, but companies have wised up and those are full of shills so look out. Obviously, look at several information sources. Budget also matters. Different microphones are created for different purposes, too.

I have the same general opinion on mics as musical instruments: find the general type that fulfills the role you want it to, decide how important it is to you and how much money you have to spend. In logarathmic terms, $50 is too cheap, $500 is near the sweet spot if it's not your literal job in which case you wouldn't need to ask, and $5000 is far too expensive.

The issue with the lolcow being discussed is he says "don't listen to anyone else, I'm the one who will tell you the right answer," which is a guarantee in any venue that you should promptly listen to other people.
 
Just buy a fucking blue yeti snowball or whatever the fuck they're called and throw a spit screen in front of it nobody has time for this shit

Anyways, how did you get through the signup process for kiwifarms that LOUDLY AND REPEATEDLY SAYS not to use your real name or a name you use everywhere else and you managed both at the same time
 
Just buy a fucking blue yeti snowball or whatever the fuck they're called and throw a spit screen in front of it nobody has time for this shit

Anyways, how did you get through the signup process for kiwifarms that LOUDLY AND REPEATEDLY SAYS not to use your real name or a name you use everywhere else and you managed both at the same time
Might be someone trying to fuck with Kenton actually.
 
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