What mics are you using today? I bought the TechZone and was curious.

35:21What mics are you using today? I bought the tech zone and was curious. Alexander. Yeah, the TechZone X2 specifically I think is what you're asking about, Joseph, and I know a lot of people on the show used those. I did buy one and I have used it. Not using it now. It's a very good sounding microphone, don't get me wrong, for the money.

35:42The one that I'm using right now, which you can just barely see at the bottom of the frame here, this is an AKG C414 BULS, which they do not make anymore. I like this microphone. it is pretty I would describe it as it is very pretty flat in terms of frequency spots like it's not super exciting like some of the other AKG that mics have honestly I feel like it could probably

36:08be it could probably have a little more high-end it's kind of a boring sounding microphone so it certainly has its use cases a lot of people like using these older mics for taming harsh sounding sources. I may be switching out my mic. It depends. I'm going to be getting a mic put together from Vanguard Audio, my friend at Vanguard Audio Labs, Derek, he owns that company. He makes microphones.

36:34And I asked him if he could build one of the FET microphones in a black casing. And he says that he's able to make it in a matte black finish. So it's going to be a lot larger of a microphone than this one, but I have actually never used a Vanguard audio microphone before, so I'm excited to try that out, and I will report back when I get it.

37:01Courtney. Yes, I am using the old Stellar X2 from TechZone, and I even have a spare. Look, when they were last on sale. There it is. My backup Stellar X2, I now have stereo. So I like the sound of this microphone. It's cheap. That's the reason I bought it originally. And I listened to the sound of it in several comparisons to much more expensive dynamic,

37:27I mean, much more expensive condenser microphones. It's not as versatile, although it is tailored. It's very well built. And I've torn it apart several times and looked at the internal construction of it. It separates the power supply board as separate from the audio preamp board. So it keeps those things isolated. It has a really good capsule with the diaphragm is sourced from Japan.

37:53And the guys that build it here in California are very exacting. They pick their components, match their components in the transistors, etc. So they take a great deal of care in turning them out. You get a chart of its frequency response when it comes. So wait till they're on sale. You know, when they're not on sale, they're like 300. They're the price of most other good dynamics like the IOPR 40 and the Shure dynamics.

38:24But wait for them to be on sale. You can get them on sale during Black Friday and during Prime Day. Usually is when they put them on sale. They were on sale for $84 this year when they were put on sale. Then they jump up the next day after those sales over to $340, something like that, or $390. So I'm using one now, but I'm using a lot of, I may not sound as good because my throat is a bit congested this morning.

38:53And I've got personalized audio turned on because there's a huge air conditioner that's trying to get a jump on the heat dome that we're in. It's 85 degrees in here right now, and it's been on for five hours. guy yeah that that mic is a heck of a value that stellar x2 it surprises me because you know the popular mic right now is a sure sm7b and that thing goes for you know four times the price

39:21versus that one on sale so um it does count though with your entire chain when you start to look at okay you got a mic that's 84 bucks can you throw more money downstream because right now I'm using noise removal so here's what it sounds like if I go original sound so I should have picked up a few dB it's not a little bit fuller now but maybe