MAONO Dynamic Microphone Kit Full Review | Unboxing + Audio Test

So if you're looking to get better audio quality and you don't want to use the microphone from your camera or the one from your phone, then you can get a wireless mic or you can go ahead and get this dynamic boom mic

Now this is going to be a kit so it has everything you need to get started and this is going to be by Mauno

So they went ahead and sent this to me so I just want to do a quick unboxing and test this out to see how well it works

Alright so the first things we see are going to be these two papers. This is going to be an installation guide and this is the user manual

And everything else is going to be neatly packed so starting on the right side we're going to go ahead and have the power cable

So this is going to be USB-C to USB-A. But the cool thing is that this is an adapter

So you can turn it into a USB-C to USB-C cable instead

Right here we have the desk mount, the mono mic, and a cage. And all the way at the bottom we're going to have the microphone arm

So here's a closer look at the microphone itself. And it's going to be fairly lightweight. Now on the metal body itself we're going to have the logo

Up top is going to be the microphone capsule which can come off. You just have to hold it by this plastic bit and take it right out

And here's what it goes ahead and looks like. and now take a look down over here this is going to be the shock mount we're going to have the stand

adapter and finally some other things we're going to have the rgb switch the headphone jack the usbc

cable to go ahead and power it or if you want you can use the xlr output so now time's for

installation and we can start with the desk mount so i find a spot right over here you can go ahead

and unscrew this and then just go ahead and tighten this so now that that's nice and tight

the arm can be placed right on top of here and i just realized that this is a little bit too close

to the wall so when I swivel it it hits it so I do have to go ahead and move this a little bit more

to the right just like that so now when it swivels it won't go ahead and accidentally hit the wall

and now the microphone can be screwed in right over here and so after moving the arm a little bit

here's what the whole setup looks like it ended up looking pretty nice and also one thing to note

is you can go ahead and loosen this if you want to go ahead and make some adjustments and then

tighten it back of course and same thing goes for up here down here and all the way down here just

to prevent this from moving as much now as you see it currently lit up green and that because the light so when I go ahead and press it again here it changes color so now it blue darker blue pink and RGB and yeah that looks pretty nice and let see what

happens if I hold it there if I hold it it goes ahead and shuts off and then I can press it again

it turns on and it goes back basically back to the same setting and then here you can see

all the other colors it comes with and now time for the knob if I press it that's how

it changes color so yeah it's only green or blue now if i move all the way to the left it'll go

ahead and dim and when i go too much it'll blink on and off letting me know that that's the maximum

and if i go all the way to the right there same thing this is as bright as it gets and when i go

too much it blinks on and off twice to let me know that's the maximum too and if i go ahead and mute

it goes ahead and turns red so now let's see how the audio sounds like all right so with everything

set up now it's time to see how the audio sounds like and i do have my headphones over here plugged

in just so i can go ahead and hear and so far what i'm hearing sounds pretty good so hopefully it

sounds good for you as well too and here's how it sounds like as i go closer and closer and of course

this is going to be you know unrealistic you'd never go ahead and be literally touching the mic

like this because it's not going to sound very good here's what it sounds like about an inch away

and then here's what it sounds like when i go to the side and now you're not supposed to use the

microphone like this you're always supposed to be in the front because this is where the mic is going

to be it's not going to be like a 360 thing and just one more time here so you can hear what it

sounds like as I go ahead and move around the microphone and then as I back up a little bit

now this is about six inches away and this is probably the distance I would go ahead and use

normally and to make some adjustments on the microphone I can either use the knob over here but if I do do that then here you can kind of hear it moving and it can interfere especially

if I accidentally tap the mic so the mic's going to go ahead and pick up those little sounds and

And if I go ahead and mute, here's what it sounds like. Yeah, so now it's muted

So now you hear me from my other mic. And let me go back over here

All right, so now time for the desktop app. And Mauna actually has something called Mauna Link So if you go to their website mauna just scroll down over here see which microphone uh correlates with the one you have in this case this one going to be the pd200x usb

xlr microphone and just download for mac or windows or whatever you have in this case i

download it for mac and here's what the application looks like so with just the press a button i can

go ahead and mute it and yeah now i can't hear myself talk through my headphones of course and

then let me go ahead and unmute and there and i can go ahead and adjust the gain so right now

it's currently at 60 and let's see what happens if I go all the way down and as I go ahead and

increase and increase it's gonna sound a little bit too much and here you can see how the gain

looks like and it's not very pretty it's going towards the orange even towards the red end if I

shout a little bit so let me go back to 60 so right now I can hear myself talking but if I want

to go ahead and change that if I want it to be a little bit less I can just decrease the volume on

the headphones and now I know the microphone is still working because right over here I could see

the gains moving up and down but I can't hear myself through my headphones so let me just go

ahead and adjust that and I think 60 was a little bit too much so I'll just put probably around 40

41 yeah 41 is fine and of course you can go ahead and make these adjustments on the microphone itself

and it's going to be with the knob so right now it's blue and blue means the headphone volume

so as I go ahead and move it there I can hear myself even more and you can see that on the

app itself it's changing as well too and if I go ahead and click it now it'll turn green and this

is going to go ahead and adjust the gain so as I increase here you can see the gain's increasing

and even on app itself but let me go back to yeah like 60. All right so now it's time to change the

tone and this is what original sounds like and this is what deep sounds like and now this is

what natural sounds like and all the way to the right I have an option for legacy so let's see

what it does and yeah it sounds like kind of an enhancement I'm not sure if it's good or not but

you be the judge of that but for now let me go back to original and then finally RGB so I can turn it on or off it currently on and let see what it looks like if I turn it off Yep the light turns off and back on and of course I can go ahead and make these adjustments Same thing on the button in the back as we did before but what I couldn do is actually adjust the

brightness I believe. So here let me go ahead and make it even brighter and yeah you can see

it's pretty bright now and now that's very dim but I think 100 is too much. Let me go to like 70

So all these settings I went through is going to be standard but there's also going to be an option for advanced if I click right over here. And let's see, I can do the same adjustments as before

but we're going to have EQ. So right now it's currently flat. And then here's what it sounds

like with the high pass filter. Actually, let me move the microphone a little bit more there

This is probably going to sound a lot better than before. So here's flat again. This is what high

pass filter sounds like. This is presence boost and HPF and presence boost. I'll go ahead and leave

it flat for now and we can go ahead and add a limiter so here's what it sounds like with zero

decibels and I can go ahead and change it over here now I've never used any of these settings

before on a microphone I usually go ahead and do this post editing so this might save a lot of time

just because the audio is going to sound a lot better you know once I go ahead and mess with it

and then this time I don't have to go ahead and adjust it in Final Cut Pro and then finally it's

going to be compressor so all right so here's zero decibels and then here's like negative 32

negative 30 and yeah a little bit too much but yeah that's pretty much it for the app so overall

i'm pretty happy with this mono dynamic microphone kit comes with everything you need it's really

easy to go ahead and set up the rgb the colors look nice it has the app so you can go ahead and

control it and yeah it was pretty easy to use and now when the time comes to go ahead and put this

away you can either leave it like this or just push it downwards and just kind of hide it a little

bit more in the corner and of course I'd probably move this up kind of like this and there now it

doesn't take up as much space so it's not you know surrounding this area over here. But yeah

that's a quick look at the Mauno Dynamic Microphone Kit