I have this mic since like a year and a half now. Just found this video. Got scared. Open the mic to check if I got the good one. I have the good one. Life´s good.
I once bought one and it didn't even work, good thing the other accessories were useful and I am still using the cable and boom arm, so not a total fail haha, thanks for the great review
I'm in your same boat when it comes to the excellent accessories. It's not a total loss LOL! I really needed that XLR to TRS cable. At just $16 the accessories make up for the horrendous sound. Thanks for the great comment.
Based on my own purchases, the NW (or BM in my country) 800 mics that they sold at the start of the pandemic were of a different quality compared to the ones sold in 2022. Prices dropped drastically, too.
That's very interesting. Thank you for giving me some insight on this. How a company can do this is beyond my understanding. Quality control should be job one and not all over the place like this one.
I bought a NW-800 and sounds awful somehow. I was not expecting something professional, but this is just sad, It is not suitable for recording podcasts, not to mention music.
What about the inside is a "fail?" You didn't explain what any of your beginning meant. I haven't seen the Tom Buck video on this issue. For individual's new to audio production, it should not be assumed they follow Tom Buck. Furthermore, in your video, Tom seemed to not know what the mic internals did either. I will see if I can find his video & watch for proper context. I will wait to add further comments.
In the clip I shared he points out the difference in the boards between the 800 and the 700. In that short clip he states that the 700 board sounds better and is more complex. Therefore, when I show the board I got, it is the one that doesn't sound good and is less complex.
I think that all you can conclude from the Tom Buck video is that his particular NW-700 sounds better than his particular NW-800. But it seems that the insides of both microphones change with time or with manufacturing batch. Tom's NW-700 has a capsule with wide-spaced connections in a black plastic mount, a circuit board with two capacitors on the back, and the component side facing outwards. His NW-800 has a different capsule with narrow-spaced leads in a yellow plastic holder, a circuit board with all of the capacitors on the component side, and the component side of the board facing inwards. This video has an NW-800 that has the same capsule and circuit board and board orientation as Tom's NW-800, but the capsule holder is black instead of yellow. I have a NW-700, but it has the same insides as Tom's NW-800 (capsule, yellow mount, same circuit board) except that it's in a NW-700 body, and the circuit board is mounted component side out. Then there is a video from "Hoosier Hardware" who bought a NW-700 and NW-800, took them apart, and found exactly the same components in both - the same as Tom's NW-700. (The Hoosier Hardware video is about a year after the Tom Buck one). So: it looks like the manufacturer uses whatever components are at hand when assembling both models, or perhaps one circuit board and capsule are a newer design than the other. But you can't tell what's inside a particular mic without taking it apart.
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I have this mic since like a year and a half now. Just found this video. Got scared. Open the mic to check if I got the good one. I have the good one. Life´s good.
That's great! I'm glad you go the one worthwhile. It's a crapshoot it appears. LOL!
I once bought one and it didn't even work, good thing the other accessories were useful and I am still using the cable and boom arm, so not a total fail haha, thanks for the great review
I'm in your same boat when it comes to the excellent accessories. It's not a total loss LOL! I really needed that XLR to TRS cable. At just $16 the accessories make up for the horrendous sound.
Thanks for the great comment.
Based on my own purchases, the NW (or BM in my country) 800 mics that they sold at the start of the pandemic were of a different quality compared to the ones sold in 2022. Prices dropped drastically, too.
That's very interesting. Thank you for giving me some insight on this. How a company can do this is beyond my understanding. Quality control should be job one and not all over the place like this one.
I bought a NW-800 and sounds awful somehow. I was not expecting something professional, but this is just sad, It is not suitable for recording podcasts, not to mention music.
Well, maybe mine it's just defective. Idk, but I guess I'm returning it.
@@fidelpalma5164 I definitely didn't like the sound of the one I got. I still want to try the NW-700 and see if that's any better.
@@fidelpalma5164 had I not ripped the windscreen it came with I would have sent mine back as well. It sounds really bad.
What about the inside is a "fail?" You didn't explain what any of your beginning meant. I haven't seen the Tom Buck video on this issue. For individual's new to audio production, it should not be assumed they follow Tom Buck. Furthermore, in your video, Tom seemed to not know what the mic internals did either. I will see if I can find his video & watch for proper context. I will wait to add further comments.
In the clip I shared he points out the difference in the boards between the 800 and the 700. In that short clip he states that the 700 board sounds better and is more complex. Therefore, when I show the board I got, it is the one that doesn't sound good and is less complex.
I think that all you can conclude from the Tom Buck video is that his particular NW-700 sounds better than his particular NW-800. But it seems that the insides of both microphones change with time or with manufacturing batch.
Tom's NW-700 has a capsule with wide-spaced connections in a black plastic mount, a circuit board with two capacitors on the back, and the component side facing outwards. His NW-800 has a different capsule with narrow-spaced leads in a yellow plastic holder, a circuit board with all of the capacitors on the component side, and the component side of the board facing inwards. This video has an NW-800 that has the same capsule and circuit board and board orientation as Tom's NW-800, but the capsule holder is black instead of yellow. I have a NW-700, but it has the same insides as Tom's NW-800 (capsule, yellow mount, same circuit board) except that it's in a NW-700 body, and the circuit board is mounted component side out. Then there is a video from "Hoosier Hardware" who bought a NW-700 and NW-800, took them apart, and found exactly the same components in both - the same as Tom's NW-700. (The Hoosier Hardware video is about a year after the Tom Buck one).
So: it looks like the manufacturer uses whatever components are at hand when assembling both models, or perhaps one circuit board and capsule are a newer design than the other. But you can't tell what's inside a particular mic without taking it apart.
K669 demolished the 800 😨 I bought the wrong mic 😫
I couldn't believe how much better the K669C sounded when I replayed the video. It's not even close. Thank you for commenting.