The "missing frequency" is very likely the sharp dip in the SM7Bs frequency response. This is inherent to the SM7B capsule and it showed up in all my response meaurements between 6 and 7 kHz. You should also see the behaviour with your unmodified SM7B. Great job on the design!
The theatrics in the intro are just freakin' beautiful - almost as beautiful as the frankenmic itself! Love these kind of DIY projects, even if they're certainly not for the faint of heart. Fantastic job, Addie, you've worked some real magic here!
I love how you’ve taken what was originally a mic review of the Beacn Mic, did the due diligence to back up your opinion, dealt with the controversy, and ON TOP of all that, literally BUILT a better version. Bravo!
Now thats what I always wanted to have. Just the DSP processing unit with a preamp and let my choose my mic. Beacn should just make it a box I can put on my desk and I think a lot of people would be happy :) Nice job tinkering lol!
6:42 you know you can create groups for your tabs in Chrome. You could create a group named "RUclips", another one "social media", "admin", etc... and you can expand/close those groups thus making it easy to navigate and also visually easier to spot the tab you want to go back to
Really cool project. it pops a bit but sounds much better for your voice than the beacon capsule ever did. I think replacing the Beacon capsule with a cable is a great idea. Looking forward to that!
Interesting! I’ve kind of gone the whole opposite way and just bought a $500 valve channel strip so my VO should be super overkill from now on. But this method seems like a lot more fun!
The intro had me thinking 6 million dollar man but I got suspicious after a second and changed my mind to Robocop. Happy I called it correctly later in the video lol. Awesome project! Nothing I love more than making things that aren't designed to work together....to work together. Fantastic job, dude.
Stoked to see the follow-up project; like others below that's really the product I'm interested in from BEACN and seeing what's involved in a home built version would be excellent.
that was cool! I hope to see you fix the mic "sound profile" what 100% turns me off the mic is the software. (and how it sounds XD) I have a wave 3 and it just sounds amazing. I have a mate who has the beacn and a wave 1 and the sound next to each other the wave just wins hands down no effort.
11:39 you could just make housing for capsule, and separate housing for motherboard, so you could have compact mic and connect it with longer wires to motherboard :)
This is awesome! I just commented on one of your community posts saying I was going to make a variation of DIYPerks Mic idea. Now I have so many more things to think of!
I kinda like yours better than the SM7b, honestly. Stock (no filters) SM7b has always seemed too dark to me, so I like the little presence boost yours has. I also wonder if you could use an MV7 capsule and if that would help it squeeze into there better.
i'm sure they love it as you still have to buy their ~$280 mic to be able to do this and destroy the warranty so if you want one you'll have to buy it again hahaha
I think that spectral gap cooouuuld be reflections inside the mic body…. But it could also be something in their preamp. If only the dsp/usb end of their pcb was a separate board and you could use the preamp board from a better usb mic. (What about Shure’s from the mv7 usb? Haha!) Fun video!
Wow... I love the RoboCop vibes... Of course, RoboCop's prime directive in this situation is to bring the makers of the BEACN mic to justice...😂😂😂 Also, would love to see a V2 of this FrankenMic
Great job doing a mod!!! The problem with the printed tube was that the tube blocked the *interference ports* coming in the back of the capsule :) Those are what give a dynamic mic it’s directionally (invented for this microphone! :))
Sound Sleuth is a 800 subs channel on youtube that shows how to mod a cheap bm800 capsule into a semi professional mic using prebuild pcbs and capsule, you might be interested in that for videos on cost benefit builds (all that for probably less than 100 bucks btw)
Great to see that works quite well. Last time I tried this project with a 30$ capsule, it had bad wires, this literally fell off, tried soldering, the heat killed the condenser diaphragm, so just a side note, replacing a condenser capsule and not a dynamic 1, might be a pure nightmare.
I've been debating whether or not to build my own U87 clone for a few months now. Comparison videos show that they are not necessarily identical since allegedly the capsule construction is incredibly influential to the sound of an actual U87, but the prospect of building my own mic just seems appealing enough of a project that I'm most likely going to do it any way lol. Glad to see this ended up working out for you!
I kinda wanna try this with the Revalator dynamic and a SM7B capsule The Revalator is a bit too bright for my taste, so maybe modding in a Shure capsule will be the way to go
This is a really cool project! I am getting a 3D Scanner soon so I might try making some scans of my SM7B and beacn mic and see if I can adjust the housing
Honestly this is super cool! I dunno why but I never even considered the possibility of taking microphones apart and combining parts of different microphones together. I want a SM7Beacon now :P
If you are going to make your own interface, for the love CPU cycles, add analog filters / effects to it. HPF / LPF, Noise Gate, Compressor, and maybe an EQ?
This is awesome! That sm7b capsule does look large… i wonder what other mics you could stick it in. I love the look of the pod mic, which is rather small. Think there’s a way of jamming it in that thing?
looking at the design under the windscreen, I can't help but wonder if the Shure's capsule wouldn't fit/work better on the Presonus Revelator Dynamic USB? you get the better software experience out of it and the cost to DIY it would be lower too.
What I've learned is that it doesn't matter what microphone you have in this day and age and that's all because of the filters on OBS that make your Microphone sound so so good. With all those filters available, you can have a $30 mic sound like a $300 mic. Still, a very cool video. Your mic sounding so good as is without processing is purely amazing. Nice work. The USB change alone make this project very worthwhile.
@@kukukachu yes, and I've also used protools, soundforge, reaper... You need a minimum of quality in your input. Below that, no filter can save your master.
@@NiloVelez So what mic are we talking here? You can take a Rode Micro and still make it sound good and that's only $70. I'm curious what mics you are talking about, because I was talking about USB mics.
@@kukukachu You said 30$, not 70$. There are some nice mics in the 70$ range (Samson Q2U, Shure PGA58). But it's really hard to find something decent for 30$
Could you remove the internals from the beacn mic put it in say a 3d printed box. with a usb connection an headphone jack on one side, and then an xlr cable where the beacn capsule connects almost like a tiny beacn audio interface for dynamic mics 😂
I know you can get replacement dynamic capsules from both SE Electronics and Shure. I wonder if you can do a cost effective capsule switch for the Beacn with one from an sm58 or a V7. The crunch is likely the pcb in the mic, unless their software crunches the audio by default which would be a very weird choice.
wow the whole process was super cool and i didnt even remotely think about how the plastic capsule itself would affect audio... @EposVox do you think the material you used would mess with it as well? say if you printed it in abs instead of pla ect
I imagine its more the thickness of layers and the amount of free space like you were talking about for your voice to bounce around with but I wonder if you could get a crisper effect or more tinny depending on what the walls are made with.
Okay, quick question. Could you have just soldered some eighth inch sockets to the capsule and to the DSP and then made it so that you could swap the capsule out? That would have made it much smaller and you could swap back and forth between modules to test them and see which one you like better.
I certainly wouldn’t have made it smaller given the capsule would still need a shielded housing and now one that covers the whole capsule unit and can slot in
The person that’s not a company nor a audio professional… just a person that thinks like any human does… that was told he doesn’t know what he’s talking about… that was gaslighted… him, he achieved it
Do you prefer the beacon software over the Elgato wave software? Could try this with an Elgato wave mic. I'm curious if the beacon software/hardware doing it's internal "magic" would be messing with the sound.
I like Elgato’s software for its mixing and stability, but it doesn’t have a DSP or anything to process the mic onboard. So for mic processing I prefer BEACN’s stuff
Do you have wav audio files of the test recordings of the mics somewhere we could listen to? Just curious what the audio quality difference would be like compared to listening to it from RUclips
I love seeing people make mistakes during projects, it’s so much more relatable than people who blow through the build process and make it seem easy.
The "missing frequency" is very likely the sharp dip in the SM7Bs frequency response. This is inherent to the SM7B capsule and it showed up in all my response meaurements between 6 and 7 kHz. You should also see the behaviour with your unmodified SM7B. Great job on the design!
Thanks for your SM57 EQ parameters👌
The theatrics in the intro are just freakin' beautiful - almost as beautiful as the frankenmic itself! Love these kind of DIY projects, even if they're certainly not for the faint of heart. Fantastic job, Addie, you've worked some real magic here!
I love how you’ve taken what was originally a mic review of the Beacn Mic, did the due diligence to back up your opinion, dealt with the controversy, and ON TOP of all that, literally BUILT a better version.
Bravo!
Just imagine if this grows like the mechanical keyboard community did recently.
Custom microphones would be dope tbh, great job Epos!
I would LOVE that. Just need to source some BEACN boards cheaply without the rest of the mic
Hot swappable capsules would be dope!
@@AllenGuarnes Good Idea,2 In 1 Condenser and Dynamic Microphone in 1 package just Swap the capsules
Yeah, I found my way here cos I'm gonna build one
is that a frankenstein'd mic or are you just happy to see me 😳
Now thats what I always wanted to have. Just the DSP processing unit with a preamp and let my choose my mic. Beacn should just make it a box I can put on my desk and I think a lot of people would be happy :)
Nice job tinkering lol!
Omg that RoboCop intro was fantastic.
Loving the RoboCop and (I think) million dollar man references
6:42 you know you can create groups for your tabs in Chrome. You could create a group named "RUclips", another one "social media", "admin", etc... and you can expand/close those groups thus making it easy to navigate and also visually easier to spot the tab you want to go back to
I’m aware
Very cool project! 👏😎
..3D Printing for the win 🙌
The way you keyed in the mic with robocop lmao. Thats a movie I've been wanting to add to my google 4k collection. Same with blade.
Really cool project. it pops a bit but sounds much better for your voice than the beacon capsule ever did.
I think replacing the Beacon capsule with a cable is a great idea. Looking forward to that!
Interesting! I’ve kind of gone the whole opposite way and just bought a $500 valve channel strip so my VO should be super overkill from now on. But this method seems like a lot more fun!
The intro had me thinking 6 million dollar man but I got suspicious after a second and changed my mind to Robocop. Happy I called it correctly later in the video lol. Awesome project! Nothing I love more than making things that aren't designed to work together....to work together. Fantastic job, dude.
Really cool idea! Kudos!
Missed opportunity to not name it SM7USB.
But damn! This was amazing!!
Hey this is awesome! Thanks for the tag!
Stoked to see the follow-up project; like others below that's really the product I'm interested in from BEACN and seeing what's involved in a home built version would be excellent.
that was cool! I hope to see you fix the mic "sound profile" what 100% turns me off the mic is the software. (and how it sounds XD) I have a wave 3 and it just sounds amazing. I have a mate who has the beacn and a wave 1 and the sound next to each other the wave just wins hands down no effort.
the "OH SHIT IT ACTUALLY WORKS" face is amazing. Great video!!
You beast! I entertained that idea for a moment when I saw the Beacon mic, but actually doing it... I love it!
11:39 you could just make housing for capsule, and separate housing for motherboard, so you could have compact mic and connect it with longer wires to motherboard :)
That’s what the audio interface will be! But at that point that’s making a whole mic housing, yoke, etc and not what I wanted to do here
Holy crap Addie, now I wanna mod *my* mics
More youtubers need to follow your lead in making seemingly scary things for tech a lot more accessible
Love the Gamers Nexus mat... looked like I was looking at my own setting with the Hakko soldering iron on the GN mat.
This is awesome! I just commented on one of your community posts saying I was going to make a variation of DIYPerks Mic idea. Now I have so many more things to think of!
DIY AUDIO KING
Yeah - I want one.
Me too.
I kinda like yours better than the SM7b, honestly. Stock (no filters) SM7b has always seemed too dark to me, so I like the little presence boost yours has. I also wonder if you could use an MV7 capsule and if that would help it squeeze into there better.
I’m glad it’s not just me!
@@EposVox also interested if MV7's capsule would've fit better, just can't find any dissasembly video on the internet.
Everyone: but why?
Eposvox: but..why not?
Nice experiment, this proves Shure could have made a proper SM7-USB instead of the disappointing MV7.
The MV7 is disappointing? It may be different/marginally worse on the fullness but I didn’t think it was disappointing.
Such an awesome video!
Thank you dude!
I wonder what Beacn has to say about this 😂 Is it possible to do the same thing with the Shure MV7?
i'm sure they love it as you still have to buy their ~$280 mic to be able to do this and destroy the warranty so if you want one you'll have to buy it again hahaha
Answer is yes. :)
As a fellow DIY'er i loved this video. Loved the paint job as well. Very cool concept. Good work Adam!
I think that spectral gap cooouuuld be reflections inside the mic body…. But it could also be something in their preamp.
If only the dsp/usb end of their pcb was a separate board and you could use the preamp board from a better usb mic. (What about Shure’s from the mv7 usb? Haha!)
Fun video!
11:04 Welcome my friend...to my world.
this is so freaking sick Epos!
Wow... I love the RoboCop vibes... Of course, RoboCop's prime directive in this situation is to bring the makers of the BEACN mic to justice...😂😂😂
Also, would love to see a V2 of this FrankenMic
Great job doing a mod!!!
The problem with the printed tube was that the tube blocked the *interference ports* coming in the back of the capsule :)
Those are what give a dynamic mic it’s directionally (invented for this microphone! :))
Also, that crunch could very well have to do with impedance matching of the sm7 capsule with the input of the circuit it’s being fed to.
Can you do a video comparing the earthworks icon and the $30 tonor mic from amazon and the shure mic everyone talks about 😂❤
Not gonna lie, I would pay to commission you to make a Beac-SM7B for me since I do need some good microphones for podcasting and the like
The mic you made sounds so better than the actual Beacn mic but miles away from the sm7b tho
Hacking together microphones is the coolest shit on youtube in a long time. I'm here for the Epos mad science lab experiments!
I love everything about this. So great to see that the BEACN has a purpose now 😁
Sound Sleuth is a 800 subs channel on youtube that shows how to mod a cheap bm800 capsule into a semi professional mic using prebuild pcbs and capsule, you might be interested in that for videos on cost benefit builds (all that for probably less than 100 bucks btw)
Great to see that works quite well. Last time I tried this project with a 30$ capsule, it had bad wires, this literally fell off, tried soldering, the heat killed the condenser diaphragm, so just a side note, replacing a condenser capsule and not a dynamic 1, might be a pure nightmare.
That's a very long mic 😄
Amazing project
That's awesome! Congrats!
So you mean to say a Capsule Swap in a USB mic works?
that intro though!!
I've been debating whether or not to build my own U87 clone for a few months now. Comparison videos show that they are not necessarily identical since allegedly the capsule construction is incredibly influential to the sound of an actual U87, but the prospect of building my own mic just seems appealing enough of a project that I'm most likely going to do it any way lol. Glad to see this ended up working out for you!
I'd love to build a U87 clone, too! This was kinda the first experiment
@@EposVox ~$500 vs. $3500 is a super compelling proposition haha
Take my money right now
I kinda wanna try this with the Revalator dynamic and a SM7B capsule
The Revalator is a bit too bright for my taste, so maybe modding in a Shure capsule will be the way to go
This is a really cool project! I am getting a 3D Scanner soon so I might try making some scans of my SM7B and beacn mic and see if I can adjust the housing
Any update on this? Would love a CAD file to work this out.
@@naivety the scanner wasn’t high enough resolution, ended up being kind of a rip off unfortunately
best idea of the decade
this was a super neat experiment to watch
Honestly this is super cool! I dunno why but I never even considered the possibility of taking microphones apart and combining parts of different microphones together. I want a SM7Beacon now :P
I love seeing diy mic builds. People are so creative! Love your design!
that intro was awesome
If you are going to make your own interface, for the love CPU cycles, add analog filters / effects to it. HPF / LPF, Noise Gate, Compressor, and maybe an EQ?
Well that’s developing an entirely separate hardware stack and the entire point of using the BEACN base is for their DSP lol so no
@@EposVox D'oh! I didn't remember that.
This is awesome! That sm7b capsule does look large… i wonder what other mics you could stick it in. I love the look of the pod mic, which is rather small. Think there’s a way of jamming it in that thing?
p sure the sm7b capsule it longer than the whole podmic lol
haha thats what I was thinking lol.
This is one of the coolest DIY projects I've seen on RUclips in months!!!
Can’t imagine it would??? Bro I immediately want that exact microphone wym. It’s beautiful
Beacn mic go crazy
Ho boy. You call it the SM7BEACN. I call it the SM7BD (Bad Dragon).
This is so cool!
This inspired me to persuade my own beacn mic project, making it an XLR mic instead
looking at the design under the windscreen, I can't help but wonder if the Shure's capsule wouldn't fit/work better on the Presonus Revelator Dynamic USB? you get the better software experience out of it and the cost to DIY it would be lower too.
What I've learned is that it doesn't matter what microphone you have in this day and age and that's all because of the filters on OBS that make your Microphone sound so so good. With all those filters available, you can have a $30 mic sound like a $300 mic. Still, a very cool video. Your mic sounding so good as is without processing is purely amazing. Nice work. The USB change alone make this project very worthwhile.
Err... nope. Not even close
@@NiloVelez yes
Have you ever fiddled with those filters before?
@@kukukachu yes, and I've also used protools, soundforge, reaper... You need a minimum of quality in your input. Below that, no filter can save your master.
@@NiloVelez So what mic are we talking here? You can take a Rode Micro and still make it sound good and that's only $70. I'm curious what mics you are talking about, because I was talking about USB mics.
@@kukukachu You said 30$, not 70$. There are some nice mics in the 70$ range (Samson Q2U, Shure PGA58). But it's really hard to find something decent for 30$
I’d buy one.
This is super cool
Can you stripdown SM7B take out the XLR and replace with USB, or make an XLR to USB convertor?
nice this is awesome, good job EposVox 👍
Are you gonna release the files for the mic housing for DIY?
This is awesome. Can't wait for the next project. Would love their software with my PodMic!
Could you remove the internals from the beacn mic put it in say a 3d printed box. with a usb connection an headphone jack on one side, and then an xlr cable where the beacn capsule connects almost like a tiny beacn audio interface for dynamic mics 😂
This is cool. I’ve been wanting to make my own idea of a pod mic with a condenser capsule but that same style of mic. Inspiration for sure.
Isn't the MV7 USB the same capsule as a SM7B with a usb interface? That's what the documentation from Shure says anyway.
Where are you seeing documentation from Shure that says this?
Amazing video! Inspiring as always. I appreciate you making these kinds of videos, keep it up :)
I really hope you do a mk.2
I would love to see this happen with a Yeti body
I know you can get replacement dynamic capsules from both SE Electronics and Shure. I wonder if you can do a cost effective capsule switch for the Beacn with one from an sm58 or a V7.
The crunch is likely the pcb in the mic, unless their software crunches the audio by default which would be a very weird choice.
nice robocop edit haha
Wait you mean to tell me the Capsule for the SM7B is half the price of the microphone itself.. BRB learning how to make my own mic
;)
wow the whole process was super cool and i didnt even remotely think about how the plastic capsule itself would affect audio... @EposVox do you think the material you used would mess with it as well? say if you printed it in abs instead of pla ect
I imagine its more the thickness of layers and the amount of free space like you were talking about for your voice to bounce around with but I wonder if you could get a crisper effect or more tinny depending on what the walls are made with.
Doubtful. It was more about the spacing and etc. than material
I'm curious how this compares to the MV7.
I love this, please do more of this!
This is fucking cool!
Thanks!
Agreed. I'm not looking for a new mic any time soon but if Epos made one with an re20 capsule I'd be interested for sure in buying one some day.
This is fucking rad!
5:49 which is this recording software?
It's the BEACN Mic processing suite, not a recording program.
Cool 😎 mic 🎤
This video exceeded my expectations!
Okay, quick question. Could you have just soldered some eighth inch sockets to the capsule and to the DSP and then made it so that you could swap the capsule out? That would have made it much smaller and you could swap back and forth between modules to test them and see which one you like better.
I certainly wouldn’t have made it smaller given the capsule would still need a shielded housing and now one that covers the whole capsule unit and can slot in
@@EposVox okay, just an idea. I really just meant two different pieces with a cable between them.
Sm7b is still the winner
Just make your own usb MIC product already lol
TuuurrrrrDuuurrrhhhh!!!!! What the Becon was meant to be lol
The person that’s not a company nor a audio professional… just a person that thinks like any human does… that was told he doesn’t know what he’s talking about… that was gaslighted… him, he achieved it
The issue might be the Becon preamp… or the conversation
Do you prefer the beacon software over the Elgato wave software? Could try this with an Elgato wave mic. I'm curious if the beacon software/hardware doing it's internal "magic" would be messing with the sound.
I like Elgato’s software for its mixing and stability, but it doesn’t have a DSP or anything to process the mic onboard. So for mic processing I prefer BEACN’s stuff
I would pay good money for that
Do you have wav audio files of the test recordings of the mics somewhere we could listen to? Just curious what the audio quality difference would be like compared to listening to it from RUclips
I'm late to the party but this is impressive!
Thanks!
awesome!