Nacon Rig M2 Streamstar Review

Streaming is more popular than ever, and this means that producers are demanding the release of microphones that may seem crowded. From affordable and cheerful condensing microphones to lively closing, if you want to capture Yelps and Piszki so that the world can hear (or maybe some grim narrative), you are a bit broken.

Nacon Rig M2 Streamstar is the latest addition of the microphone fighting for strenuous -earned cash. It is presented as a stationary microphone with a screw rack, but as a stream microphone you can attach it to the boom arm to get closer. It also has a magnetic rear plate with a platform written on it with bold white letters, which, according to Nacon, you can replace it with a non -standard disc if you receive one printed using a specific logo.

After all, self -promotion is essential in a streaming game. Anyway USD 130And this puts it in the upper average part of the streaming microphone market-only $ 19 cheaper than our best gaming microphone, Shure MV6. This is a really impressive microphone, so the Nacon unit cut off its work from the very beginning.

Streamstar is a fairly harmless device, reminiscent of a completely black deck of cards to the game inclined on the side after attaching to the attached stand. On paper, it also has impressive specifications, including 24-bit audio capture at 192 Hz sampling speed. At the front there are two knobs, one for reinforcement adjustment and one for the volume of the monitor. Underneath there is a 3.5 mm AUX output for monitoring headphones and a USB type-C connection with a type A to type-C USB cable.

You may think that you need to install some of the included software before leaving Streamstar, but there is none. No, the Quick Start guide informs about folding the stand, cable connection, and then the speed settings in the Windows sound settings. I appreciate simplicity, but there is something in all experience that you feel barefoot from the very beginning.

This was not helped by the front controls. It will sound stupid, but while the microphone and they feel … satisfactory Quality, the front shield sway as if they were not properly connected. It has been some time since the shield made a grimace, but here we are.

Whether this is essential to a vast extent depends on how often you employ them, but how you see later, the reinforcement knob becomes rather essential. The mentioned selection of reinforcement is lower and it is tearned with white lithe when the microphone is live and red when it is clicked to placid down. Click itself seems quite solid, so plus points there.

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Bluetooth monitoring is distinguished by Streamstar. Basically, you can pair a set of headphones to the microphone itself to monitor live sound, free of loading cables, through a long -lasting shield.

At least this is how it should work. I tried to connect a pair of Sennheiser Bluetooth headphones with a microphone, but the instructions are very basic and required a bit of DIY, pairing and failure before I got a useful result.

Some software injection would really support here. A elementary application that allows you to see which devices are paired with the microphone – and which input and outputs are used at any time – it makes matters much simpler, instead of relying on the audio settings page with the secret Windows system. Despite this, after many curses, a reliable contribution and exit were achieved.

It’s time to check if these specifications translate into a great sound. First, I recorded a voice from Streamstar in a stationary position at a distance of only six inches with reasonable reinforcement, and I immediately thought that I fucked up the recording setting, because the course of the audata barely moved in response. Establishing a profit on the maximum caused:

The vocal tone itself is completely decent, but the above clip is I speak firmly, with maximum profit, with a microphone placed in front my keyboard. The computer mix would generally sit further than that, but move it to a less insistent position, and your voice disappears at a distance, even with strengthening twisted to a high sky. Withdraw it and Streamstar tries to capture the voice at a decent volume above the background noise.

Speaking of this, you will also notice a lot of Syków, even though I recorded these clips in a dead peaceful room. 16 mm Electretret Streamstar capacitor tends to emphasize any sound that it can pick up except Your voice, when it is used with the attached position, which means that the cancellation of noise is almost necessary. Only that it is not associated with any that seems to me a kind of fatal defect.

Untilized, I recorded a clip with a microphone attached to the boom shoulder directly in front of me, but with my mouth slightly on the side (oldschool microphone technique, which tends to work in miracles) and managed a better result-at least in terms of profit:

Although I am certainly used to the idea of ​​microphones that sound better, the closer to your face, this is the first condensation microphone that I used in, in which I would watch a position from a close mixture. Take the streamstar up close and he manages to capture a sultry tone that would be perfectly useful for streaming streaming.

However, it is still a bit clamorous. What’s more, in close position, Streamstar is quite susceptible to the upper, which means that “Puh” and “Buh” tend to blow up, even when speaking aside. You can hear it in the above clip, especially when I say “P” in “Lockpick”. Many streamers do not have the right microphone technique and speak directly at the front of the microphone from close range, and this is a recipe for an audio disaster with this particular device, taking into account the lack of software support.

In practice, this means that you will probably regularly adjust the profit to minimize unwanted passive belts – which means wrestling with volume and background sicles/problems until you force them to restless distance with a shaky shield. This is a kind of compromise that you would normally have to do with a affordable microphone, but for USD 130, affordable is not.

I really can’t take care of Streamstar as I tried. It looks like a microphone worthy of streaming on paper, and the Bluetooth monitoring function is a pretty idea, but in practice it has too many disadvantages. It is too peaceful to employ in a standard stationary position without excessive background noise, it is susceptible to rapprochement, and most importantly, he lacks any software in repairing both problems.

In addition, the materials are such that the shields feel shaky and there is nothing in it that suggests that it is a product worth 100 USD+. When you can pick up the Razer Seiren Mini for just $ 50 (or even less, because it regularly goes on sale) and works as well as for such a minimum sum, I don’t really understand why you will pay more than twice for streamstar.

Razer also lacks noise cancellation, but there is no problem with choosing vocals with a reasonable volume from a classic computer position without determining the reinforcement to maximum.

Or you can spend $ 19 more than streamstar and opt for Shure MV6. It is much more obtrusive, but it is an excellent microphone that lifts well both close and at a distance. It is also equipped with powerful buzzing software, which means that you can remove the background noise with one slider and is built as a proverbial start -up tank.

There are many USB microphones on the market to choose from streamers, and although streamstar looks great on paper, in practice it does not provide velvety sound experience achieved by many of his rivals. It’s a troublesome, picky microphone with dubious materials, and for 130 USD I really expect more than that. I’m afraid a little swing and longing.