Earthworks - Ethos and Icon Broadcast Mics | Review

Earthworks is a small American microphone manufacturer known for their high quality, exceptionally clean audiophile products. They have released a line of broadcast microphones for spoken word, aimed at everyone from professional audiobook narrators to folks who just want to sound better talking over Zoom. In this episode, I delve into both mics in some detail, and then have a broadcast microphone shootout with some of the most well-known microphones for this purpose. Chapters 00:00 Introduction 00:24 The Earthworks Company 01:12 The QTC-1 Omni mics 02:24 The new line of broadcast microphones 03:20 The Icon 05:04 The era of home journalism 06:10 My audiobook story 07:56 How does the Icon sound 09:22 The Ethos 11:33 What the Audionowcast thought 12:24 Broadcast microphone shootout 13:26 Earthworks Ethos 14:33 Neumann TLM103 15:41 Sennheiser MD421 16:49 Electrovoice RE20 17:57 Sennehiser 416 19:40 Webcam 20:46 Earthworks Icon 21:52 Quick edit - all mics 22:55 Outro earthworksaudio.com randycoppinger.com nowcastnetwork.com larrytheo.com Under the Big Tree is Nicolas Peck's YouTube channel, focused on esoteric electronic music, modular and vintage synthesizers, sound design equipment and techniques, and the composition, production and performance of music. http://www.underthebigtree.com