FIFINE USB Microphone, Plug &Play Home Studio USB Condenser Microphone for Skype, Recordings for YouTube, Google Voice Search, Games(Windows/Mac)-K668

Needed a microphone to record my classical guitar into Audacity. After reading online that an expensive condenser mic was the only option (plus phantom power unit), and that nothing else would do, I thought this mic would be terrible. However, I am very pleased with the mic. It feels sturdy and is larger than I expected. It arrived promptly in a decent box with good instructions and a foam muffle thing. The mic is not over sensitive and reproduces the sound very well from about a foot or so away from the guitar. I'm sure a mic ten times the price may sound better, but not ten times better. Overall the sound is very rounded and certainly not harsh. Perhaps it lacks a little depth, but a tweak with the EQ and a bit of reverb certainly brings it to life. Recommended and great value for poor musicians!

I’ve just started to make a few digital audio recordings for various projects at work, including some guided meditations, and a bit of singing for pleasure. As I’ve only just started to do this, I didn’t want to spend loads of money on a mic that I might not use all that often.I’m suitably impressed, as it hooks up to my MacBook 2017 ed and Logic Pro software without any trouble. However I have to use a USB to USB-C adaptor for my MacBook, but that’s no real issue.The mic records clearly and crisply. It’s quite sensitive and does pick up background noise easily, but I’m very much an amateur, so that might be due to lack of experience on my part. The mic and stand feel like they are both very robust. I’d highly recommend this product.

I've wanted a microphone for my computer for ages as I often record myself playing music or singing, and after using a dictaphone for years I wanted something a bit more suited to the job.For the price, this is a really nice microphone. It's nicely packaged, and inside the box you'll find the microphone, a screw-in tripod, a foam wind cover, and an instruction leaflet. It's a breeze to use - just plug it into a USB port on your computer, wait for it to be detected by your operating system (I tested it in Windows 10 but the leaflet tells me it works with Macs as well), and you're ready to go. There isn't a switch on the microphone, so as soon as you hit record in your recording application of choice (I used Audacity) it works. The microphone has a reassuring weightiness to it as well as it feels like it is made of metal rather than plastic. The only plasticky element is the tripod. This screws into a fold-down silver "neck" at the bottom of the microphone. The thread is plastic and the legs feel fairly flimsy, but they worked fine for me, and the microphone felt stable and didn't fall over.The only criticism I have is that when I recorded myself playing a ukulele the recording came out fairly quiet, despite my playing quite loudly and the recording level being set to maximum in Audacity, but I can always fiddle with this when I edit. Voice recording however was clear and loud.All in all, I'm really pleased with it. For the price, it's an absolute steal too.

I bought this USB microphone after I read about it in ComputerActive magazine. I am a physician and post-doctoral researcher in medical informatics working on developing innovative applications for patient education. The article in ComputerActive magazine was about creating podcasts and this microphone was recommended as a considerable improvement on the cheap microhone built into the laptop / desktop. I do have a high-end microphone with an XLR connection but that needs a dedicated amplifier to provide an audio feed into a PC's sound card. This USB microphone has a PnP driver so it's ready for use as soon as you plug it in. I used it with the freeware audio editor, Audacity. Speech recordings are very clear, of high quality and free from background noise so I can't wait to use it for my podcasts. The microphone comes with foam windshield and I found the audio iinput level easy to set on Audacity. The PC I used was running the tried and tested Windows XP which I still use a lot. You certainly can't go wrong buying this microphone. I am evening considering using it for wildlife sound recording with it connected to a netbook and with the mike mounted in a home-made parabolic reflector!

Simple to setup and use providing better voice clarity than built-in laptop mics. Recording musical instruments (like my electric guitar) is not that good. It is only marginally better than recording a musical instrument in your mobile phone or using your laptop mic which sounds awful!Mid October: A few months have passed and I am re-writing my review. After acquiring a second fairly expensive large diaphragm condenser microphone and an audio interface to record my electric guitar, I can honestly say that this microphone, of course not as good as the one which was more than 10x its price, does a fairly good job at recording acoustic guitar, as long as it is close to the instrument. So I am changing my review to 5 stars because I now believe that for its price and ease of usability is an excellent buy and I would highly recommend it!

I need an additional microphone for my YouTube videos but was unwilling to pay big bucks again (eg Yeti) and this one had good reviews so I took a chance and am very happy with the results.When I plug it into my USB 2.0 hub it automatically gets recognised and appears in OBS as the correctly named microphone.Sound quality is easily good enough for YouTube narration and it's done well over the last few weeks. I can't really tell in the final recording when I switch microphones so there we are!The little stand can be useful, although I'd have preferred it to be more easily detachable, and the cable too which is tethered. A standard USB cable would have been better. I don't know how easy it would be to put this into a standard microphone stand (Yeti-style) as it might be a bit short (and it's a funny shape too).But for me, none of that matters, it's well worth the money I paid.