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As a calibration microphone, it is an affordable microphone in terms of price performance. but don't expect a microphone-specific calibration file or a document. because these microphones are uniformly fabricated products. there are no special calibration files. Naturally, it does not come with a calibration file. For this reason, do not waste time searching for calibration files on the internet. Because these reports are specific to the microphone. When you add this file to the measurement program, the program analyzes the measurement made with your microphone according to this calibration file. If you have such a more detailed expectation, I would say take a look at the upper segment counterparts. This is the only difference from its more expensive competitors. If we collect it, it will work clearly. Someone who knows his job can do very good measurement and acoustic calibration.
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Does the job
This is useful for small/home studios on a budget that require some examination of room acoustics. I downloaded the trial version of Sonarworks and found this microphone did the job in terms of characterising my space. I could not find an official calibration curve readily available but did find one on a third party website that seemed believable. Perhaps that is a limitation to be expected on a budget (I believe some brands have a specific calibration included) but it seems more than adequate to discern any particular problem frequencies with a given room.
Although fitting several bass traps seemed to make little measurable difference in my room, this microphone was adequate for me to get to know the space for better or worse.
Although fitting several bass traps seemed to make little measurable difference in my room, this microphone was adequate for me to get to know the space for better or worse.
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Top choice for recording noise' from neighbors
Great microphone for the price. I'm not an audio expert or anything - I bought the mic to record noise from my neighbors as proof. It does the job well enough. I chose measuring omni condenser mic because I wanted the recording to sound as natural as possible - so you can hear the room like if you were there. That's not possible due to low sensitivity but at least it still picks up some background sounds that serve as a comparison to the neighbor's noise and the recorded sound is neutral (you need to fix your headphones with eq though to hear it as neutral - for Android you can use wavelet).
One big issue with this mic is its self-noise. It's too big to be able to record "silence" in the room and it isn't sensitive enough to record reverberations of room sounds (I think that's what is meant when you say "you can hear the silence"). However, for what I need it for it does well. The self-noise is normal for this kind of microphone (measuring), so I read.
This is my first microphone (apart from gaming sets) but the sensitivity seems low. You read everywhere how condenser mics pick *everything*. Well, surprise - they don't or at least not well enough. I paired this microphone with UM2 (cheap product.... I know) and I need to crank up the gain all the way to the max (with recording level at 54 in Windows) to get decent enough volume of the noise in the room. I read online I should have set it up the other way around - windows recording volume at 100 and then increasing gain. According to a review from a youtuber Kraus Behringer um2 has a good gain so if you want to record something silent you may need a different mic.
One small tip, make sure your windows settings match those in the recording software. At first I had default windows settings (16bit, 44100Hz) with 48000Hz in Audacity then over the weeks of usage I stumbled upon the windows settings and changed then to 48000Hz so they both matched. Noise dropped quite a bit. Not of the microphone but overall recording. Much cleaner and smoother sound.
One big issue with this mic is its self-noise. It's too big to be able to record "silence" in the room and it isn't sensitive enough to record reverberations of room sounds (I think that's what is meant when you say "you can hear the silence"). However, for what I need it for it does well. The self-noise is normal for this kind of microphone (measuring), so I read.
This is my first microphone (apart from gaming sets) but the sensitivity seems low. You read everywhere how condenser mics pick *everything*. Well, surprise - they don't or at least not well enough. I paired this microphone with UM2 (cheap product.... I know) and I need to crank up the gain all the way to the max (with recording level at 54 in Windows) to get decent enough volume of the noise in the room. I read online I should have set it up the other way around - windows recording volume at 100 and then increasing gain. According to a review from a youtuber Kraus Behringer um2 has a good gain so if you want to record something silent you may need a different mic.
One small tip, make sure your windows settings match those in the recording software. At first I had default windows settings (16bit, 44100Hz) with 48000Hz in Audacity then over the weeks of usage I stumbled upon the windows settings and changed then to 48000Hz so they both matched. Noise dropped quite a bit. Not of the microphone but overall recording. Much cleaner and smoother sound.
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Good but still missing a profitable feature
Bought this mic to correct my room eq before knowing the SONARWORKS products. Needless to say, this mic isn't compatible with sonarworks array of mic profiles, so the equalization with sonarworks will be done not in the proper condition. The mic is pretty good per se, very flat response even for the riddicolous price it's selled. BTW if planning to work with sonarworks, i suggest to buy their mic, which is essentially the same as this one but with a calibration profile that can enhance the quality of the room EQing
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Good enough for Rock'n'Roll
Not super quality but unless you have really high quality kit it's probably fine.
I use this for pink noise room EQ with a Soundcraft ui mixer that has all the EQ and Analysis tools needed. It has transformed the sound quality I can get from a PA with acoustic music groups in small venues. I can set up the room EQ for FOH and monitors very quickly and the sound is much more stable and natural as a result.
I'm sure you can buy a truer reference microphone but it probably costs four times the money and if you can't measure or adjust very finely it doesn't really make a difference. 5 star for value.
I use this for pink noise room EQ with a Soundcraft ui mixer that has all the EQ and Analysis tools needed. It has transformed the sound quality I can get from a PA with acoustic music groups in small venues. I can set up the room EQ for FOH and monitors very quickly and the sound is much more stable and natural as a result.
I'm sure you can buy a truer reference microphone but it probably costs four times the money and if you can't measure or adjust very finely it doesn't really make a difference. 5 star for value.
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It's a Behringer
It does what it is supposed to do, do not expect high quality and accuracy. Take into account that most of them have a little bit of high shelf boost which could be compensated for with off axis aiming, and few db roll off bellow 50hz.
Need a bit more amplification.
Need a bit more amplification.
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Really great Mic
Very good build quality & box, very flat freq response, especially for the low price.
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Used for home calibration
Considered the price I was impressed by it's quality.
I measured my room in order to find reflections and low frequencies modes and it worked like a charm.
I don't know if it's good for extremely precise venue measurements but for what I did it behaved quite linear.
It comes in a nice hard package too, so you can carry it around if you want to measure something on the road or simply record sounds with a somewhat linear microphone (the frequency response is given with the microphone itself).
It also includes a windcap.
I measured my room in order to find reflections and low frequencies modes and it worked like a charm.
I don't know if it's good for extremely precise venue measurements but for what I did it behaved quite linear.
It comes in a nice hard package too, so you can carry it around if you want to measure something on the road or simply record sounds with a somewhat linear microphone (the frequency response is given with the microphone itself).
It also includes a windcap.
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A gamble but it’s cheap
These mics tend to be impressively accurate up to around 5KHz and then they seem to vary by around +/- 2dB above that between mics. High noise floor. Construction and clip is fine. Nice carry case but it’s way oversized for it.
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ECM 8000
I first started to use this microphone as a test and measurement microphone in college. I used 8 of them to test the frequency responses in a theatre using a dodecahedron speaker array. I found them to be great at this job because of there omnidirectional characteristics. I was then told about actually using them as a microphone for recording acoustic instruments especially guitars and for vocals. I have used them number of times to record guitar and I am really pleased with the recordings. I have used it once or twice to record a vocal but I found this to be too noisy. The microphone has a great price though and represents good value for money.
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