Seems like good quality sound, but was too quiet more than a foot away from subject
This microphone comes with two cables, which is good because I found that different situations required a different cable. I first tried this with my desktop PC, and I discovered that the coiled cable, which says, “camera” worked, but the other one, which says, “phone” did not. My pc has both a mic port and a headphones port. A lot of devices nowadays have a single port for both. My phone, for example, has a single 3.5mm jack. In this case, the, “phone” cable worked. However, I have an adapter that takes a mic input and a headphones input and combines them into a single male end to plug into a jack such as this. In that case, I needed to use the, “camera” cable. If you’ve ever looked at the male ends of the cables for headphones and mics, you might have noticed that there are black bands. Some have 2 bands, others 3. This makes a difference. It’s a little bit tricky to know what you need because things aren’t always clear. Look up stuff like TRS and TRRS, and you can learn about that stuff.Anyway, the mic works, and I was able to get it to work on different devices. The audio clarity seems decent, though I’m not an audiophile. When I played back what I recorded, though, things didn’t sound tinny or anything. What I did notice, though, is that I needed to be fairly close to the mic in order to get a loud enough recording. This isn’t supposed to be a mic that gets attached to your shirt. Granted, if you are vlogging or doing a webex or something, you can probably have this mic within a foot of your face, but if you attach this to a camera to capture the audio from subjects more than a few feet away, I’m not sure how well it will work for you. My tests were limited, but the recording I made from a $7 mic several feet away was louder than the recording I made from this mic a foot away. So your use case would probably be something to consider when deciding whether or not this mic will work for you.
