Samson CO1U USB Condenser Mic | List Price: $234.99
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Brand: Samson
Binding: Electronics
Features: - Industry's first USB studio condenser mic
- Plugs directly into any computer with a USB port
- Cardioid pickup pattern
- Heavy gauge mesh grill
- Large 19mm diaphragm
Plug In and Go. [Posted on 2008-10-06]
Great sound for the money. Perfect for my podcasts and even my audio cd reports. Simplest installation ever, just plugged it into USB and done.
average [Posted on 2008-10-23]
annoying upper mid frequency being emphasised for acoustic guitar. Not as transperant as I had hoped. Might be good for spoken word. I would not recommend it for acoustic instrument recording.
Great mic - bad driver [Posted on 2008-11-11]
First off don't use the included driver! It has been a while but I still remember the grief. Just plug it in and let XP set it up.
I record with an inexpensive Windows XP laptop and get fantastic sound quality. I have had this mic for over a year using it to record our church choir and related musicians, all have been impressed with the sound quality.
I also find the free Audacity software easier to work with than the provided Cakewalk software it came with.
Works as well as a cheap microphone [Posted on 2008-11-19]
I purchased this so that I could use my own headphones and a good mic with Skype and MS Onenote (audio notes). Since I use Vista on my laptop, I could not use the software that came with the product. The Vista driver is dated to 2006 so its old. I tried recording audio in Onenote and the mic performed as well as my cheap microphone headset combo, which means that it performed badly. Yes, I did follow Samson's Vista instructions and it still worked poorly.
I also tried installing it on my XP desktop machine and got an error while installing SoftPre software. The error stated that MSVCP71.dll is missing. I did a search and apparently I'm not the only one that has had this problem. I uninstalled the software and tried testing with the basic XP drivers and it performed badly.
I returned this product for a refund and I would not recommend this product to anyone looking for a desktop microphone. Why Scott Hanselman recommends this mic is beyond me.
Great Microphone! [Posted on 2008-11-26]
I bought this mic to do voice-over for a training video. The sound reproduction is very good and the mic appears to be very well made. I did have to remove audible hum from the PC but this isn't a fault of the mic, it's just sensitive and the hum was fan noise. Not a problem with decent software. I'm also going to get a pop filter to further inhance the sound quality - I was pretty bad with plosives ;-) again, not the mic's fault.
I haven't tried the included software so I can't really comment on it. I'm very satisfied with my purchase and would recommend this mic to anyone needing a decent quality USB condenser mic.
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