« not the best but ok »

When I first hooked up the MXL it blew me away. The clearness of the mic is absolutely beautiful. Our band practices in a bedroom that can barely fit all the members and there equipment. When we played it picked up absolutely ZERO background noise. Very surprising considering im standing within arms reach of the bass and guitar amps. I would suggest to all that don’t want to spend to much money on a quality mic to buy this one. It does the job that many mics costing 100's more would do. Very good buy. Try it you will be satisfied 100%. Also I got the package with the directional mic as well. The directional is exceptional. I use it for my table work. Picks up the drums so clear and perfect.

OVERALL OPINION


If you don’t have money for a high quality mic and this is all you can afford than this'll do but make sure you have an ANALOG mixer of some sort to provide the phantom power... plus, it picks up all sorts of external noises so keep it away from the computer, and if you have time and resources put together a vocal booth and your good to go. Just make sure you are standing in a good position when you record, if you tend to get off to the side of the mic the quality will be affected for some reason. I am not sure if that’s normal or if its because the mic isn’t a higher end mic. But if you keep good spacing and distance from the mic itself and have a well treated area then you will have great sounding clean crisp warm vocals to build your projects off of. But if you can save up a little more cash and get a high quality mic that doesn’t have to have an acoustically treated room. Especially if your like most of us and record from home.