The microphone itself sounds good. However, it is not sensitive enough and at the same time too sensitive. In addition, it takes away from you the ability to control everything with headphones or earphones. When I say it's "too sensitive enough and too sensitive at the same time," I mean that this mic doesn't pick up my voice well inches from my mouth (ie, attached to my shirt or collar). However, he will still absorb everything around me. My air conditioner, my keyboard, mouse clicks, anything that moves. Everything is about the same level. If I want my voice to be louder than anything else, I have to eat/swallow it (i.e. right in front of my mouth, within an inch or so, not actually in my mouth, although it sounded like ). pretty good there). As far as it ruins the ability to control things, the TRRS connector doesn't really allow you to use regular TRS inputs unless you have a very specific setup that allows certain things. Many of the TRRS style headphone and mic jacks I've had in the past have had no issues with TRS inputs, but that doesn't work with them. This means that if you have a sound card (like the Sound Blaster X AE-5) you'll hear nothing but a constant hum when you plug it into the mic/line input. It will also refuse to work with merges for TRRS/combo inputs. I have a TRS and TRRS I/O fusion for a combo I/TRRS in my computer case that uses Realtek hardware. It caused the same problem as the Sound Blaster. This also means that it does not allow data input and output on another device. Not my laptop, not my phone. This is bad design in my opinion. It wasn't what I was looking for to be honest, but I can still use it for sampling, so I'll leave it.