Review on Neewer 14.17-inch Uni-Directional Mono 🎙️ Microphone: Ideal for Camcorders and DSLR Cameras by Janet Williams

This mic might be good for connecting to a DSLR and recording low budget videos, but it's the only way to avoid wasting energy. time and money. I wanted to use it as a second mic to help with virtual/remote D&D games with friends during this pandemic. The idea was that I could move around a little more while interacting with different things in my room while streaming via Zoom or Discord with a cheap gun mic. I have a small mixer with phantom power and use a Neewer NW-8000 as my main microphone. First I tried using this thing in the intended configuration. Battery operated with 1/4" connection to my sound card. Sound quality was pretty terrible. Supposed to be a unidirectional microphone, but it picked up sounds from the side at a much higher volume than my voice directly in front of this thing. My computer is on its side of the mic and the fan could be heard very well while my voice was too weak to be heard. This mic also has very high noise levels so when I got high enough on my sound card an annoying hiss stopped. My other Neewer mic played around with the gain and EQ a bit to get it sounding decent so I figured I just had to play around with it a bit. I then bought an XLR cable thinking a good quality cable might help, to even out the noise I was getting from the mic box, and as soon as the cable was removed, one of the soldered wires popped out of the inside.As an electrical engineer, I switched mine Soldering iron and took it apart. Inside I found the same cheap and poor quality work you would expect from a 'cheap brand' item and it's no surprise that the wire broke. I put it back together and started playing again. The downside to an engineer's view of the inner workings of electronics is that it starts turning gears. I realized that, based on the wiring I saw on the back of the unit, sacrifices had been made to accommodate the AA battery's meager 1.5V phantom power and that the mic actually could if this annoying thing removed from the equation was working fine. Let's get back to the soldering iron! After rewiring the jack to standard XLR connector wiring, I plugged it back in and turned on the phantom power. The thing worked great! For a few minutes. After several trips to the soldering iron to set up various things (it was grounded to the case which now had to be 24v due to phantom power and it made popping noises as the charge built up on the case and discharged into the air), I give on. The thing goes in the garbage and I invest in a better microphone. If you're looking for questions and feedback, let's clear it up. It's NOT GOOD for use with phantom power, and it can't even be rewired to work well with phantom power. If you're planning on using this on your computer, I strongly suggest you look elsewhere. Whether you connect it to your sound card or directly to your computer's microphone jack, you're only going to be disappointed. Are you sending? I do not understand it. Do you want to play games via Discord? I do not understand it. Trying to figure out how to play D&D or other board games remotely with friends? I do not understand it.