Review on MAONO AU-A04TC USB Microphone Kit 192KHZ/24BIT | Aluminum Organizer Storage Case | PC Condenser Podcast Streaming Cardioid Mic | Plug & Play for Computer, YouTube, Gaming Recording by Aneta Zubrzycka ᠌

I don’t understand anything about sound, I chose the microphone based on reviews and so that from USB - the microphone jack does not work on the computer, and the Bluetooth headset constantly falls off (a wonderful bug in MacOS Catalina). I use it for online communication in Discord, recording small “here, look, everything works on my machine” videos via OBS, and other little things — telephone calls via FaceTime or rare voices in Telegram. The microphone turned out to be quite sensitive - it rearranged this way and that, but mouse clicks and clattering on the keyboard are audible. There are no complaints about the microphone itself, but a fatal flaw of the operating system itself emerges - if under Windows a bunch of erq-adjuster programs have long been invented, then on the Mac there is only volume control. You can’t just take and set up some kind of noise reduction once in one place and forget. As a result, you have to come up with something different for each program. In Discord, I manually felt the sensitivity at which the microphone reacts to the voice, but not to mouse clicks. OBS is easier - there are hundreds of plugins, I'm still sorting through them, but in general, you can do almost anything. But in the banal FaceTime there are no settings at all. This applies to all microphones on a Mac, not just this particular one. As far as I understand, if you want flexible settings in one place, you can buy an external sound card and configure everything through it. But here you already need to look at the cards themselves, and what drivers-settings-switches are there. And yes, this particular microphone cannot be connected to an external card because of the same USB connector.