NEAT Worker Bee Cardioid Condenser Microphone - Includes Pop Filter and Shockmount - Solid State Technology Review

First I have to say that my microphone may have been hacked. I bought it brand new from Revain and it arrived with no tape covering two sides of the box and looked like one side was already open. When I opened the box I could tell it was already open as the parts with the tape were clearly open. I'm not sure why Revain gave me an open box when I bought it 'brand new'. Immediately increase the radio frequency. When I turned on the 48V phantom power, I could hear soft radio tunes playing in the…

Coming from a regular USB condenser mic (and before this headset mic) I was looking for an improvement in tone, build and noise. Audio recording quality for video conferencing, podcasts, streaming and content creation in general. The overall sound quality is more than just a mic, but working on every aspect you can control is the way to go, and my previous mics definitely had that noticeable self-noise in many base models, apart from a not-so-pleasant sound signature. So here comes the Neat…

If you don't have a better microphone lined up to compare, you'll think this one sounds great. And if you're experienced at posting, you can actually get some pretty great-sounding nude voiceovers with this. I figured my Sennheiser MKH 415 T was struggling and needed a cheap mic pretty quickly, so I bought this Neat Worker Bee. I tuned it, cut some voice samples with it and it sounds really good. It also has low self-noise, which is impressive for a sub-$100 mic. If you know what you're doing…