They are good and bad and I have used 2 of them. I'm giving it 3 stars as both don't work that well. So it's more of a 50/50 rating. One of them always has a buzz that goes away when you touch the mic on top. Sounds like a grounding issue no matter where it is connected to the hum. The other mic sometimes chooses to pick up all audio from all directions, which when used for interview podcasting suddenly causes the other person on the other mic to hear on this one. This makes editing difficult as it creates an echo. When they work they sound great for podcasts, to be honest a lot of people say me and the guests sound great. But there is too much unnecessary post-processing work to clean up the sound, luckily I know how to do it but I don't need it. I will be looking for other microphones soon.