Neewer CM10 3.5mm-Mini-Jack Microphone

Buy NEEWER 3.5mm TRRS Lavalier Lapel Microphone Plug & Play Mini Clip on Mic Omnidirectional Condenser for Camera Phone PC, Low Frequency Cut, Gain Control, Monitoring Headphone Jack, CM10: Wireless Lavalier Microphones - desertcart.com ✓ FREE DELIVERY possible on eligible purchases Review: Excellent lavalier mic once you know it needs to be "powered" - For a concise review, skip to the "Final Comments" I've been a producer and audio engineer for over 50 years. I have a vast amount of experience plugging mics into things that have mic inputs. I understand XLR connectors, how they are wired and what phantom power means. I understand how dynamic and some condenser mics work when they are inserted into 1/4" (or 3.5mm) mic jacks. In all my experience in recording studio environments, I have never encountered Lavalier mics, before. I also teach neuroscience at a local university. Recently, I decided to offer one of my courses in on-line format. For each chapter of the textbook, I provide a PowerPoint presentation with a voice-over of me explaining the slides. I thought this was going to be easy. My first inclination was to put on my high-end Sennheiser headset and just do it. WRONG! When I review my typical voice-over it was riddled by clipping artifacts that I would never have predicted. The human voice is capable of a remarkable dynamic range, and level setting to capture the most low amplitude signals provides way too much gain such that every exclamation causes the inputs to clip. I have an arsenal of audio processors available to me and I was able to tame the dynamics using a limiter and compressor in series. This worked very well and produced a very nice quality recording. However, to do this I was using over $900 in audio gear (including the headset) and I was confined to my desk's chair while I made the recordings. My brain expects the mobility I have while lecturing in the classroom, and doesn't react very well to me looking at PowerPoint slides on my monitor while I try to give a lecture that anybody might be interested in hearing. About a week into hearing me complaining about how many re-dos I was needing to achieve acceptable results, my wife suggested that I should try "one of those little microphone thingies clipped to my shirt like the people on TV use". I knew what Lavalier mics were so I ordered these from desertcart to give it a shot. According to its instruction manual, my recently acquired Zoom H4 Essential portable recorder had a mic input jack that would work with a lav mic. Additionally, the Zoom offers a 32-bit Float recording format, giving it a dynamic range that should be impervious to the dynamic range of my lecturing voice. Since I could put it in my pocket, I would be free to prance around the living room while playing my PowerPoint slices on our 55" TV. This seemed like the perfect plan. When these Lav mics arrived I hurried to plug them into the Zoom and try them out with a mock lecture simulation. I got nothing with either mic. I tried many things, including using both mics and plugging them into 3.5mm to XLR adapters and plugging that assembly into the two XLR inputs on the Zoom. Still nothing. Then I went into the Zoom manual to find out if I was missing something, as a mic is a pretty simple device and it is very improbable that two out of two would produce no signal at all. In looking at the Zoom section input configuration, I noticed an option for the aux/mic input called "Plugin Power". The manual didn't explain the meaning of the term or what it was used for so I Googled it. Apparently, some small condenser mics, including many Lavalier mics require a small bias current (much like phantom power for a normal XLR condenser) to operate. After enabling it on the Zoom mic input both purchased mics operated well. After recording the audio for the 17 slides covering the first chapter, I brought the micro-SD into my studio and transferred the audio to my DAW. Listening to the RAW 32-bit float audio, I was astounded at the clarity with which my voice was reproduced. This was better than than I ever achieved using the $300 Sennheiser headset. Also, the audio was completely free of the compression artifacts that weren't too disturbing but noticeable for me. I was even impressed with the noise floor under the voice recording (it was almost unnoticeable) Even after converting the 32-bit audio to a 56kbps 16-bit stereo stream (to get it compliant with the requirements of PowerPoint), the quality still exceeded my expectations. Final Comments: These Lavalier mics perform incredibly well for the purpose of recording spoken voice. Their frequency response and usable dynamic range are superb for that purpose. I suspect that the negative comments here, especially about those involving "mot working" were probably due to the user not using a recording device that was supplying the required "Plugin Power" (which I have been assured by people who know about that sort of thing IS supplied my almost any device expecting a Lavalier mic to be used with it). Although I can't compare these mics to any other Lavaliers , they perform at least as well as the microphone on a $300 Sennheiser headset. If you want to use a Lavalier mic for the typical kinds of things Lavalier mics are used for, I can't imagine finding anything close to the price/performance ratio these offer! Review: Finally, Microphones That Work With My Phone! - After three long weeks of testing microphones to work with my Pixel 8a phone and many failed attempts, even the wireless microphones failed to preform and work as well as these! The audio is crisp, clear and loud, I no longer sound like I'm talking under water in my recordings. I highly recommend these mics, the cords are long which gives me plenty of hands free movement without having to worry about jerking the phone around and also makes it easier to hide the mic under clothes without worry. Simple and easy use, just plug and play. Great product, I'm so happy I chose to purchase them. The order and shipping was filled quickly also.