It's hard to beat this mic on price. I have one and often use it for
home recording projects, demos and such. It's a good inexpensive way to
record vocals, but I find the sound a bit muddy, and often come back
with eq to turn down some of the low-mid frequencies. Now there are a
number of condensers coming out in this low price range, and I've tried a
few of them and haven't yet found a cheap one I like any better than
this. For finished products, I'd use a better mic if available, but this
one will work with a bit of EQ and a careful ear.
The mic
requires phantom power, so I got the Art Tube MP preamp to go with it.
That preamp warms up the sound and really helps this mic out compared to
the built-in mic pre-amps on my board.
I have two of these
because they're SO cheap and use them mainly at home if I have a musical
idea. One of the reviewers above mentioned it was a bit muddy which I
totally agree with. But it's incredibly cheap and fairly detailed for
that amount of money. I'm curious how it will hold up over years of use.
Anyway, this is probably the perfect "step-up" mic for podcasts if you
are currently recording with your computer's built-in mic or a radio
shack dynamic mic. I would choose this over the m-audio mics- it feels
slightly more durable.
The MXL 990 is one of many
Chinese-manufactured condenser mics that suffer from two common problems
- it is simultaneously ill-defined in the critical midrange and
excessively harsh in the treble range. While the circuit used in the mic
is quite clever and fairly well implemented, the sonic deficiencies lie
within the condenser capsule and headbasket acoustics.
By and
large, Chinese-manufactured mics use condenser capsules copied from
classic Neumann designs. Unfortunately, these inexact copies fall short
of delivering the magnificent midrange accuracy and smooth,
sibilance-free top end Neumann capsules are known for. Most of the
copied capsules deliver a sound that is often described as harsh,
spitty, "eshy", sibilant or screechy. Poor headbasket acoustics compound
the problems created by these capsules.
The MXL 990, like most
microphones of its class, uses a multi-layer grille mesh headbasket.
These multiple layers of mesh do protect the capsule from spittle and
wind blasts - but at a cost. Multiple layer headbaskets have a very
small percentage of open area in the grille. This means a great deal of
sound is reflected back and forth between the capsule and headbasket.
Cup your hands around your mouth or speak into a paper tube to get an
exaggerated example of the standing wave artifacts caused by a
restrictive headbasket.
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