Recording Live Instruments In Garageband

Incredible live music microphone, or for recording up close instruments. While it is not as sensitive as say Nt5's for ambient and nature sounds, when given a substantial volume the mic really shines. I love it.

Great for recording voice and instruments

Recorded into GarageBand with great results. Recording was clean and was easy to adjust to a comfortable leve.

I purchased 5 of these for drum mics for recording into Garageband. These are just a little brighter than the 57's I have, but this is not even an issue when running through a mixer. My friend that is a drummer is going to replace an inexpensive set of drum mics with 7 of these for less than $100.00. I won't bother paying for a 57 ever again. Great microphone!

I purchased 5 of these to mic drums for recording into Garageband. I am completely satisfied and plan to order more. The�PDMIC78 has crisper highs than a Shure SM57 and cost about 1/10th the price. I will never spend the money on a Shure again. My drummer friend is replacing his Samson microphones with these.

Setup was very easy for this microphone. It is a simple plug & play use. I tested it with garageband on a mac computer and audacity on a windows computer. Both worked seamlessly. The audio recording quality was better than I expected for paying this price on a microphone. Vocal recording is very nice (singing/podcast type applications). Acoustic guitar recording sounded great. Acoustic guitar was about 8 feet away from the mic when testing it out. I imagine fine tuning my recording process will only make it sound better. I used the mic to record a band practice session. I just placed the mic in the center of the room and played around it. The mic worked surprisingly well to pick up the instruments (recorded in garageband). Obviously this technique is not going to sound amazing but it is better than I have recorded other times with a TASCAM device or other microphone into a computer. The overload led light is nice to visually show you when the microphone input volume is set too high. I have been typically running at 20-30% when testing up-close vocals. So it shows there is an input range to work with. The microphone base stand is a nice simplistic setup. It does limit the positioning of the microphone on there but I believe this is what is intended. The stand will not allow for a horizontal positioning of the mic. Since I do not need the feature and do not think the stand was intended to do that, I did not take away from the rating. I recommend this microphone for anyone looking to have a usb microphone as a step above the bottom line microphones but do not want to spend money in the $100-$150 range. I imagine it would compete with those in terms of audio quality. If you wanted anything better than this, I would say to think about spending over $150.

We needed to connect out Apogee mic to a macbook for recording in Garageband. This fit the bill. Does exactly what it's supposed to do, and we're nearly complete with recording audio to be released on our web page next week. Shipped fast too. Thanks!

Great for live recording

We use it for live interviews and recording and love it.

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