All orders have been shipped! Around 75% of the drop participants have already received tracking info. Once the remaining orders' tracking show some movement, shipping confirmations will be emailed out.
Great news group! We placed the order for the Audio-Technica ATR2500-USB Microphone shortly after the drop ended.
Our vendor will be preparing it for shipment.
The moment we receive confirmation regarding the shipping schedule from the vendor, we will provide you all with updated information.
Expect an update from us by the end of the day Pacific Time on 10/22 or sooner if something comes up.
After owning one of these for more than a year, I'm not sure it is all that great. I think in this price bracket there are better options. My voice through the ATR2500 comes off as quite thin.
Okay, I have a simple question but complicated explanation.
I only would use the mic to play PC games, I have a pair of K553's I'd like to start using as my PC headphones but I absolutely can not stand the mod mic so I've been using a different headset. If I wanted this mic to sit ~3 feet away from my mouth, inbetween my monitors, would it be effective at picking up my voice and not a lot of random background noise?
Is there a better mic for around this price range that would do what I'm saying?
Thanks.
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We have some more good news to share with everyone. Our vendor reached out to us today to inform us that inventory should become available to them on Monday. We have already sent them the shipping labels, so their goal will be to turn around all your individual orders on Monday.
Expect an update from us by the end of the day Pacific Time on 9/2 or sooner if something comes up.
Great news group! We placed the order for the Audio-Technica ATR2500-USB Microphone shortly after the drop ended.
Our vendor will be preparing it for shipment.
The moment we receive confirmation regarding the shipping schedule from the vendor, we will provide you all with updated information.
Expect an update from us by the end of the day Pacific Time on 8/28 or sooner if something comes up.
I have this, just got a month ago from another site and it works fine on OSX. Just plug and say (get it?), I've used GarageBand and Audacity with excellent results.
Not sure why you had problems with it but it is excellent on my MacBook Pro.
I own this microphone. I use it to power 47 ohm ATH-M20x studio monitors, the DAC in the microphone only produces 16 bit audio but is barely noticeable when compared side by side to a 24 bit DAC. Sound quality is great for the price. You will not need a pop filter unless you are within 3 to 4 inches of the microphone. It is USB so you don't get as warm of a sound as XLR. The blue LED is bright, I covered it with a Hyper X sticker from the box of RAM sticks I got for my computer. Even then it only dims the light. It's nothing to keep you from buying the microphone. It's survived a fall off of a 3 foot tall desk, hit wood, hit wood and then carpet. Has fallen over. 0 Issues. The closer you are to the microphone the fuller and warmer your voice becomes. The 3.5mm headphone jack has enough space around it for decently large (not guitar 1/4 inch large) jacks. The tripod is..... Meh. It works. Not really in the way on a medium sized desk with wires, a mid tower PC, tools, a phone, papers, PC cable, a digital cable TV converter and more junk. The USB cable provided is thick, some what stiff but easily bendable and holds a certain shape if it stays in one spot long enough. The volume buttons are useful and If you have 100$ to spend on a mic. Get this and the proper mounting for it. With a flimsy desk, a shock mount is needed, on a solid, older, thick wooden desk, not very much so. You can hear yourself with the microphone with 0 latency if you do choose to plug headphones into the mic. It does have a DAC so you will be able to use this as an output device. Compared to a Fiio D03k DAC (its...small but works) being only 16 bit, it's sound is not as accurate and ass full as 24 bit sound. Compared to an AT-2020... Well it's blatantly silver with an obnoxiously bright blue light with very similar sound quality plus volume buttons and sound output.... AT-2020 USB, sound quality is very similar but compared to XLR, the XLR 2020 is warmer and more natural sounding. You may form your own opinions. I don't own both.