C01U Pro

Awesome mic and sound quality, easily connect with laptop

I've needed a microphone for a long time and got this one for doing voice-overs in my videos. I didn't have a huge variety of knowledge when it came to these things. So I hit the internet and found out about this particular one which was said to be the best within this price point. At first impressions, the build-quality felt pretty good and had the weight to it everyone was talking about. Then putting into the real-world test, the recordings it dumped sounded pretty decent (All I do is voice-overs). And after using it for a few days, here's a summary I wanna mention: Pros, (not in particular order) 1. From what I've seen with microphones, this one is pretty good within its price point 2. This thing is through USB-B to USB-A, and is plug-and-play. 3. The frequency response spectrum is good enough and doesn't pick up the high pitch sounds. 4. The all-metal build really feels sturdy. Cons, 1. The cable included is pretty small and wouldn't fit a lot of people's working scenarios, especially the ones who want to use it with a boom arm and long off their audio source ( I had to buy an extra 3m cable to make it fit ) 2. The design, in particular, I'm not really a fan of. 3. The weight could well be someone's difficulty factor. 4. Using this while typing in a loud mechanical keyboard, this picks up a lot of sounds even being mounted high up. Conclusion: If you want to get started with an easy recording setup with spending a reasonable amount of money, this thing might be for you. You won't definitely get the best audio quality (for voice-overs) out of this.

Samson C01U Pro USB Studio Condenser Microphone I purchased this microphone for my solo singing practice. There is no better alternative at this price range, even Blue yeti was not satisfactory for me. However this is. The microphone has a 3.5 mm jack that can be used to attach a headset and hear how the sound feels like. Lookwise good too. Most importantly I have attached a video which shows how easy it is, to operate this microphone. Just plug-in and the drivers will be automatically installed.You can see the response of microphone to sound also. Then the demonstration of voice capture at distance of 7,30,60,100 and 200 cm is given which will help you to analyze the performance and I haven't made any modulation or amplitude change in the voice. Samson C01U Pro comes with a small stand which in my opinion is not that adequate to accommodate the weight of microphone, tilting even slightly can cause microphone to fall, so be caution there. The USB cable is also of decent quality. Please refer to the images for more information. Performance wise you can't really blame it, the microphone include a in-built mechanism for reduction of unwanted noise and it is working perfectly well. I can definitely recommend this product to a friend. Hope it helped.

I'm writing this riview after a month. Samson C01u usb mic, you've got to be kidding man, Just one word for ya..WOW. At this cheap price range, You've given me exactly what I was expecting of. The voice is just so Damn clear. But as it is simple a USB mic, the voice is a lil bassy kind of but with certain EQ and after I compressed it in a DAW, wow just awesome. I don't know if somebody dislike the product but for me its just worth it at this cheap price range.

I purchased it from Bajao. The original packing was already opened. The mic did hardly captured my voice. Recorded volume was too low that I could not hear it without headphone. I tried it on 2 systems with Mic recording volume set to max. but still the recorded sound was too low. Looks like Bajao sent a defective product. I sent it back and purchased Samson Meteor which is a bit cheaper but that worked perfectly well without any hassles. In addition it has a mute button and ability to adjust volume from Mic itself. On the other hand Meteor is more compact so you may keep it close for recording and easily unfold and pack in its box. I have seen very good reviews for CO1U Pro so I assume my piece was defective but it turned out to be good with Meteor being equally good but cheaper.

Great entry level microphone. Personally used it for music and i can say the noise floor is quite high but usable. The tone is a bit light but you can always equalize it.

This is an amazing starter microphone for voice over and vocal. It has good metal construction with a decent weight to it. The stand that comes with it isn't a good way to use it but it's a good thing that they added it. The only con is that it is usb, which means you can only use it on a computer also the fact that the cable that comes with it is a little short. Otherwise this is the best voice over usb microphone that I have ever used. I totally recommend

Unable to fit microphone on stand please help if you can

Great sounding mic and very easy to setup. Plug and play. Build quality is great. I would recommend buying a pop filter as well. ***IT COMES WITH A USB WIRE*** don't know why they would sell you the mic without the power wire lol.

Es un micrófono de condensador muy bueno ya que la entrada es USB y no necesitas tabla de mezcla ni alimentación extra. Para usar de puerto de carga un USB directo al PC tiene una calidad de audio muy buena. Fui mirando micrófonos no muy caros y me encontré con este, parecía de buena calidad y buen materia, no me equivoque es un micrófono que sin duda tiene una calidad excelente. Los materiales son fuertes y el sonido que capta espectacular. Lo mejor que le veo a este micrófono sin duda es su calidad de audio, materiales que lo construyen y precio. La verdad es que me esperaba un pero resultado de un micrófono con este precio. Lo único malo que le veo es que al no tener mezcladora se cuela mucho ruido por minimo que sea, pero no es problema alguna ya que si grabas con audacity o un programa así se lo puedes quitar con mucha facilidad. En general es un micrófono perfecto para cantantes sobre todo y YouTubers, en general todo lo que sea grabar en un sitio fijo.

After much deliberation looking for a decent USB condenser mic for voice work, I went for this mic. I definitely don't regret it! My use case is using it as a vocal mic for recording podcasts and VoIP (Skype), at my desk at home, with a sprung boom arm, shock mount and pop sheild. The supercardoid pattern does a good job of rejecting sound off of centre. The capsule is very sensitive, and renders vocals with little colouration. In fact if anything it's a bit too sensitive! The gain is controlled via the sound driver on the computer, and I've found it need to be set very low (7-10%) for doing close mic vocal work. One slightly odd thing - if you have the volume set to less than about 5, some slightly weird gating goes under a certain threshold (about -50dB) - mostly not audible but if you're going to compress the recording you might hear bursts of noise. Turn the gain up to 7 or above and that seems to go away (at least, there's consistent background noise instead of weird gate-y background noise). Signal to noise is pretty good, too, and it sounds like the pre-amp is pretty decent, about as good as I would expect for a USB powered in-mic preamp. Unfortunately as it has no XLR output there's not the option to use an external pre and/or mixer, so you're slightly limited there. But really if that's the sort of thing you want to do, you really want to spend a bit more getting a standard condenser and a separate preamp (and/or USB interface). Bass tip up (proximity effect) is quite marked - you get a good boost any closer than about 15cm away. Fantastic for vocals, but if you're looking to record musical instruments you'll need to give it plenty of space to prevent the sound getting muddy (esp. miking the sound hole of an acoustic guitar). The built in windshield is fairly good, but I'm glad I invested in a proper pop shield for close vocal work. The build quality is great - very solid feeling, the bicolour LED indicator is bright enough to see without being blinding (like the fashionable ultra-bright blue LEDs you often see!). The headphone socket is very solid, no fear of breaking it with a tug on the lead. The USB socket feels very solid too - although unlike an XLR it's not locking - so you bear that in mind. The stand which it comes with does feel solid, and the mic does stay steady on it, seems a bit small for the weight - but maybe that's just preference. I'm using this with the shock mount (Samson SP01), which is pretty good quality too. The only slight niggle is that if you want headphones plugged in at the same time as using the shock mount, the headphone jack will interfere with the metalwork - easily solved if you rotate the mic around a little bit in the shock mount, but a bit annoying nonetheless. Also worth mentioning that if you have headphones connected to the mic, they're clearly not going to be isolated by the shock mount so you may need to be a tad careful with the headphone lead to stop it picking up handling noise. What would be nice is a carry case of some sort that fits the mic, USB lead and mini tripod stand - which isn't included. For a low cost mic, it's great value and might be suitable for a home studio or even a professional voiceover booth on a tight budget.

Super cardioid adı verilen mikrofon tipinde. Yani kalp şeklinde bir alandan sesi alıyor, dış sesler pek algılanmıyor, bu da benim gibi seslendirme sanatçıları için müthiş bir imkan. Zira sırt çantama laptop ve mikrofonu koyup mobilize olabiliyorum ve çok da ses olmayan dış mekanlarda bile seslendirme yapabiliyorum. Dip ses hakikaten çok minimal. Audacity kullanıyorum program olarak, başka bir şeye ihtiyacınız yok, şayet ham ses ( temiz ) göndermek sizin için yeterli ise. Ancak yedek olsun diye abd'den sipariş ettiğim ürün maalesef bozuk geldi, iade ettim. Rode mini usb mi bu mu derseniz, fiyat açısından yarı yarıya fark olduğu için kesinlikle samson derim. Usb a ile klasik usb girişlerine bağlanabiliyor, kullanılan kablo standart yazıcı kablosu unutmayın, kısa geldiği için daha uzun bir yazıcı kablosu alıp taktım sorunsuz kayıt alıyorum. Usb c giriş varsa cihazlarınızda dönüştürücü takabilirsiniz, sorun olacağını zannetmiyorum.

Vorab, ich bin ein absoluter Leihe, was Tontechnik betrifft und habe jahrelang ein Headset für meine Season's genutzt. Doch wollte ich mal aus Interesse mehr in den Bereich des Live-Streaming, Radio einsteigen, und dementsprechend sollte man auch aufrüsten. Da ich weder ein professionelles Mischpult habe, und ich nicht mehr wie ca. 100€ für ein zukünftiges Hobby Ausgeben wollte, und stundenlange Videos über verschiedenste Mikrofone angeschaut habe, habe ich mich letztendlich für das Samson C01U Pro USB Mikrofon entschieden und nutze es nun ca. seid 14 Tagen aktiv. Ich bin ehrlich, ich hatte zu Anfang echte Probleme mit dem Samson C01U Pro, erst war ich viel zu leise, dann zu laut, anschließend konnte man Geräusche durch die direkt angeschlossenen Kopfhörer am Mikrofon hören, die man so gar nicht wahr genommen hatte. Sprich, man muss sich wirklich mal Zeit nehmen, besonders Leihe wie ich, um alles so einzustellen, bis es einfach passt, auch wenn es mal mehr als ein oder zwei Stunden dauert - Dank meiner Soundkarte, woran ich noch gesondert ein Paar Einstellungen treffen konnte (zwar nicht viele Optionen aber es schien zu reichen) war es letztendlich auch möglich. Denn wenn man einmal alles so für sich passend eingestellt hat, das man über dem Stream klar verständlich ist, selbst in sehr leisen Momenten keine störende Hintergrundgeräusche zu hören sind und im Voice-Chat ein Kompliment bekommt und nachgefragt wird, was für ein "Headset" man nutzen würde, war es die Bestätigung für mich, mit dem Samson C01U Pro nichts verkehrt gemacht zu haben. Ich habe den Rat eines Amerikanischen YouTubers angenommen und passend zum Mikrofon noch zusätzlich einen kostengünstigen Pop-Schutz gekauft, denn das steigert mindestens noch mal 10% die Qualität, und das stimmte sogar. Generell macht das Mikrofon einen für mich sehr qualitativ hochwertigen Eindruck und habe so gut wie nichts daran zu bemängeln, abgesehen davon, das man für den Gelenkarm vielleicht ein, zwei Euro mehr ausgeben sollte, damit das, wie ich finde doch schon schwere Mikrofon, auch sicher hält. Rundum, wer nicht das professionelleste Equipment daheim stehen hat, es "schnell" und "einfach" haben möchte, macht meiner Meinung nach mit dem Samson C01U Pro nichts verkehrt - Klare Kaufempfehlung.