ZealSound Studio Recording Microphone, Condenser Broadcast Microphone w/Stand Built-in Sound Card Echo Recording Karaoke Singing for Phone Computer PC Garageband Smule Live Stream & YouTube (Gold)

The media could not be loaded. I am not a techno-geek and I had a little trouble getting the mic to work the way I wanted. I am creating videos for YouTube featuring me singing karaoke. When I was having problems getting started with the mic I simply contacted the ZealSound folks and they bent over backward to give assistance. They even offered to replace the mic if necessary. Customer service at ZealSound gets an A+ from me. So does the mic.Now, here is the little bit of help I want to pass along to you. I do not use special audio recording software for my videos. Recently, I purchased a Logitech c922 HD webcam. I downloaded the free software from the Logitech site and opened up the Realistic audio program that came installed on my Dell Inspiron desktop computer. I am operating Windows 10 Professional. The Logitech software allows me to choose the mic I want to use (either the one that is aboard the webcam or the one plugged into the Realistic audio software (in this case the ZealSound)). The master volume control is cranked up to the max and the system mic was chosen as the input (the ZealSound). Also, the ZealSound mic volume is cranked to the max. The resulting sound is rich and mellow and sounds like a radio DJ. I am impressed by the quality. Thank you ZealSound for making such a professional quality product available to me for such an amazing price (at the time of purchase I received a 25% discount from ZealSound and free shipping through Amazon Prime. You just can't beat that deal anywhere!!!)

Easy set up. Great product. Love it for what I will be using it for.

The sound was really nice, and I liked how simple it was to set up (just plug in and go). But the sound kept cutting out, so when I'd go to edit a video I recorded I'd find that there were sections I had to re-shoot, or in some cases I had to re-shoot the entire video, because the sound would cut out for a split second and you'd miss parts of words or entire words.I think it had an especially hard time with the short A sound as in "backpack." That seemed to be the sound that would cut out most often. I don't know if that was an issue with an over-zealous noise canceling feature or what.I didn't want to return it, so I kept trying it, but I ended up spending twice as much time recording and editing videos and I'd usually have to settle for minimal cutting out on re-recordings rather than no cutting out. So I did end up returning it.UPDATE: After I returned the product and got a refund (which was easy), ZealSound customer service reached out and offered a different mic model for free, which I felt was too much because I'd gotten a full refund. But they were insistent, so I said okay. They sent it out to me really fast and this new one works great so far. No complaints, and I like the way it looks better than the first one I bought.Because of this great service I'm updating my review from 2 stars on this microphone to 4 stars, because great service like that deserves to be recognized and rewarded.

Super amazed by this product I was honestly skeptical about it but decided to give it a try. So i received the item and man blew me away with how good it picks up your voices especially when you get up close and personal. It even picks up sound from another room which is neat. say you want to record more than one person in the room it would do it no sweat. I would of gave it 5* but gave it 4* because my item came defective. I mean just the pop sound diffuser thing it comes with. I don't know the proper name for it so sorry in advance but anyways make sure it screws on well and works well before getting your hopes up as I did. Luckily I was able to find the part at home depot and did not to return the whole thing which I did not want to to do since the microphones was amazing. All in all good product is good. just replace some of the parts with better quality stuff. Hopefully my photo can explain a but better than my words. I had to replace the tiny screw that's inside of the black pop disfuser it was cheap material and replaced it with a better more secure part. Also almost forgot one thing I am an ios device user and it works flawlessly as you can see my little ghetto set up in my photoI am using special edition beats connected to the mic and the aux to my phone. It's rare for me to leave a review but this I had to give props it was only $20-$30 really really good for beginners.Edit: so today is my second time using the microphone and I noticed one thing!!! I changed my 4* to 3* because of the fact that as I was using it to capture my voice when screen recording on my ios device it didn't pick up my voice as clearly and heard ton of static. Yes I turned the volume up yes I tried it with Bluetooth on/ off and it all came back the same. So my guess is this device is only meant to be used for ios with both the aux / headphone jack. It cannot be used with only the aux cable aka 3.5mm aux to lighting cable. I'm going to test it out more once I get home. But for now don't purchase if you want to screen record and not have to carry headphones. You'll have to carry your whole set up to record nice crisp sounds.

I'm a podcaster, and I bought this to do on-site recordings with my phone at an annual event. I have a H4n Pro but it's kinda bulky. I tested this mic at home and it worked great, so I put it away until the event I needed to go to. Now it won't hold a charge, even after charging it overnight, even while plugged in. Back to the search for a portable mic that works with my phone.