I'm pleased with the quality and the sensitivity of this microphone, for the $20 I paid for it. I attached it first to my media-center PC for a test, and it picked far sounds with good clarity. I have now connected it to my PC, where I intend to use it for meetings, and I can see a significant gain over the webcam microphone, as you can see in the picture. It's not a carefully designed or controlled experiment, but I whispered numbers 1 to 10 at night, first recorded with my webcam microphone and then with this microphone, and you can see the difference in audio recording amplitude. The noise is also lower with this microphone. I did not lean forward, and was sitting straight for both recordings. Recording volume was at 100% in both cases. I look forward to using this for meetings and even some vocal recordings.
I'm pleased with the quality and the sensitivity of this microphone, for the $20 I paid for it. I attached it first to my media-center PC for a test, and it picked far sounds with good clarity. I have now connected it to my PC, where I intend to use it for meetings, and I can see a significant gain over the webcam microphone, as you can see in the picture. It's not a carefully designed or controlled experiment, but I whispered numbers 1 to 10 at night, first recorded with my webcam microphone and then with this microphone, and you can see the difference in audio recording amplitude. The noise is also lower with this microphone. I did not lean forward, and was sitting straight for both recordings. Recording volume was at 100% in both cases. I look forward to using this for meetings and even some vocal recordings.