• Reviews around background noise (1.00 of 5)

    MXL 770 Cardioid Condenser Microphone

    • I think they were made for recording vocals over music tracks, where background noise isn't as much of an issue.
    • I would suggest getting a pop filter or windscreen when buying this as well to block out plosives and help reduce a bit of background noise.
    • The GXL sounds nicer in general, but it picks up so much background noise, that it's hard to tell how good it sounds
    • First I thought that this could be because of the cable, or audio interface, but after testing it on other other interfaces and cable it still has this background noise
    • Let's Plays, when playing back my videos I can clearly be heard and with no background noise pickup either (which I was worried about with most mics being very bad about background noise)
    • Decent at taking care of some minor background noise, but very accurate at pickup overall
    • This one's cardioid range picks up exactly where I need it to; it has a lo-pass filter built into it, which helps to reduce ambient background noise (it's not perfect, but it does the job quite nicely!) as well as a bass cut switch, which helps ME, since I tend to sound a little muddy due to a sinus defect
    • is that, this microphone picks up lot of background noise even at 75% gain level (maybe it's because of my
    • Also, being a cardiod microphone, this does pick up background noise
    • Works really nicely at limiting background noise
    • I would not use it in a location with a high level of background noise as it is omni-directional and picks up quite a lot of extra noise.