• Reviews around voice (4.40 of 5)

    MXL AC404 USB Conference Microphone

    • About 8 people stand around it and it picks up everyone's voices pretty well
    • you can speak from anywhere in a conference room and the voice is clear to the listening party
    • It does a great job of picking up loud voices, but the softest voices in a small 15' x 15' room are still missing from the recording.
    • So far everyone has said my voice is crystal clear, and I have not heard anyone mentioning pops or other foreign sounds.
    • It picks up the quietest voice quite well and broadcasts nicely.
    • I needed a microphone that would pick up the softest voices in the room, not just the loudest.
    • I was hoping to use it for hands free voice dictation, but it picks up too much ambient noise, so I use a noise canceling headset for that
    • Wouldn't recommend it to anyone!- Acoustic Magic Voice Tracker II, 2 stars
    • While my voice was clear, people had a hard time hearing me if it wasn't very close to my mouth
    • Picks up voices from across the room and quiet or high-pitched voices and handles the noisy, echo-chamber meeting room very well.
    • It does a great job of picking up loud voices, but the softest voices in a small 15' x 15' room are still missing from the recording.
    • However, I was absolutely shocked when I did my first call and the people on the other end were not only impressed with how clear my voice sounded, but with the fact that there was no echo whatsoever
    • It has about a 180-degree receiving range of excellent voice quality, but it doesn't pick up voices as well if the person is speaking from behind it (behind meaning the side where you plug in the USB cable
    • Nevertheless, it does pick up voices from the conference table as well as voices from the audience who are seated several feet from the conference table
    • It definitely paid off, it does extremely well at isolating voice in a noisy environment (conference room with street noise) and you can hear people at the other end of the 30ft room
    • Because my voice was so clear when doing Skype and GoToMeeting calls, I decided to try it out with my Dragon NaturallySpeaking application that I had long since stopped using because I hated wearing a
    • We set this up with a USB extension, placed it in the middle of the table, and have been really impressed with how well it picks up even quiet voices all around a 16'table.
    • No raising your voice or leaning into the mic necessary
    • Works very well - nice clear voice reception.
    • Once I got it set up for conference calls, attendees had to speak in a softer (aka "normal) voice or they would blow out the audio on the other side