MXL 990 USB Powered Condenser Microphone 

Comments about MXL 990 USB Powered Condenser Microphone:

i cant figure out why the mic dont work the same everytime i use it,, i got adobe soundbooth cs5 ,, and once in a while it works perfectly ,, then some days i plug it in and i can get the mic to work right ,its either too staticky,or u gotta yell in it to get it to register sound ,, this is sooooo frusturating,(why wont it just work right every time???)))

Comments about MXL 990 USB Powered Condenser Microphone:

Easy to use and setup. Good sound quality for one bill. Noticed lots of fuzz when recording multiple tracks on one recording. Overall, good mic for the money.

Comments about MXL 990 USB Powered Condenser Microphone:

just starting voice over work, teacher sent me to your sight, felt the items purchased were at good value, will get me started and may even be my go to equipment for down the road, time will tell but so far things are working out very good!!

Comments about MXL 990 USB Powered Condenser Microphone:

Great mic if you need some voices or a decent acoustic guitar recording. I would recomend a pop filter.
I bought the MXL 990 to record voice overs and maybe a little acoustic guitar on the side. For the sound quality and price it's pretty excellent. I record with Audacity on around 3 different computers and all I do is unplug, plug-in, and pull up audacity and she's ready to go.
for just recording with audacity on a dell it does the job sound quality wise. I haven't broke the mic so it's great build quality wise.
I didn't mind spending the money

Comments about MXL 990 USB Powered Condenser Microphone:

Okay, If you're new to recording, face the facts. It's going to cost you a little money. Don't buy the cheapest! It will just take room up in your studio and it won't be worth nothing on Ebay for resale!
Also don't buy into the "purests" remarks about spending a lot on a mic or nothing. This one will treat you fine. I am very pick and I wouldn't waste my time doing this review if I didn't think it was a quality piece of equipment.

Good luck in your recording adventures.
So I have played guitar for over twenty years and am now just trying to get into some serious recording. I have written songs that my family wants to preserve. So the first thing I did was buy a low dollar mic only to find that it was horrible! It sounded like my guitar was recorded through a tin can located in a third world country somewhere. So I started researching. Every person has a diferent apinion. Why can't one just be the perfect one? It was very confusing and at this point I just didn't care about cost but quality.
This one was wired with high quality material, came with a case and a usb cable so that I could plug right in to my Mac laptop and use Garage Band to record. I waited a couple weeks to find time to use it cause I just didn't want to be let down. My wife and I pulled it out finally, unwraped it, didn't even read the instructions, pluged it in. (It even comes with it's own little stand!) I started playing my acoustic Martin guitar and my wife pressed record. When we played it back both of our jaws fell open. It had totally captured the warmth of my guitar! My strings wern't even new and the tone recorded was awesome! I am now totally excited about recording but my only warning to you is this...IT'S ADDICTING! Now I need some powered monitore speakers, head phones, and upgrades to my Garage Band program. It's a lot fo fun. So my point is this. If your looking for a good mic to set in front of you to record this one works great. I haven't tried to mic my amp cabinets yet but I am sure that it will be just as good.
Solid contruction. It comes with a nice case. Its a bit heavy so if you use the little stand (It's very cool!) then make sure you set it up so it doesn't fall over in the middle of recording a killer track!
It's nice that it comes with a usb cable. I will eventually need a longer one but that I can get later.
Totally worth the money! This one works great! The one I spent less on a I gave to my three year old daughter to do kareoke. This one I treat very carefully. It's a quality piece of equipment.

Comments about MXL 990 USB Powered Condenser Microphone:

Since I love muusic, and record music for the love of music, making money is not expected with this mic. I've had this mic for going on two years and have been satisfied with it the entire time. It doesn't have the "studio" quality that most people look for, but it definitely gets the job done. Since I am looking for better sound, I will be buying a new mic soon, but until then, I will use this mic, which is the best mic I've used. If you're looking for great quality for cheap, this is the one for you.

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The microphone was only recording most of the audio through the left channel and not the right, whereas other USB mics I've used are perfectly equal. Installing MXL's software only made the problem worse. I shipped it back to MusiciansFriend and they shipped me another which had the same exact problem. I shipped it back again and they gave me a full refund. Great customer service from MF, but a pretty bad microphone considering multiple of them were flukes.

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Like many others, i bought this Mic because i wanted something for vocals that would plug right into my computer without needing an extra preamp. If i were a professional recording studio type guy, i'm sure i could find lots of little things to gripe about with this Mic, but im a home recording studio guy, and for this application this Mic worked killer!!! It did everything i needed it to do and sounded really really good. If you would like to hear some vocals recorded on my MXL 990 USB, go to www.jordanojames.com/music.html and check out the album from NYTNDAE JONES, all the vocals on this album were recorded on this mic. Thanks.

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Went to track my order on-line and the UPS man knocked on the door, super fast shipping, great mic for the price, on the down side there is no vocal playback for monitoring, which is something I can get used to considering the quality of the mic. A+

Comments about MXL 990 USB Powered Condenser Microphone:

I got this because I wanted something to hook up directly to my computer to record vocals without bothering with any preamps or interfaces. The mic sounds pretty good. It has a good overall sound for vocals and sounds full. The main problem I have is that, when recording, I can't monitor myself singing. Meaning I can't hear the vocals I am recording with the rest of the mix until I play it back. This can get pretty frustrating. It also should come with a shockmount like the regular 990 (I had to buy the shockmount separate). I've never even used the desktop stand that comes with it and I don't see why I ever would. Overall, it's a good buy, but I wish I would have bought a USB interface like an M-Audio and the regular 990 instead.