Buy MXL D.R.K. Desktop Recording KitMXL D.R.K. Desktop Recording Kit Product Description:
- Providing professional sounding music recordings into home PC or Mac (with optional MXL iBooster)
- Perfect for recording vocals, instruments, podcasting & voice-over speech
- Fully contained recording kit
- battery or phantom power condenser microphone
- Includes desktop stand, microphone adapter, XLR microphone cable, XLR-to-mini plug adapter cable, 3.5mm mini Plug-to-1/4 inch adapter, 9V battery and recording guide
Product Description
The MXL DRK Desktop Recording Microphone Kit is a fully self-contained battery or phantom power condenser microphone kit that provides professional sounding music recordings. Pair it with the optional MXL iBooster and the DRK can plug into the line-in port of most computers for use in voice-over recording, location work, or podcasting.
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17 of 21 people found the following review helpful.
This mic needs a preamp
By Andy C
This mic is sold as not needing a preamp. I found this to be mis-leading. Trying to record on a PC sound card using only the 9v battery and the mic input was hopeless unless you want to record something very, very loud. I ended up getting a Behringer tube preamp and now I can record using the line input with high sensivity.Other than that it works fine for my application: voice-overs.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Great For All Around Recording
By R. Dabkowski
I have used this microphone for recording acoustic stringed instruments and some local theater productions. I am very impressed with the tonal quality and frequency range. Well worth the cost. It is not perfect but to my sensitive ears it is very very good. My dog howls when I play back my recordings when the double stops are hit on the strings, so this obviously captures up into the high range. I like the fact that it is battery powered which eliminates any possibility of introducing hum from an external phantom power supply plus it makes it easier to use. I have been using this straight into a Sony HD Video recorder with excellent results. All the accessories are high quality and function well. Some things to consider... no light on the mike to tell you that the power is on. Need to be careful to turn it off or you will have a run down battery. Very quiet in terms of spurious noise (hiss) but not absolutely silent. I am very picky on this aspect and this just meets my expectations. This mike is very sensitive (and has a large dynamic range) so you have to be careful in setting the recording range or you may have some clipping distortion on your recordings. I actually like the sensitive nature, in live recordings it sounds live not like some dead studio recording. I have read about using condenser mikes with a limiter or compression device to cut any possible clipping and I intend to look into that.
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