SAMSONSACM20P 20" Mini Gooseneck Podium Microphone

SENSIBLE ET PRECIS

I have two of these installed in my church, and have installed several at other churches. These are surprisingly good for the price point, and have been generally OK with the vocal performance of these mics. I recently came across a problem with them, but I am not going to completely indict the microphones for the issue. A couple of Sundays ago, during the service, some interference with someone on a CB radio was picked up. I got real busy at the sound console trying to isolate which channel was the culprit, and found either one of these mics at the pulpit and podium were the source. I have about six other condenser mics of various type placed in the church for piano, organ, ambience, lecturn, etc, and none of them, or input channels, were picking up the CB. I went back during the week, and spent some less frantic time trying to nail down what was going on, and found out the CM20 mics themselves are particularly sensitive to picking up RF and demodulating AM transmission, at least in the CB band. I was suspecting the long run of snake cable from front of church to mixing station ain’t helping, but that was not in play as far as I could figure out. I determined some crew which was doing lumbering work in nearby woods was the source, and guessed they likely have an illegal linear amplifier on their radio. Anyhow, I just thought I’d toss this issue out there, and it is a known issue in the audio world of radio transmission overpowering mic channels. I am going to try some in-line RFI filters as well on these channels, (or maybe some ferrite cores) Eventually the lumber crew will leave, and hopefully so will their overpowered CB radio.

Al principio me decepcionó, porque el sonido no me convencía, por lo que lo tuve en la gaveta por varios meses. Pero en la base tiene un pequeño switch, que se usa depende de si hay fuente de 48v o no la hay. Por defecto viene desactivada. Al encender el switch las cosas cambiaron y el sonido se hizo muy bueno. El único detalle por el que no le doy 5 estrellas es que hay que hablar a unos 15 cm del micrófono para que se oiga bien. Por lo demás, lo recomiendo.

Needed some new microphones to replace older ones, that are a bit battered. These look good and the double twisting points make it easier to get the microphone quickly to the right height for different speakers.Good response, and no discernible popping. Still can't stop speakers bashing them when turing over their notes however ;-(

Good quality sound for the price and set up was easy. Came with the mounting flange and was easy to install