How does the mic perform? Good enough for skype, google hangout, etc?
82155
This particular pair does not have a mic. Instead, it has a volume control slider in the place where a mic would be. The ones that say "with mic" have one and I love the quality. I use it for phone conversations all the time and no one has ever had a hard time hearing me.
470090
No issues as far as I've had it. It's only been 4 months but overall amazing mic!
1165089
Yes it does have a pretty good internal Mic but we have used it only for family get togethers and vacation. Stuff. It has no external that I can tell unless the usb port would accept a usb Mic but can't test the theory since I do not have one. If the room has usual sounds and others talking it picks up the closest people. If at some Loud party it will have problems
2030604
I use this for VOIP, Skype calling to friends and family abroad. They all tell me it is very clear. So for my usage and for the price it is perfect. Not sure if you application requires semi -pro quality, or just need to be clear enough. This is NOT semi pro quality but is the sounds are good. One must make sure they are not more than a 24 inches MAX from the mic.
1056923
It picks up sound fairly well for an on-board mic. Still not something I would want to use by itself as the quality always sounds spacey. Any mic that has a mini-jack(same size as headphone..can't remember the name right now) will work. I have a rode videomic that I use with mine. It does have a mini-shoe so you'll need to purchase an adapter for that if you're going to want to mount basically any good microphone on it.
165697
My friends seem to have no problem with my mic. If you'd heard some of their headset mics you'd probably be quite satisfied with it too. For example, the Alienware headset doesn't have any noise cancellation and picks up a great amount of background noise, and the Razer Kraken Pro has great sound quality but a poor quality mic. Those 2 are the main ones everyone i've seen is buying, I have seen a great many other mics and this one so far beats them all. =) In my opinion, if you have the black shark's mic the correct distance away from your mouth, its sound quality is unbeatable next to a singing mic or something...
1034215
Yes, my mother uses it for Skype and it works very well. I was suprised by the quality of audio, it was very good.
376033
I can't speak to the Google Hangout connection but the mic placement should work. Mic inputs all feed one usb out.
1775914
I haven't personally used those apps, but every other app I've used the MiC has worked beautifully on. This is definitely my favorite microphone I've ever used.
1442465
It sounds pretty good. The mic input is only stereo though so if you are looking for 5.1 the built in mic is your only option.
1513440
Yes. Very much. and it is very comfortable using it. it's just sad that it does not have a microphone with it. then it would be perfect. but with this price, I cannot complain!!
999734
It's actually pretty good, I use my camera on a family room where the TV is 20 feet away and when I do Skype the other party has no trouble hearing me and also there's no feedback either, it seems to be a good quality microphone.
899031
I found it doesn't have a lot of distortion. Is it pro-level? Not even close, but for a budget and for most people that might listen to recordings done with it, it will be fine. I've recorded performances with it, and as a shotgun mic, it filters out external noise nicely.
506920
I have heard from those I talk with on skype that the mic is buzzing a lot, and picks up background noises. It could be that my sound card isn't good enough to handle it, or that some of my settings are wrong (though I have tried to fix it for a while without luck).
1471769
I have had no issues with the mic. I mostly use this at concerts working EMS and have no issues with communicating with it
1067229
btw after writing my last comment i went to www.macspeech.com and checked out their headsets and some of them look really good. pricey though i'd stick with the usb microphones and pic one from their page and go for it
627023
I have a Plantronics headset with mic and it has worked fine for me; though I have only used it for Go To Meeting calls.