For the price, this is a decent option if you are in dire need of a microphone. The problem is that it is certainly not without faults. Within a week of owning it, its input jack basically disintegrated in my hands. I could understand this had I been abusing it… Yet I treated it very carefully and had used only plugged it in a grand total of 2 times at this point. So you may be saying to yourself… What's the big deal, it is only the cord that broke… Those are easily be placed. Normally you would be right, yet this microphone requires the use of (what I can only assume would be) Pyle's own proprietary brand of cords. No other cord that I tried would work out of the box until we discovered that this microphone requires it's cords to be wired (as in literally wired to the connectors) the exact opposite of any 3rd party cord that you will likely find on store shelves. Once we rewired a cord it did, however, work properly. Shady business practices, there. As for the build quality of the actual mic, it is super solid for with a nice & thick metal windscreen that screams of quality.
The mic's sound quality is up for interpretation depending on one's individual tastes. While your voice will come through clearly (not as clear as the more expensive mics, obviously) it also inexplicably has what appears to be built in reverb. While this can be a good thing for singers who are a fan of lots of reverb on their voice, some singers may find this to be an extreme turn off to buying this mic (hence the reason I decided to point it out).
Overall the mic is a decent build for the price, but I simply can't get over that proprietary cord nonsense, & while it may not be an immediate problem for some, as it was me, I guarantee that it will become a very real problem for some of you in the long run.
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