VEC CM-1000 Omni-Directional Stereo Conference Microphone 3.5mm CM1000

We have used the mic with a hand-held voice recorder for recording boardroom meetings several times and it has worked great so far.

I spoke to a couple of salespeople at companies that sell recording equipment for lawyers and courtrooms. They recommended these microphones. They are noise cancelling mikes and come with a 5' cord. They are ruggedly built with a non-skid rubber mat under them. They are also electret mikes so they need to be connected to an input that has Plug In Power capability, otherwise you will probably need a preamp or separate plug in power source. But otherwise they do not require any external power input. Many of the Olympus digital recorders have Plug In Power input compatibility and these should work well with them. They work well with my Olympus DM-620. They are daisy-chainable right out of the box. That means that if you want to use more that one mike, you can plug one into another in a chain, and plug the cord on the last one into the mike input of your recorder without have to use a mixer or adapter plug. I think there is a practical limit to the number of mikes you can daisy chain and I recall reading some comment online cautioning against trying to connect more than 5 or 6 in a chain, but I don't know. Since the mikes draw power from your recorder, you may want to connect your recorder to an AC Adapter while recording to make sure you don't run the batteries out while recording. I will use 3 of these mikes for taking depositions. After testing 2 mikes chained together against the internal mikes on my recorder, I found them to be great at capturing voice without picking up a lot of background noise. You could of course rely on your recorder's internal mikes for recording small meetings, but if you use multiple mikes, you can reduce the problem of some voices being louder than others depending on how far away they are from your digital recorder. This is what I like about using these mikes -by having multiple mikes near each speaker, the sound level of each voice is better balanced. Another consideration in my choosing these mikes was the fact that they are unobtrusive, as opposed to typical shotgun mikes on stands. The result is that the speaker forgets they are there and is more comfortable with the setting. One reminder -on most digital recorders, when an external mike is plugged into the unit, the internal mikes are disabled, so you can't use one CM-1000 mike alongside your internal mikes. This means that you will want to consider buying at least two of these mikes for conference recording.

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The signal from the microphone was very low and there was lots of noise even though we connected the mic to a camcorder with phantom power.

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Maybe I'm doing something wrong but tried on an imac, macbook pro, hp laptop and the internal mic's don't get overridden.

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I have tried this microphone with several devices and it does not work. At one point I thought that I got it working by not inserting the plug completely into the jack but I discovered that instead, what was happening was that the device's internal microphone was still active. I suspect that this is a defective unit but I waited for some time before fully testing this mic after I bought it so that I suspect it is no longer under warranty although I'll check with the manufacturer if I can find a way to contact them.

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