Movo MC1000 Conference USB Microphone for Computer Desktop and Laptop with 180° / 20' Long Pick up Range Compatible with Windows and Mac for Dictation, Recording, YouTube, Conference Call, Skype

I am a technology project manager and needed a small microphone to use in a small lunch room for a kickoff meeting. We were conducting a Teams meeting along with an onsite meeting and needed to record the conversations. This microphone did an exceptional job and also blocked out surrounding noise. Great price. Very easy to use. Just plug in and go. You do need to plug in ear buds if you want to listen to ensure the voices can be heard and understood.

I hurt my back and had to set up a temporary office in a different place where I could still work comfortably in a recliner! My choice for a microphone was a crucial part of that and I am patting myself on my sore back for buying the Movo MC1000 . I have used it for calls to clients, a zoom office meeting already and gaming at night. Everyone has reported my voice as loud and very clear. I will be using it from now on, even when I return to my regular office. Installation could not have been easier. I plugged it in, and selected it as my sound input in Windows 10>> DONE! Quality and versatility is immediately obvious. It is powerful but low profile and small enough to not take up a lot of my now very limited desktop space. I could even place it much further away if I needed to. Excellent product, and well worth the reasonable price! Well done MOVO, your MC1000 is right behind my dog's paw who insisted on being in this shot!

I wanted to give some time to mess around with this microphone before reviewing. After playing with it, and seeing how well it functions on the key reasons I bought it, I am very impressed. I needed a microphone that could perform from a distance of at least 12 feet. While many I found in this price range ($60) boasted a recordable distance of about 15 feet, this one advertised around 20. So when I chose it, my thought was it would have a clearer sound at 12 feet than the others. While I can't confirm or disprove that to be the case, I can say that this microphone in question performed quite well once the settings were right. Clearly picking up audio at a standard speaking volume well within that advertised radius. With a careful ear I noticed the microphone even picked up the sound of me opening a closing a door close to 40 feet away past a wall. Yet, when people are in the room communicating from all angles at various distances, this mic does well not to sound overwhelming. Even with close, loud spoken, individuals it doesn't get distorted easily, as some devices would if you are too close, or too far for that matter (as long as the source of sound is approximately within that 20 foot radius). For the price I paid, I would 100% recommend this mic.

Overall this is a very good quality mic for the price. It's basically the MXL AC404 in a different case and $10 cheaper, so I've copied my review of that mic here. It has a slightly fuller bass pickup than the MXL. That may be good or bad, depending on the low frequency noise in your room. I compared this to the similar Soundtech CM-1000, and there are pros and cons to each. Both had better sound than my Jabra Speak 410/510 USB speaker/mic, though neither has speaker or bluetooth functions. I would also check out the Samson GoMic, which (though not a boundary mic) is good sounding, flexible, and less expensive. The Movo isn't really omnidirectional; possibly this is a function of the 3 capsule design? In any case, mine acts more like a cardioid pattern mic (the logo is the front), and I got good results orienting the mic this way. 90 degrees off axis was several dB down and sounded more distant, and 180 was even worse. The SoundTech CM-1000 was omni, and though it had a few dB more noise and didn't sound as good as the Movo on axis, it was better off axis. Thus, in a room with only a couple of people or for more distant pickup the Movo wins, but for a small round conference table the SoundTech does. The SoundTech allows you to daisy chain additional mics for better pickup for larger tables or rooms; the Movo does not. But the Movo has a headphone jack, which the Soundtech lacks. Overall, a very good mic for $60 IMO.

I've installed two of these units so far, needing to extend them from the controlling computer in both instances. The first was extended via USB cable to a distance of ~25' (two 10' extensions plus the included cord). The second time I employed USB over CAT6 extenders since I needed to go a much further distance from the control computer. In both instances, the recording quality was solid and audio playback from the input was clear. I recommend these units to anyone that needs a low-priced, high-quality, microphone for video conferencing.

Threw it out after a week. So many issues. All of this review is when connected to a Windows 10 Pro machine. First issue - there's no power switch on the device so it's "always on" which is a little unsettling to me with all the hot mic stories people have. Second issue - there's no mute button on it, unlike just about every other mic. So you have no idea when you're muted or not and can't just whack a button to know you're muted. Third issue - the drivers for this mic caused a blue screen of death on the machine. Then it kept giving a BSOD every 90 minutes or so. Made computer useless. Took it in to tech support. They said they removed the driver and gave it back to me. Computer has been fine ever since. I tossed this mic in the trash the next day. AVOID

Working great 👍

Doesn’t work well on a laptop. The speakers built-in to my laptop worked better.