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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #127 in Musical Instruments
• Brand: Samson
• Model: CO1U RS
• Dimensions: 2.00 pounds

Features

• Industry's first USB studio condenser mic
• Plugs directly into any computer with a USB port
• Cardioid pickup pattern
• Heavy gauge mesh grill
• Large 19mm diaphragm

Amazon.com
The C01U USB Studio Condenser Mic is the first affordable studio condenser mic with a USB interface.

For the first time ever, musicians who record music on computers have a simple, affordable way to capture high-quality vocal and acoustic instrument performances.

Seamless integration was the idea, and it was obtained by creating a studio condenser microphone that can be plugged into any computer with no in/out boxes, no expensive computer pre-amps, just a USB cable.

The C01U condenser microphone is based on our wildly successful C01. It features a 19mm internal shock mounted diaphragm with a cardioid pick up pattern ensuring pristine studio quality recordings.

The C01U works perfectly on any computer, Mac or PC, and with any DAW software program. It immediately solves a huge problem for users of many laptops, many of which have no other input method for audio devices.

It’s a must for any musician on the road or in the project studio, but the C01U is going to offer solutions to more than just musicians. The mic opens up possibilities for anyone who records audio—from Podcasters, journalists, students, and business people adding audio files to websites and multimedia presentations.

Feature List

• Large Diaphragm, 19mm, Studio Condenser with USB Digital Output.
• Compatible with any computer based Digital Audio Workstation.
• The extremely detailed sound reproduction makes it ideal for recording vocals, acoustic instruments and just about any other sound source.
• High Quality AD converter with 16 Bit, 48K sampling rate.

Customer Reviews

Better than we expected
We bought this even though the reviews were lukewarm, but the price was right and the performance was perfectly acceptable. While this may not make professional studio recordists happy, for the bulk of us recording church choirs and school groups, it works quite well. Buy the suspension shock mount, and you won't be sorry.

A decent mic but rather useless
It's "plug-n-play" if you use Garageband 08. But it simply doesn't work with Logic 8. The instructions on the samsontech.com site are pre-Leopard and don't work. Even if you're running Tiger, their instructions are missing a step. I've tried everything. It's useless. If you want to use it in GB 08, it's fine. But if you want to do more than beginner's recording (like many Mac users), don't buy it. [...]. They got your $ so they don't care anymore.

gud job
This mic has been doing a very good job. I use it for my home studio, and this mic gives me a real good quality.