I've had this over a decade and it still works fine. however recently it stopped working. there are hidden screws behind the sticker labels. just run a screwdriver tip over the label until you feel some holes and unscrew those screws. the copper wiring was frayed and poorly soldered. there are 2 wires in the cable and 3 prongs on the connector. one prong is bridged to the center prong in order to ground the outside of the metal mic handle. cut the insulation and twist wires and resolder them. make sure you take pictures because it's confusing which wire goes where. literally looked like a rats nest the way they soldered it. so both wires were touching each other and short circuiting. Pictures are after me resoldering them the correct way. Also the screw that held the microphone connector on the handle wasn't even properly screwed down and it was jiggling. Really embarrassing the quality on this thing, especially when the product itself works just fine
Surgextreme
★★★★★
Great affordable mic
Works well! Had no issues. I plugged it into a piano for casual singing.
Hoppaguy
★★★★★
Can’t complain it works well for the price
For the price this microphone works well for my purposes which is just general speaking. I can’t attest to singing vocals. There is an on and off switch so you can manually turn the microphone on and off.
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Edward Williams
★★★★★
Nice microphone, poorly assembled. READ BEFORE USING OR IT'LL FAIL FOR YOU!
Short description: Once you receive this, open the XLR connection and crimp the wire (see photos) or it'll fail after only a couple of uses.
It's a good microphone, just poorly produced. I was searching reviews because mine just went bad, saw all the comments about a loose connector. Disassembled the XLR connector (the silver part of the cable that attached to the microphone), noticed the crimp was not tight and the wires crossed, shorting out the microphone. The cable wasn't crimped down well enough. Spinning of the cable caused the wires to short out and break loose. Manually crimped it with some pliers and soldered the wires back, works like new again. Pretty easy fix if you have a soldering iron, small Phillips screwdriver to remove the XLR connector and some pliers. Worth a low star rating due to really cheap Chinese assembly, but at least it's a fixable problem.
Gave it 5* so folks could see how to fix it before it breaks and save them from throwing it out. If this fix works for you please vote it as useful so that it'll rank higher and others will see how to keep it from breaking. Thank you!
