USB Microphone Cable, NewBEP 3 Pin USB Male to XLR Female Mic Link Converter Cable Studio Audio Cable Connector Cords Adapter for Microphones or Instruments Recording Karaoke Singing - 3M/10ft

I have this hooked up to my computer with one of my microphones I use with my guitars/recording. Works great. Glad I don’t have to buy a separate mic setup for the PC.

First of all, if you're going to use this product directly with a non-powered microphone without a microphone amplifier, it may not work. Note that most XLR microphones belong to this category. (Someone posted a video to initially say it does work, but later specifically warned that he no longer recommended doing that. It's completely surprising to me that it would work in any occasion at all. All this cable does is to convert microphone output signals to USB audio signal. There is no amplification in this cable. What most people don't know is that the vast majority of professional microphones do not have built-in amplification and therefore need a microphone amplifier, while most consumer microphones have built-in amplification and therefore do not need a microphone amplifier. The reason is very simple: professional microphones need versatility of preamplification, often very expensive ones. Having a built-in preamplification in a microphone deprives that versatility. Cheap built-in microphone amplifiers would create crappy signals, which once happens cannot be cured by any downstream amplification.)BUT BACK TO WHAT THIS PRODUCT IS DESIGNED FOR,if you do have a pre-amplified microphone or a proper combination of a microphone and an amplifier, this product works. And it does a fantastic job. I have tested it on Audacity and also with speech recognition software, and both show very clean and high quality sound input for recording or speech recognition.You might ask why would anyone need this product when you already have both a microphone and amplifier?The answer is simple: you want to use the USB sound, bypassing the business of interfacing between the amplifier and a computer soundcard, which can be extremely problematic.If you are interested in why, read along.THE BACKGROUND BEFORE I BOUGHT THIS PRODUCT:I use a professional grade condenser mic, along with a quite good dedicated stand alone microphone preamplifier. But all this great equipment does not work with the computer very well. The reason: poor compatibility between professional grade microphone output with the built-in soundcard's microphone input. Sometimes it simply does not work. When it works a little, the sound quality is poor, and to make it even worse, it is often unreliable, and prone to interferences due to poor shielding of built-in computer components. In the past, I had bought numerous equipment to solve this problem, including several USB sound interfaces which tend to be quite expensive and also would render my high quality standalone microphone pre-amplifier useless. I ended up buying a very expensive soundcard to be installed on the computer, and used its line input to receive the output signal from the microphone preamplifier. It worked well, but when I got a new computer recently, the soundcard could not be installed because the new computer lacked a proper interface slot.It seemed the only solution was to buy another expensive high-end soundcard.But before I did that, I found this cable and gave it a try. I didn't really have much confidence that it would work, but decided to give it a try anyway because it was so cheap.It worked. And it does a fantastic job. I couldn't be happier.

Very useful, recommended by an expert friend .

I needed a cable to connect a dynamic mic (a Shure SM58) directly to my PlayStation 3 to play Rock Band 3 and it works perfectly. My ratings in the game are definitely more accurate to my actual skills unlike how it is with the usual Logitech usb mic. If you're interested in that this is your best choice. It also works with any other singing game and I'm guessing it's gonna work for XBOX as well. I'm guessing since I can't hear myself in-game anymore, that the volume output might be low, but I won't use this to record on a PC so it doesn't bother me. Build quality is a bit flimsy on the plastic USB connector, the XLR connector is all metal and sturdy. It's been 5 months or so and I don't regret my purchase.

I have never heard of this company, and did not expect much for around $10 USD. The signal level was a bit low but usable, the build quality okay, and the audio recording was okay. If you don't need studio quality recordings, a very good buy.