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(More customer reviews)I do a LOT of voice work, because I run my own video production business. I edit on Final Cut Pro, but I don't have a sound studio. I have a studio quality on-camera mic that I bought for about $500. I used to record my voice-overs straight into my Sony PD-150 with this $500 mic, and then I'd have to capture them into the computer. I just found this thing online last week and ordered it. The sound quality comes through excellent - as good as recording onto my PD-150, if not better. The unit is compact and extremely easy to set up and use. Just plug the mic into one end, a USB cable into the other. I was able to record into both FCP and Soundtrack. The one drawback is there's no volume knob on the unit - just a "high, medium, low" volume switch, and FCP and Soundtrack don't give you the option to adjust the level until after you're finished recording. So, you're stuck with limited record settings. Having said that, the signal from my voice came through loud and clear - and if I need to, I can just adjust the sound level after it's recorded. I will probably use this thing exclusively to do voice overs from now on. No more capturing after I do voice work. Much more convenient.
A few months later - the thing seems to have some kind of conflict with Final Cut Pro, where it records static some of the time. When this happens, I have to reboot FCP. It's kind of annoying.
Okay, I fixed that problem. In FCP, every time you press option-zero to bring up the voiceover record feature, it changes something. So the first time you do it, everything's fine. But then if the window gets hidden and you hit option-zero again to bring that window to the front - WITHOUT closing the window first - it causes this garbled static problem. So, to combat the problem, every time I record something with this USB adapter, I make sure I close the voiceover window. No more problem.
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I must have had this thing for a few years now. I love it. I got a new macbook pro and a new version of final cut pro and there are none of the old issues I used to have with the static, no matter what I do. This thing works great.
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